Department of Trivia
The Chantry - Department of Trivia
Department of Trivia: Basic Information and Location
Stats
| Name | Dept. of Trivia |
|---|---|
| Chantry Type | College Chantry (VA/SoE mainly) |
| Season | Spring to Summer |
| Status | 2 |
| Chantry Leader | Evi Nemeth (VA) |
| Cabal Names | |
| Power Level | Average Chantry |
| Reputation | Under the radar |
| Number of Cabals | 1 |
| Cabal Names | |
| Cabal Leader(s) | |
Chantry Node
| Location | about 100 m away from the house in a walled garden area |
|---|---|
| Land Status | same as chantry |
| Shallowings | Typical |
| Size | same as chantry |
| Quintessence per Month | |
| Nature of Quintessence | Tass (Water) |
| General Phenomena | same as chantry |
| Magickal Manifestations | same as chantry |
| Psychic Emanations | same as chantry |
| Other Phenomena | same as chantry |
| Security Systems | same as chantry |
| Protective Wards | same as chantry |
| Fortification | same as chantry |
Location
| Location | Outside Olympia, WA |
|---|---|
| Size | Average |
| Building Conditions | Normal |
| Land Status | Large Private Holding |
| Short Description | See |
| General Phenomena | Haunted |
| Magickal Manifestations | Subtle (Diff. 8) |
| Psychic Emanations | Normal (Diff. 8) |
| Other Phenomena | |
| Security Systems | State-of-the-Art (Diff. 8) |
| Protective Wards | 5 pt. (Diff. 9) |
| Fortification | Average |
| Communications | Modern/Trans-Umbral |
Department of Trivia: Geographical Location — Olympia, WA
The chantry resides a bit north of Olympia in a wooded area. The extensive property is owned by the chantry and surrounded by a dense tree population, thicket and brush. To the people of Olympia, the area appears to house a therapeutic youth group home, for troubled teens. This works as a perfect repellant for the good citizens of Olympia, who most of the time will strictly forbid their kids to fraternize with those definitely bad influences.
The property includes even a stretch of beach at the Ellis cove segment of Budd Inlet. There you’ll see occasional joggers and dog walkers, but even those usually hold their distance to the main property.
City and wider Area
Olympia
Olympia, WA, is a city of about 50.000 residents. It is located in Thurston County, at the shore of Budd inlet. Budd inlet is the Southernmost arm of Puget sound, a saltwater bay that is bordered by, among others, the cities of Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia.
The city houses a public state-related college and a community college. In the directly connected neighboring town of Lacey a private, Catholic university can be found.
The economy is dominated by light industry, especially timber, firearms and ultra-light aircrafts. In addition city and region creates significant revenue through tourism, mineral water, breweries and interestingly: a vibrant independent music industry.
A number of smaller cites connect, merge and interlock at the shores of the Puget sound. Together they form to the Greater Seattle area.
Indigenous lands
In the wider area a number of Indigenous controlled areas can be found. Among them the Nisqually Nation, the Skokomish Tribe, the Squaxin Island Tribe, the Chehalis Reservation, the Puyallup Reservation, the Snoqualmie Reservation, the Muckleshoot Reservation, the Port Madison Reservation of the Suquamish Tribe and some smaller areas.
National parks
Olympia is surrounded by several national parks.
Travel & Commute Durations
| Place/Venue | MoT | Travel Time |
|---|---|---|
| OLYMPIA |
||
| City Center |
🚗 | 17 min |
| 🚲 | 20 min | |
| 🚌 Public | 30 min | |
| 🚶 | 1 h | |
| AIRPORT 🛬 🛫 |
||
| Seattle-Tacoma International (from Olympia central) |
🚗 | 1 h |
| 🚌 Public | 2 h | |
| SEATTLE |
||
| Downtown Seattle |
🚗 | 1 h |
| 🚌 Public | 2+ h | |
| Ada’s Technical Books and Café |
🚗 | 1 ½ h |
| 🚌 Public | 2 ½ h | |
| LIVING COMPUTERS museum + labs | 🚗 | 1 ½ h |
| Seattle Retro-Computing Society | 🚗 | 1 ½ h |
| HACK- & MAKERSPACES, FABLABS | ||
| OlyMEGA Makerspace |
🚗 | 7 min |
| 🚲 | 13 min | |
| Lacey Maker Space |
🚗 | 20 min |
| 🚲 | 30 min | |
| Black Lodge Research | 🚗 | 1 ½ h |
| Place/Venue | MoT | Travel Time |
|---|---|---|
| NATURE / QUINTESSENCE |
||
| **Grays Harbor Lighthouse/Pazifik** | 🚗 | 1 ½ h |
| **Mt Rainier National Park/Mount Rainier** | 🚗 | 2h |
| **Mt St Helens/Johnston Ridge Observatory** | 🚗 | 2h |
| Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument | 🚗 & 🚶 | 2h |
| **Olympic National Forest/Coho Campground** | 🚗 | 2h |
| **Mt Adams/Twin Falls Campground** | 🚗 | 3h |
| **Olympic National Park/Olympic Hot Springs** | 🚗 | 4h |
Department of Trivia: Description
The outside impression of the chantry’s property deceives. The main building is a 500 years old mansion from England, that was disassembled, shipped to the US and rebuild from original materials. The windows, especially the stained-glass windows, former church windows, are, too, imported from England.
Like many incredible expensive buildings from the beginning of the 20th century, its upkeep was, after the financial woes of the 1920s and the war, no longer feasible. It was abandoned by its former owner, fell in disrepair and was finally forgotten.
When the Deacon Evi Nemeth bought the land, the real estate market had just crashed, making the cost manageable. She poured her life savings (at the time) and funds from friends and some future chantry members into it.
She planned, from the beginning, to build it as a college chantry to give future Virtual Adepts and possibly apprentices from other traditions a safe place to learn and grow.
| # | Floor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Driveway | |
| 2 | For kitchen deliveries and to the car port for the chantries transporter and mini van (11). | |
| 3 | The resident Verbena’s sunken garden | |
| 4 |
Former servant’s wing |
|
| Basement | Verbena’s herb kitchen/sanctum, laundry, storage | |
| Ground floor | Kitchen, pantry, dining room, ‘flower room’, library | |
| First floor | Apprentice’s living quarters | |
| Second floor | Apprentice’s living quarters, guest rooms | |
| 5 |
Main wing |
|
| Basement | Storage, Entertainment room (Ping pong table, foosball table, arcade machines, beamer & screen, storage for more games and board games) Shielded training room. | |
| Ground floor | Entrance Hall, Living room, Patio | |
| First floor | Senior member’s living quarters | |
| Second floor | Senior member’s living quarters, guest rooms | |
| 6 | Fountain | |
| 7 | Walled garden, node (fountain) | |
| 8 | Garden house, Acolyte’s apartments | |
| 9 | Driveway to the main entrance | |
| 10 |
Annex. Fitness room, Sanctums/Laboratories, Maker space |
|
| in front | Parking space for Ariana’s Tiny House | |
| 11 | Car port for the chantry’s transporter and mini van | |
Department of Trivia: The Haunting
The premises are haunted by Mac & Cheese. How these magically imbued dishes came to life is unclear. An unauthorized experiment with some herbs from Briony’s sunken garden might have something to do with it. But it is generally not talked about.
Sometimes several days go by, without any sign of either Mac or Cheese. But at least, when there is pasta on the menu — even when one of the chantry’s residents tries to quell their hunger with a quick cup of Asia noodles — Mac appears, splattering oily sauce everywhere and Cheese inadvertently follows.
After they tried to eat the Deacon’s familiar — that appears in the form of a typical Corgi — and were nearly eaten themselves in the process, an uneasy truce between the chantry’s familiars, pets and those two entities exists.
The — by the chantry’s underage population — beloved dish Mac & Cheese has fallen out of fashion. In fact, any pasta-based dish has. Even cheese has been replaced with vegan alternatives, by now. A circumstance, that pleases Briony, who always tries her best to have the apprentices eat a healthy diet.
Even the attempt to have a pasta feast at a Olympian Italian tavern proved futile. Before the gaggle of apprentices was able to get their orders in, Mac made a splash at the tavern’s window front.
Plans to try again in at least 50 miles distance are ongoing.