The doors creak open slowly, revealing a large darkened and mostly empty room. The grand space looked like it was once used for hosting meetups and events, but now is a shadow of its former self with dusty tables and shrouded chairs. A few chandeliers on the ceiling swing gently from the ceiling while moonlight filters in from large windows, each one a stained window depicting either an Everlux or a Veilspun in a contemplative pose. However, most of the windows that have an Everlux depicted in them seem to be broken, leaving only fragments that only hint to its prior contents. Whether by accident or by design, it remains to be seen.
You can choose to
investigate the Veilspun windows,
investigate the shattered Everlux windows, or
investigate neither before continuing onwards.
After your time spent looking at the windows (or not), you look around at the available exits to the grand hall. There is a
faint medicinal smell that wafts in from behind a door tucked away in the shadowed interior wall of the grand hall, while moonlight shines through an
open door that sways lightly in a breeze from outside.
Which path will you take~?
As you make your way down the dark hallway, the sconces lie empty, almost inviting you to try and light them. However, despite some effort to try and light the sconces through various means and methods, the sconces don't seem to want to light, leaving the hallway lit up only by the light provided by you. One of the sconces seems to be oddly positioned though, set horizontally instead of vertical like the rest of them.
You can choose to
try and realign the sconce or
leave it be before continuing onwards.
After deciding if you want to mess with the oddly placed sconce or not, the two pathways leading from the hallway seem to be a
large, metal door with an air vent and wires placed above the doorway that snake their way along the ceiling, or another
dark hallway that has various picture frames on the walls.
Which path will you take~?
The dust shakes loose from the handle as the door opens, leading into a spacious room, if it wasn't for the massive clutter of boxes and furniture that take up the space inside. It looks like a mishmash of stuff that one would find in a mansion all stuffed into the cramped room. The source of the ticking noise seems to be coming from a small pile of disassembled clockwork creations that look somewhat like a bunch of broken and damaged Monkey Wrenches and Clattercog Engineers. Investigating further, it looks like there are some units that are still intact and able to twitch, which was the source of the ticking noise.
You can choose to
pick up a Monkey Wrench,
pick up a Clattercog Engineer, or
pick up neither before continuing onwards.
After deciding if you want to pick up a small companion or not, you see that one exit to the room leads to a
hallway that has some picture frames on the walls, their contents too dark to see currently. The other exit to the storage room is a
nondescript door that has an earthy smell wafting in from the room behind it.
Which path will you take~?
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Guess what I just found out!! Something about this mansion made those birthday candles reeeeeally spooky~. If you blow out your candle while wishing reeeeeeally hard of being somewhere else, you'll be transported somewhere else! Of course, it's only a one time use since apparently these candles don't want to light anywhere else besides where I am in the Front Hall, but still pretty cool if you picked one up! Don't ask me how I found out heehee
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((If a player picked up a candle from Venus at the start, they are able to blow it out and teleport to a different room of their choice
out of the room choices for that day. This is a one time use that allows you to 'jump' to a different room and make your choice from that room's selection instead of the one you are currently in. Late players are able to join in the game by using this mechanic, and the instructions page and FAQ have been updated to reflect this new mechanic.))
|| If I don't reply, I'm probably fretting about phrasing.
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