Infinity Manor
Infinity Manor sits back on the bustling Zintilia peak on a private, fenced in acre of land. Neglect from it's previous owner has given rise to a smattering of wildflowers and invasive beech and willow trees that resist all attempts to uproot them. The path through is paved in smooth cobble and splits to lead to two curving staircases onto a patio that wraps completely around the house, topped with a roof to keep off the rain. The front door, which sits well back from the street, is intricately carved and rarely, if ever, locked, though there is a knocker in the shape of a Okomo ram’s head to announce ones presence. And just below it is a little plaque that reads:
Don’t mind the ghosts
they live here too
they live here too
And another hurriedly constructed plaque just below that says:
Stop stepping on the flowers
you're upsetting the house
you're upsetting the house
The doors open into the first floor where the vast, open space and lack of internal walls make the house feel bigger than it actually is. Here visitors are greeted with tall bright wooden walls in a perfect hexagon, topped with intricate crown molding and lit with glass sconces. Just right of the front doors is an elaborate common room with art on the walls and a handful of sofas and chairs arranged around a large fireplace. Off to the side is a golden birdcage with contains a single, shockingly blue pigeon, and hanging above the mantelpiece is an enormous mounted tiger head that looks below with glittering yellow glass eyes and a fearsome snarl. To the left of the entrance is an open kitchen with wooden floors, an iron stove, griddle, oven, and cast-iron pots and pans, and a well-stocked pantry that holds too many bundles of bones and jars of soulmist for the typical kitchen. Towards the back of the first floor is a door with a plain brass handle that opens into a workshop with a simple workbench, table, and secondhand tools hanging on the walls that smell perpetually of cedar and bone dust.
All four stories are reached by a spiraling metal staircase in the center of the first floor. In the second story, a small circular hallway connects four comfortable bedrooms that each has a nicely carved bureau, wardrobe, and padded bench with a privy shared by adjacent rooms. A large, elaborate bathroom is shared by all members of the house and contains a deep copper tub, small fireplace, vanity, privacy screen, and plenty of grooming tools. At the top of the staircase is a trapdoor that opens to the master bedroom, which sports a domed ceiling painted with constellations and a window on all six sides. The room has multiple chests and wardrobes filled with a small selection of fine clothing, a comfortable privy, a small private seating area around a fireplace, and a beautiful writing desk.
Going down from the first floor leads to a small landing with a rather unwelcoming door studded with thick iron nails that a Spiritist would recognize as ghostnails. A heavy iron lock also keeps out more corporeal trespassers. This opens to the basement where the numerous tools for magical research are kept; including a small library of mystical writing, a desk and lab table, rough furnishings, a fireplace, blackboards covering the walls, four basins with barrels of water, and a large barrel set up on a hinged platform for emergencies requiring quick dowsing of water.
The Castlette
Around the back of the house one would come across a bizarre cottage on the grounds. Stepping clear of Infinity Manor, back into the thin dotting of trees, the flowers and grass give way to the cold, rough texture of raised stone. The Castlette rises to a height of twenty feet at the corners, with turrets topped with small silver and blue flags grouped in trios on each one. The sleek stone is interrupted by ten-foot-high double doors cut into a texture resembling half-logs. Rope decorates the door on its hinges, with a non-functioning lever located adjacent to complete an illusion of this tiny castle.
As of Spring 519, the castle has been gutted by fire. Over time the stained glass windows in each wall have been replaced, but the castle is lorded by only spiders now.
People
Emma Chamelle
Race: Ghost
Gender: Female
Skills:
+10 Possession
+20 Materialization
+30 Projection
Sweet, shy, and scared of the dark, Emma doesn't fit the stereotype of a typical ghost. She manifests as a little girl in a frilly nightdress with big brown eyes and curly hair; the delicate tissues around her eyes, nose and mouth crusted with weeping sores from the disease that killed her. She's reserved around strangers, speaking little if at all, but is bubbly and rambunctious with friends and residents. She spends her time haunting the Manor grounds, playing with the chickens and talking with her bondmate, Raj. Raj himself has been dead for many years, and is no more than a stuffed tiger head mounted over the fireplace.
But for all her bright childish charm there is something profoundly disturbing about Emma. She is tangentially aware that she is dead, and some suspect that somewhere deep down she knows that Raj is dead too. Her delusions are strong but paper thin, and in those rare moments of clarity its possible to see that just below the surface this gentle child is deeply and irrevocably broken.
Raj
Name: Raj
Gender: Male
Race: Kelvic, deceased
Acquired here. Raj is nothing more than the mounted taxidermy head of a Kelvic tiger. The head is haunted by Emma Chamelle, the ghost of its young deceased bondmate. Emma insists that Raj speaks to her, and is very protective of him. Madeira insists everyone in the house treat Raj as a person to protect Emma's fragile psyche.
Maro
Name: Maro
Gender: Male
Race: Kelvic
Occupation: Housekeeper
Docile, gentle, polite, and fastidious, Maro is an exceptional servant. The boy is small and wiry, with dusty desert skin, green eyes, and ears slightly too big for his head. Though he looks to be in his pre-teens, he doesn't have a twinkle in his eyes or that spark of mischief most people equate with children. He can be seen tending to chores around the house, feeding the various animals, attending to the guests and residents and otherwise making sure the house runs smoothly.
Whatever Maro is now, it's not what he used to be. Originally curious, eager and bright-eyed, everything that has made him unique has been stripped away. The one time and eyion and the kelvic jackal ward of Autumn Rose, he was five years old, a grown adult, when he died in Alvadas in 518. Nobody knows what happened next, but two years later he was found by Autumn, being sold in Lhavit as a household servant by a woman known only as Luthisa. Madeira bought the boy and now keeps him in her home while she and Autumn try to figure out what happened.[/quote]
Gender: Male
Race: Kelvic
Occupation: Housekeeper
Docile, gentle, polite, and fastidious, Maro is an exceptional servant. The boy is small and wiry, with dusty desert skin, green eyes, and ears slightly too big for his head. Though he looks to be in his pre-teens, he doesn't have a twinkle in his eyes or that spark of mischief most people equate with children. He can be seen tending to chores around the house, feeding the various animals, attending to the guests and residents and otherwise making sure the house runs smoothly.
Whatever Maro is now, it's not what he used to be. Originally curious, eager and bright-eyed, everything that has made him unique has been stripped away. The one time and eyion and the kelvic jackal ward of Autumn Rose, he was five years old, a grown adult, when he died in Alvadas in 518. Nobody knows what happened next, but two years later he was found by Autumn, being sold in Lhavit as a household servant by a woman known only as Luthisa. Madeira bought the boy and now keeps him in her home while she and Autumn try to figure out what happened.[/quote]
Animals
Rosie
Name: Rosie
Gender: Female
Species: Magic Chicken
Acquired here. A pretty red hen with a sweet disposition, normal in every way, besides her habit of laying an egg-sized rare gemstone a couple times a season. Though she truly belongs to Jomi, who himself has a bizarre attachment to the creature, Maro looks after the chicken on the ghost's behalf.
Big Red and the girls
Name: male is Big Red, females are unnamed
Species: Chicken
An old rooster and his five hens. They're kept in a hutch on the property of the Infinity manor, where they roam as they please. The house protects them from hawks and foxes, so the chickens have become bold and lack the skittish quality of their brethren.
Bird
Name: Bird
Gender: Male
Species: Pigeon?
Acquired here. A seemingly normal pigeon with an uninspired name, except that it is a shocking shade of cerulean blue. If released it will fly straight towards the largest group of the Inverted, wherever they may be located. Bird is a quiet, inquisitive, and unnervingly clever creature who enjoys treats and strokes. Madeira keeps it in a gilded birdcage in the common area.
Naymon
Name: Naymon
Gender: Female
Species: Dog, Kalean Spicecoat
Moritz's hunting dog. Kalean spicecoats are medium-sized dogs and have long, thick fur as well as curled tails; made for snow and colder climates, they do well in mountainous regions. Their fur ranges in colour from cinnamon to deep red, which is what inspired their names.
Kalean spicecoats make excellent hunting and tracking dogs and, should the terrain permit it, are also good for sledding. They are very loyal and generally obedient dogs, and Naymon is no exception to this.
Gender: Female
Species: Dog, Kalean Spicecoat
Moritz's hunting dog. Kalean spicecoats are medium-sized dogs and have long, thick fur as well as curled tails; made for snow and colder climates, they do well in mountainous regions. Their fur ranges in colour from cinnamon to deep red, which is what inspired their names.
Kalean spicecoats make excellent hunting and tracking dogs and, should the terrain permit it, are also good for sledding. They are very loyal and generally obedient dogs, and Naymon is no exception to this.
