what have I got in my pocket?

Trip beneath The drainage grate does indeed have a trip catch beneath it which even clever Kvothe could not trip his way past. It has sygaldry to keep it closed showing it to be university made and built by the master artificers of the day to keep nosy people out. But Auri knows the trick to it so this is now her front door and is just a short walk to her apartments. In reverse we hear that  'She darted out the door, her feet tapping all the way through Grimsby, then down Oars and finally up to Trip Beneath.' This little quote describes Auri taking the quickest route between her abode and Applecourt. The use of Up and Down should not be ignored although I suspect that we are only going down one level, probably bypassing someones basement, then finally back up again to our entrance.  Grimsby must then be her name for a hallway all on the same level as her home base. These are just two of the names she gives to places on this basement level. Her own room is called Mantle, probab...

The Path of the Book By Matty Tangle Introduction:  What Have I Got in My Pocket? Span One: Pubcrawl 1 - The Rising Sun. Map 2 - Panoptic. Diagram 3 - One Man's Folly π - Under Lying Principals 4 - Squeezebox 5 - Southpaw 6 - A Tick in the Box 7 - RhintA 8 - Roadmap. Map 9 - Which Way Stones 10 - Mother of God. Span Two: Lords and Ladies 1 - Kings and Queens 2 - Piracy  3 - Edge of the Map. Map π - Lunar Ticks 4 - Small Change 5 - Tripod 6 - Eyes 7 - Unraveling  8 - Chandlery 9 - Secrets. Diagram 10 - Wait! What? Span Three: Game Pieces 1 - A Gender 2 - Tongue Twister 3 - Trees π - Flora Temerant 4 - Twins 5 - Who's Who? 6 - Angels 7 - Skarpi 8 - Selitos 9 - Illians 10 - Soup Span Four: Blue 1 - Blue 2 - Aleu 3 - Jax/Iax π - Pax 4 - Maelstrom 5 - Faelight 6 - Track Record. Map 7 - Guards! Guards! 8 - Tinker Tangle 9 - The Oracle 10 - Butterflies  Span Five: Roadworks  1 - Dictum 2 - Old Stone Road 3 - Myr T/ Belen π - Tak 4 - Tall Stories. Map 5 - Amyr 6 - Unsee...

West Side Story It's been a while since I last mapped the university, the real world has made tinfoil redundant and so at 2/3 done, I put down my pencil. Pat would approve of that. But it occurs to me that there is one small corner left unexplored, a quiet corner where I might find the inspiration to pick it up again... you can probably picture Applecourt quite well already, and it would make a simple square map to draw it, but every map needs a compass, and Pat doesn't disappoint. His Sun also rises in the East and sets in the west, so when Kvothe first takes us there after lessons and before his evening work at the fishery, we know that the sun is now setting in the West. '...when the sun slipped out from behind the clouds. Golden light covered the rooftop spilling over the edge of the roof into a thin slice of the courtyard below.' when this sudden bright light scared Auri into hiding she was in the sunlit slice of the square at the time, by the Easternmost wall. ...

1 ~ Stonework   Now, despite all of the comparisons made to one, the Archive is not a solid block of grey stone as a waystone undoubtedly is. Yet nor is it exactly a hollow stone egg either, and so we ought to best think of it as being like a perfectly formed termite mound, in that it is honeycombed with many hidden passages and cavernous chambers, dotted throughout like lots of little pockets. Above ground these windowless walls house six stone floors and therefore six high ceilings which provide storage for thousands of books on miles of bookshelves that line all of it’s countless corridors. It also has hidden reading rooms, assorted offices and diverse departments for all the industrious scrivs and there are also lots of staircases, both up and down, to knit everywhere together in perfect secrecy behind the only ingress of the two massive stone doors. And every single inch of it, every wall and floor and step and door is all made out of same, solid, seamless grey stone. Most ‘no...

5 ~ Darkhouse Darkhouse is imho the most interesting piece the whole underthing puzzle. Whilst all the layers named so far do combine to create the whole, they are horizontal planes, whereas Darkhouse is a vertical space, a giant spiral stone staircase still hugging the original interior of an ancient seven* story Belen r otunda. It makes up the last steps taken by Kvothe and Auri when they visit Clinks.   "We moved through several twisting hallways and down again using a stone spiral staircase...After about 50 steps the wide, spiralling staircase disappeared into a vast rolling pool of black water."  Clinks is an edge place, and probably a corner, too, but the steps do continue down lower still... Auri uses these stairs often. In srost, we are told she was once in her own nest of rooms up at the tops of things at downings , or rather Sub 1,  looking for a suitable bottle. Not finding what she wanted walked horizontally through a doorway before she 'twisted up through wit...

 As above… So below. BOOK π When I wrote these next pages back in 2020 I had reached a point in my tinfoil where I could nearly count up to eight. 8 Cities, 8 Chandrian, 8 Angels and 8 Amyr… there might even be 8 Sithe, too, but they are not important here…yet. But if we are going to uncover the true shape of the world then we are going to need somewhere to stand. So it's finally time to go to The University. The Archives is one of the cornerstones of civilization which in another world (ours) would be regarded as one of the seven wonders, a dominant feat of engineering to dwarf all others. Sod Tinuë, all modern roads should lead to the Archives and so I think we had better start to begin drawing a few of my strings back together again for tangling together before knotting off at the present day. This is probably going to get a bit messy since I will, in part, be working backwards again, but this is also a real time deconstruction being built right now as I prepare to map the insid...