The "meditation room" will henceforth be referred to as "sea of consciousness", which is very fitting since there is water surrounding the platform!
Consider the following: What if you had a way to expand your existing sea of consciousness to allow for storage, passing the time(by sleeping in a bed perhaps?) or even housing! Why not even throw in a secure chest in there? It could potentially become your own portable home!
This is what I've accomplished through the use of console commands:
Just a secure chest and a bedroll really... :'/
Let me set the scene for you:Just a secure chest and a bedroll really... :'/
You're in a dungeon, been adventuring for a while now, as one can tell from the gargantuan load of items on your back that you've been steadily accumulating. You tell yourself that maybe it's about time to head back to town after finishing your current quest, when suddenly your legs give in to the weight of your possessions and alerts you of your predicament by moving you with the pace of a snail... you're over encumbered, nice going legs...
You look through your inventory like so many times before; expel the less valuable items, make room for the more valuable items. During this process you might even succeed in fooling yourself that you'll come back for the items you've dropped later on, like, that never happens, does it?
Imagine instead that you could simply blink out of the corporeal world and enter your sea of consciousness to deal with items, lack of sleep, crafting and spending memory points on skills! You'd have more than one reason to meditate if this was your reality, sadly it's not... yet anyway!
The way to gradually expand your sea of consciousness could be something of the following:
- Reading specific books.
- Collecting sufficient knowledge.
- After completing quests.
- Combination of the above?
... - Whatever you might come up with!
Enough to even house crafting stations? I hope so!
What's this you say? Not realistic to have physical objects in an immaterial, thought-controlled space!? Well, that's true and I can't argue against it, however it's possible at the time of writing(patch 1.1.2.9), to simply drop items on the ground of the meditation room, which is supposedly a space that exists within your mind... wicked!
And sometimes you've just got to say: "Fuck it, this is too cool to rationalize! Not to mention convenient!".
Whether it be a third-party modder or the team of SureAI, I sincerely hope that this could become reality for all those like-minded!