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Our Strange and Wonderful House

Welcome! Let me make one thing clear: this is not a challenge. It is your chance to become one of many architects of an impossible house. This challenge merely serves to keep our contributions in one place as to be more readily accessible than it normally would be. Come, come, look! Our blueprint, unscrolled upon the table, reveals a square of faded blue ink, its dimensions marked as ∞. Infinity, signifying the limit of imagination. Each room is a portal to another. Each room is located in a place of your choosing. Remember, there are no boundaries to choice and idea. Now come, friends, and let us build our strange and wonderful house!

From the Ficly archive

Challengers

57 entries
  1. Room of Renewal

    Author: Robert Quick

    The area was vast and open, though I could still see walls in the distance, and not nearly as foggy on this side. The air was comfortably warm but not hot and…

    Dec 27, 2013 · Ficly archive (3)

  2. The Armory

    Author: HSAR

    Just off the corridor to the Guardroom, you spot two tall guardsmen holding tall halberds. They snap to attention as you approach, pulling open the huge double…

    Sep 17, 2012 · Ficly archive (3)

  3. the spinning room.

    Author: sky.castles

    The spinning room Is hard to get to Because the door is never in the same place As it was a second ago The chandelier is just a shimmer and there’s not much…

    Sep 16, 2012 · Ficly archive (2)

  4. The Seven Hundred Nineteenth Airing Cupboard

    Author: zxvasdf

    A water heater occupies one corner of the cramped airing cupboard, next to a slightly damp mop leaning against the wall. The water heater is a plain white that…

    Sep 16, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  5. Teleporting Beach

    Author: Princess Binky Lemontwist (LoA)

    A pair of short girls, one with red hair and freckles and the other with a mane of long brown hair and tell-tale smudges of ink and nail-polish covering her…

    Sep 12, 2012 · Ficly archive

  6. The Empty Room

    Author: punpun

    Most peculiarly, this room is the hardest to access. It’s peculiar, because this room is famous for having absolutely nothing in it. It makes guests wonder…

    Aug 30, 2012 · Ficly archive (3)

  7. The Airing Cupboard of Despair

    Author: Fox amongst wolves

    A swirling mass of inky blackness buffets the glass of a long, glass tunnel. Deep in the shadows a light flickers, and then another. Now, as you advance…

    Aug 29, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  8. The Doorbell?

    Author: Princess Binky Lemontwist (LoA)

    A guest stumbled through the portal into the courtyard and worked her way to the giant, ominous blue doors that seemed to lead to nowhere since she couldn’t…

    Jun 8, 2012 · Ficly archive (2)

  9. The Stage

    Author: Princess Binky Lemontwist (LoA)

    The stage. Many have lived their whole lives on one. But not this stage, for this is the stage of the House. It is one that only the bravest of entertainers go…

    Jun 7, 2012 · Ficly archive

  10. The Roof

    Author: Princess Binky Lemontwist (LoA)

    The Roof is not easy to get to by accident. You have to take the Elevator to the Theater Room, then backstage you will find a portal that takes you to the hair…

    Jun 5, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  11. The Fabulous Salon

    Author: Princess Binky Lemontwist (LoA)

    When you walk in you are immediately rinsed, lathered, dried, and perfumed by the wonderful hands that grow out of the doorway. The room is rather moody and…

    Jun 5, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  12. The Maids

    Author: Garsecg

    The aged, dried-up Maid, looked at Jenny with a gaze no less piercing for her many years. “Do you wish to join our number?” Jenny gave her most charming smile…

    Jun 5, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  13. The Cathedral

    Author: memento

    I walk through the door. Silence greets me, but for the sounds of my footfalls echoing across the dusty stone floor. No one comes here anymore. The stigma is…

    Jun 2, 2012 · Ficly archive

  14. The Basement

    Author: Brokkoli

    You enter the basement over a small staircase you did not saw before. It is colder than in the rest of the house. Like a wave of sound you hear the clicking…

    May 26, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  15. The Vault

    Author: nhrn

    The vault usually had what he needed so Frank had climbed the sound of chimes in the courtyard to pluck a leaf from the Bhodi tree, he had collected his…

    May 22, 2012 · Ficly archive (1)

  16. Zen Garden

    Author: Robert Quick

    It was 3am and I lay awake, too many thoughts circling my mind. I needed focus. Slipping on a robe, not for modesty, but to save anyone else who might still be…

    May 3, 2012 · Ficly archive

  17. The 'Rock Room'

    Author: Robert Quick

    A spotlight came on, centering on a smartly dressed woman sitting on a stool at the front of the stage. Delicate fingers tuned an acoustic guitar. Her vibrant…

    Dec 30, 2011 · Ficly archive (1)

  18. The Cheshire (Part I)

    Author: Robert Quick

    The elevator’s doors were the strangest I’d ever seen- covered in blue fur with a jagged purple stripe across the middle. I reached out, hesitantly, to touch…

    Sep 6, 2011 · Ficly archive (2)