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==== The Stairwell ==== | ==== The Stairwell ==== | ||
The Staircase was a spiral staircase starting near the front door and going upwards. These stairs, built when the [[President of Zimbabwe|President]] of [[Zimbabwe]] complained about the lack of stairs and opened on “the first day of Spring”, passed through “an infinite number of portals, spanning the width and depth of the house”. The supports were in the shape of animal limbs, and each stone step represented a [[ley line]]. Every four steps was a doorway. The doors went up to the front door of [[the Attic]], but they also went beyond it — and at the very top, there was a golden gate surrounded by “dry ice tended to by the very highest of the [[goblin]]s”. It was kept permanently closed, and a sign hanging from the padlock stated: “''If you have made it here, then you only deserve to fall, for a life wasted is not a life lived in Good.''”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'') | The Staircase was a spiral staircase starting near the front door and going upwards. These stairs, built when the [[President of Zimbabwe|President]] of [[Zimbabwe]] complained about the lack of stairs and opened on “the first day of Spring”, passed through “an infinite number of portals, spanning the width and depth of the house”. The supports were in the shape of animal limbs, and each stone step represented a [[ley line]]. Every four steps was a doorway. The doors went up to the front door of [[the Attic]], but they also went beyond it — and at the very top, there was a golden gate surrounded by “dry ice tended to by the very highest of the [[goblin]]s”. It was kept permanently closed, and a sign hanging from the padlock stated: “''If you have made it here, then you only deserve to fall, for a life wasted is not a life lived in Good.''”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'') | ||
==== The Attic ==== | |||
The door to “the Attic” could be reached from [[#The Stairwell|the Stairwell]], but, counterintuitively, was not the pinnacle thereof. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'') | |||
==== The Throne Room ==== | ==== The Throne Room ==== | ||
The Throne Room contained fifty thrones, all of them different. Whenever someone sat in their bespoke throne, it would take the place of the head throne, and the occupant would be called upon to judge some accused criminal. Their arm rest had a white button to let them go and a red button to open a trap-door beneath them that transported them to [[Pandemonium]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 16: The Throne Room|The Throne Room]]'') | The Throne Room contained fifty thrones, all of them different. Whenever someone sat in their bespoke throne, it would take the place of the head throne, and the occupant would be called upon to judge some accused criminal. Their arm rest had a white button to let them go and a red button to open a trap-door beneath them that transported them to [[Pandemonium]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 16: The Throne Room|The Throne Room]]'') | ||
==== The | ==== The Jenny Everywhere Museum ==== | ||
The | The Jenny Everywhere Museum was a wing of the House that was set aside for [[Jenny Everywhere#With the Architect|Jenny Everywhere]] by [[the Architect]] itself to use as a museum for herselves and her friends – and, in practice, as a storeroom for random junk she acquired while wandering the universes. “Known contents” were said to include: | ||
* Statues of friends, companions and family of Jenny from throughout the worlds. | |||
* Three [[perpetual motion machine]]s. | |||
* A copy of the [[Voynich Manuscript]], annotated in “a completely different alien language from the manuscript itself”. | |||
* A [[miniature city]] preserved from “[[Dead world (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a dead world]]”. | |||
* A key to the [[gate of Eromreven]]. | |||
* A [[battlesuit]] from the [[Third War of Ascension]] on [[Earth-33]]. | |||
* A portrait of Jenny painted by [[Leonardo Da Vinci#On Earth-274|Leonardo Da Vinci]] in the 19th century on [[Earth-274]], where Da Vinci became a [[vampire]]. | |||
* A floating pirate ship. | |||
* A “maze of twisty little passages, all alike”. | |||
* A zoo with various endangered species including [[unicorn]]s, [[vegetable lamb]]s and [[giant balloon animal]]s. | |||
* A [[Laura Drake#Lock of hair in the Museum|lock of red hair]]. | |||
* The skull of an [[Elder God (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Elder God]]. | |||
* An item marked simply as [REDACTED]. | |||
* “[[Bottle universe (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|A bottle filled with a miniature universe]]” containing the story of [[Superman|Kal-el]]” | |||
* A computer linked to [[Universe C (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|“our” universe]]'s Internet, allowing her to set up her own website, [[Ficly|ficly.com]]. | |||
The Museum could only be entered by versions of Jenny or those she specifically invited. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum|The Jenny Everywhere Museum]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 18-I: The Jenny Everywhere Museum (cont'd)|The Jenny Everywhere Museum (cont'd)]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== Origins === | === Origins === | ||
At some point, [[The Architect|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 (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Welcome!|Welcome!]]'') The blueprint was progressively filled out. [[#Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]] was included on the blueprints as “H-P13”, and [[brother (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|one]] of the people with access to the blueprints took to calling it the “Pie” hallway. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 9: Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]]'') | At some point, [[The Architect|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 (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Welcome!|Welcome!]]'') The blueprint was progressively filled out. [[#Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]] was included on the blueprints as “H-P13”, and [[brother (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|one]] of the people with access to the blueprints took to calling it the “Pie” hallway. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 9: Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]]'') The Architect personally gave [[Jenny Everywhere#With the Architect|Jenny Everywhere]] a wing all to herself, which became [[#The Jenny Everywhere Museum|the Jenny Everywhere Museum]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum|The Jenny Everywhere Museum]]'') | ||
=== Visitors === | === Visitors === | ||
