"A pawn can also represent limitations or weaknesses, but usually conditional or temporary ones," says Chris. "They're also a useful piece to figure out somebody's affiliations - a pawn promotion will tell you whether you're more of a rook, knight, bishop, or queen. And usually hint if you're a better pawn or king than any of those." She opens a door some distance down the hall from the top of the stairs, and here they are in... a room!
It's quite a room.
The wall opposite the door is mostly one huge window, with a narrowish table running the whole length of the wall just under the point where the window ends. The table holds a number of different boxes in varying materials and sizes, some open, some closed; the open ones contain mostly tumbled rocks sorted neatly into compartments, but one has a row of quartz crystals in a tray and one has a jumble of assorted chess pieces. There are also several smallish cabinets and chests-of-drawers lined up under the table.
Between the table and the door, the floor of the room is covered in an intricate asymmetrical pattern of different kinds of wood - squares and circles and long strips and every conceivable kind of triangle, in varying sizes, pieced together into a complex design. There is order in the chaos, but it's impossible to pick out a single unifying pattern; look long enough, and you can see a dozen different rings or squares or hexagons or octagons or snowflakes formed in the angular mosaic. The only point of commonality is that all of the different figures center on about the same point, right in the middle of the room.
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It's quite a room.
The wall opposite the door is mostly one huge window, with a narrowish table running the whole length of the wall just under the point where the window ends. The table holds a number of different boxes in varying materials and sizes, some open, some closed; the open ones contain mostly tumbled rocks sorted neatly into compartments, but one has a row of quartz crystals in a tray and one has a jumble of assorted chess pieces. There are also several smallish cabinets and chests-of-drawers lined up under the table.
Between the table and the door, the floor of the room is covered in an intricate asymmetrical pattern of different kinds of wood - squares and circles and long strips and every conceivable kind of triangle, in varying sizes, pieced together into a complex design. There is order in the chaos, but it's impossible to pick out a single unifying pattern; look long enough, and you can see a dozen different rings or squares or hexagons or octagons or snowflakes formed in the angular mosaic. The only point of commonality is that all of the different figures center on about the same point, right in the middle of the room.