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Jul 13, 2014 17:35:14 GMT -5
Post by Paige on Jul 13, 2014 17:35:14 GMT -5
Blake’s Mansion, otherwise known as Blake’s Little Witches and Wizards Orphanage, is a large home located in West Country with an east and west wing dedicated to the children under their care. This lovely home has five floors and a beautiful backyard that has a small lake to the left and a garden on the right, behind the lake and garden sits a thick forest with various mountains that can be seen in the background allowing for a beautiful view, if you are lucky enough to have a room with one. The west wing, that being the first three floors, belongs to the girls, where the upstairs are ruled by anyone between the ages of 11 and 17 years, with their minions being held below them ranging from infants to 10 year olds. Each floor has seven rooms, which allows three to four girls each to room in, each room is painted white, however the girls are allowed to add anything they want to the walls to make it seem more like home, whether it be paint or various newspaper cut-outs of their favorite fit Quidditch Player. The East Wing is dominated by the boys, which is easily identifiable by the stench that lingers constantly in the air on that side of the home. Much like the West Wing, the East Wing is broken up by age; 11-17 lives upstairs, while 10-infant lives on the floor below. There are 7 rooms on each floor, allowing 3-4 boys to room together, with white walls surrounding them, though they are never bare.
When you walk into the Mansion you are greeted by a short hallway with a big closet on either side allowing you to store your coats and shoes. On the right is a beautiful living room equipped with an antique grandfather clock containing a picture of each person in the house (the ones that are regular residents) attached to a very thin gold rod, and four labels above the clock which say, in order, ‘Home’, ‘School’, ‘Out’, ‘Mortal Peril’. This helps the staff to keep an eye on the whereabouts of the children and for Mrs. Blake to know where her husband and son are before she shouts herself hoarse calling for the two slackers. The living room is not too elegant to make one wonder how such pristine furniture can exist with several young children around to ruin it and not so shabby to make a person assume the orphanage to be lacking funds. Instead, it is rather normal, containing two beautiful plumb couches, an old brick fireplace, two chairs in between said couches and a desk where students can do their homework, though one is more likely to see Mr. Blake doing his work, which includes something boring like accounting and whatnot, at the desk.
To your left is a hallway leading off to the large entryway on the left wall of the hall that allows you entrance into the dining hall. The dining hall is equipped with five long tables, which are only sometimes full, because some children can’t be dragged out of bed by 7am no matter how many threats to their bum are made. To the right side of the same hallway there is a door that is normally locked unless one of the cooks has forgotten how the ravenous beasts that dwell in the home can devour food in no time. There are two more entrances into the kitchen, one door on the back of the house that leads straight inside it, and a very tiny shaft on the floor in the middle of the kitchen that may or may not have been used for storing dead bodies at some point in time, because it smells like dead people inside. It is thought that this shaft is inaccessible, though this was proved untrue when Chelsea complained of being hungry one night and the Chummies, along with Ethan, discovered the shaft opening from the basement. After having pushed aside the wood covering, they sent little Audrey up to steal food, although Ethan nagged the whole time.
Behind the large living room is a hallway leading off to the right of the home, down which a series of doors can be found. The first door to be opened leads into an arts and crafts room, filled to the brim with artistic supplies, while the second door just a few feet down from the first opens into a music room, with its most noticeable instrument being a grand piano. Farther away from the second door than the second door was from the first, the third door allows entrance into the library. It contains several tall bookshelves that line the walls with found set apart with equal footing in the middle of the room. The last bookshelf on the right side of the room will swing outwards to reveal a hidden hallway if the right sequence of books are pulled, though this is unknown to everyone, even the Blake family. It was created many generations ago, when a strange traveler arrived on the doorstep of Alexander Blake, who was the then owner of the home. The stranger was a young, injured wizard with a charming smile that quickly won over Alexander’s daughter. It was a month later that the authorities arrived and knocked on the front door, showed Alexander a poster for a wanted man, and asked that he keep an eye out. He promised he would, shut the door, and went to track down the man, because it had been his face on the poster. After revealing that he was on the run from men that were out to kill him to completely erase his family line, Alexander had the secret hallway built to hide the man away, knowing that the people would come back and request to search the home at a later date. Eventually, the search for the young man ended, he married Alexander’s daughter, and the secret hallway was forgotten.
That is, until it was again discovered by a young Blake man who hid away in the hallway and often wrote of his secret affection for one of the girls at the orphanage in a journal, which was stuffed away inside a locked box in the hallway each time he left it and remains there to this day. This locked box also contains several other items, such as pictures and newspaper clippings, all from different time periods, leaving one to wonder just how many have discovered this secret space and found an odd comfort in it.
Above all the floor of the home is an attic that remains locked at all times. The key to it was lost over sixty years ago, according to Mr. Blake, though some residents of the orphanage are under the impression that Mr. Blake actually has the key and keeps his secret stash of porn stuffed up there. Though it is not known, the key is truly lost, though lost is perhaps not the right word for it. It was thrown into the lake behind the home by a young woman that felt spiteful towards Mr. Blake’s grandfather because the man did not return her affections. The words of the old man spoken to the young woman to infuriate her so and give her reason to toss away the key after she’d asked him why he constantly disappeared into the attic were, “This attic holds what I love most.” What it is that the man loved most is a mystery, but mysteries do not always stay so, especially with children that could rival The Pinkertons living in the home.
The Matron of the orphanage has a separate home to herself a very short distance from the large mansion, though far enough that her sleep goes uninterrupted by the cries of babies while the rest of the inhabitants of the home are stuck covering their heads with their pillows and making annoying noises to drone out the sound of wailing. The house is not very wide or very long, but it does contain two stories. The bottom story contains a very quaint living room with pastel colored walls and matching furniture, a kitchen that a French chef would be proud of, and a tiny study room containing four bookshelves filled with large spines of all different colors and one lone green recliner sitting atop a crochet rug. Up on the second floor are a dull bathroom and bedroom that at first glance appears to contain nothing but the necessities. However, upon closer inspection of the room, which means opening several different drawers and looking through the closet, several badly drawn crayon portraits and sloppily written letters can be uncovered.
When you walk into the Mansion you are greeted by a short hallway with a big closet on either side allowing you to store your coats and shoes. On the right is a beautiful living room equipped with an antique grandfather clock containing a picture of each person in the house (the ones that are regular residents) attached to a very thin gold rod, and four labels above the clock which say, in order, ‘Home’, ‘School’, ‘Out’, ‘Mortal Peril’. This helps the staff to keep an eye on the whereabouts of the children and for Mrs. Blake to know where her husband and son are before she shouts herself hoarse calling for the two slackers. The living room is not too elegant to make one wonder how such pristine furniture can exist with several young children around to ruin it and not so shabby to make a person assume the orphanage to be lacking funds. Instead, it is rather normal, containing two beautiful plumb couches, an old brick fireplace, two chairs in between said couches and a desk where students can do their homework, though one is more likely to see Mr. Blake doing his work, which includes something boring like accounting and whatnot, at the desk.
To your left is a hallway leading off to the large entryway on the left wall of the hall that allows you entrance into the dining hall. The dining hall is equipped with five long tables, which are only sometimes full, because some children can’t be dragged out of bed by 7am no matter how many threats to their bum are made. To the right side of the same hallway there is a door that is normally locked unless one of the cooks has forgotten how the ravenous beasts that dwell in the home can devour food in no time. There are two more entrances into the kitchen, one door on the back of the house that leads straight inside it, and a very tiny shaft on the floor in the middle of the kitchen that may or may not have been used for storing dead bodies at some point in time, because it smells like dead people inside. It is thought that this shaft is inaccessible, though this was proved untrue when Chelsea complained of being hungry one night and the Chummies, along with Ethan, discovered the shaft opening from the basement. After having pushed aside the wood covering, they sent little Audrey up to steal food, although Ethan nagged the whole time.
Behind the large living room is a hallway leading off to the right of the home, down which a series of doors can be found. The first door to be opened leads into an arts and crafts room, filled to the brim with artistic supplies, while the second door just a few feet down from the first opens into a music room, with its most noticeable instrument being a grand piano. Farther away from the second door than the second door was from the first, the third door allows entrance into the library. It contains several tall bookshelves that line the walls with found set apart with equal footing in the middle of the room. The last bookshelf on the right side of the room will swing outwards to reveal a hidden hallway if the right sequence of books are pulled, though this is unknown to everyone, even the Blake family. It was created many generations ago, when a strange traveler arrived on the doorstep of Alexander Blake, who was the then owner of the home. The stranger was a young, injured wizard with a charming smile that quickly won over Alexander’s daughter. It was a month later that the authorities arrived and knocked on the front door, showed Alexander a poster for a wanted man, and asked that he keep an eye out. He promised he would, shut the door, and went to track down the man, because it had been his face on the poster. After revealing that he was on the run from men that were out to kill him to completely erase his family line, Alexander had the secret hallway built to hide the man away, knowing that the people would come back and request to search the home at a later date. Eventually, the search for the young man ended, he married Alexander’s daughter, and the secret hallway was forgotten.
That is, until it was again discovered by a young Blake man who hid away in the hallway and often wrote of his secret affection for one of the girls at the orphanage in a journal, which was stuffed away inside a locked box in the hallway each time he left it and remains there to this day. This locked box also contains several other items, such as pictures and newspaper clippings, all from different time periods, leaving one to wonder just how many have discovered this secret space and found an odd comfort in it.
Above all the floor of the home is an attic that remains locked at all times. The key to it was lost over sixty years ago, according to Mr. Blake, though some residents of the orphanage are under the impression that Mr. Blake actually has the key and keeps his secret stash of porn stuffed up there. Though it is not known, the key is truly lost, though lost is perhaps not the right word for it. It was thrown into the lake behind the home by a young woman that felt spiteful towards Mr. Blake’s grandfather because the man did not return her affections. The words of the old man spoken to the young woman to infuriate her so and give her reason to toss away the key after she’d asked him why he constantly disappeared into the attic were, “This attic holds what I love most.” What it is that the man loved most is a mystery, but mysteries do not always stay so, especially with children that could rival The Pinkertons living in the home.
The Matron of the orphanage has a separate home to herself a very short distance from the large mansion, though far enough that her sleep goes uninterrupted by the cries of babies while the rest of the inhabitants of the home are stuck covering their heads with their pillows and making annoying noises to drone out the sound of wailing. The house is not very wide or very long, but it does contain two stories. The bottom story contains a very quaint living room with pastel colored walls and matching furniture, a kitchen that a French chef would be proud of, and a tiny study room containing four bookshelves filled with large spines of all different colors and one lone green recliner sitting atop a crochet rug. Up on the second floor are a dull bathroom and bedroom that at first glance appears to contain nothing but the necessities. However, upon closer inspection of the room, which means opening several different drawers and looking through the closet, several badly drawn crayon portraits and sloppily written letters can be uncovered.
