A pretty, young woman enters with a frown and a muttered expletive. She is small by modern standards, delicate looking and wearing a gown that went out of fashion somewhere in the 1770s. She seems about to tell everyone exactly what she thinks of the service here and would do so if not for a last minute attack of manners. She went to court and ( Read more... )

Remember how there was a pirate ship in the main room earlier this year?

Well, now it's on a much more sensible day and is ostensibly replacing open posts for the various older characters that are being dragged into it by a certain miniature pirate. Captain Jack Sparrow Junior at your service, mates, with a ship that looks much better than the ( Read more... )

The muslin gown that she is currently wearing -- for she had recently been invited to attend dinner with a nearby acquaintance; for want of better entertainment she had agreed and was in the midst of her travels when she was unceremoniously swept from the country road -- is rather fine and quite well-suited to her complexion, it being light and ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a while, hasn't it? Hypatia Fanshawe Hades is bored. Very bored. And this place has not had its regular dose of crack lately so what else would she do besides rectify that fact ( Read more... )

The carriage that rattles to a stop outside the mansion late at night is of a very old-fashioned kind, and is being drawn by a pair of matched black horses. The coachman reins them in before hopping off the carriage and disappearing into the night, presumably to find a stable to put his horses in ( Read more... )