professorwolf: (view)
[personal profile] professorwolf
Date: November 3
Time: Early morning to breakfast time
Location: All over the estate
Characters: Randolph Lyall ([personal profile] professorwolf) [OPEN]

Every morning started out the same, generally, in a country manor house, unless there had been some major to-do the night before. There were servants to wake, meals to be begun, lists to write up for approval of the housekeeper and the Lady of the houose, and curtains to open to the dawn light, even if a student or guest happened to have fallen asleep in the room in question. It had happened before, particularly in the library, and often resulted in a rather rude awakening.

Lyall actually found those moments highly amusing, particularly in the case of the students asleep at their books or gadgets, though he'd never let on.

He was among those up earliest, mostly because he needed to make sure everything began smoothly, but in part because he did like seeing the house come alive. This morning was a bit harder to drag himself from bed than usual, and he blamed the humidity, which was already rising by dawn. He dressed and headed out on the morning routine to wake the parts of the house that the masters rarely if ever saw, and to get a start on the day.

Run into him in any part of the house with a problem, a question, a complaint at being woken by drawn curtains, or even just a good morning... if you're up that early.
valdemars: (automaton 1)
[personal profile] valdemars
Date: November 3rd, 1888
Time: 10am and 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: The Great Hall and the Ground Floor Classroom
Characters: One of the automata ([personal profile] valdemars) and YOU/students and people with know-how [OPEN/CLOSED]

Summary: One of the manor’s automata is acting curiously and, upon its discovery, Lady Valdemar demands its immediate repair.
Warnings: None.

The Great Hall )

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The Ground Floor Classroom )
valdemars: (lady 2)
[personal profile] valdemars
Date: November 2nd, 1888
Time: 10:00am - 10:30 am (service- characters may stay for longer, though)
Location: The chapel
Characters: Everyone [OPEN/CLOSED]

Summary: The household gathers together in the chapel for a short All Soul's Day service.
Warnings: None.


The Valdemar family are not, by and large, particularly religious. "My faith," proclaimed Lady Valdemar once, to the horror of her husband's parents, "lies while science and science alone. If God should have a hand in that, so be it. I couldn't care less either way."

In the path of righteousness there is life... )
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