DINING ROOM
Location: The dining room is a long rectangular room, running west to east, with an impressive dining table down the middle. The dining table is surrounded by chairs and is decked out with beautful flatware, silverware, condiment trays, and candelabras. There is a fireplace at one end but it is inoperative due to modern steampipe-heating having been installed throughout the Manor some years before. There is a glass case full of china ornaments, trophies, and other nicknacks against the south wall, between several high, curtained windows. An impressive wallnut dining-room cabinet lies against the north wall.
Graham Harlington lies dead on the floor, covered by a linen tablecloth.
Hotspots: Glass Case, Cabinet, Fireplace, Dead Body.
Exits: North to Kitchen, East to Entryway.
KITCHEN
Location: The kitchen of Lancaster Manor has an expansive island counter for the preperation of food, overhung by racks of pots, pans, and cooking utensils. Ranging around the available wall-space are units of lower drawers and upper cabinets. An oven complete with a brass-hooded chimney-flume above it sits against the west wall. On the east wall lies the door leading down to the cellar. A door to the back yard is set into the north wall, and the door to the dining room lies south.
Hotspots: Drawers, Cabinets, Oven.
Exits: North to Back Yard, Down to Cellar, South to Dining Room.
CELLAR
Location: The dim light and dusty odor of the cellar of Lancaster Manor only adds to the oppressive feeling of a great weight of physical structure and family history pressing down from above.
The cellar includes a wall of wine-racks, mostly empty, a locked chest, a steam furnace, boiling away nicely, and a coal-chute full of coal at the bottom in the bin and with a rusty-looking trapdoor at the top of the chute.
Hotspots: Wine Racks, Locked Chest, Steam Furnace, Coal-Bin, Coal-Chute Trapdoor.
Exits: Up to Kitchen.
ENTRYWAY
Location: The entryway to Lancaster Manor is paved with a diamond-shaped checkerboard pattern of black and white tiles. The walls are of deeply, and expertly, stained oak. A sizable wrought-iron and crystal chandelier hangs over the center of the room. A staircase leads up to the second floor along the eastern wall, on the side of which is a storage closet door. Next to the impressive main door to the south is a rack of coat-hooks from which all the guests' overcoats hang. To the north is a door marked with a sign reading "W.C." and to the east an open archway leads into the parlour. A door to the west leads to the dining room.
Hotspots: Storage Closet, Coat Rack (If searching and/or hiding in coat rack then a particular guest's coat must be specified).
Exits: North to W.C., East to Parlour, South to Front Yard, West to Dining Room, Up to Second Floor.
W.C.
Location: The W.C. of Lancaster Manor is a spotless yet tiny room, ensconced tastefully next to the staircase of the entryway. Every surface gleams with cleanliness, from the polished brass tap fixtures over the china sink, to the gleaming toilet, and to the expensive-looking framed mirror. Under the sink is a cabinet. There is a small, wire trash can for the disposal of paper towels after hand-washing. The single door in the south wall leads to the entryway.
Hotspots: Sink Cabinet, Mirror, Trash Can.
Exits: South to Entryway.
PARLOUR
Location: The parlour of Lancaster Manor, draped all around with deep blue velvet hangings, is an intimate-feeling space despite its size. A lovely black harpsichord sits in the south-east corner. A gramophone on a delicate spider-like table lies in the south-west corner. A liquor cabinet presides over the north-west corner. And an elegant tea-table with four chairs lies in the center of the room. An open archway leads west to the entryway. A door leads north to the study.
Hotspots: Harpsichord, Gramophone, Liquor Cabinet, Tea-Table.
Exits: West to Entryway, North to Study.
STUDY
Location: This study is charmingly wallpapered all around with sepia-toned maps of the world from the century just passed. A massive row of leaded-glass windows dominates the northern wall, providing the majestic vista over the back-yard garden area. Ensconced within this wall is a modest glass door providing access to the outside but, for now, too much rain still lashes against it to make going outside a viable option.
Within the room itself is an impressive oak desk, with a drawer on each side, and a massive bookcase divided into four quarters: A-G, H-M, N-S, and T-Z
Hotspots: Left Desk Drawer, Right Desk Drawer, Bookcase A-G, Bookcase H-M, Bookcase N-S, Bookcase T-Z.
Exits: North to Garden, South to Parlour.
