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Directly under the authority of the “Masters of the abode” were the battle-ready, all-female [[Housekeeping]] corps, who were sworn to clean out every room in the House at least once per year. They were led by a [[Head of Housekeeping|forceful woman]]. They had an enmity with the [[Artifector]]s, eccentric inventors who worked in [[#The Laboratory|the Laboratory]] on devices nominally intended to make the lives of the residents of the House more convenient, although they often did the opposite or else wholly failed to pan out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Lab|The Lab]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-I: The Lab: The Alarum Goes Off|The Lab: The Alarum Goes off]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'') | Directly under the authority of the “Masters of the abode” were the battle-ready, all-female [[Housekeeping]] corps, who were sworn to clean out every room in the House at least once per year. They were led by a [[Head of Housekeeping|forceful woman]]. They had an enmity with the [[Artifector]]s, eccentric inventors who worked in [[#The Laboratory|the Laboratory]] on devices nominally intended to make the lives of the residents of the House more convenient, although they often did the opposite or else wholly failed to pan out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Lab|The Lab]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-I: The Lab: The Alarum Goes Off|The Lab: The Alarum Goes off]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'') | ||
Other staff included the guards keeping watch over the door to [[the Conservatory]] from [[the Guardroom]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 12: The Guardroom|The Guardroom]]'') the zookeepers patrolling [[the Zoo]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 29: The Zoo|The Zoo]]'') [[Malthus]] who watched over [[#the morgue|the morgue]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 23: The Rose Cottage|The Rose Cottage]]'') | Other staff included the guards keeping watch over the door to [[the Conservatory]] from [[the Guardroom]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 12: The Guardroom|The Guardroom]]'') the zookeepers patrolling [[the Zoo]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 29: The Zoo|The Zoo]]'') [[Malthus]] who watched over [[#the morgue|the morgue]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 23: The Rose Cottage|The Rose Cottage]]'') [[Montresor]] the [[Keeper of the Cellar]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 24-I: Montresor|Montresor]]'') and the [[man with the crimson cloak]] who distributed invitations for [[#The Ballroom|the Ball]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 34: The Ballroom|The Ballroom]]'') | ||
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==== The Foyer ==== | ==== The Foyer ==== | ||
The Foyer was furnished with a bench for taking off one's shoes as well as an utterly enormous coatrack. Events within it seemed control by a {{w|Fourier transform|Fourier transform}}, such that a single pattern endlessly looped, switching out visitors over time. A visitor would come in, find someone else hiding behind the coat rack who stated that they only knew the first line and conclusion, had never gotten in, were on their way out, and needed to know how to come in. Once pointed to the door, the visitor would leave for a few seconds, knock, and ask: “May I come in?”. Participants in this strange ritual included [[Six]], [[Seven]], [[Eight]], [[Luda]], and at least one more woman. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 32: The Foyer|The Foyer]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 32-I: Foyer Infinity|Foyer Infinity]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 32-II: Reiterate the Foyer]]'') | The Foyer was furnished with a bench for taking off one's shoes as well as an utterly enormous coatrack. Events within it seemed control by a {{w|Fourier transform|Fourier transform}}, such that a single pattern endlessly looped, switching out visitors over time. A visitor would come in, find someone else hiding behind the coat rack who stated that they only knew the first line and conclusion, had never gotten in, were on their way out, and needed to know how to come in. Once pointed to the door, the visitor would leave for a few seconds, knock, and ask: “May I come in?”. Participants in this strange ritual included [[Six]], [[Seven]], [[Eight]], [[Luda]], and at least one more woman. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 32: The Foyer|The Foyer]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 32-I: Foyer Infinity|Foyer Infinity]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 32-II: Reiterate the Foyer]]'') | ||
==== The Ballroom ==== | |||
The Ballroom was a “beautiful and elegant place”, lit by globes of light floating through the air, which eerie music coming from a distance and musicians nowhere in sight. Every month, a [[Man with the crimson cloak|man with a crimson cloak]] would go through the House and invitations to everyone in the House he encounters: “rich and poor, natives and visitors, human and otherwise”. From a [[#The storage room|a storage room]] near the Ballroom, guests were invited to freely choose a mask, such as “a knight, a gentleman, a harlequin, a monster”, or indeed, if one was already a monster, “an ordinary human being”. However, those who lingered too long in the Ballroom started to take on qualities of their chosen mask, until they lost their original identity altogether. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 34: The Ballroom|The Ballroom]]'') | |||
==== The storage room ==== | |||
People invited to [[#The Ballroom|the Ballroom]] were invited to choose a mask from the wide selection available in a “nearby storage room”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 34: The Ballroom|The Ballroom]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
