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Plan Fifteen rooms · Two floors · Stairs only

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Fifteen rooms, two floors.

Both floors on one page. Every room links to its department; the launderette does not, as it is not ours.

15Rooms
21Paces, end to end
1Staircase

Two floors, no ground floor

Fifteen rooms on two floors, above the launderette, which occupies the entire ground floor. Stairs only. Not to scale. Never to scale.

THE INSTITUTE · TWO FLOORS · NO GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR · 21 PACES CORRIDOR · 18 PACES FLOOR 2 FLOOR 1 · PORTER’S LODGE BY THE STAIRS THE LAUNDERETTE · NOT OURS · NO DEPARTMENTS hum through the floorboards · one stool · street door beside it, never through it GROUND FLOOR · THE LAUNDERETTE (ALL OF IT) STREET DOOR ↓ (BESIDE, NEVER THROUGH IT) THE ARCHIVE UNMARKED DOOR (THERE ISN’T ONE) · NO ENTRY FOUNDATIONS load-bearing background BASEMENT · NO ENTRY (PORTER ONLY) STAIRS ONLY · 14 STEPS Floor 2: 1 Things · 2 Words · 3 Tongues · 4 Music · 5 Quiet · 6 Tales · 7 Rules · 8 Plain. Floor 1: Lodge (Porter) · 9 Rare · 10 Wonders · 11 Notes · 12 Lost · 13 Rain · 14 Tuesdays · 15 Misses. Ground: launderette (all of it). Basement: Archive (no entry) + foundations. Bench in Room 1 · Queue forms Thursdays 11.00 · Not to scale. Never to scale. No ground floor. 1Things 2Words 3Tongues 4Music 5Quiet 6Tales 7Rules 8Plain LodgePorter 9Rare 10Wonders 11Notes 12Lost 13Rain 14Tues 15Miss

Key to the rooms

Floor 2: 1 Ordinary Things · 2 Remarkable Words · 3 Ordinary Languages · 4 Classical Music · 5 Quiet Hours · 6 Tall Tales · 7 Unwritten Rules · 8 Workaday Words. Floor 1: Porter’s Lodge · 9 Remarkable Languages · 10 Remarkable History · 11 Unremarkable History · 12 Lost Property · 13 British Weather · 14 Tuesdays · 15 Near Misses. Every room links above; every keeper answers only to the Porter.