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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4886061" data-attributes="member: 21938">Barnsworth leads you down a short hallway (a door on each side) that opens directly into a spacious dining hall. The carpets and hangins are old and warn, and since all the windows are shuttered the room is lit only by oil lamps in peeling gold leaf.A large dining table dominates the room, with 12 chairs and places settings that gleam in the lamplight. To your left is a large fireplace, and a huge apainting of some dark-haired society beauty, looking coquettishly over her shoulders as she ascends a staircase, dominates the wall.Barsnworth approaches the other figures in the room. An elederly woman dressed in expensive clothing and jewellry, face heavily made-up to disguise the signs of aging, this woman is just about recognisable as the beauty from the painting. She is sat in a wheeled wooden chair, and behind her, eyes downcast, is a young plain woman os similar cast to Natalya. A small spoilt-looking dog dressed in ribbons sits on the old lady's lap, and a huge sturdy mastiff sits quietly by her side."Who is this?" asks the old lady in shrill, stern tones.Natalya gives a little curtsy as she enters. "Please Aunt Aur... Ma'am, these are some people who have come to protect you. Lady Auraluna Dromdal, may I present, er..." She falters over your names.[SBLOCK=Kinem]On the way in, Tristan notices the following:Windows- at the front of the house, there are four on the ground floor (two either side of the door. Another three on the second floor, and two gable windows up at the attic level. All are closed with pine-green shutters. Without further exploration he can't tell what the other sides of the house are like.Grounds - mainly to the right of the house, hemmed in with a tall, unkempt hedge. He notices a rickety old garden shed and a small black closed carriage parked in the ground (no sign of stables or horses).Neighbours - this being Noble's Hill the nearest neigbours are a respectable distance away behind walls, hedges and large gardens.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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