The Games Room

Up a winding stair from the Library may be found a vast hall, apparently wider than the Manor itself, and whose ceiling appears to stretch far higher than it should. Indeed, clouds can be seen drifting round the ceiling, and a rainbow forms periodically by the chandelier. The horizon is barely visible across the sprawl of chess tables, bouncy castles, ball pools, billiards, marble runs built out of vintage scaffolding and train parts, indoor croquet lawns, mesoamerican ballgame courts, upside-down-archery targets, human clay pigeon launchers, wildebeest jousting lists, and of course Tailextrix Badger Formula One.

Local legend tells of a party of local fox hunters invited into the Games Room many decades ago, who found themselves becoming the prey of a Wild Hunt through the various soft play zones, refrigerated lobster curling courts, Heath Robinson machines, and lost tribes of cricketers. Calls of "View Halloo!" may still be heard on second Thursdays of the Hunter's Moon, as tradition dictates. It is not known if they are first, or even second generation descendants of the original Hunted.