Went in to change the outside landscaping in the second floor file and noticed that I forgot some of the windows, especially on the main entrance side. @Don Anderson Jr., does this achieve what you recommending with the landscaping for the higher floors: keep the fence but eliminate the foliage? I kept the fence and added a Solid 20 fill (which I could change to Solid 10 if it looks too strong).

I was inspired by Christina's most recent All the Annuals post and decided to use that as motivation to try out the Dracula Dossier annual from 2015.

My initial thought was to design the old San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, which is now the Asian Art Museum. I had a thought about how adventurers might have to go there to find an ancient tome hidden while it was still a library to use to banish an ancient eldritch evil. I couldn't find good floor plans of it,* though, so I poked around to find floorplans of other old SF buildings and settled on The Old San Francisco Mint.

I was able to find lots of floor plans because the first two floors are now used as an event venue -- weddings, corporate events, and an incredible adults-only haunted mansion in October called Terror Vault. Some things may be different -- I have a feeling, for example, that the original mint didn't have quite so many ballrooms. And what was once the first vault is now the base of an elevator shaft.

The Mint was built in 1874, replacing one that had been built in 1854. It survived the Great Earthquake and Fires of 1906, which is good because at the time, it was home to a third of the U.S. Government's gold deposits. It was decommissioned in 1937 after a new mint was built across town (which we still call The "New" Mint even though it's over 85 years old).

The main entrance is on the second floor, but there is a wheelchair entrance, freight entrance, and emergency exit on the first (ground) floor, so I will start with that. I have gridded pix as well that could be used for an RPG, but for now, here are the ungridded ones.

Ground Floor

Emergency exit on the Mission Street side, wheelchair entrance on the opposite side (Mint Plaza), and a loading entrance in the rear (Mint Street). It's primarily accessed from the second floor, though, through a freight elevator in what was Vault 1, or through one of four sets of internal stairs.

Second Floor

The main entrance from Fifth Street leads up exterior steps to this level. This level also has a courtyard covered by a glass roof.

Third Floor

I eliminated the foliage outside except for the trees, which I thought might reach close to the third floor windows. The columns here do appear on the floorplans I found.

Fourth Floor

Note that the columns are now covered by the fourth floor, which serves as a roof for them. Looks like there's some office space on the Fifth Street side, and some utilitarian space on the opposite side, but mostly it's just roofing over the third floor.

* I subsequently have found good floorplans for the Old Library! When I went downtown to take photos of the Old Mint, I decided to swing by the new Main Library's History Center, and they did have the floorplans. They will be coming in a future project, maybe with a different floorplan annual.

Yes! If it comes with a searchable transcript with timestamps. 😉

This is a nice planet, by the way. I can't tell you how much I struggled to get the land-to-sea ratios and size-of-content settings to generate what I wanted. Even then, I had to do some terraforming to turn some inland seas into gulfs connected to a bigger ocean. (And then I flipped the north and south poles because I liked how it looked upside down better). Your world looks like it has some nice, large land masses that are separated from one another, giving yourself a lot of flexibility in how you want to develop things.

Okay, I think this may be done. Added a few more icons and place names.

Here's a zoom of the Republic itself, without the portions from the continents of Zraig Wessex or Lenoch.

And here's a zoom of my swamp: