The
story behind Mystic Manor:
From time to time, Madame WWW
moved the location
of Mystic Manor between countries and across dimensions. A short time
ago
(in GRIT time) she came to Nerima (with the help of Gaeld). She set out
her "apartment for lease" sign to lure unsuspection people into her
building.
Her "tenants" would be turned into mutated creatures.
Shortly after her arrival in
Nerima, Madame WWW
trapped Tegan Dawson, Lisa Calloway, and PATE. The witch planned to
place
the women under her powers. Gaeld intervened, allowing Lisa, Tegan, and
PATE to escape. The price for his aid was that they were placed under
an
order of servitude.
Though they escaped, the women
knew they could
not leave the witch free to capture others. They assembled a small
group
(including Kaasha, Stark, Soun Tendo, Hirohi, and Gosekugi among
others).
While the group was making their plans, Madame WWW managed to trick
Mist
into aiding her.
The group attacked Mystic Manor.
They were joined
by Ratzik, Arkaleb, and a troup of orcs.
Mist discovered the witch's
deception and
joined the party as well. They fought mutant hybrids, magical
creatures,
and demons. In the battle, Tegan freed the Wizard of Oz and Tatewaki
Kunou,
who had also been trapped by the witch. With the help of the Wizard and
Lisa's spell jewels, the witch (who turned out to be the reconstituted
Wicked Witch of the West) was banished to another dimension.
The next morning, PATE and the
Wizard worked to
return the mutants to normal and to send the magical creatures back
where
they came from. All of the mutants were returned to human (or whatever
their original form was) except Leo and Feathers. Because of some
variations
in the witch's spells, they remained partially mutated, though somewhat
more human. Opus the penguin was among those freed.
Several of the group left the next
morning. Those
who remained behind began a search of the building. Inside the treasure
room, they found a chest. Opus tried to open the chest, but couldn't get past the magical trap.
Tegan was
able to deactivate the trap. She opened the chest and removed a scroll. The
scroll was a
magical deed, which transfered itself to Tegan,
giving her ownership of the
building.
Tegan, PATE, and Lisa moved
into Mystic Manor,
along with Leo, Feathers, Opus, and the Wizard. They began to clean up
the destruction and restored the building to that of a fairly typical
luxury
apartment building. Lisa was later adopted by the Saotome family and
moved
out, but a place for her remains at Mystic Manor.
Mystic Manor is officially open
for business.
At least half of the apartments are occupied by new tenants.
The Wizard decided to visit his
hometown of Omaha,
Nebraska before the winter hit. After his trip to Omaha, the Wizard
planned
to move to a place where the climate is warm year round. Before
leaving,
he gave Opus the infamous ruby slippers, which has been in the
posession
of Madame WWW. Opus used the slippers to return to Bloom County.
Recently
though, Opus has returned (with a bad case of amnesia - he thinks he's
a man who fell into spring of drowned penguin).
There have been several building
renovations.
The entire dungeon was cleaned out. One level was cleared to make a
gymnasium. Another
level was turned into an indoor, underground
parking garage.
With the help
of Penny, the penthouse has also been renovated (though it is currently
unoccupied).
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