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[May. 14th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
Morningstar Manor Backstory and Directory
Built in 1928 by architechtural genius Jefferson Morningstar, the building is a classic example of the Art Deco influence. Its thirteen floors include a lobby level, and twelve floors of apartments, two, three and four bedrooms. The penthouse level is on floor thirteen, though it is not numbered so, it’s numbered the fourteenth level. There have been countless deaths, murders, crimes of passion, suicides, fires, divorces, financial ruins and other disasters both personal and building-wide. Sightings of otherworldly visitors have included Betsy, a young girl approximately eight years old, accompanied on occasion by a huge black dog, also sometimes seen on its own in the garden. The basement, where the laundry and gym and storage areas are, is the scene of many unusual occurrences, as well as the pool and the gardens.
The building is run by the Tenant Association, headed by Jonathan Vision (the mods), to whom there is far more than meets the eye, and maintained by Adolphus Ruprecht, the maintenance supervisor (also played by the mods).
Morningstar Manor Floor Plan:
Each floor has 20 apartments, with floors 5 and 10 having 15 tenant apartments and 5 staff apartments (much smaller.) There is no 13th floor numbered, though sometimes the elevator will stop there. :) The 14th floor has only 12 apartments, all luxury class. Vision lives there. The 14th floor is currently full.
Staff apartments are located on floors 5 and 10, with additional units at lobby level. The staff apartments are numbered as follows: Lobby A-E,5 F-J, 10 K-N,
Tenants and staff: please choose an apartment from the list
Basement: laundry room, gym, spa, games room, maid's supply quarters, , supply tunnels, supply rooms, tenant storage space, boiler room, access to Parking Garage
Lobby: Security desk, entryway, coffee shop, Conservatory, door to gardens, library, ballroom, security desk and offices, locked corridor to staff apartments, elevators.
First: 100-120
Second:221-241
Third: 342-362
Fourth:463-483
Fifth: 584-599 = 15 apartments plus differently numbered staff apts [5-F to 5-J]. squeezed in
Sixth:6100-6120
Seventh:7121-7141 - plus large balcony
Eighth:8142-8162
Ninth:9163-9183
Tenth:10184-10199= 15 apartments plus staff apartments [10-K to 10-N]
Eleventh:11200-11220
Twelveth:12221-12241
Fourteenth:14242-14254= only 12 on 14'th floor, all luxury units, currently all occupied
Roof: Enclosed swimming pool and hot tub, changing rooms, smaller paved garden with benches and planters, door that leads from the enclosed space to the roof proper though tenants are discouraged from going out there. |
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