Grimwit posted:

>South
(opening the small metal door first)

Access Shaft
This tiny, concrete-lined alcove within the underside of the bridge forms the top of a vertical shaft leading down into darkness. Iron rungs embedded in the wall provide a way down.

In the north wall is a small metal door.

>look at shaft
You needn't worry about that.

>look at rungs
It's an ordinary wooden ladder.

Are Wooden ladders ordinary anymore? Seems like they're all made of aluminum or something, now.

Grimwit posted:

>look at fireplace
The fireplace is carved from beautiful, dark-veined marble, a strange shade that is not quite a deep, forest green and not quite a murky, dusky red. The mantelpiece is flanked by a pair of polished brass spheres.

Those... Spheres look familiar.

>look at spheres
You see the room behind you in distorted miniature, and your own face swelling and stretching comically as you peer into the sphere's reflective surface.

Looking closely, you notice some smudges on the otherwise immaculately polished brass.

Hmmm... We've already established the Verlac Manor has secrets in the walls. Why not the fireplace, too?

>pull sphere
It doesn't budge.

>push sphere
It doesn't budge.

Thesaya posted:

Grimwit posted:

Tomorrow, I'll post the LONG awaited response and continue Miranda Carter's nearly concluded journey into madness and kleptomania.