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give you a mental picture of the complexes. Atop a plateau, overlooking the Central Sea (of the Geo-Concavitic, or ‘Hollow’ Earth - Branto), is the entrance building, the ‘Arc Pavilion’. It is a many-pillared edifice, gleaming white beneath the ever-prevailing Central Sun (Atoma).

     “The structure registers a graceful Grecian beauty and is decorated with a few but large striking Incan and Mayan symbols. They are painted in the predominate colors of most of the symbols and murals of the Culture-Rama... blue, red, black and yellow. Highlighting touches of gold and silver, as well as violet and green accent many of the designs. There are brilliant murals on the floor of the mostly open-air structure, interspersed by twenty-six elaborately-chiseled pillars. The Arc Pavilion is laid out upon the plateau in an arc or half-circle. Portions of the sides are roofed with flat stone, imbuing it with a Stonehenge effect. At the center of the arc is positioned a large alter stone. It is squared, with a carved sun motif on each of the side-facings and on the top. Beneath the stone is the entrance into the labyrinth of the first level. Inside the antechamber the walls glow a soft blue-white. When walking down the narrow halls there is no feeling of claustrophobia. Instead there is the pervading sense of space and serenity. At the end of the labyrinth, in the center of the network of hallways, the floor slowly moves downward until the individual finds himself within a crystal web, pulsating with laser-frequency sparks. Through this process, the body of the subterranean is regulated for a change in density pressure. After fifteen to thirty minutes the webbing disappears and the Inner-World inhabitant is free to step into a shuttle inside a transparent tubeline. This air transaccelerator will soon place the occupant upon the second level of the Culture-Rama. Here, a period of days or weeks is spent, depending upon the individual's