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=== Victorian era === | === 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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
=== The Perpetual Motion Machine === | |||
The [[Artifector]]s of [[#The Laboratory|the Laboratory]] once tasked themselves with creating a [[Perpetual Motion Machine]] as a dare. The first prototype seemed functional, but exploded in the face of lead Artifector [[Agrontus]] when he tried to solemnly switch it on, leading to the appointment of [[Gravitcher]], whose first duty as a new leader was to preside over the cremation of what few remains of Agrontus could be gathered. However, now being confident that the idea could work in theory, the Artifectors continued studying various ways to implement it without blowing themselves up like Agrontus, such as running a network of wires around 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. The machine had no other function than to go “''ping-whoomp''” every eight minutes, but was wisely left alone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-V: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)]]'') | |||
=== Visitors === | === Visitors === | ||
