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==== The fourth floor ==== | ==== The fourth floor ==== | ||
[[#The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]] was located on “the fourth floor down [[#The east wing|the east wing]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 26: The Airing Cupboard]]'') | [[#The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]] was located on “the fourth floor down [[#The east wing|the east wing]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 26: The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]]'') | ||
==== The east wing ==== | ==== The east wing ==== | ||
[[#The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]] was located on “the [[#The fourth floor|fourth floor]] down the east wing”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 26: The Airing Cupboard]]'') | [[#The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]] was located on “the [[#The fourth floor|fourth floor]] down the east wing”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 26: The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]]'') | ||
==== The Kitchen ==== | |||
[[#The Laboratory|The Laboratory]] was located “dangerously close” to the Kitchen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Kitchen|The Kitchen]]'') | |||
==== The Laboratory ==== | |||
The Laboratory, or simply “the Lab”, was located “dangerously close” to the Kitchen. It started out as a mere cupboard, but one of the [[Artifector]]s' first invention was the [[space expander]]s which turned the interior into a much larger working space. The Artifectors worked there daily on various mad-science projects, intended to make the lives of the House's residents either more or less convenient, depending on the Artiefactors' mood. There was “a little corner dedicated to non-mad science”, but it saw very little use. | |||
Inventions stored in the Laboratory included various time-travel devices, “a prototype for an innovative [[bee]]-based mode of transport”, equipment for measuring “luck, rubber band elasticity and sense of humour”, unfinished blueprints for an [[anti-procrastination device]], a [[Shiny Object Locator]] which had quickly been misplaced, and various [[thinking cap]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Kitchen|The Kitchen]]'') | |||
== 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]]'') 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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
=== Victorian era === | |||
A century before the “coming of the elevator”, the [[Master of the House]] “at that time” kept [[Master of the House's mistress|a mistress]]. After a parlour maid discovered the true nature of [[#the Airing Cupboard|the Airing Cupboard]], he installed a life-sized portrait of her over the door. This outraged the [[Master of the House's wife]], and it was later said that she instantly moved back to the continent, where she died of jealously soon after. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 26: The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]]'') | |||
=== Visitors === | === Visitors === | ||
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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 | 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]]'') | ||
=== The Coming of the Elevator === | |||
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. “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”. However, the [[goblin]]s of [[#The Stairwell|the Stairwell]] were less keen on the project, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 21: Elevator|Elevator]]'') and the [[Master of the House]] had to undertake negotiations with the [[Goblin King (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Goblin King]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 24-I: Montresor|Montresor]]'') | |||
Young human residents [[Christopher (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Christopher]] and [[Mandy (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Mandy]] once snuck into [[#The Cellar|the Cellar]]. There, they accidentally broke a bottle ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 24: The Cellar|The Cellar]]'') which the Master of the House had requested so that it could be served during the upcoming negotiations between himself and the Goblin King. Distressed, [[Montresor]] 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]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[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]]'') | |||
The Elevator's appearance caused alterations to several halls. As a result, the door to [[#The Airing Cupboard|the Airing Cupboard]], which had been sealed for a hundred years, was rediscovered. The first man to notice the strange door was a visitor, who enter the Cupboard only to be confronted with [[Figure in the Airing Cupboard|a ghostly figure in a “peculiar” Victorian nightdress]] who referred to him as “darling”, told him off for having been “so long”, and pulled him into a deadly embrace. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 26: The Airing Cupboard|The Airing Cupboard]]'') | |||
=== Other events === | === Other events === | ||
