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Some rooms could only be entered by specific people or groups of people, including [[#The Stationery Room|the Stationery Room]], limited to the [[Master of the Houses]] and his guests, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 20: The Stationery Room|The Stationery Room]]'') and [[#The Jenny Everywhere Museum|the Jenny Everywhere Museum]], limited to incarnations of [[Jenny Everywhere]] and their companions. ([[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]]'') | Some rooms could only be entered by specific people or groups of people, including [[#The Stationery Room|the Stationery Room]], limited to the [[Master of the Houses]] and his guests, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 20: The Stationery Room|The Stationery Room]]'') and [[#The Jenny Everywhere Museum|the Jenny Everywhere Museum]], limited to incarnations of [[Jenny Everywhere]] and their companions. ([[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]]'') | ||
The House was sentient, with a definite personality of its own. It enjoyed having its residents upgrade its interior, and had the ability to manipulate its own interior to a degree to facilitate their work. For example, when the [[lawn gnome]]s began work to graft [[the Great Glass Elevator]] into the House to supplement [[#The Stairwell|the Stairwell]], it began to make various doorways throughout the House open into as-yet-empty elevator shafts. “Buzzing with excitement and creaking with worry, lurching, stretching, and then settling”, the House's active mood was noticed by the residents, who were forced to hold a “continuous seance” on [[#The 7th floor|the 7th floor]] in order to “keep [[spirit]]s and [[demon]]s out of closets and cupboards”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
=== Inhabitants === | === Inhabitants === | ||
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* [[Titan]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 7: The Coat Room|The Coat Room]]'') | * [[Titan]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 7: The Coat Room|The Coat Room]]'') | ||
* [[Imp]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 13-II: View From a Jungle|View From a Jungle]]'') | * [[Imp]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 13-II: View From a Jungle|View From a Jungle]]'') | ||
* [[Goblin]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'') | * [[Goblin]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 15: The Stairwell|The Stairwell]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | ||
* [[Lawn gnome|Lawn]] [[gnome]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
* [[Spirit]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
* [[Demon]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
* [[the Lady in Mourning]], speculated to be a former goddess. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 20: The Stationery Room|The Stationery Room]]'') | * [[the Lady in Mourning]], speculated to be a former goddess. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 20: The Stationery Room|The Stationery Room]]'') | ||
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==== The Stationery Room ==== | ==== The Stationery Room ==== | ||
The Stationery Room, where all official letters from the House were written, was also known as the Station''a''ry Room, referring to its constant position as the midway point between [[#The Master Bedroom|the Master Bedroom]] and [[#The Gatehouse|the Gatehouse]]. However, as pointed out in [[#The Athenaeum|the Athenaeum]]'s records, it was also a Room of Stationery. The Room was “somewhat small”, with a single desk sitting in the center, facing the door. At its back was a window covered by heavy curtains, and all the walls were covered in bookshelves and, in one corner, a large cabinet. The desk contained an infinite supply of “papers, envelopes, inks, pens and waxes”. Entry into the Stationery Room was restricted to the [[Master of the House]] and those he allowed to use it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 20: The Stationery Room|The Stationery Room]]'') | The Stationery Room, where all official letters from the House were written, was also known as the Station''a''ry Room, referring to its constant position as the midway point between [[#The Master Bedroom|the Master Bedroom]] and [[#The Gatehouse|the Gatehouse]]. However, as pointed out in [[#The Athenaeum|the Athenaeum]]'s records, it was also a Room of Stationery. The Room was “somewhat small”, with a single desk sitting in the center, facing the door. At its back was a window covered by heavy curtains, and all the walls were covered in bookshelves and, in one corner, a large cabinet. The desk contained an infinite supply of “papers, envelopes, inks, pens and waxes”. Entry into the Stationery Room was restricted to the [[Master of the House]] and those he allowed to use it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 20: The Stationery Room|The Stationery Room]]'') | ||
==== The west garden ==== | |||
The west garden of the House was possibly inhabited by [[lawn gnome]]s. At any rate, the gnomes undertook the repair of [[the Great Glass Elevator]] after it crashed in the west garden. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
==== The 7th floor ==== | |||
When [[the Strange and Wonderful House]] began acting up out of excitement about its impending acquisition of [[the Great Glass Elevator|an Elevator]], a “continuous seance” had to be held by the residents on the 7th floor so as “to keep [[spirit]]s and demons out of closets and cupboards”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
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At some point, an old [[wandering mendicant (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|wandering mendicant]] dressed in dusty, tattered clothing, came to [[#The Ruined Chapel|the Ruined Chapel]] at the end of a long journey. He faced [[the Lady of Mourning]] without fear and entertained her with an endless array of melancholy songs, asking, in-between each song, if a given name was hers. Every night at midnight, while the Lady removed her veil, the mendicant left the Chapel to gather food and drink from [[the Tarn]], before returning to resume his singing and questioning. He died happy after years spent in this routine, one more question on his lips. His passing affected the Lady to the degree that she broke her own ancient routine: the following night, at midnight, instead of crying out “''Woe unto they who once stood on high! Their temples are in ruins and their names are forgotten.''” as she always did, she turned her head towards the stars and sang a song of “hope and dreams” before departing the Chapel for good, with the statue also being gone the next morning, alongside the Chapel's aura of melancholy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 19-I: The Right Wrong Questions|The Right Wrong Questions]]'') | At some point, an old [[wandering mendicant (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|wandering mendicant]] dressed in dusty, tattered clothing, came to [[#The Ruined Chapel|the Ruined Chapel]] at the end of a long journey. He faced [[the Lady of Mourning]] without fear and entertained her with an endless array of melancholy songs, asking, in-between each song, if a given name was hers. Every night at midnight, while the Lady removed her veil, the mendicant left the Chapel to gather food and drink from [[the Tarn]], before returning to resume his singing and questioning. He died happy after years spent in this routine, one more question on his lips. His passing affected the Lady to the degree that she broke her own ancient routine: the following night, at midnight, instead of crying out “''Woe unto they who once stood on high! Their temples are in ruins and their names are forgotten.''” as she always did, she turned her head towards the stars and sang a song of “hope and dreams” before departing the Chapel for good, with the statue also being gone the next morning, alongside the Chapel's aura of melancholy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 19-I: The Right Wrong Questions|The Right Wrong Questions]]'') | ||
One day, [[the Great Glass Elevator]] crashed into [[#The west garden|the west garden]]. This was interpreted by hopeful residents as it being “donated” to the House, and the [[lawn gnome]]s began work on repairing it and integrating it into the House, much to the excitement of the House itself, although the [[goblin]]s of [[#The Stairwell|the Stairwell]] were less keen on the project. “Buzzing with excitement and creaking with worry, lurching, stretching, and then settling”, the House's excited mood was noticed by the residents, who were forced to hold a “continuous seance” on [[#The 7th floor|the 7th floor]] in order to “keep [[spirit]]s and [[demon]]s out of closets and cupboards”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') | |||
On one occasion, [[Jenny Everywhere#Romanced by Nowhere|an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere]] ran into the Strange and Wonderful House while chased by [[Jenny Nowhere#Romance with Everywhere|Jenny Nowhere]]. She tried to hide in a dark room, but was found by Nowhere; however, Everywhere picked up a lamp and clobbered Nowhere on the head with it before making her escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral]]'') | On one occasion, [[Jenny Everywhere#Romanced by Nowhere|an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere]] ran into the Strange and Wonderful House while chased by [[Jenny Nowhere#Romance with Everywhere|Jenny Nowhere]]. She tried to hide in a dark room, but was found by Nowhere; however, Everywhere picked up a lamp and clobbered Nowhere on the head with it before making her escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral]]'') | ||
