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== History == | == History == | ||
The | The Artifectors of [[the Laboratory]] of the Strange and Wonderful House also once tasked themselves with creating a Perpetual Motion Machine as a dare. They worked on it together in a rare show of cooperation, and the first prototype seemed functional, butit exploded in the face of lead Artifector [[Agrontus]] when he tried to solemnly switch it on. [[Gravitcher]] was appointed as the new lead artifector, with his first duty being to preside over the cremation of what few remains of Agrontus could be gathered. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)]]'') | ||
However, now being confident that the idea could work in theory, the Artifectors continued studying various ways to implement it without blowing themselves up like Agrontus, such as running a network of wires around the House, “the first time in many years that any of them had seen any part of the House except for their own exclusive corner of it”, and creating a number of devices intended to siphon power from the House's network, one of which was later repurposed into a tea kettle. Eventually, they made it work at the cost of having to create a whole new tower and a permanent lightning storm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-V: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)]]'') The resulting machine had no other function than to go “''ping-whoomp''” every eight minutes, but was wisely left alone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)]]'') | However, now being confident that the idea could work in theory, the Artifectors continued studying various ways to implement it without blowing themselves up like Agrontus, such as running a network of wires around the House, “the first time in many years that any of them had seen any part of the House except for their own exclusive corner of it”, and creating a number of devices intended to siphon power from the House's network, one of which was later repurposed into a tea kettle. Eventually, they made it work at the cost of having to create a whole new tower and a permanent lightning storm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-V: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)]]'') The resulting machine had no other function than to go “''ping-whoomp''” every eight minutes, but was wisely left alone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)]]'') | ||
In the course of their activities, [[Housekeeping]] once burst in on the Laboratory | In the course of their activities, [[Housekeeping]] once burst in on the Laboratory and began cleaning it, much to the dismay of Gravitcher and his Artifectors. However, [[Spamblodgett]] tricked [[Lally]], a member of Housekeeping, into [[the Alarum]] and sent her five minutes back in time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'') altering the timeline so that the Artifectors had been warned of Housekeeping's impending arrival and locked and barricaded the door to prevent them coming in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-I: The Lab: The Alarum Goes Off|The Lab: The Alarum Goes Off]]'') They sent an SOS to [[Elshanor]], who made her way across the House to speak with the Housekeeping platoon, and convinced them to leave the Laboratory alone and go clean [[The Strange and Wonderful House#The Library|the Library]] instead, insisting that it was extremely dusty. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-III: Heebie Jeebies|Heebie Jeebies]]'') | ||
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