User:Duke Garland/Buildings Descriptions

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note: proper name for the page should be Location Descriptions

The Urban Dead is a text-based game and one of the most important things about text games are, of course, descriptions. This page contains an analysis of what unique in-game descriptions locations have.

The summary is composed in the next table. Bolded text refers to cases of more unique descriptions than not bolded. Question marks are on entries that i haven't checked yet -- Duke G.

	Descriptions
Location Type	Outside Description Type	Spraypaint on a...1	Inside Descriptin Type	Lit Change?	Ruin Description Type
Streets2	none	wall /+ billboard
Park	none	tree
wasteland	none	ruined wall
carpark	none	wall
cemetery	cemetery	one of the larger gravestones
Monument	monument	monument
junkyard	junkyard	wall	(modified 'cade message)	N
Cathedral	cathedral	wall	none		Standard?
Mall	building	wall	mall	N	Special
Mansion	building	wall	none		Standard
Power Station	power station	wall	none		Standard?
Stadium	building	wall	none?	N?	Special
Fort (...)	building	wall?	none?	N?	Standard?
Zoo (enclosures)	building	wall	zoo	N?
Arms	building	wall	pub	N	Special
Auto Repair Shop	building	wall	none		Standard
Bank	building	wall	bank	N	Standard
Building (not NT)	building	wall	none		Standard
Church	building	wall	none		Standard
Cinema	building	wall	cinema	Y	Standard
Club	building	wall	club	Y	Standard
Factory	building	wall	none		Special
Fire Station	building	wall	none		Standard
Hospital	building	wall	hospital	N	Standard
Hotel3	building	wall	none		Standard
Library	building	wall	none		Special
Museum	building	wall	museum	N	Standard
NecroTech Building	building + NT	wall	NecroTech	Y	Special
Police Department	building	wall	none		Standard
Railway Station	building + Railways	departures board	railway station	N?	Standard
School	building	whiteboard	school	N	Standard
Towers	building	wall	none		Special
Warehouse	building	wall	warehouse	N	Standard

notes:

1. Outside of buildings sprays are always "onto a wall", so to avoid 2 columns for them meaning of the column is about inside graffiti.
2. Alley, Avenue, Boulevard, Crescent, Drive, Grove, Lane, Place, Road, Row, Square, Street, Walk, Way.
3. Hotel, Motel

Now, let's list the common, unbolded descriptions.

Outside Descriptions

Most of locations that are without enterable buildings don't have any description except the one that states location type (e.g. "You are standing in a carpark."). Cemeteries and junkyards have fixed descriptions, monuments and all buildigns have complex description that varies from one place to another and there's also additional fixed description for railway stations and one for NecroTech buildings for players that have NecroTech Employment skill.

Fixed

i'll make a prettier table later

Cemetery	The grass between the headstones seems smooth and undisturbed.
Junkyard	...a patch of wasteland surrounded by a tall wire fence.
Railway Station	Behind railings, you can see railway tracks disappearing into the surrounding city.
NecroTech	You recognise it as being owned by NecroTech.
Cathedral	(St Matthew's, St Mark's) ...its towering spires of white stone reaching high above the surrounding buildings
Power Station	(Krinks Power Station) ...an imposing white-stone building with smoke drifting from its roof.
Zoo	... the Aquarium, a low blue-painted building.
	... the Giraffe House, a wire fence surrounding indistinct foliage.

Monuments

main article: User:Duke Garland/Buildings Descriptions/Monuments

few examples

a metal obelisk engraved with memorial dates
a granite statue of a man with a book surrounded by grass.
a black granite statue of a soldier that leans to one side.
a bronze statue plastered with quarantine posters.

buildings

i'll make this pretty later... actually, i'll make a sub-page for them once i'll get enough info

Looks like all buildings get the same variety of descriptions, not depending from building type

sturcture:

<a large> <concrete> building <split by a large, diagonal crack>.

Examples:

• a large concrete building split by a large, diagonal crack.

  Bank

• a large yellow-stone building with a curved roof.

  Bulding (not NT)

• a tall grey-stone building with black crosses painted across its doors.

  factory

• a tall yellow-stone building riddled with bullet holes.

  factory

• an imposing grey-stone building with stern gargoyles along its guttering.

  warehouse

first adjective

• a large (building)
• a tall (building)
• an imposing (building)
• a four-storey (building)
• a small (building)
• a derelict (building)
• a fire-damaged (building)
• a narrow(building)

material (2nd adj)

• concrete
• yellow-stone
• grey-stone
• white-stone
• red-brick
• metal-and-glass

Flavor (3rd part)

(no flavor)	Seen for: Arms, Church, factory
covered in abandoned scaffolding	Seen for: Bank
flanked by trees	Seen for: Building (not NT), Club, NecroTech
plastered with posters	Seen for: Bank, Railway Station, Towers
riddled with bullet holes	Seen for: factory
split by a large, diagonal crack	Seen for: Bank, Church
which has partially collapsed	Seen for: Church, Cinema
whose facade is beginning to crumble	Seen for: Building (not NT), Police Dept
with a curved roof	Seen for: Building (not NT)
with a collapsed roof	Seen for: Building (not NT)
with a fountain at its entrance	Seen for: Cinema, Hospital
with black crosses painted across its doors	Seen for: factory, Hospital, Railway Station
with crosses of tape over its windows	Seen for: Museum
with boarded-up windows	Seen for: Bank
with pillars along its front	Seen for: Museum, Police Dept
with revolving doors	Seen for: Auto Repair, Hospital, warehouse
with stern gargoyles along its guttering	Seen for: warehouse
...its doorway flanked by statues	Seen for: Railway Station
...its windows missing and broken	Seen for: Mall, Towers

inside

museums

see Types of Museums

cinemas

see... well, there's Now Playing and there's Cinema Status but both of them don't save info. i'll dump my logs later.

dark description:

, its auditorium in darkness

Description doesn't depend wether cinema is 3D or not. I have info only about 7 3D cinemas and malton and 60+ NOT 3D. i'm yet to visit more.

There is an exception - an unique cinema in Danversbank: Kilingback Cinema

[N] its dark lobby decorated with posters for a 1930s vampire film
[L] a 1930s vampire film playing on its main screen

hospitals

10 Types of Hospitals:

. The main lobby is riddled with bullet holes.
. It was one of the last to be evacuated, and seems to have been cleared out in a hurry.
, a children's hospital with bright murals across the walls.
, a derelict hospital that was closed down years ago.
, dark corridors leading through abandoned wards.
, its emergency room in disarray.
, its empty wards criss-crossed with snapped quarantine tape.
, its lobby covered with quarantine posters.
, its wards and corridors blackened with the soot of a recent fire
, one of the city's psychiatric hospitals.

warehouse

It looks like it's been out of use since before the quarantine.
Hundreds of cardboard boxes are piled to the ceiling.
A few dusty crates are stacked in the corners.

light/dark

nt

• [L] The NecroTech logo glows gently above the front desk, and doors open onto a number of brightly-lit laboratories and computer rooms.
• [N] The NecroTech logo is set in the wall behind the front desk, and doors open onto powered-down computer rooms and laboratories.

club

• [L] Coloured spotlights highlight an empty stage, and distorted music echoes over the speakers.
• [N] , in the near-darkness of the main dancefloor.

no descriptions

You are inside a junkyard.
You are inside <any> Police Dept.
You are inside <any> Fire Station.
You are inside <any> Auto Repair.
You are inside <any> Building.
You are inside St <name>'s Church.
You are inside a factory.
You are inside <any> Motel. (Hotel)
You are inside <any> Towers.

fixed description

You are inside <any> Mall. Trails of looted debris litter the floors and escalators.
You are inside <any> School. Half-finished work is scattered across the floor.
You are inside <any> Bank. The vault lies open, its contents either looted or transferred.
You are inside <any> Railway Station. Its platforms are empty, its departure boards blank, all trains having left the city during the evacuation.
You are inside <any zoo enclosure>. There is no sign of its former inhabitants.

ruination

usually ruined buildings recieve this added sentence for ransack:

The building has been smashed and ransacked.

and for ruin:

The building has been completely ransacked, and has fallen into ruin.

However there are exceptions.

<Arms> Chairs and tables are strewn across the floor, and there is broken glass everywhere.
<Library> Shelves and racks have been smashed and toppled, with torn books scattered out across the floor.
<Mall> The shops are ruined, broken glass covering the fallen shelves.
<factory> The machinery has been ruined, with dark oil pooling on the concrete floor.
<NecroTech> The laboratories have been ruined, with broken equipment smashed to the floor.
<Stadium> The seating has been torn up and spread across the pitch, the surrounding rooms and corridors ruined.
<Towers> The lobby has been ruined, and debris trails down the staircases.

Billboards

A billboard hangs over the street, advertising a fast food chain.
A huge billboard for a local housing development has been riddled with bullet-holes.
A splintered billboard hangs down across the road, showing a large poster for a national newspaper.
Directly in front of you, a billboard advertises a holiday company.
A large billboard advertises Caiger Mall
An advertising billboard has been obliterated with missing-person signs. 
A splintered billboard hangs down across the road, showing a large poster for a video game from two years ago.
On the side of a derelict shop, a billboard advertises life insurance.
A large billboard advertises a video game from two years ago.
On the side of a derelict shop, a billboard advertises a television channel.

looks like divides in 2 parts that are combined randomely:

1st - where?

A billboard hangs over the street, advertising <something>.
A huge billboard for <something> has been riddled with bullet-holes.
A large billboard advertises <something>.
A splintered billboard hangs down across the road, showing a large poster for <something>.
An advertising billboard has been obliterated with missing-person signs. 
Directly in front of you, a billboard advertises <something>.
On the side of a derelict shop, a billboard advertises <something>.

2nd - what?

a fast food chain
a local housing development
a national newspaper
a holiday company
a television channel
a video game from two years ago
Caiger Mall
life insurance