Presto's tower is modeled after Elminster's. His master's tower had multiple floors dedicated to certain roles (sleeping, eating, storeroom, library, lab, study, trophy/collection room, etc), but Presto's is different in a key way: It's only two stories tall, and looks rather squat and broad rather than high and imposing. When he designed it, Presto had a rather acute fear of heights. He's learned to get over his fear (he can fly, after all), but there was no point in redesigning an entire wizard's tower, so what's done is done.
The place was a bit of a mess for a while, but as he got older Presto saw the value in every item having a place. He can still be a bit scatterbrained, and things get lost if they are set down randomly. These days he's a bit overzealous about it, with labels on nearly everything to make organization easier.
While some of the decor clearly came from a magical bulk-supply store (It's called Abracadabra Ikea-khazam), Presto requests his friends bring him cheap or easy-to-access items from his home plane. Obscure and odd-looking plants share shelf space with picture frames with photos of his friends and their families. Planar maps are mounted on walls next to movie posters from Presto's childhood and band posters. There is a section in his library for magical tomes and well-read paperbacks of Louis L'Amour, among a lot of other, more modern, reading. There is a stack of Time magazines and piles of newspapers, some going back decades (he'll reread them eventually, he assured you). There is an entire Encyclopedia Britannica set, though the books are from different years and versions. There are many little signs of his former home, all brought by his friends. To help return the favor, there is a shared, very comfortable sleeping area where the group can stay. Presto sleeps in the same room with them whenever they visit, though the visits are becoming more sparse. Even so, he has his Unseen Servants keep the beds clean and turned down with fresh flowers on each bedside table just in case someone wants to drop in.
He's gone to great lengths to keep up with his home plane's modern sensibilities, though it can be complicated to try to match the modern world's infrastructure. After Bobby brought him an iPod as a gift, Presto realized he had no way to charge the device once it died. So now one corner of his lab is dedicated to a complex arcane circle that can turn back time on a single item it is tuned to. The device de-ages, the charge returns, and also looks brand new as an added bonus. (No one will ever know how often he's dropped it dancing to Taylor Swift).
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Please forgive any typos, still rocking mobile GP at the moment. Anyone can feel free to add anything they see fit to the description of the tower. The group helped to develop it, after all.
Last edited April 16, 2022 4:11 am