Our Strange and Wonderful House

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(MultiversalInk, July 5th, 2011)

Somewhere dangerously close to the Kitchen lies the Laboratory. Here, great minds spend their days thinking up new ways to make life for the residents of the Mansion43 easier (or harder, if they feel like it). So many strange and wonderful things have (or have almost) seen the light of day here. In a corner is a prototype for an innovative bee-based mode of transport. Several different implementations of time travel can be found around the lab, as can equipment for measuring luck, rubber band elasticity and sense of humour. The Shiny Object Locator has unfortunately been lost. There are blueprints for an anti-procrastination device as well, but those aren’t nished yet. And nobody ever remembers to work on the memory improvement machine. Thinking caps, however, are standard issue. Space expanders to increase the size of what was once a cupboard were one of the rst things to be nished, for once out of need. There’s a little corner dedicated to non-mad science as well, but it’s very dusty.

Although the House was referred to as a “Victorian Manor” in The Theater Room, this is the rst and last time in the text of Our Strange and Wonderful House that the House is referred to as “the Mansion”. 43

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Chapter 27: The Lab


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Appendix 59-I: Remnants and Reminders

6min
pages 114-119

Chapter 59: Room of Renewal

1min
page 113

Chapter 57: The Spinning Room

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Chapter 58: The Armory

1min
page 112

Chapter 54: The Empty Room

1min
page 106

Chapter 56: The Seven Hundred Nineteenth Airing Cupboard

1min
page 110

Chapter 52: The Guardian of the Ink Wells

1min
page 104

Chapter 51: The Doorbell?

1min
page 103

Chapter 50: The Stage

1min
page 102

Chapter 49: The Roof

1min
page 101

Chapter 47: The Fabulous Salon

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Chapter 48: The Cotillion Cavern

1min
page 100

Appendix 44-I: Safety Catch

1min
page 95

Chapter 45: The Cathedral

1min
page 96

Chapter 44: The Basement

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Appendix 43-I: The Note

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Chapter 42: Zen Garden

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page 91

Chapter 43: The Vault

1min
page 92

Appendix 40-II: The Cheshire Cat (Part 3

1min
page 89

Chapter 41: The ‘Rock Room’

1min
page 90

Appendix 39-III: The Bodhi Son

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page 86

Chapter 40: The Cheshire (Part 1

1min
page 87

Appendix 39-II: The Will of the Creator

1min
page 85

Appendix 39-I: Wake to Dream Again

1min
pages 83-84

Appendix 38-II: The Pain of Rebirth

1min
page 81

Chapter 39: The Bodhi Tree

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page 82

Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs

2min
pages 78-79

Appendix 38-I: A Return to Innocence

1min
page 80

Chapter 37: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 1

1min
page 77

Chapter 36: Into the Gardens (Part 2

1min
page 76

Chapter 35: Into the Gardens (Part 1

1min
page 75

Chapter 34: The Ballroom

1min
page 74

Chapter 33: The Painting

1min
page 73

Appendix 32-II: Reiterate the Foyer

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Chapter 31: The North West Attic

1min
page 68

Chapter 32: The Foyer

1min
page 69

Chapter 29: The Zoo

1min
pages 65-66

Chapter 28: A Veranda With A View

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page 64

Chapter 30: The Great South Gate

1min
page 67

Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2

1min
page 63

Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1

1min
page 62

Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum

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Chapter 27: The Lab

1min
page 57

Appendix 27-I: The Lab: The Alarum Goes Off

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Appendix 24-II: The First Step

1min
page 54

Chapter 25: Mud Room

1min
page 55

Chapter 24: The Cellar

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Appendix 24-I: Montresor

1min
page 53

Chapter 22: The Gallery

1min
page 50

Chapter 23: The Rose Cottage

1min
page 51

Chapter 20: The Stationery Room

1min
page 44

Chapter 21: Elevator

1min
page 45

Chapter 19: The Ruined Chapel

1min
page 42

Appendix 18-I: The Jenny Everywhere Museum (cont’d

1min
page 41

Appendix 19-I: The Right Wrong Questions

1min
page 43

Chapter 17: The Portal to Pandemonium

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Chapter 15: The Stairwell

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Chapter 16: The Throne Room

1min
page 37

Chapter 14: I Am An Athenaeum

1min
pages 34-35

Appendix 13-IV: The Madman

1min
page 31

Appendix 13-III: Back to the Garden

1min
page 30

Appendix 13-VI: The Gardener

1min
page 33

Appendix 13-V: The Saviour

1min
page 32

Appendix 13-II: View From a Jungle

1min
page 29

Chapter 13: The Guardroom

1min
page 27

Chapter 12: The Dining Room

1min
page 26

Chapter 10: The Observatory

1min
page 24

Chapter 11: Every House Needs One or More

1min
page 25

Chapter 7: The Coat Room

1min
page 21

Chapter 8: The Closet in the Sitting Room

1min
page 22

Chapter 9: Hallway - PI3

1min
page 23

Chapter 6: The Theater Room

1min
pages 19-20

Appendix 5-II: The Bathroom (of the Library

1min
page 18

Appendix 5-I: The Other Side

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Chapter 1: The Courtyard

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Chapter 2: The Anteroom

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Chapter 4: The Catamaran Loos of Oceania

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Welcome

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Foreword from the Editor

7min
pages 6-10

Chapter 3: The Pleasure Pad of Federico Ruiz

1min
page 14

Chapter 5: The Library

1min
page 16
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