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==== The Roof ==== | ==== The Roof ==== | ||
Stretching as far as the eye can see and swept over by “vicious” winds, the Roof of the House was “covered in lines, dashes, squares, and circles of paint to help guide the many airborne creatures and machines that call the Roof home”; the latter included “airships, jumbo jets, hot air balloons, ornithopters, jet-proppelled wings, dragons of all shapes and sizes, [[zero gravity vest]]s, zeppelins, starships, UFOs,” and many more. Flight attendants constantly “scurr[ied] about” to help visitors “find, borrow, rent, buy, steal, or otherwise obtain” whatever “flying thing” would suit their needs, so long as they carried appropriate identification. For all its wonders, the Roof was hard to get to: one had to take [[the Elevator]] to [[the Theater Room]], then go backstage to find a portal to the hair dye closet in [[the Salon]]. There, one of the [[dragon]]s would “beam” anyone who gave them “a sky lantern fueled with hydrogen” up to the Roof. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 49: The Roof|The Roof]]'') | Stretching as far as the eye can see and swept over by “vicious” winds, the Roof of the House was “covered in lines, dashes, squares, and circles of paint to help guide the many airborne creatures and machines that call the Roof home”; the latter included “airships, jumbo jets, hot air balloons, ornithopters, jet-proppelled wings, dragons of all shapes and sizes, [[zero gravity vest]]s, zeppelins, starships, UFOs,” and many more. Flight attendants constantly “scurr[ied] about” to help visitors “find, borrow, rent, buy, steal, or otherwise obtain” whatever “flying thing” would suit their needs, so long as they carried appropriate identification. For all its wonders, the Roof was hard to get to: one had to take [[the Elevator]] to [[the Theater Room]], then go backstage to find a portal to the hair dye closet in [[the Salon]]. There, one of the [[dragon]]s would “beam” anyone who gave them “a sky lantern fueled with hydrogen” up to the Roof. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 49: The Roof|The Roof]]'') | ||
==== The Stage ==== | |||
The Stage of the House was a dangerous, temperamental theatre stage; stained with what lore insisted was just dye, it had heavy, purple velvet curtains which “[had] been known to swallow whole people up”, trapdoors which sometimes accidentally opened, lights wont to catching on fire, and other such hazards, with rubber knives occasionally being replaced with metal ones. As such, only extremely adventurous and experienced entertainers dared to perform upon it, from “singers and musicians who [had] sung to pirates, princes, [[dragon]]s, peasants, and spies and lived to sing the tale” to actors who “[were] not really acting”. Indeed, many thrilling tales were told or performed on this stage, including “pirate adventures, tragedies from [[Angel|the Gardeners]], romances told by [[dragon]]s, space voyages told by aliens and astronauts, and so much more”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 50: The Stage|The Stage]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
