Alaise Manor House, second floor
SECOND FLOOR
2nd Floor Atrium/Main Hall (23): 60’ X 52’: The second floor main hall looks out over the first floor foyer. There are marble banisters that surround the open into the first floor foyer. There are two ten foot wide hallways at the eastern end of the Main Hall that open to the north and south, and at the western end of the main hall, there are two 6 foot wide hallways that run parallel to them. Running alongside the open area to the foyer are two 8 foot wide walkways, one of which leads to the Breakfast Room/2nd Floor Sun Parlor (38), the other of which leads to Guest Bedroom (24). There is a massive glassed over opening in the ceiling, 40 foot by 28’, made into a massive mural depicting 4 large dragons, perched on top of a Drachenwald mountain range. Each dragon is of a different color (black, blue, red and green) and each dragon seems to be both protecting and threatening one another at the same time. There are four over stuffed couches here, facing inward to one another, with finely crafted end tables and a center table in the middle. Finely woven tapestries hang on the northern and southern walls here. There are sliding central doors that open upon the Upstairs Dining Hall (45) and the Automation Room (37).
Guest Room (24): This 22’ X 26’ bedroom is an extravagantly decorated guest room. It has a single set of double doors that open into the 2nd Floor Main Hall (23). Since Samuel has resided here, this room has been unoccupied. However, he has had it recently renovated for the Priests of The Order or their honored members. The eastern wall has two large stained glass windows with the colored panels set in a dazzlingly geometric array.
Guest Room (25): A similar bedroom to (24), but slightly smaller and with no exterior windows. This room has been unused.
Waiting Room (26): This room would be where visitors to see the Lady of the House would wait while her handmaiden notified her of who was there and their business. There are 4 wooden chairs here.
Hand Maiden's Sleeping Quarters (27): Always needing to be near her mistress, this 14’ X 16’ sleeping chamber was the traditional residence of the Lady of the House’s personal hand maiden. While this room isn’t as opulently decorated as the bedrooms of the family or guest bedrooms, it is well kept and has plenty of space with a well made and comfortable bed. This room is currently unoccupied.
Lady of the House Bed Chamber (28): A 30’ X 34’ private bed chamber for the Lady of the House. This room can only be entered through either the Waiting Room (26) or the Hand Maiden’s Room (27). The original lord was notorious for his liaisons with women. And rather than have to sneak around his wife, he simply had the house constructed with the wife’s bedroom separate from the husband’s. Since then, it has been used for that very purpose or as the first born son’s/daughter’s room.
Guest Bedrooms (29): Identical 14’ X 30’ bedrooms used for guests or later born sons and daughters of the family.
Storage Room (30): Upstairs storage room which contains many of the cleaning implements the household staff uses to maintain the household.
Linen Closet (31): Where fresh linens for the household are kept clean and stored.
Nanny’s Bedroom (32): This bedroom was traditionally occupied by the nanny or nursemaid for the children. There is an open doorway in the southern wall which leads to the Newborn’s Bedroom (33). When there was a newborn in the house, it would sleep in the bedroom next to the nanny’s, allowing the nanny to watch over the newborn and care for it easily.
Newborn’s Room (33): The traditional bedroom for the infant/newborn of the house until the child was old enough to move into their own room, usually by age 2. This 16’ X 26’ room has a bed, changing table and plenty of space for the child to crawl around and play.
School Room/Play Room (34): This 44’ X 22’ room served double duty as both the children’s school room and a play room for the younger children. Several slate boards mounted on the wall allowed for the easy writing and display of information while wooden desks and chairs are lined up in two neat and orderly columns. The original household, and several since then, have also allowed for the teaching of the children of the household staff. Single doors in the northern and eastern wall open onto the main hallway of the 2nd floor.
Guest Bedrooms (35 & 36): These rooms are used for bedrooms for when guests stay over at the manor house. The central rooms are 14’ X 22 foot. Each one is furnished with a full sized down filled bed, night stand table, a stand alone armoire, a writing desk with oil lamp and two comfortable chairs. The two in the back of the house are 16’ X 26’ and have fireplaces cut in the back wall allowing smoke to exit through the chimneys tunneled into the mountainside.
Automation Room (37): This 26’ X 42’ room is filled with a variety of clockwork automata and instruments: counterweight clocks or water clocks, several wind-up music boxes and various other mechanical items reside here. The original owner had a fetish for mechanical and machine driven things and collected them as such.
2nd Floor Sunroom/Breakfast Room (38): This room has a large table with a dozen chairs around it. It has traditionally been used by the family to eat breakfast, allowing them to greet the new day as the rays of the sun shone through the windows in the eastern wall. There are double doors in the western wall that open into the main hallway of the 2nd floor, another set in the same wall that opens into the Astronomy Room (39) and a single door in the southern wall that opens into the hallway to the Master Bedroom (41).
Astronomy Room/Map Room (39): This large (38’ X 24’) room catalogues a vast knowledge of the stars and bodies of the night sky. Being as high up in the mountains as the region is, several of the lords of the manor have turned to the night skies to occupy their time. There are several celestial globes here, depicting the night sky as seen at various times of the year. Several sets of bookshelves contain codices that have sketches and drawings of various celestial events and bodies. In addition to this, there are a variety of instruments that can be used to plot, chart and graph the night sky, including a large selection of sextants and a mechanical device (see below) which can be used for basic computations and calculations of the stars and their movements. In addition to this, there is a large table here with raised edges. This table has a 3 dimensional topographical, glass representation of the continent on it, going so far as to have a shallow set of water in it to represent the oceans and rivers.
Bathing Chamber (40): This room is a large private bathing chamber for the master of the house. A pipe that runs through the floor brings water from the aquifer through to this room, where it is used in an open flow toilet. There is a hatch where water can be taken out, before it reaches the toilets, using buckets to fill the tubs. The two large tubs can then be drained, the water flowing out of the tub through smaller pipes that take the water back into the pipe. The pipe flows down through a wall in the first floor and into the deep aquifer, same as the kitchen drains.
Master Bedroom (41): This is the Master of the House Bedroom. Windows in the eastern and southern walls give magnificent views of the surrounding area. There is a massive 4 poster bed here, easily large enough for 6 people to sleep comfortable in. several chest of drawers and free standing armoires are here. There is also a writing desk and three sets of bookshelves. A large, mantled fireplace is in the south eastern corner of the room, with 2 comfortable chairs in front it. Finally, there is an exquisitely carved and decorated chess set, made from semi-precious and precious stones and metals. The set looks more for display than for actual use. A set of double doors in the western wall lead to the antechamber/waiting room (42) while single doors in the northern wall lead to the Master’s Bathing Chamber (40) and the short hallway that leads to the Breakfast Parlor (38).
Antechamber/Waiting room (42): This room is a simply furnished waiting room, where guests would wait for the butler/manservant to announce them to the Master of the house. There is a set of double doors leading to the main hallway, another set of double doors in the southern wall leading to the Master’s Bedroom (41) and a single door in the western wall that leads to the 2nd floor office (43).
2nd Floor Office (43): Similar to the first floor office, this room also contains a complete copy of the reports, notes, letters and journals/logs of the region.
Trophy Room (44): This room has antiquities, artifacts and trophies kept by the region lords during their tenure here. Weapons from past battles, armor and equipment, jewelry and other paraphernalia; these are all displayed here. Since Samuel has taken up residence here, he has added several new items.
Inventory of new items:
• A single, full suit of armor made from some exotic and unknown material, black in color, shaped and formed to look like the scales of some creature. • A trio of masks, in the visage of a human face, made from gold. • A large, crystalline shard that seems to glow with some inner light when seen out of the corner of your eye. • A matched set of long swords that were supposedly used by someone named Torril Mongoril. • A large metal sarcophagus with the name Renarde etched into it. • A gem encrusted Nekhekh that is a family heirloom. • 4 Pieces of some broken glass bottle labeled “Valis Samatic” • A glass display case containing an open book, filled with blank pages
Double doors in the eastern, southern and western walls lead out into the main hallway of the second floor while a double wide set of sliding double doors open into the Dining Room (45).
Dining Hall (45): This 20’ X 40’ dining hall is the one used by the family for their regular, informal meals. A table that could easily seat two dozen people is here. A normal set of double doors are set in the eastern and western walls, while double wide sets of double sliding doors are set in the northern and southern walls.
Illuminations Chambers (46): This room is filled with writing desks, sheaves of parchment, ink wells and stacks of quills. This is where the scribes and stewards of the house hold copy all the letters, reports and the like. Since Samuel has taken up residence, Samuel has also had them duplicating various texts and tomes that he has been able to get his hands on, having borrowed them wherever and whenever possible. With the recent outbreaks of undead, he has had them concentrating on acquiring and duplicating any information about them.
Main Library (2nd Floor) (47): The upper level of the main library. There is a wrought iron railing here, surrounding the open space looking down to the first floor, and the circular iron staircase that allows easy access to the first floor. A door in the eastern wall leads to the main hallway on the 2nd floor while a door in the northern wall leads to the Billiards Room (48).
Billiards Room (48): A smaller version of the game room that was downstairs, this room only has one billiards table and card table set.
Bell Tower (49): Set flush against the cliff face of the mountain that the manor house is built against, the bell tower extends a full 35 feet above the manor house. When it was constructed, the supports were built horizontally, cutting into the mountainside rather than resting on the house itself. The tower was originally used to warn of monster attacks and undead outbreaks, but in more recent years, has been used for astronomical observation.
