The Open University (which, Paul muses sometimes, should probably renamed Mansion Education Institute) is entering its last week of classes before the winter break ( Read more... )

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After the annual Dean List in UCI that usually turns into a epic cluster fuck of chaos and random deaths, the teachers assistant known as Pony Merks feels it's time for a vacation ( Read more... )

It’s been a long time coming, and with the thawing of things, comes as well the end of the basement repairs. It’s still not perfect, it’s still in need of work, but to Johnny, the Basement Bar is finally fit for a reopening party ( Read more... )

Iphigenia has been moody as of late--a little more emotionally volatile, perhaps, due to the fact that her mother is probably gone. She misses Clytemnestra a great deal, even though she knows she has kind people at the Mansion to help her and look out for her ( Read more... )

Paul isn't an idiot, nor is he blind. He can see, with all that came to pass, that the past weeks have taken their toll on those at the Mansion ( Read more... )

A large and mostly-blank pad of paper has been stuck to the inside of the front door of the mansion, where Alcuin hopes people will see it. It reads ( Read more... )

It's been a few days since everything broke loose. Mansion dwellers counted their dead and their disappeared, mourned as they could, healed who could be healed, and treasures of creativity were found to shield everyone from the cold northern winds that blew over the grounds ever since the earth shook ( Read more... )

It has taken time for this to happen, for the Dark Lord to gather it all, his influence of that which is not Arda but close enough to it, that which he hates about all else for the light of it remains a beacon ( Read more... )

Kyoto, 1336: The time of Ashikaga Pretenders of the Empire of the Rising Sun, also a good time for some autumn foliage-viewing. The three of them, he, Rose and Jack, could use a vacation, and despite the unsettled climate, the Emperor wasn't above throwing a party to mask the intrigues. He loved a good intrigue: all the better to find what the ( Read more... )