Editing The Build Up (section)

==Description==
The Build Up consists of a cliff before a massive building, described as being as tall as a small town is wide.<ref>The building was as large as anything Avery had ever seen.  Maybe as large as Kennet, but turned on one side.  And much like a dollhouse, one exterior wall was missing.  There was a section of the building that had a colossal windmill, with the blades sweeping the front face.  As it rotated, it blocked out the sun, then revealed it.  Avery, Snowdrop, Liberty, the Tearaway Kid and the small group of Garricks were cast in shade, then bright light, then shade again.  Red ribbons a mile long trailed in the breeze, bunches tied to the ends of the windmill’s blades. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/ Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.3]]</ref> The bottom floor is regularly demolished while the top floor is constantly rebuilt. The Lost on the path work their way from bottom to top, doing certain tasks on each floor, such as washing, dressing, eating, or working a job. Once they reach the top floor, they get to sleep in beds until the floor reaches the bottom of the building, which takes about five minutes, then they get up and rush to the top again. Lost that are too slow or fail to complete a floor's task are caught in the demolition or thrown off the path. New Lost are lowered onto the top of the path along with construction materials. 

In one instance, the front wall is missing and the interior is visible, with massive windmill blades rotating in front of the missing wall, and a huge spiked rolling pin performing the demolition at the bottom. Other appearances include a building being destroyed by waves with birds carrying platforms, an inferno burning out the bottom floor as fire crews rebuild the top, a tower of playground structures with toy construction equipment in a vast sandbox, and an assembly of giant robot parts in a massive scrap pile.<ref>The Build Up creaked.  Avery leaned into the railing that overlooked crashing seas, watching the tall building get pieced together.  The top floor was built as the bottom one was washed away with sweeping tidal waves.  Birds large and small carried platforms and equipment to drop off.<br>[...]<br>The Build Up was burning up, a fire eating the bottom floors while others struggled to build the upper floors.  Every minute or two, the bottom floor would get too weak from the fire and come crashing down.  Fire truck ladders that were supplying water were also supplying the materials for higher floors, while others came down on chains.<br>[...]<br>The Build Up was a giant play structure, with colorful panels to walk on, and a mingling of more colorful panels, plastic beams and shafts, and painted bars and pipes.  Plastic power tools sawed through and wrecked the bottom floor.  The construction vehicles looked like kids’ toys, in bright primary colors, with rounded edges.  They carried away the debris, and they brought more in.  Ropes in primary blues, yellows, and oranges lowered things down from overcast clouds.  Below, instead of fire or water, it was a million-foot drop to a playground sandbox, somehow.<br>[...]<br>A sea of junk and scrap metal, car parts and other machinery that didn’t make sense… from a human perspective at least.  Broken Lost machines, from other paths, filtering through her from this one peculiar angle.  The building was a giant robot, shadowy and kind of creepy in the distance.  Machines collected and moved debris, while pieces were moved into place.  The robot’s head became the torso, became the stomach, divided to be the legs… - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/hard-pass-22-z/ Excerpt] from [[Hard Pass 22.z]]</ref>

The main dangers are the demolition and construction zones, and the stampede of Lost making their way upward.<ref>“Looks like it’s pretty slow moving, but dense.  Can’t see any evidence of the puzzles.  Big danger areas are the destruction at the bottom, construction at the top, and the mob pushing through the center.  We can scale the outside, looks like a mix of climbing, and hopping onto rope-borne platforms and equipment.  Can also go inside, but you’ve got to deal with more Others.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/ Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.3]]</ref> Finders can climb the outside of the building and use some suspended platforms or crane hooks, but climbing loose ropes or riding or passing through the windmill blades are bad ideas, although one of the Build Up's boons might help with some of that.<ref>“What happens?” Liberty asked.  “With the windmill.”<br><br>“Touching those is more likely to end you or screw you up than help you catch a ride to higher floors,” Jude said.<br><br>“Probably don’t fly through or past them either.”<br><br>“Of course you don’t fly through or past them,” the Tearaway Kid grumped.<br><br>“Your friend knows about ropes, right?”<br><br>“See those ropes stretching down from the clouds above?” Avery asked Liberty.<br><br>“Yep.”<br><br>“Never hang onto just a rope like that.  You can stand on the platform or the hook and hold the rope at the same time, but if you grab onto the rope alone and try to climb it it pretty much always just goes slack, like it’s no longer attached to anything at the top.  Then you fall.”<br><br>“Unless you have certain boons,” Jude said.<br><br>“Like the one you get for riding a hook off into the sunset?” Liberty asked.<br><br>“Possibly.  It would fit.  But you know, we don’t usually push our luck with that stuff,” Jude said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/ Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.3]]</ref>