Sometime early Day 5

[oneformisery]

[ Someone begins to trace several rows of alphabet in charcoal... ]

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[oneformisery]

Memories? Whose memories? I don't recall such a place from my previous time here.

[silver_lucifer]

Ah, so you were here before this castle as well?

Did it ever strike you as odd that most of the other houses were such a patchwork of rooms that did not seem to match?

Each of those rooms was something remembered, an imprint of someone who had been here before.

[oneformisery]

Most of the rooms were strange to me on their own so I assumed it was part of the oddness of the place. I did notice that their themes seemed to vary though.

For example here, the bedrooms don't share any commonality.

[silver_lucifer]

I am not sure it is the same effect here. The other houses often showed signs of varying time periods; here the craftsmanship involved is all of a similar level, and has about the range I've seen in some particularly opulent palaces.

The Lord and Lady do not seem to reside in them; my guess is that those are likely rooms for visiting dignitaries and other guests they would want to impress. I've seen a few palaces in my world where someone with enough wealth who wanted to leave an impression would have individual rooms in such areas that would be built around some particular theme of decor - different tales from individual operas, for one example - so that they would vary widely while still retaining similar craftsmanship.

Which does seem to fit the claim of one resident here who has said in this journal that the castle was moved in one piece from elsewhere, similar to the chapel and the half-built house before.

[oneformisery]

The palace I'm familiar with bears no resemblance to this one so I'm afraid I must claim ignorance in that regard. I can see what you're saying, although I think some of these rooms have been occupied by long-term residents rather than visitors.

Who is it that's claiming this castle was moved? I can't tell one man's handwriting from another's sometimes.

[allthekeys]

Someone who came here with it.

Yes, several of the rooms did have particular long-term residents, although much of it was visiting nobility or others who had the lord's favor for one reason or another.

I'm assuming the mod journal use here is deliberate /side-eyes

[oneformisery]

I see. He enjoyed the favour of a variety of persons then it seems. Are you the one the writer above is referring to?