Tourists' Guide

The Church of Vanderstank is a holy chapel designed to honor a vision recorded hundreds of years ago by the Family Elders. The main chapel contains six floors extending down into the ground—that is, the first floor is on ground level, the second floor is beneath that, the third floor beneath that, and so on. However, the boundaries of the Church are difficult to define, as there are numerous hidden sections, rooms, and floors whose physical locations and temporality are ambiguous.

The contents of some rooms may be different depending on the time of day, month, or year.

Guided tour

The first floor contains the rooms that travellers and tourists most often wish to visit. The Library contains the fabled Old and New Books of Vanderstank, as well as several other selected holy texts. Further down are two meditation rooms where visitors are encouraged to sit and stay a while, a Confessional where one may come to atone their sins, and more.

The second floor, only recently opened to the public, contains an interesting array of rooms including the Chamber of Reflection where Church members came to meditate away from the public, as well as a theater called the Proscenium, a long-defunct marvel of mechanical engineering called the Panopticon, and several storage rooms for the Church's most valuable possessions.

The third floor is a private area restricted to a small number of Church monks and priestesses, and may be bypassed by elevator.

The star attraction of the fourth floor, no longer restricted to Church members, is the Moon Room, where a chunk of actual moon rock purchased from NASA hangs suspended in mid-air with bright lights shining on it. Importantly, this allows Church members to perform moonlight rituals even when the moon is not out. The fourth floor also contains a garden, a museum, an art studio, a distillery, and the Weather Room, where a manmade thunderstorm is trapped within the confines of a watertight room.

The fifth floor contains various seldom-used rooms, including several early bacterial incubators and several padded soundproof rooms.

The sixth floor is strictly off limits and contains nothing of any interest, as are other nearby sections such as the School and the Hotel. Access to these areas is decided on a case-by-case basis.