The Strange and Wonderful House
The Strange and Wonderful House, often referred to as simply the House, and also called the Infinite House or the Mansion, was a living house of mysterious origins whose interior encompassed an infinite number of rooms, many of them strange or supernatural. Jenny Everywhere was friends with the Architect of the House, and had an unusually good ending of the nature of the House, which she visited in many incarnations, up to and including the day House's eventual destruction.
Description
Nature
The House was infinite (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: Welcome!) and home to many portals to and from other dimensions than the one where its original exterior happened to be located. In many cases, transit from one room to another was achieved through portals internal to the house, rather than more conventionally making one's way through the building. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House)
Contents
The Courtyard
The Courtyard was an area in front of the wrought gates that properly led into the estate, but which was still part of the House in some sense. It was “fragrant”, and the air was filled with “softly surrsurring willows and languid will-o'-wisps”. It was always night inside the Courtyard, the sky filled with “alien stars”. There were chimes, always ringing softly in the playful wind.
The gates themselves, although they appeared at first glance to be made of glowing golden metal, were actually made of clear tubing within which luminous insects milled about for an indiscernible purpose. The gates could open of their own accord to let in a visitor. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Courtyard)
The Anteroom
The Anteroom appears to be carved inside the trunk of an impossibly huge tree trunk, the wood of the walls smooth and unbroken. Its floor is tiled in a spiral fractal pattern in black and white, and it is furnished with comfortable sitting chairs, sofas and coffee tables, arranged across the pillar of cold white fire in the centre, into which guests may step to get to other parts of the House. This fire is fueled by fairy dust which falls from the floating chandelier above, whose light does not come from electricity or fire but from a number of small fairies sitting on the chandelier. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: The Anteroom)
History
At some point, an individual prepared an empty blueprint marked with infinite dimensions and gathered other creative minds to help create rooms for the “strange and wonderful house” they intended to build. (PROSE: Our Strange and Wonderful House: Welcome!)
