IC & OOC Information

Trenchwood Farm is all the way out in Feed, but remains easily accessible by lantern. It produces roughly 1000 eggs a week and 600 meat birds a month. Produce is vibrant and varied with protected, clean soil and many, many rings of fortification.

If visitors arrive by lamp, they will appear in front a farmhouse of mid-century Australian design.

Behind the house is a gated courtyard, which contains:

• Newly-constructed stables for resident horses Zelda (a whippet of a thoroughbred racer) and Aoife (an enormous shire)
• Partially-finished iron and glass greenhouse that's behind the stables
• A long row of hoop houses to the side (for seedling work until the greenhouse is completed)
• A Guardian Tree behind the greenhouse
• A path up to the great barn where the chickens and a workshop tenuously share space
• A few other outbuildings on a quarter of an acre or so

This inner compound is where most of the action takes place. Even when it's dark, an enormous flock of chickens are often out and scratching around for moonlit treats. These are normal chickens, in many breeds, but...curiously, some of them are wearing little crochet hats. (A tradition started by Raleigh Becket, one of the farm's previous owners. It still continues under the new stewards.)

Chuck Hansen and Raleigh put months of constant hard labor into getting this project off the ground, and it shows. The entire place is thriving with lush gardens both floral and edible, originally helped along by Raleigh's power shift, and continues to be maintained by generous Sleepers and Trenchies alike. Machinery dots the property, along with palettes of wooden egg boxes and straw. A military ATV is parked behind the back of the house (the wraparound porch of which looks out over the busy hub behind).

FUTURE PLANS (as of July 2022):

• Finish greenhouse construction
• Goats - Dairy & Wool
• Animal Rehabilitation

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the rookery is the name sansa has given to an old townhouse in cellar door formerly inhabited by an old nightwalker with an extensive dress collection and a penchant for feeding the ravens. technically it is a play on the name of the eyrie. the front room is reserved for fittings, and has some cloth swatches and embroidery samples on display. there is also a dressform that usually has one of her gowns on it. there is a carved weirwood tree growing out of the back room of the first floor and through the two rooms on top of it, sticking of the roof and right side of the house. the roof and walls have been repaired around it, thanks to wanda maximoff. the rest of the building is largely neo-victorian, with sansa's tapestries hanging in the rooms she uses most often. there are also some photographs and paintings of a large black batcat. Vi has painted a large direwolf sigil in grey on the facade. wanda maximoff has provided magical wards for the house as well as wards against fire and explosions. jinx has built a small but sturdy treehouse on top of the rookery. sansa creates custom couture for night walkers and sleepers that ask nicely. she is especially keen to provide low-cost leather armor and padding to sleepers in need of it. sansa has a blood gem tool and she's apprenticed with both an ordinary jeweler and a master artificer. she makes bloodstone primarily for decorative and sleeper use. they are not very powerful, but they are largely affordable. she will provide palebloods with vile bloodstone and vilebloods with pale bloodstone for free. clothing and embroidery reference as well as ic turnaround times can be found here. further information on the house itself can be found here. ic commissions can be arranged here. © tessisamess

Lexi's favorite cake in the entire world is lemon cake with strawberry jam between the layers and strawberry-flavored buttercream. When she saw this screamingly yellow house in Gaze, it was like it was meant to be. Lexi tends to decorate in a weird hodgepodge of cottagecore and macromilizm with lots of emphasis on colors, decorations, and eye-catching (or eye-gouging) detail. She's enjoying having a room to herself after sharing one with Cassie, her older sister, all her life, but she finds it awfully weird to be on her own. The house has three bedrooms, two baths, and a sunroom off to the side. © tessisamess

Rose lives in a two-level classic English cottage with three bedrooms, two baths, a rooftop patio, a large garden, a side patio, and a carriage house. It's far larger on the inside than what it looks like it should be on the outside and it's awfully cozy, which was what Rose was looking for after living in giant estates for most of her life. There's plenty of room for company and/or roommates should the opportunity present itself which Rose honestly wishes would since she's awfully lonely, just her and Melody. © tessisamess

This is Tinya's house in Cellar Door. It's in a Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style of architecture and it comes with three bedrooms, a formal dining room, an informal dining room, with hardwood and stained glass everywhere. Some of the rooms, the ceiling is so low that those over 6'0" will find themselves ducking and other ceilings so high, Tinya would have to fly to reach them. The house itself is nearly impossible to find one's way through unless you're Tinya, one of her kittens, her batkitten, or her Omen. There are three bedrooms, one occupied by Tinya herself, one kept in reserve if someone needs a Night Walker's more intimate talents, the other a two-bed room with storage space and vanities for each. © tessisamess