>>5419688>Take it in in silence.The levels, the battlements, the windows, the steps, the blue sky above it, the baked-plate path below, from the nooks of the walls to the birds that sit atop them, you try your best to imprint the view in your mind. Your head boils with a mixture of awe and excitement. You would go there just today, see it up close, see this monument to human toil in person in a way nobody had ever looked at it before. In a way, you're like a child that has just opened its eyes. To think that you are lucky enough to have this for a first view!
And yet... you find your mind begin to turn in a different direction. You imagine the true scale of the object, lay it out in your head like a plan. The absolute scale of orgnisation, of manpower required, tools and pack animals and slaves all breaking themselves upon it in waves until the thing is done. You can see it now, to the most minute detail, the entrances, the foundations, how innumerable pieces fit together to form the awesome entirety. Teeming swarms of imagined sights flash past your mind's eye, what could the inner courtyard look like? How would you do it? Where the well, the grove, the kitchen, the living quarters?
>roll 1d100:>It's too much for one man to handle. [1-20]>How many lives has this thing claimed already? [21-40]>Anyone can play around with such thoughts. Committing to the act is a whole other beast. [41-70]>I could learn much from its builders. [71-90]>I think I might have a talent for this... [91-100] 