OH THAT CONCEPT FUCKING RULES. how do they access the containment structures upon completion? can u enter them when they're done? how are they constructed? how do they identify the tumors, is it easy to tell when one is there or nearby, or it is subtle? what does it feel like, approaching a chamber? has a tumor ever breached its containment structure? what would that look like?
(was gonna just reply to the post but i have many many questions so maybe an ask is better!)
hiya fable!!!! these are GREAT questions tysm. okay:
1. containment structures are not meant to be entered upon completion, and are unenterable once they’re constructed. the intent is that the area in which construction is currently occurring will one day be a new city, which will be built just like. On top of the containment structures. No issues there!
2. i’m being very literal with this story being about construction workers even though there is also magic (kind of) happening so building them is pretty literal: put up a framework, mix up some concrete, and encase that thang! + then sit around for a while babysitting the concrete while it sets. when you get down to the specifics of this is where there’s sort of magic happening, as there’s ways to temporarily neutralize the tumor during construction as well as ‘warding’ elements on the framework to reduce the chance of it breaking
3. they’re very easy to see!!! i’m imagining something between solaris’ ocean constructions/@/starryguykai’s work on here with superstructures/the brush property you can turn on where each stamp is a slightly different color that i don’t know the name of. anywhere in size from palm sized (dangerous, hard to spot) and a couple of miles across
4. most people are unable to detect when they’re approaching a chamber, or it registers as a feeling as ‘part of the environment’ in a way that’s hard to recognize (like, when i’m at work there’s a ton of ambient fan/equipment noises. when someone turns on the sink in the other room, i can hear it for a second, and then it fades into ambient near instantly. it’s essentially like that!!)
5. yes, EXTREMELY regularly. i want anthell to be About Labor and About Labor Issues so the company managing tumor containment isn’t particularly careful and uses cheap materials often, meaning actually most of the work that druzy’s crew is doing is repairing old chambers that have cracked open, because this isn’t a thing that Actually Works even a little bit. containment failure happens in the last stages of construction EXTREMELY often, nearly always resulting in the death of the entire crew. arronax has been on 4 seperate crews that were killed this way before joining druzy’s, and she’s a little bit thought to be a bad luck omen (or a straight up saboteur) by other workers
