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[First House: Gardener's Wing]
The Gardener's Wing:
1. Main Room:
This room can only be accessed by braving the handholds from the Loft Bedroom through a small window that looks down at the ballroom bellow. The room is more of several connected rooms than a single large room.
The far wall is made up almost entirely of windows, allowing light to pour into the room. The windows look out into a bright, green space, protected from the weather outside. Anyone looking up will see the eerie sight of the floating hallway, completely unsupported and having no real reason to remain in the air.
The main room is full of shelves of seedlings and carefully tended Bonsai Trees. Many sorts of herbs and familiar vegetables can be found here, needing only a little tending to become fruitful. Seed packets and watering cans are stashed on shelves, as well as anything that might be needed for tending these fragile plants. The plants are all alive, filling the room with the comforting scent of growing things. In the corner of the room, a large furnace works hard to keep the main room warm, though it becomes colder the further one gets from it. There is a door among the windows that opens into the Greenhouse. The other door, on the inner wall, leads to the rest of the wing.
Of the gardener, there is no sign, though a compost bin sits tucked under one of the windows.
2. The Green Room:
This room is painted entirely green and is somewhat smaller than many of the rooms in the house. In many ways this makes it homier. The blankets on the bed and the sheets covering the straw stuffed mattress are obviously handmade and well tended to. There are many patches covering them to keep them in use longer. The bed frame itself has the look of something made by someone who was less than knowledgeable about his craft but no less made it with care and love. The dresser is very similarly made and filled with clothes for men and women, all handmade and as patched as the blankets on the bed. Though nothing in this room is particularly grand it is no less very serviceable, as though the people who lived here were used to making due with little, but were happier for it.
3. Half Bath:
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this room is the fact that it lacks a tub, though there is a large wash basin suited for washing bodies or clothes, it is not a proper bathtub. A line for drying clothes hangs above it. The room is small, and painted a pale brown, but is obviously very well used. The cupboard above the sink is full of medical supplies and two used toothbrushes. There are several well worn towels, which have been used to the point that their original color is difficult to determine.
4. Small Kitchen:
This room has everything you might need to make a meal, albeit a very simple one. A small stove occupies the corner; there is also a small fridge and a sink. There is not enough room in the kitchen for more than one or two people at a time, and it is stocked with nothing more than the basic essentials. Looking through the cabinets would find you a substantial amount of canned vegetables and plenty of pre-packaged food such as hamburger helper and rice-a-roni, as well as some rice, beans, and basic spices. The water works; though it smells a little earthy it is perfectly clean and suitable to drinking or cooking.
5. Garden Closet:
Tools and fertilizer and other things one might think were needed to tend a garden are neatly stacked in a closet. There are heavy leather aprons and gloves also stashed in the closet. More seeds and empty pots, as well as shovels and other gardening tools are neatly stored by type in the large closet.
6. The Empty Hall:
This hallway is unremarkable, lined on either side by four doors with a single door at the end, and completely lacking windows. The floor is wood with a faded carpet going down the center. There are no windows and no pictures on the wall. The door leading into the Gardener’s Room is marked with deep gouges, as though something tried to get out at some point.
7. The Radio Room:
Dominating this room is a large table with old fashioned short-wave radio equipment stacked on top of it. The radio equipment has been heavily damaged in the past and although it now appears to be lit up it is clearly functioning with mismatched parts. Areas of plastic casing are still dented and broken, although some have been replaced with small sections of wood. The dials appear to be from a different model of radio altogether, and what they do is a mystery as there is nothing to explain. The head set has been replaced with a new one, although without the dials being set correctly all you can hear is white noise. Whoever fixed the console, however, does appear to have gone to some effort -- the repair job is quite extensive and likely took some time. The small cot that was once here has been removed, leaving scrape marks along the floor.
A diligent explorer will find a box with a large field radio and four walkie talkies. They are old, and quite large, but seem to mostly be in working order if only there were batteries. Clips allow them to be hooked to belts or packs, though there are no headsets or any modern conveniences that might have allowed for quiet communication.
A small cupboard on the wall holds a basic military issue medkit, the sort a field medic might carry, two old fashioned flash-lights and a small box of odds and ends. Among the bits and pieces is an extra bulb for a flash-light and eight batteries. A few stacked boxes in the corner reveal other supplies that look military issue, though the packages are not labelled in any language anyone in the house can speak. Some appear to be food, though none of it seems exactly appetizing. At least one person has been desperate enough to take some of it, regardless. One box, when opened, reveals several sticks of carefully packaged dynamite.
8. The Carpenters Room:
This room has the air of one that has been very well lived in. A double bed against the wall is the perfect size for a married couple. It has been hand carved with some care and effort and is quite lovely. The blanket covering it is handmade and very soft, obviously well cared for. A work bench is covered with half finished projects and tools, as though the craftsman had only just left his task behind. A half finished chair dominates the workbench, though a box of hand crafted children’s toys is stashed just beneath. The room has a small fireplace in the corner, and a ready supply of wood by the grate to keep anyone occupying this room warm. An old fashioned tea kettle rests just above the fireplace, and a small cupboard holds cans and dry mixes for soup, as well as a supply of hot cocoa and tea. Unlike many of the other rooms, this room is covered with picture frames, and a few even have fragments of the pictures that were once left inside them. One frame holds a partial picture of a pair of small hands holding the fingers of a larger one, left behind by whoever removed the photos.
There is a nest of blankets and pillows near the fireplace, as well as a large, oddly modern portable first aid and triage kit slid under the bed. Next to the bed is a painting, six teenagers and one adult with a white owl on his shoulder, dressed in some form of green uniform; a ruined, large building fills the background, covered in weeds and vines.
9. The Painter’s Room:
Anyone stepping into this room will be immediately overtaken by how colorful it is. Shelves line the walls, full of colored powders in every imaginable shade. Bottles of oil, ranging from pale yellow to nearly clear catch the light from the window and reflect it in charming shades across the room. A few tubes of mixed paint take up a messy desk covered with mixing tools, a well cared for pallet, and several brushes. This room is quite obviously in constant use, one can sometimes hear the steady tap of a mortar against a pestle. The bed seems to have been added almost as an afterthought, a narrow, serviceable cot covered with paint spattered blankets. There is a basin in the corner, perfect for scrubbing hands covered in paint. The tin is no longer one color but a variety of them, left over splatters of paint that someone was in too much of a hurry to clean. Large metal bottles of paint thinner line the floor, obviously needed to get the thick stuff off. This is the room of an artist, but though some empty canvases hang from the ceiling, there are no actual paintings in evidence.
Someone has been at work, with sets of shaded sketches and looser drawings on stray sheets of paper at the worktable, as well as two finished paintings.
10. Shared Bath:
This bathroom lacks any and all personal touches and seems to have been shared by the rooms in this wing. It seems the perfect sort of place for a large group of people to get clean and ready in a hurry. There are two bathroom stalls, a small row of lockable cupboards, a pair of bucket sinks that seem sufficiently large enough to take a bath or wash a load of clothing in, and a large, open shower. A small first aid kit hangs on the wall just inside the door and a cupboard holds plenty of towels, shampoo and soap. One of the shower heads refuses to turn off and is constantly pumping out a steady stream of hot water, but the others seem to be in perfect working order.
11. The Glass Blowers Room:
Much like the painter’s room, this room is filled with colored pigments in a variety of forms, ranging from fragments of glass to fine powders. A kiln sets in the corner of the room, the door red hot with the flames contained within. The room has no bed, though a few blankets have been stacked in the far corner, seemingly as some sort of sleeping place. A wide variety of glassware and items adorns the walls, catching and reflecting the lights of the stained glass windows. The worktable has a number of small, coin-sized, vaguely circular charm beads of different colors, mis-shapen and occasionally multicolored failed attempts. The kiln burns hot, too hot to approach comfortably and the room is always warm, despite the temperature elsewhere.
On one of the higher shelves is an unbreakable glass jar with a lid tightly sealed; a firefly flutters around inside the jar.
12. Tapestry Bedroom:
This room doesn’t seem to have walls or floors; the entire room is covered in elaborate tapestries, with a loom sitting in the corner. A cot seems to have been crammed into the room almost as an afterthought. There are baskets and cupboards full of thread and dyes and raw materials for making thread and yarn. A very sharp silver knife is hidden beneath the loom, blood stained and tarnished, it still maintains an edge no matter what you do to it. Though it never seems to warm, either, and the blood is always wet. Occasionally the loom begins to move on its own, thread weaving back and forth as the pattern forms under the weaver's hand. But you never see anyone, or hear anyone. Just the faithful clack of the loom.
13. The Dollmaker's Workshop:
This room might look as if it hadn't been cleaned in a long time, were it not for the complete and total lack of dust on any part of the room or its contents. The problem, however, is the clutter-- a dollmaker must have made shop in here, at some point, as every inch is covered in pieces of dolls.
The bed is still the main piece of furniture, but the walls are lined with shelves dedicated to the job. The dolls range from porcelain to wooden, with every material possible, in various sizes and states of completion. Each and every one faces the door, their eyes turned toward the entrance. In the case that their eye sockets are still empty, the dark holes in their faces are fixed in the same direction.
Atop the bed lie a pair of life sized, fully dressed dolls, made of soft fabric that is strangely warm to the touch, their painted on faces the only ones not staring at any intruders.
Occasionally some kind of movement on the bed seems to rustle the loose eyes, hands, heads, and feet that have not yet found their owners.
14. The Pottery Room:
At the center of this room is a large kiln that basks the room in unnatural warmth. Though much like the other bedrooms in the hall, no heat seems to make its way past the threshold. Next to this is a large pottery wheel, still turning pointlessly in place. What may once have been a clay pot remains on the wheel, splattering the remnants on anyone who passes as it spins.
The floor itself is actually covered in plastic sheeting, though this is mostly obscured by the clay and mud that coats the floor and sticks to the feet of anyone who steps across it. Stacked neatly against the wall are plastic bins, full of wet clay. On shelves near the kiln are jars of pigment and glaze, obviously meant for use before firing the finished piece.
Broken pieces of finished pottery lie near several of the walls, as if the creator has thrown them in a fit of rage.
Next to a large industrial sink, a filthy curtain hangs, cutting a small portion of the room off. Behind the dirty curtain is a simple cot, covered in a well-worn and patched blanket. Three battered crates stacked together as makeshift shelving are full of what little personal effects it seemed the potter possessed. An old, battered book stained and streaked with clay to the point that nothing can be told of its original cover is resting nearest to the bed. It is filled with mathematical notations and chemical formulas, though they seem out of place in this room. It seems almost like a textbook. Stuffed in the back of the book and secured with a clip is a picture of a boy and a girl standing on a bridge, their hands intertwined. They are both smiling, the girl’s hands are streaked with clay and the boy is dressed in what looks like a uniform. The picture, unlike much of the room, is untainted by the surrounding filth.
Setting ♦ Game Play ♦ FAQ/Rules ♦ Timeline ♦ Bestiary ♦ Taken ♦ Wanted ♦ Reserves ♦ Apps ♦ Mod Contact ♦ Hiatus ♦ Drop ♦ Dedication
1. Main Room:
This room can only be accessed by braving the handholds from the Loft Bedroom through a small window that looks down at the ballroom bellow. The room is more of several connected rooms than a single large room.
The far wall is made up almost entirely of windows, allowing light to pour into the room. The windows look out into a bright, green space, protected from the weather outside. Anyone looking up will see the eerie sight of the floating hallway, completely unsupported and having no real reason to remain in the air.
The main room is full of shelves of seedlings and carefully tended Bonsai Trees. Many sorts of herbs and familiar vegetables can be found here, needing only a little tending to become fruitful. Seed packets and watering cans are stashed on shelves, as well as anything that might be needed for tending these fragile plants. The plants are all alive, filling the room with the comforting scent of growing things. In the corner of the room, a large furnace works hard to keep the main room warm, though it becomes colder the further one gets from it. There is a door among the windows that opens into the Greenhouse. The other door, on the inner wall, leads to the rest of the wing.
Of the gardener, there is no sign, though a compost bin sits tucked under one of the windows.
2. The Green Room:
This room is painted entirely green and is somewhat smaller than many of the rooms in the house. In many ways this makes it homier. The blankets on the bed and the sheets covering the straw stuffed mattress are obviously handmade and well tended to. There are many patches covering them to keep them in use longer. The bed frame itself has the look of something made by someone who was less than knowledgeable about his craft but no less made it with care and love. The dresser is very similarly made and filled with clothes for men and women, all handmade and as patched as the blankets on the bed. Though nothing in this room is particularly grand it is no less very serviceable, as though the people who lived here were used to making due with little, but were happier for it.
3. Half Bath:
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this room is the fact that it lacks a tub, though there is a large wash basin suited for washing bodies or clothes, it is not a proper bathtub. A line for drying clothes hangs above it. The room is small, and painted a pale brown, but is obviously very well used. The cupboard above the sink is full of medical supplies and two used toothbrushes. There are several well worn towels, which have been used to the point that their original color is difficult to determine.
4. Small Kitchen:
This room has everything you might need to make a meal, albeit a very simple one. A small stove occupies the corner; there is also a small fridge and a sink. There is not enough room in the kitchen for more than one or two people at a time, and it is stocked with nothing more than the basic essentials. Looking through the cabinets would find you a substantial amount of canned vegetables and plenty of pre-packaged food such as hamburger helper and rice-a-roni, as well as some rice, beans, and basic spices. The water works; though it smells a little earthy it is perfectly clean and suitable to drinking or cooking.
5. Garden Closet:
Tools and fertilizer and other things one might think were needed to tend a garden are neatly stacked in a closet. There are heavy leather aprons and gloves also stashed in the closet. More seeds and empty pots, as well as shovels and other gardening tools are neatly stored by type in the large closet.
6. The Empty Hall:
This hallway is unremarkable, lined on either side by four doors with a single door at the end, and completely lacking windows. The floor is wood with a faded carpet going down the center. There are no windows and no pictures on the wall. The door leading into the Gardener’s Room is marked with deep gouges, as though something tried to get out at some point.
7. The Radio Room:
Dominating this room is a large table with old fashioned short-wave radio equipment stacked on top of it. The radio equipment has been heavily damaged in the past and although it now appears to be lit up it is clearly functioning with mismatched parts. Areas of plastic casing are still dented and broken, although some have been replaced with small sections of wood. The dials appear to be from a different model of radio altogether, and what they do is a mystery as there is nothing to explain. The head set has been replaced with a new one, although without the dials being set correctly all you can hear is white noise. Whoever fixed the console, however, does appear to have gone to some effort -- the repair job is quite extensive and likely took some time. The small cot that was once here has been removed, leaving scrape marks along the floor.
A diligent explorer will find a box with a large field radio and four walkie talkies. They are old, and quite large, but seem to mostly be in working order if only there were batteries. Clips allow them to be hooked to belts or packs, though there are no headsets or any modern conveniences that might have allowed for quiet communication.
A small cupboard on the wall holds a basic military issue medkit, the sort a field medic might carry, two old fashioned flash-lights and a small box of odds and ends. Among the bits and pieces is an extra bulb for a flash-light and eight batteries. A few stacked boxes in the corner reveal other supplies that look military issue, though the packages are not labelled in any language anyone in the house can speak. Some appear to be food, though none of it seems exactly appetizing. At least one person has been desperate enough to take some of it, regardless. One box, when opened, reveals several sticks of carefully packaged dynamite.
8. The Carpenters Room:
This room has the air of one that has been very well lived in. A double bed against the wall is the perfect size for a married couple. It has been hand carved with some care and effort and is quite lovely. The blanket covering it is handmade and very soft, obviously well cared for. A work bench is covered with half finished projects and tools, as though the craftsman had only just left his task behind. A half finished chair dominates the workbench, though a box of hand crafted children’s toys is stashed just beneath. The room has a small fireplace in the corner, and a ready supply of wood by the grate to keep anyone occupying this room warm. An old fashioned tea kettle rests just above the fireplace, and a small cupboard holds cans and dry mixes for soup, as well as a supply of hot cocoa and tea. Unlike many of the other rooms, this room is covered with picture frames, and a few even have fragments of the pictures that were once left inside them. One frame holds a partial picture of a pair of small hands holding the fingers of a larger one, left behind by whoever removed the photos.
There is a nest of blankets and pillows near the fireplace, as well as a large, oddly modern portable first aid and triage kit slid under the bed. Next to the bed is a painting, six teenagers and one adult with a white owl on his shoulder, dressed in some form of green uniform; a ruined, large building fills the background, covered in weeds and vines.
9. The Painter’s Room:
Anyone stepping into this room will be immediately overtaken by how colorful it is. Shelves line the walls, full of colored powders in every imaginable shade. Bottles of oil, ranging from pale yellow to nearly clear catch the light from the window and reflect it in charming shades across the room. A few tubes of mixed paint take up a messy desk covered with mixing tools, a well cared for pallet, and several brushes. This room is quite obviously in constant use, one can sometimes hear the steady tap of a mortar against a pestle. The bed seems to have been added almost as an afterthought, a narrow, serviceable cot covered with paint spattered blankets. There is a basin in the corner, perfect for scrubbing hands covered in paint. The tin is no longer one color but a variety of them, left over splatters of paint that someone was in too much of a hurry to clean. Large metal bottles of paint thinner line the floor, obviously needed to get the thick stuff off. This is the room of an artist, but though some empty canvases hang from the ceiling, there are no actual paintings in evidence.
Someone has been at work, with sets of shaded sketches and looser drawings on stray sheets of paper at the worktable, as well as two finished paintings.
10. Shared Bath:
This bathroom lacks any and all personal touches and seems to have been shared by the rooms in this wing. It seems the perfect sort of place for a large group of people to get clean and ready in a hurry. There are two bathroom stalls, a small row of lockable cupboards, a pair of bucket sinks that seem sufficiently large enough to take a bath or wash a load of clothing in, and a large, open shower. A small first aid kit hangs on the wall just inside the door and a cupboard holds plenty of towels, shampoo and soap. One of the shower heads refuses to turn off and is constantly pumping out a steady stream of hot water, but the others seem to be in perfect working order.
11. The Glass Blowers Room:
Much like the painter’s room, this room is filled with colored pigments in a variety of forms, ranging from fragments of glass to fine powders. A kiln sets in the corner of the room, the door red hot with the flames contained within. The room has no bed, though a few blankets have been stacked in the far corner, seemingly as some sort of sleeping place. A wide variety of glassware and items adorns the walls, catching and reflecting the lights of the stained glass windows. The worktable has a number of small, coin-sized, vaguely circular charm beads of different colors, mis-shapen and occasionally multicolored failed attempts. The kiln burns hot, too hot to approach comfortably and the room is always warm, despite the temperature elsewhere.
On one of the higher shelves is an unbreakable glass jar with a lid tightly sealed; a firefly flutters around inside the jar.
12. Tapestry Bedroom:
This room doesn’t seem to have walls or floors; the entire room is covered in elaborate tapestries, with a loom sitting in the corner. A cot seems to have been crammed into the room almost as an afterthought. There are baskets and cupboards full of thread and dyes and raw materials for making thread and yarn. A very sharp silver knife is hidden beneath the loom, blood stained and tarnished, it still maintains an edge no matter what you do to it. Though it never seems to warm, either, and the blood is always wet. Occasionally the loom begins to move on its own, thread weaving back and forth as the pattern forms under the weaver's hand. But you never see anyone, or hear anyone. Just the faithful clack of the loom.
13. The Dollmaker's Workshop:
This room might look as if it hadn't been cleaned in a long time, were it not for the complete and total lack of dust on any part of the room or its contents. The problem, however, is the clutter-- a dollmaker must have made shop in here, at some point, as every inch is covered in pieces of dolls.
The bed is still the main piece of furniture, but the walls are lined with shelves dedicated to the job. The dolls range from porcelain to wooden, with every material possible, in various sizes and states of completion. Each and every one faces the door, their eyes turned toward the entrance. In the case that their eye sockets are still empty, the dark holes in their faces are fixed in the same direction.
Atop the bed lie a pair of life sized, fully dressed dolls, made of soft fabric that is strangely warm to the touch, their painted on faces the only ones not staring at any intruders.
Occasionally some kind of movement on the bed seems to rustle the loose eyes, hands, heads, and feet that have not yet found their owners.
14. The Pottery Room:
At the center of this room is a large kiln that basks the room in unnatural warmth. Though much like the other bedrooms in the hall, no heat seems to make its way past the threshold. Next to this is a large pottery wheel, still turning pointlessly in place. What may once have been a clay pot remains on the wheel, splattering the remnants on anyone who passes as it spins.
The floor itself is actually covered in plastic sheeting, though this is mostly obscured by the clay and mud that coats the floor and sticks to the feet of anyone who steps across it. Stacked neatly against the wall are plastic bins, full of wet clay. On shelves near the kiln are jars of pigment and glaze, obviously meant for use before firing the finished piece.
Broken pieces of finished pottery lie near several of the walls, as if the creator has thrown them in a fit of rage.
Next to a large industrial sink, a filthy curtain hangs, cutting a small portion of the room off. Behind the dirty curtain is a simple cot, covered in a well-worn and patched blanket. Three battered crates stacked together as makeshift shelving are full of what little personal effects it seemed the potter possessed. An old, battered book stained and streaked with clay to the point that nothing can be told of its original cover is resting nearest to the bed. It is filled with mathematical notations and chemical formulas, though they seem out of place in this room. It seems almost like a textbook. Stuffed in the back of the book and secured with a clip is a picture of a boy and a girl standing on a bridge, their hands intertwined. They are both smiling, the girl’s hands are streaked with clay and the boy is dressed in what looks like a uniform. The picture, unlike much of the room, is untainted by the surrounding filth.
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-A group shot of six teenagers and one adult, dressed in green school uniforms. A tumbledown building is in the background, covered in overgrown weeds. The adult has a white owl on his shoulder. Some of the group are recognisable as Spade, Mukuro, Ken, Chikusa, Chrome, and Spade's owl form.
There are now paintings in the Painter's Room. (to be edited as more are made)
-A detailed series of shaded sketches of Don, focusing on hands and face, with some small thumbnails of dancing figures.
-A preliminary sketch of a figure with wings, wrapped in a hug from invisible arms. Slightly messy and confusing; abandoned halfway, still in pencil with erased lines.
-Sketches of Ritsuka, and of Ritsuka holding Lily, several sheets of paper.
-Smudged sheet of paper covered in dark lines, half-erased. The paper has torn at one point, and this is where the artist gave up. Hard to tell what was being drawn. Balled in a corner.
-Painting of Ritsuka holding Lily, watercolor, focusing on faces with wide swathes of color.
-Oil painting done in dark blues and purples, no black. Hard to tell what it is - birds? bats? One spot of red with a tiny '5' kanji in it, and a spot of bright blue. Close inspection will reveal a person's outline in the same colors as all of the painting, the dots of brighter color their eyes.
-An exquisitely beautiful painting of a field of flowers, done in traditional japanese style. There are a cloud of butterflies moving through the foreground.
The below have been moved to the gallery:
-A calm, quiet scene of the greenhouse wreathed in fog, with Orion and Sirius central. Looking close, a glimpse of blond hair can be seen inside the carriage.
-A set of small watercolours, featuring chrysanthemums and tall grasses.
-A phoenix in full flight, filling the canvas. Vibrant red, orange and yellow oil paints.
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(About 4"-5" sculptures)
-green with red/purple abstract thin/sweeping thing. (first attempt at the hummingbird)
- glass hummingbird, red, purple, and gold on green - like this but with the tail spread to form a "base"
- glass butterfly, blue, green, gold, indigo, fine metallic-gold detailing
- blue fish with clear-fading-to-red fins
(about quarter-sized)
- a handful of red, gold-brown, and purple roughly circular charm-beads with no discernible design
- A few pink, white, gold, and red vaguely circular charm-beads
- something like 12 or so silver, red-gold, and white-green distorted "charms"
- about 18 such that're red, maroon, brown, and gold-and-blue.
(about 3 and a half feet across)
"Abstract" that seems to be some kind of chaotic tangle of green and blue vines/tendrils/whatever ending in red spread-out … flowers? Stars? Mouths? It's kind of hard to tell. (It was supposed to be a floral chandelier.)
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Day 028
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Carpenter's room
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(Night 44: Kaito took the round flask to make glow-lights with.)