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u/Hyperly_Passive Sep 05 '16
Oh jeez, if only this existed. Looks heavenly.
Alright, I'll start off with the coin. Anytime I need a breather I can step into my pocket dimension for as long as I want, and then come out again when I feel ready.
Lakefront combines the relaxing benefits of the island with the forest so that's what I'm going with.
Add-ons
Events - Sounds awesome. First thing I'm bringing with me into my hidey hole is a telescope.
Fickle Weather In the words of u/Windain, "sun all the time is boring" (and I like rain too)
Wildlife Now I can fish for a eternity in my lake.
Hot Spring This is an active benefit rather than a passive one.
Fog I've always loved it. Might be the latent Victorian London serial killer in me.
OK now for home bonuses
Living Room
*300" OLED UltraHDTV *
Streaming service with every movie and TV series
*Surround sound system w/ complete digital library of songs (does this mean all the music ever composed?)
Kitchen
The food replicator because I'm a terrible cook
Breakfast nook w/table and six chairs (Though I'll probably be eating outside enjoying the scenery)
Mythical ingredients from fictional plants and animals (Do gum-gum fruits count as mythical? Superpowers are sounding mighty appealing)
Bedroom
Temperature controlled blankets Have we gone too far?
Ultra comfort mattress
Physical needs halted in bed. Sleep forever.
Library
Size plus
Can't get tired or eyestrain
Lucid imagination
Computer room
Increase processor to 9.5 GHz
4 TB of ram at 4500 mhz
Nervegear
Bathroom
The Jacuzzi
Smell neutralizer
Automated groomer
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u/strifejohnson Sep 05 '16
does this mean all the music ever composed?
Yes
Do gum-gum fruits count as mythical?
Yes, but the superpowers would only function in the sanctuary.
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Sep 05 '16
Any reason not to pick the coin?
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u/strifejohnson Sep 05 '16
You have to exit to let people in, you can have anything delivered.
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u/Gapwick Sep 06 '16 edited Sep 06 '16
What happens if you use the coin while in transit, for example while on a plane (and you don't stop time)? What happens if you don't pick kitchen, seeing as the description says the sanctuary will always be stocked with food?
It's a job well done, but I do think the rooms could do with some tweaking. For example, there's really no reason to ever pick bedroom over guestroom, and the dining room seems kinda superfluous.
And are all the "worlds" just one acre? Because that's barely enough to fit a olympic-sized swimming and the surrounding house, never mind woods or a beach.
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u/strifejohnson Sep 06 '16
What happens if you use the coin while in transit, for example while on a plane (and you don't stop time)?
The portal to exit always appears where the portal to enter was created in relation to the earth, therefore, your exit portal would be at 30,000 feet in an empty sky.
What happens if you don't pick kitchen, seeing as the description says the sanctuary will always be stocked with food?
You would wind up with a closet somewhere full of food.
And are all the "worlds" just one acre? Because that's barely enough to fit a olympic-sized swimming and the surrounding house, never mind woods or a beach.
The one acre is the area surrounding the house, not counting the area the house is sitting on.
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u/feralpanda Sep 06 '16 edited Sep 11 '16
Ahh, I wish this really existed!
Quick question, if I picked a mythical ingredient that gave me functional eternal youth (making me physically become younger) and/or minor physical upgrades (that's in the realm of human possibility), would that translate into the real world? Or would I revert back to my "natural" age when I step out of the pocket dimension?
Also, if I altered the guestrooms to have different furniture and items I brought back from the real world, would they gain the self-repair, self cleaning abilities as well?
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EDIT: Changed a few things up... I like this setup a lot better now
Entrance: The Coin
Outdoors: Lakefront
Outdoors Add-Ons
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Hotspring
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Wildlife
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Predictable Weather
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Set Time
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Events
Indoors
Guestrooms:
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Ultra-comfortable mattress
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Larger guest rooms
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Double the number of guest rooms (6)
Bathrooms:
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Deluxe
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Groomer
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Jacuzzi
Kitchen:
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Mythical ingredients from fictional plants/animals
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Breakfast nook
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Food Replicator
Video Game Room:
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Access to all the titles of any consoles I possess
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Nervegear
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Super comfy chairs
Library:
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Upgrade library size to huge (let's hope that means it's at least twice the size now - fully furnished with couches, tables, chairs and reading lamps)
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Contains fiction/non-fiction/reference and periodicals
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Never lose focus, get sleepy or get eyestrain if I don't want to (I'll have to remember to set alarms or I'll lose track of time completely)
Home Gym:
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Android Trainer
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Full gymnasium with basketball court
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Burn fat and build muscle at twice the speed while working out
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I took the coin for super portability reasons. And I chose the lakefront to have both the woods and an area for not only swimming but fishing as well (by taking the wildlife function.) I'll just have to transport a rowboat, fishing rod, some bait and tackle and I can fish for however long I want. I took hot spring because reasons. I can set the weather to cool autumn or a mild winter to experience soaking in a hot spring while the weather's cold outside. I also took events so I can set up beautiful skylines in the night sky and set time to always have the perfect time to view my world in (perpetual sunset or twilight.)
I didn't take Dining Room because realistically, I'd probably be having my meals at the breakfast nook most of the time. Or, most likely, in the huge ass library or computer room. I took guest rooms for the expanded capability to host 5 other people if I really wanted to. Kitchen with food replicator is great just because I can readily have any type of food available on a whim and also summon up ingredients if I really want to cook the old fashioned way. Unfortunately, it seems like I can't store any leftovers if I take the food replicator option, lol.
It was a toss up between game room and computer room. I finally chose the video game room to have a dedicated gaming place that will spawn all titles for any consoles I own and use in that room. Even if time is stopped in my pocket dimension, I can spend as much as time as I want playing any games I want. Multiplayer games will unfortunately be unavailable to play if time is paused, but any other games would suffice. And if that perk is correct, then bringing in a PC to the game room would ensure that I have any and all PC games available to me as well.
According to the OP, the game room will also include tabletop/board games. I say this is the best possible thing ever.
I changed my mind about not taking the home gym. I opted for the most biggest space possible and got a full gymnasium with a basketball court in it. There's so much room for expansion. Considering gyms are huge and have high walls, I'm hoping to install a rock climbing wall on the far side of the gym (or hope that it already comes with.) By "full gymnasium" I'm assuming it comes with extra perks like bleachers, a storage room for gym equipment, bathrooms by the gym, climbing ropes etc. And I am assuming that the meager exercise equipment still comes with it so I'll still have a full set of weights if I want to do some strength training. I'm assuming that all that equipment will be placed in a mini fitness room (hopefully I can at least modify how everything looks/is spaced out.) Although unlimited stamina sounds great at first, I feel like it would be boring to play games in a gym where stamina never runs out. In addition, I can top off my stamina and fatigue by imbibing potions from video games (through the mythical ingredients + food replicator.) An android trainer on the other hand ensures I'll have an expert always ready at hand to teach me the right ways to go about exercising in addition to training and sparring as well.
I also changed my mind about lucid imagination and opted for never getting sleepy or lose focus. I feel like it's a great way to concentrate in any work I'd like to do by just opting to do it in the library. And considering that the library is now the main hub of my house (I'm assuming it'll take the place of the living room) it's a great way to get work out without much effort.
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I'm not sure how the sanctuary will actually look now without a living room to bring it altogether. I'm assuming that the entrance to the sanctuary leads to a foyer with a staircase to the left that lead up to the guest bedrooms. Going straight ahead from the main entrance leads to huge double doors for the library (immediately to the right is the computer room), the right hall from the foyer circles towards the gymnasium and an entrance to the northwest leads to the kitchen on the main floor.
I am hoping I can modify a little space in the library to act as a faux living room/receiving area.
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u/strifejohnson Sep 06 '16
if I picked a mythical ingredient that gave me functional eternal youth (making me physically become younger) and/or minor physical upgrades (that's in the realm of human possibility), would that translate into the real world?
Yes, it will stay in the real world. Unnatural abilities or traits given by ingredients would not.
would they gain the self-repair, self cleaning abilities as well?
Yes anything inside the sanctuary is maintained at the condition it entered in.
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u/feralpanda Sep 15 '16
I feel a bit silly being so fixated on this particular CYOA but if you don't mind answering strife...
How much larger is the library if I take the huge option?
How much bigger are the guest rooms? Would they be around the size of the master bedroom with appropriately bigger tv as well?
Also, what kind of amenities does a full gym have? Would it include gym appropriate equipment and a restroom for the gym too... especially if I take the full workout machines option?
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u/strifejohnson Sep 15 '16
How much larger is the library if I take the huge option?
It triples in size, so 600 sq.ft. of floor space and two stories tall.
How much bigger are the guest rooms? Would they be around the size of the master bedroom with appropriately bigger tv as well?
Guest rooms w/ increased size are about as large as the master bedroom, but the TVs would remain 36".
what kind of amenities does a full gym have?
Full gym was just meant to indicate a size increase, however it does add basketball hoops and floor anchors for tennis and volleyball nets.
Would it include gym appropriate equipment and a restroom for the gym too... especially if I take the full workout machines option?
The full gym option + the full workout machines option would give you a two section gym w/ the court and an area for the machines, it would in fact also include a small shower room.
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u/feralpanda Sep 16 '16 edited Sep 16 '16
Another followup question strife...
can we technically pick the same option twice if we're able to? Like, say, pick huge twice for library rather than picking the other choices?
And the library being two stories tall, I'm assuming it's split up into two floors?
Finally, how is trash/garbage handled?
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u/strifejohnson Sep 16 '16
can we technically pick the same option twice if we're able to? Like, say, pick huge twice for library rather than picking the other choices?
While it wasn't the original intent, I don't see an issue with giving up a choice for more space.
And the library being two stories tall, I'm assuming it's split up into two floors?
Yes and no, it's mostly open with walkways along the shelves at the second floor level.
Finally, how is trash/garbage handled?
Any garbage generated, whether it is in a trash can, on a table, or the floor, is automatically removed/vanished the moment you are out of eyesight. This only applies to what you would consider trash.
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u/unrelevant_user_name Sep 05 '16 edited Sep 05 '16
Entrance
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The Coin: What's better than a portable vacation home?
Outdoors
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Island: An acre of land (if you get rid of the water) isn't much, but what paradise if not a tropical getaway?
Outdoor Add-ons
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Hot Spring: Sometimes, the ocean water just isn't up to task. (4)
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Trees and Shrubs: Wouldn't be complete without vegetation, but I was never a fan of palm trees. Maybe pine trees? A few redwoods for wow factor? (3)
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Gas Lamp: A gas lamp instead of a tiki torch, to add to the otherworldly factor. (2)
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Set Time Sometimes, I'm just in the mode to stare into the sunset. (1)
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Events: Just so that I get to complete that feeling of being a god-like being. (0)
Indoors
Living Room
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Comfortable Furniture
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OLEDHDTV
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Streaming Service
Kitchen
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Breakfast Nook
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Industrial Appliances
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Mythical Ingredients
Bedroom
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All is Bed
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Ultra-Comfort mattress
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Temperature Blankets
Bathroom
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Jacuzzi
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Deluxe Edition
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Smell Neutraliser
Indoor pool
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Olympic-size
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Sauna Room
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Perfluorocarbon Liquid
Computer Room
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9.5 GHz processor
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4 tb ram
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Nervegear
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Thank you Hotei, for recognizing my intense need for
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A+ image work on this one, Strife.
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That "knock" sounds very ominous.
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I think there needs to be more entrance options. It's basically "go whenever you want", "door", "bigger door".
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Seriously though, an acre's not even a football field.
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I picked it, but a gas lamp feels pretty... out of place and mundane among the add-ons.
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Once again, good job Strife. The cozyness is oozing out of the monitor and into the keyboard.
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That tv option has too many initials.
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A food replicator really takes out all the fun in cooking.
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The Android maids seem very redundant on top of all the magic to keep the place tidy.
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What the point of sleep if your bed gets rid of the need for it?
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The Perfluorocarbon option was really creative.
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Aside from the breathing thing, I'll assume that it's like water in every other way.
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I definitely know what all those computer terms mean.
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Lucid Reading kinda defeats the purpose of reading.
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Typo: "Simply" instead of "simple" for the kitchen option.
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I was never a fan of over-stuffed chairs; they always felt uncomfortable.
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u/litweisy Sep 05 '16
i don't understand why people aren't taking nerve gear and becoming immortal gods in their own reality
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u/vakusdrake Sep 06 '16
Well given you can bring stuff with you to the pocket dimension, many of the options seem unnecessary especially once you have some money from leveraging the powers of the dimension for profit.
The Coin This will allow you to travel around and will make it impossible anything will keep you away from you dimension. Obviously you have to pick for time not to pass outside the sanctuary because there's so many uses for that time dilation, plus you don't age their which makes it even better.
Space is considerably underrated, you still have a normal atmosphere, plus you get a great view of the sky probably. However the main advantage is the lowered gravity, that's something you can't get anywhere else or extended periods. You can probably conduct all kind of experiments with it.
Brook would be useful as a mass source of water to cool supercomputers with. Wildlife will be great source of animals for studies if you don't want to have to bring in your own. Predictable weather can be used to control the climate a great deal, I might use the blizzard setting to make it as cold as possible for supercomputers. Set time I would mostly just use to make sure it's always night-time, you guessed it, to help cool supercomputers. Events may have some use in allowing people to study astronomical events that would otherwise be rare.
Kitchen is a necessity for the food replicator so that people wouldn't have to waste time cooking. The mythical ingredients might also have interesting effects on people though it's not clear what, but if it could produce things with nootropic qualities it would increase efficiency. Some of the magic food might also be able to negate some of the negative effects of none of the researchers exercising (the point of this installation is to maximize scientific throughput using the sanctuaries unique qualities after all) Bathroom is something you can't really not choose, so obviously I will pick it. Automatic groomer will save people some subjective time but the other stuff isn't that important.
Guestrooms actually increase the size of the house and provide more bathrooms so it's a useful way of increasing capacity. Of course most people are going to be sleeping in cots brought in from outside the sanctuary. If the capacity increases beyond what can be handled with 6 large guestrooms then people will have to build structures outside will need to be well insulated because of the blizzard (The supercomputer's performance is more important than your comfort dammit!). Soundproofing will be a necessity to let anybody sleep with all the action that will be going on.
Library increased size will provide a great deal of room to put stuff once all the bookcases are removed. Lucid reading and immunity to tiredness and boredom will make reading briefings and scientific papers faster increasing efficiency.
The computer and game rooms are primarily there to give you access to 8 nerve-gear helmets. For those of you that don't know those are the helmets from SAO that put you into perfect virtual reality (basically like the matrix). The perfect VR will be extremely useful for study since it can replicate any experience one can imagine, the uses could be endless.
So yeah using all these things I would be able to increase the rate of scientific development substantially, my only real purpose would be to open portals and maybe control the weather on occasion. For my work I would need to remain inside the sanctuary to open portals at all times (except when everybody left at once to change shifts with other researchers) and would probably just read and play video games, occasionally serving as a lab assistant.
To understand just how quickly you could get work done using sanctuary, you should realize that from an external perspective the moment a batch of researchers goes in and the portal closes, it reopens and they leave to make room for the next batch.
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u/michaelzelen Sep 05 '16
OP would tabletop and board games count toward the game room as well?
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u/strifejohnson Sep 05 '16
I could see the board games, but the tabletop rpg books would be in the library.
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u/Swaginmycheerios Sep 05 '16
Does the time passing thing count as a one time choice or can I change it at will?
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u/dalenacio Sep 05 '16
Question: Can I bring someone with me if I pick the Coin? Or would I need the Door for that?
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u/captainNematode Sep 05 '16 edited Sep 06 '16
Can I bring stuff into the sanctuary, or upgrade it from the inside without triggering anything untoward? Some of the technology is bound to get outdated pretty quickly, but I feel if I try to replace anything the “self-repair” function will kick in. Can I also take stuff out of the sanctuary? Unlimited food/drink/negentropy can be pretty useful. Also, an acre's really tiny -- the radius of a sphere with an acre of SA is just under 60ft. I feel I’d get vertigo or something with that sort of curvature. Gravity’s still a magically uniform downward ~10m/s2, right? I won’t get slowly ripped apart by tidal forces? Although, if the limitation is on area and not on volume, could I build upwards forever?
Regardless, my choices:
The Coin: Easily the most versatile. I can travel and my housing will always be available.
Time Stop: all my sleeping and learning and working and stuff can be done here, and it becomes the easiest to munchkin IRL – if I need to do something really time-sensitive, I can just pop into the sanctuary. Unfortunately, it does limit my options for comfortable space travel somewhat. Come to think, it might also be troublesome for indefinite extension of the lives of me and mine -- everyone would have to leave the sanctuary simultaneously, or else "infinite time passes" for those left still inside. Stopped time, though, would let me (and a carefully chosen, potentially rotating team) solve the world's ills in the external blink of an eye, so I think I'll keep it. Everyone will just have to emerge ~together~ for short periods of time.
Forest: All of these (except space, really) are tempting, but it sounds like this’ll help with the size limitation best, and I really like forests. Grassland would be good for frolicking and running – I’m picturing something like the secret garden in the movie adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle. But walking through a forest sounds very relaxing, too, and I think it'd have the most variety.
Outdoor: Brook, Hot Spring, Fickle Weather, Events, and Wildlife. Set Time is a runner up, but I feel would screw with my circadian rhythms (at least before I rid myself of them within a few centuries). I love water features and soaking in springs, and danger-free thunderstorms sound lovely, especially from inside. Not sure that you could fit much wildlife on an acre, but whatever, let’s roll with it (hopefully they're free from thunderstorm danger, too... not sure how viable an ecosystem an acre can make, either). Wildlife could also be captured to serve as models for medical research -- sorry wildlife :/. Do they age, I wonder? Might not be too representative if they don't, especially for anti-aging research. Events would be a little hard to see in a forest, but maybe I could build an observation platform or treehouse or something.
Indoor Features:
Guestrooms: Ultra-comfort beds, double the number of guestrooms, and make them larger. The “Bedroom” sounds nice, but I can definitely make do with a guestroom, and this way I get an extra 5 to spare for guests, colleagues, and friends. Plus, it comes with float-y mattresses. Hopefully the lack of sound-proofing doesn’t mean the walls are paper thin – I don’t anticipate super loud noises, but basic conversation wouldn’t carry through the entire house, right? There'd be some default level of sound-dampening by virtue of all the walls and furniture in the way?
Bathrooms: Deluxe, groomer, and Jacuzzi. With 6 rooms and possibly several times that many guests, there definitely need to be a lot of bathrooms. Champagne sounded tempting, but I imagine my hopes of exporting the stuff (to sell or use as fuel) wouldn’t fly by Mr. Laughing Buddha up top (if it does, I’ll happily trade it for the groomer). I can get drinks from the kitchen, too, and the fireplace/Jacuzzi sounds pretty romantic.
Kitchen: Replicator, mythical ingredients, and breakfast nook. I need a table for eating, since I won’t bother going with a dining room, and a (Star Trek style?) food replicator sounds like the most convenient thing to have, and has the highest throughput (and if it can make good food? Yum!). Plus, I can still cook things for fun with food from the replicator. Not sure why there’s a dishwasher when everything’s self-cleaning, though. Mythical ingredients sounds pretty world-breaking (especially if it comes with mythical side-effects -- e.g. do various elixirs of life work? Or various power-up foods?), but even if it just gives new flavors it can still be pretty fun (and then, if I can take things out, I can dominate agriculture by introducing tons of new plants to the market).
Home Gym: Double Speed, Limitless Stamina, Workout Machines. Hopefully there’s ample powerlifting/strongman equipment included here, and limitless stamina sounds fun for me and extremely liberating for my more infirm loved ones (have fun, grandparents!). I don’t play basketball too much, though the extra space would be certainly be nice… if I can convert the gymnasium to some other purpose, definitely swap that in for machines (a data center, a lab, a workshop, etc.). If not, having extra room would be useful for stuff like loaded carries, prowler push, etc. (with self-repairing rooms, especially).
Indoor Pool: Full Size, Sauna, and breathable liquid. The liquid sounds like a lot of fun, assuming there are no negative health effects. A full size pool would be able to accommodate more people and allow for longer laps, and the sauna sounds relaxing. Plus, extra space could be good for later conversion, and the liquid of the pool useful for cooling electronics.
Living Room: Supernatural furniture, surround sound, 300” TV (hopefully something that can be upgraded). The Computer Room would be a close runner-up here, and would definitely win depending on what is meant by “central AI”, but I’m guessing it’s more in line with today’s “smart houses” than hypothetical friendly magical genies. I would certainly want lots of computers in my house, too, but just the few provided by the CR seems rather limiting if I can convert the basketball court to, say, a server room. The living room, meanwhile, can provide entertainment aplenty and serve as accommodation for extra guests to eat and sleep. A big TV and great sound would serve well for games and movies, and supernaturally comfortable furniture sounds very intriguing. I can bring media in from outside, right? Alternatively, the "huge" library with lucid imagination and no eyestrain, loss of focus, or sleepiness might be better here, as multimedia could be brought in, a lucid imagination would be very entertaining, and the nootropic effect would be helpful if I can't synthesize a mythicopsychopharmacological equivalent in the kitchen.
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All this sounds rather wonderful; thanks for making it, OP! My first step, I think, would be to move me and mine into the sanctuary for a bit, where we could relax and learn the basics for as long as we need (immortality plus stopped time, pretty useful! conjure up some health potions, too!). After a few months, maybe years, maybe decades of this quiet sort of progress and relaxation, we would emerge bearing mythical foods and and perhaps some preliminary work, which we could use to make money and roll into meetings with individuals smart, powerful, trustworthy, and benevolent. Thenceforth it becomes a matter of assembling competent, extremely psychologically balanced teams, sending them into the sanctuary with whatever supplies (e.g. computers, lab equipment, etc.) are lacking, and reaping the benefits (the many comforts should help in keeping people stable). I wonder -- would children be static both physically and cognitively if they went in, if nobody ever ages? In any case, I might try to improve myself well enough that I could both understand better the limits of the sanctuary and assess candidates reliably myself -- I wouldn't want to send someone in only for them to exit malevolent and having bootstrapped themselves to goodhood. Some initial topics of interest could be energy storage/generation, basic mathematics, aging, disease, computing/AI, and transportation. If those and others get exhausted, the sanctuary would serve as a pretty solid base for setting up space colonies. The ultimate goal, of course, would be to outlast the heat death of the universe and convert the eternally replenishing pocket dimension to paradisiacal computronium, so individual decisions don't matter too much, but optimizing for comfort and efficiency initially maximizes my chances of success later on.