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===== Appendix 27-III: Heebie Jeebies ===== | ===== Appendix 27-III: Heebie Jeebies ===== | ||
Still hiding in the bathroom of [[the Library (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|the Library]], [[Elshanor]] gets an SOS on her pager from the [[Artifector]]s. Unwilling to cross the Library again due to the ominous creaking sound she heard there, she instead lifts up a ceiling tile and hoists herself up to the floor above. The room turns out to be [[the sideways room]], where the red-eyed [[Hares In Charge of All Vegetation]] are having a meeting. Curtsying apologetically as she slides down, she avoids the rabbit-hole exit and instead makes for the plain wooden door. Exiting back into a corridor where gravity works correctly, where she runs into the [[Housekeeping]] party, who've had male reinforcements but still can't break into [[the Laboratory]]. Elshanor convinces them to go clean the Library instead of insisting on the Lab. | Still hiding in the bathroom of [[the Library (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|the Library]], [[Elshanor]] gets an SOS on her pager from the [[Artifector]]s. Unwilling to cross the Library again due to the ominous creaking sound she heard there, she instead lifts up a ceiling tile and hoists herself up to the floor above. The room turns out to be [[the sideways room]], where the red-eyed [[Hares In Charge of All Vegetation]] are having a meeting. Curtsying apologetically as she slides down, she avoids the rabbit-hole exit and instead makes for the plain wooden door. Exiting back into a corridor where gravity works correctly, where she runs into the [[Housekeeping]] party, who've had male reinforcements but still can't break into [[the Laboratory]]. Elshanor convinces them to go clean the Library instead of insisting on the Lab. | ||
===== Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1) ===== | |||
The [[Perpetual Motion Machine]] which sits in [[the Laboratory]] is described, and its origins are disclosed. The PPM, which uselessly goes “''ing-whoomp''” every eight minutes, was not commissioned by [[the Strange and Wonderful House|the House]], which “had long since learned that requests were fastidiously ignored and trying to guide the [[artifector]]s was akin to shearing a flock of cats”, but rather, was invented as a dare. The first prototype was created by then-lead artifector [[Agrontus]] and brutally killed him when he tried to switch it off, leading to the appointment of [[Gravitcher]]. | |||
===== Appendix 27-V: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2) ===== | |||
The second half of the [[Perpetual Motion Machine]]'s history is recounted. Now confident that the idea could work in theory, the [[Artifector]]s studied various ways to implement it without blowing themselves up like [[Agrontus]], such as running a network of wires around [[the Strange and Wonderful House|the House]], “the first time in many years that any of them had seen any part of the House except for their own exclusive corner of it”, and creating a number of devices intended to siphon power from the House's network, one of which was later repurposed into a tea kettle. Eventually, they made it work at the cost of having to create a whole new tower and a permanent lightning storm. | |||
=== Worldbuilding=== | === Worldbuilding=== | ||
