Floor 3, The Museum

Museum

There are wide and elegant white stairs guarded by two big stone angels, beyond is a tomb said to hold the crying remains of Lord Azzur's undead wife. Further back is the Carsepolis area having all kinds of ancient pottery and jugs. He had his museum made a certain way it not just displays old relics it also depicts them. Surrounding the exterior are half buildings of old Blacksand, and in center are three Egyptian sarcophagus, a coffin or a container to hold a coffin of a mummy. It's like walking in a neighborhood of how it might have been back then. Hardly no lighting either, it's gloomy and dark and creepy. One can walk along the homes and fake street which goes nowhere, walk where the Egyptian site is, look at pottery that is no longer available to find anywhere, so how he attained it is a mystery, or go look at the tomb. All of this before Port Blacksand was invented how it is today. The walls and floor are like Taj Mahal. No one likes coming into this area because of the rumored undead and out of respect that it's not just a museum but a gravesite. It's possible that one sarcophagus has a mummy in it, while the other two are reserved for the vampires. The tomb has no inscription on it, did he bury his wife here and forget her? Or is he keeping her identity a for longed secret? There appears to be a door that goes out to the outside patio too but it's locked. It's just a place that's abandoned after the sun goes down.

The Greenhouse and Ship room

These are located on the left side of floor 3, the greenhouse has all of Azzur's indoor tropical plants and exotic animals like lizards, birds, and snakes. It also has a big flowing fountain trapped in overgrowth. Here, to, is where Azzur's famed red parrot lives. He can mimic human talk and has a little orange gem for his missing right eye. It's humid and one can hear the trickling of water in here.

The ship room has a mini display of Azzur's pirate ship the Face of Chaos. It is a galley ship, a caravel, and set in red oak and red paint. Every detail is not spared, and painted on the walls is the wharf and taverns. The sounds of wind and a ship's bell tolls sometimes. The anchor stretches about the room and hoisted from the ceiling. The greenhouse appears to be trying to make it way into this room too, it's starting to get out of control. He loves his ship too much, just had to dedicate a whole room to it. The ship is not big enough to go aboard it, but it does come apart so one can see inside the ship's interior, and see how it was built. It's rather an eccentric piece.

Leaving these areas one passes a double door on the right which goes outside to the Villa and straight on towards a hallway.

The Royal Bedchambers

Also known as the Hallway of Portraits. There are four pictures on the walls between each bedroom. They have strange powers too if anyone gazes at them for too long. One can become possessed or mesmerized. It is unknown who painted these three noblemen and lady, obviously someone with a sick sense of humor. The males' skin is rotten, like they've are still alive after two centuries, rather zombie-like. The female wears a tall headdress of early medieval times, she too has decomposed flesh. One man will yell and curse the person looking at him, the other two cause paralyses, and she is often heard humming to herself and can grab the onlooker and tries to pull him or her into the painting. Across from them are narrow slit windows, and two statues, one of a sun goddess and one of a medusa. It's not the most happiest of halls or something one must endure just to get to their room but it's the reality. The two statues are in fact golems too and also perform during banquet shows, the medusa is the most feared form of entertainment but Azzur finds it amusing nonetheless. At the end of this hall hides a secret door to a towering staircase which goes down to the pendulum room and scullery. There's supposed to be more stairs going up to the fourth floor but they were ceased.

There are five royal bedchambers in this hall which all join to each other by a single door, possibly for visitors to visit each other instead of venture out into the hallway. The ones are named from the major Arcana: Hierophant, Temperance, Sslloyd, Hermit, and Communication. Each has a four poster bed, bearskins, wardrobe, tables, chairs, fireplace and mirrors. Each room is also haunted with something in it, ghosts evil spirits of the palace frequent these rooms a lot. Communication has a rare portrait of River Kok of Chiang Mai which images moves once in awhile.

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You look at one of the paintings and grimace a bit, you can swear you smell something dead and rotten coming from it, like a decomposing hamster, it's awful. The male in the picture spits in your face causing you to reel backwards in disgust. You head back out to where the pillars are, wiping your face clean with your shirt. You head over to the Turkish Bath area its just a place where someone might want a massage, there are little fountains in the walls to wash one's hands with. You assume that the plumbing to this floor must be gargantuan in design. If only you could take a dip in the pool, or sit in the hot tub, it all looks refreshing. You can hear sound kind of faint drumming once in awhile from the museum but there's nothing or no one there to makes this tunes. Did Lord Azzur's wife really get buried alive? If you hung around the greenhouse any longer you might get malaria, but you did see a little parrot who told you it has a glass eye. Does the red parrot perch on his lordship's shoulders? He must be an animal lover as well as love flowers and plants. You didn't stay long in the dining room, the fairy dust made you sneeze and lightheaded. To look after that aquarium you think to yourself as you decide to head to the villa, must be a job in itself. What you have learned so far being in this palace is he likes to showcase his life in it, not just collect things, and the baby mammoth of how the hell they even got that thing indoors is also a spectacle. Things may have had to be brought inside when windows weren't installed, if not built within the room, like the table in the Battlements room. Also, there are NO steps to the fourth levels here, it's basically floor 1, 2, and 3. All of floor3 looks bigger than it's supposed to because it has mirrors for walls, and the pillars make it appear regal and infinite. Once in a few minutes, you can hear water gulping within the glass of the pillars, and they do let off a bit of heat. You can smell incense burning somewhere, but could not find the burner anywhere, it's possible it's coming from the dining room. The whole floor should be suffering from condensation, but surprisingly it does not. The museum is as bone dry as anything and the greenhouse is taken care of by gardeners and animal caretakers.

Time to go outside now,

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