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User:Hekatef/Project Necropolis

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Project: Necropolis is underway in the western Queen's Retreat desert at (-501, 5901)!

Project phase: TEMPLE ADORNMENT





Current status!

  • Pyramid (Fertile Land): COMPLETED
  • Funerary Temple: constructed, adding tiles
  • Crystal Obelisks (2): unbuilt
  • Desert Obelisks (20): unbuilt
  • Decorative Torches (10): unbuilt
  • Mentor's Sacelum (1): unbuilt
  • Stela (1): unbuilt

MISSION STATEMENT

To construct a necropolis (funerary complex) in honor of myself, my ancestors, and descendents of the Hekatef family line for millenia to come. This complex will also be home to my Funerary Temple and a Venery.

Owing to the architectural acumen of my spouse, Tanafri, a blueprint of the site exists:

Overview of Project: Necropolis

The pyramid and the funerary temple, standing on opposite ends of the complex, will be the main buildings. (They will be connected via underground passageways filled with deadly traps, naturally.) The pyramid, not pictured, will stand on the east end of the complex, behind the guildhall.

I have chosen a 5-tiered pyramid (Fertile Land size) for my tomb. Pyramids being what they are, this is the first building that should be completed before any other structures can be sited.


FUNERARY TEMPLE (In Progress)

Current Glory: 57632

Color # of Tiles
Alice Blue 2401
Antique White 2401
Aqua 2401
Aquamarine 2401
Azure 2401
Beige 2401
Bisque 2401
Black 2401
Blanched Almond 2401
Blue 900
Blue Violet 2401
Brown 2401
Burly Wood 2401
Cadet Blue 400
Carrot 2401
Chocolate 0
Coral 2401
Cornflower Blue 2401
Cornsilk 0
Crimson 2401
Dark Blue 2401
Dark Cyan 2401
Dark Golden Rod 2401
Dark Gray 2401
Dark Green 2401
Dark Khaki 2401
Dark Magenta 2401
Dark Olive Green 2401
Dark Orange 0
Dark Orchid 4802
Dark Red 2401
Dark Salmon 2401
Dark Sea Green 2401
Dark Slate Blue 4802
Dark Slate Gray 2401
Dark Turquoise 800
Dark Violet 2401
Deep Sky Blue 2401
Dim Gray 2401
Dodger Blue 2401
Feldspar 2401
Fire Brick 2401
Floral White 2401
Forest Green 2401
Gainsboro 2401
Ghost White 2401
Gold 0
Golden Rod 1100
Gray 2401
Green 0
Green Yellow 7
Honey Dew 2401
Hot Pink 2401
Indian Red 2401
Indigo 2401
Ivory 40
Khaki 0
Lavender 2401
Lavender Blush 2401
Lemon Chiffon 0
Light Blue 1670
Light Coral 2401
Light Cyan 2401
Light Golden Rod Yellow 2401
Light Green 2401
Light Grey 2401
Light Pink 2401
Light Salmon 50
Light Sea Green 2401
Light Sky Blue 2401
Light Slate Gray 2401
Light Steel Blue 2401
Light Yellow 0
Lime Green 1200
Linen 2401
Maroon 2401
Medium Aqua Marine 2401
Medium Blue 2401
Medium Orchid 2401
Medium Purple 2401
Medium Sea Green 0
Medium Slate Blue 2401
Medium Spring Green 2401
Medium Turquoise 2401
Medium Violet Red 2401
Midnight Blue 2401
Mint Cream 2401
Misty Rose 2401
Moccasin 50
Navajo White 0
Navy 100
Old Lace 2401
Olive 0
Olive Drab 2401
Orange 0
Orange Red 1020
Orchid 2401
Pale Golden Rod 2401
Pale Green 965
Pale Turquoise 2401
Pale Violet Red 2401
Peach Puff 1400
Peru 2401
Pink 2401
Plum 2401
Powder Blue 2401
Purple 2318
Red 0
Rosy Brown 2401
Royal Blue 2401
Saddle Brown 2401
Salmon 0
Sandy Brown 2401
Sea Green 2401
Sea Shell 2401
Sienna 2401
Silver 2401
Sky Blue 2401
Slate Blue 2401
Slate Gray 0
Snow 2401
Spring Green 0
Steel Blue 2401
Tan 2401
Teal 2401
Thistle 2401
Tomato 2401
Turquoise 2401
Violet 2401
Violet Red 2401
Wheat 2401
White 2401
White Smoke 2401
Yellow 0
Yellow Green 3001

Journal of Hekatef, Patron, Chief Laborer and Future Decedent

Year 3, Akhet I-28 (September 18, 2009 A.D.): And the pyramid is complete! It will prove a fine house for my ka. Now, to the other end of the site to construct my Funerary Temple.

A minor technical snag.

Year 3, Akhet I-17 (September 14, 2009 A.D.): With the generous aid of Atheus, the pyramid has just 10 more blocks to go. At this rate the tomb will be complete and consecrated in one more of our Egypt months. It gets easier after this, honest.

Pyramid construction site, or progressive-rock album cover? YOU NEED NOT ANSWER RIGHT AWAY.

Year 2, Shemu IV-28 (September 7, 2009 A.D.): All 55 blocks have been located and unearthed! And 29 of them are loaded into the site. All that remains now is to load the rest of 'em! How hard can that be?

Year 2, Shemu IV-10 (August 31, 2009 A.D.): The loading of great limestone blocks into the pyramid site continues. Soon the first tier will be laid. Through hot sun and freezing night, the labor of hauling the massive stones is a grueling one; yet the benevolence of the gods lends strength to my shoulders and inexhaustible energy to my legs. Okay, the Endurance meals cooked by the Nile River Guild chefs deserve credit, too.

Grandpa says that in his day, people spoke of mystical crawling contraptions, automata which clutched blocks in strong metal claws, moving about as if under their own will. They made pyramid-building into an easy task for our illuminated ancestors. He also says that "if your generation weren't such idiots, you'd've re-invented them by now, for Ptah's sake." Gramps says a lot of stuff.

Anyway, this project is exciting, and I can't wait to die and be entombed here in opulent luxury! Oh wait, no, I totally can.

Only 54 more to go!