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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Christopher (''Our Strange and Wonderful House'')}}Nine-year-old '''Christopher''' and his eleven-year-old sister [[Mandy (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Mandy]] were two residents of [[the Strange and Wonderful House]]. Mandy was bolder than her brother, and once talked him into sneaking with her into [[#The Cellar|the Cellar]] without their [[Uncle Jack]]'s knowledge. | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Christopher (''Our Strange and Wonderful House'')}}Nine-year-old '''Christopher''' and his eleven-year-old sister [[Mandy (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Mandy]] were two residents of [[the Strange and Wonderful House]]. Mandy was bolder than her brother, and once talked him into sneaking with her into [[#The Cellar|the Cellar]] without their [[Uncle Jack]]'s knowledge. | ||
There, when Mandy plucked a wine bottle from a shelf, Christopher tried to wrestle it from her to put it back, only to cause her to drop it. It shattered, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 24: The Cellar|The Cellar]]'') and the fumes of the liquid, actually distilled memory instead of wine, plunged Christopher in a hallucinatory daydream about being a bloodthirsty pirate. He was quickly pulled out of it by that this very bottle had just been requested by the [[Master of the House]] from [[Montresor]] so that it could be served during upcoming negotiations between himself and the [[Goblin King (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Goblin King]]. Distressed, Montresor, the [[Keeper of the Cellar]] ordered them to create a new bottle by convincing a legendary pirate to give up some of his memories, and then artificially aging the bottle in [[#Father Time's attic|Father Time's attic]] — threatening them with the giant rats who also lived with the cellar if they didn't comply. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 24: The Cellar|The Cellar]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 24-I: Montresor|Montresor]]'') To allow them to do such a thing, he let Chris drink from a bottle full of a [[wizard]]'s memories, flooding his mind with knowledge of [[magic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 24-II: The First Step|The First Step]]'') | There, when Mandy plucked a wine bottle from a shelf, Christopher tried to wrestle it from her to put it back, only to cause her to drop it. It shattered, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 24: The Cellar|The Cellar]]'') and the fumes of the liquid, actually distilled memory instead of wine, plunged Christopher in a hallucinatory daydream about being a bloodthirsty pirate. He was quickly pulled out of it by a mysterious man who explained that this very bottle had just been requested by the [[Master of the House]] from [[Montresor]] so that it could be served during upcoming negotiations between himself and the [[Goblin King (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Goblin King]]. Distressed, the old man, who was none other than Montresor, the [[Keeper of the Cellar]] ordered them to create a new bottle by convincing a legendary pirate to give up some of his memories, and then artificially aging the bottle in [[#Father Time's attic|Father Time's attic]] — threatening them with the giant rats who also lived with the cellar if they didn't comply. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 24: The Cellar|The Cellar]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 24-I: Montresor|Montresor]]'') To allow them to do such a thing, he let Chris drink from a bottle full of a [[wizard]]'s memories, flooding his mind with knowledge of [[magic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 24-II: The First Step|The First Step]]'') | ||
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