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How big was the Boarding House?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Gman on July 25, 2018, 07:15:51 AM ---Harry's apartment probably wasn't the whole basement, just a portion that was turned into an apartment is another possibility.
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That is a real possibility, plus consider the size of Harry's lab, which originally must have been the root cellar, it was huge by root cellar standards..
Quantus:
That would make sense. In other towns where Ive seen them carve up old buildings for boarding houses, they do make use of any hole or closet and call it square-footage.
Also a lot of the medieval castles were downright tiny by the more mythological standards we (or rather I) have been exposed to, via Disney mostly. This one was four stories tall which wouldnt have to be that sprawling.
Looking back at the initial description, I want to know the details of the Gargoyles on the place. We all know Marcone would not bother with Just Stone.
SerScot:
Quantus,
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 25, 2018, 12:27:13 PM ---That would make sense. In other towns where Ive seen them carve up old buildings for boarding houses, they do make use of any hole or closet and call it square-footage.
Also a lot of the medieval castles were downright tiny by the more mythological standards we (or rather I) have been exposed to, via Disney mostly. This one was four stories tall which wouldnt have to be that sprawling.
Looking back at the initial description, I want to know the details of the Gargoyles on the place. We all know Marcone would not bother with Just Stone.
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I suppose a small castle on a big lot makes sense. Otherwise it would have been phyisically impossible to get the castle moved and built in 6 months.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: SerScot on July 25, 2018, 04:06:56 PM ---Quantus,
I suppose a small castle on a big lot makes sense. Otherwise it would have been phyisically impossible to get the castle moved and built in 6 months.
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eh, very little is physically impossible when money is no object. It could be done (by a billionaire) even in the real world (You'd be amazed at what Ive seen thrown up during the 10-day yearly shutdown some of these plants and mills do all their maintenance in). For a stacked-stone structure the real bottleneck is the physical transportation of the material (deep-sea shipping and customs delay) but Id say there's even odds that Marcone arranged for NN transportation.
morriswalters:
I have some doubts about the ability to take apart such a structure, from a standing start in such a short period of time. Shipping might not be an issue. My guess is that you could land the castle in Chicago, direct from anywhere since you have access to the Atlantic directly. The problem would be taking it apart without breaking it, and indexing so you could reconstruct it. If you're interested some enterprising group is building a small castle in France. https://www.guedelon.fr/en/introduction_75.html Of course magic.
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