The Creation Center/Rooms



In the lowest level of the Finklenook Institute of Higher Magical Learning and Research is an area known as the Creation Center. This area is overseen by educator Artimus Rogue and is where magical creatures are designed and formed in individual compartments known as “Creation Rooms”

Accessing the Creation Center

The creation center is accessible two ways. One way is to take the long flight of stairs from the main floor. The other is to enter through huge bay doors from the outside.


Set Up of the Creation Center

The creation center consists of sixty-four creation rooms, thirty-two on each side of a very wide corridor. The rooms themselves are white and featureless and of varying sizes, the largest being eighty by eighty feet. At the end of the corridor, near the bay doors is Artimus’ office.


Setup of the Creation Rooms

Each room is rectangular, painted white and has a heavy green security door with a thick glass window that is used for observation of projects as they are forming. The ceilings are thirty feet high, and the front wall of each room is hinged so it can be swung back to allow the larger creations to exit. They are immediately taken through the bay doors out to the grounds and to wherever they are to be housed.


Requirements

Any undergrad that utilizes the creation area has to have an accredited degree in biology, as well as be learned in the physiology of the creature he or she intends to create. They have to be familiar with skeletal structure, circulatory, digestive, neurological and every other type of applicable system necessary to sustain life. Before an undergrad can utilize a room, he or she must log in their project in the creation room logbook. Any creation not logged is instantly dissolved by Artimus.


Safety Precautions

Before a creation becomes animated, each undergrad must file a letter of support outlining how the creature will be housed and provided for and given to educator Rogue. If this is not supplied, the creation will be arbitrarily dissolved. This letter isn’t necessary for human golems, who can stay in dorm rooms and eat in the cafeteria.

Any potentially harmful creation has to be created with docility ingrained in them the first few times, so it can be studied and researched. Failure to do this will result in the immediate destruction of the creature and expulsion from Finklenook with no hope of re-enrollment.

Once a creature is set to form and the door to the creation room closed, it can be opened by no one other than educator Rogue, to prevent any alterations on the creature before it is fully form. Altering a creation in this manner can have disastrous results. But the room will become accessible to the creator once the creature is fully animated.