(A Mansion, in the Sixth Coil)

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Description summary:
The title and description depend on the Sixth Coil: Locales. There is also an additional paragraph whose presence and text depend on your Coiling Ever Deeper.

LocaleTitleDescription
1 - 9Plush Drawing-Room Velvet and velour and voluptuous upholstery. Chairs that threaten to engulf the sitter. A decanter of whiskey surrounded by a merry troop of [...] glass tumblers. Carpet like the undergrowth of a jungle, and a fireplace big enough to dispose of a corpse.
10 - 19Servants' Quarters A warren of little partitions with humble cots. Well-scrubbed hardwood floors. A little light seeping in through high, narrow windows.
20 - 29Reflecting Washroom White porcelain and silver fixtures polished to a mirror finish. You can see your face on every surface, distorted in this or that way, reflections of reflections. Make your ablutions in a mirror-gallery.
30 - 39Portrait Gallery Not an inch of wall is left uncovered: Portraits big enough to be life-sized, portraits the size of locket miniatures, and everything in between. All depicting the same subject: A regal tiger [...] staring out of the canvas directly at you.
40 - 49Hedge Maze The hedges are easily twenty feet tall, walls of green that obscure the world. You find yourself in a little plaza, a confluence of pathways. Gravel underfoot, and a little fountain – out of proportion to the oversized walls – in the middle.
50 - 59Overflowing Dining Room A mahogany table the size of a cottage; a legion of silverware and porcelain. It all struggles to contain a mountain of food – greyish-pink terrines, mounds of pâté, constellations of olives and capers suspended in clear aspics.
60 - 69Sculpture Garden A clearing surrounded by tall cypresses – each one bent halfway by a prevailing wind. Marble sculptures all around, each depicting the same subject: a vast serpent, their whiskers and stripes drawn as trompe l'oeil carvings in the marble.
70 - 79Feathered Bedchamber Peacock and bluejay and goose and bird-of-paradise. In elaborate fans, at the edge of robes, [...] scattered underfoot. Bird's head motifs carved into the furniture, their empty black eyes producing a constant sensation of being watched.
80 - 89Marble Corridor An in-between space. Marble on every surface: black streaked with gold underfoot; cream streaked with red overhead. Little marble benches to sit on. Marble columns on the walls.
90 - 100Carpeted Boudoir And what a carpet it is! Thick enough to sink ankle-deep into, richly patterned, red on crimson. All the furniture – a chaise, a vanity, a settee – is settled at an odd angle, as if it really is slowly sinking into a velvet mire.
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4 - 8Something here smells sweet and pungent, like fermentation.
9 - 14The smell of rot invades your nostrils. Like grapes left on the vine, turning to wine and mold.
15+The stench of decay permeates the labyrinth. You can hardly breathe.

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Storylet appears in The Sixth Coil (Location)

Options:

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(Leave) (somewhere) through (the mansion)
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Take the ornate mask
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Resolve to leave this place
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Shed your burdens
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Escape the labyrinth

Traversal

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Climb up (a level) ( Airs 0-20)
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Descend into (a hole) ( Airs 80-100)
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Pass (direction) through a gaping maw ( Airs 30-40)

Airs-Dependent Options

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Remember a passage (somewhere) ( Airs 0-50)
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(Pass) through (a mirror) ( Airs 40-80)
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Examine a sealed door to the (direction) ( Airs 100)
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