Back once again to this mystery house… why do we keep torturing ourselves? It’s like we can’t resist the pull of its creaky floors and whispered secrets, even though every trip turns into a chaotic mix of laughs, scares, and me tripping over my own feet. I’m Tara, the self-proclaimed funny clever one who thinks she’s athletic but, let’s be real, can barely jog without wheezing. Julie’s our sophisticated intellectual, always quoting some obscure book to make sense of the madness. LaLa’s the snarky queen, dishing out one-liners that cut like a knife but leave you howling. John’s the pilot—kind, funny, and a total skeptic who rolls his eyes at anything “mystical.” And Laura’s the sweet heart of the group, the one who packs extra snacks and hugs away our doubts. This time, we’re here for a week, chasing clues in what feels like a romantic scavenger hunt left by ghosts or lovesick former owners. Little did we know, it would weave into our own stories too.

Day 1 - Mystical Living Room

We kicked off in the mystical living room, all velvet drapes and flickering candle stubs that made Julie wax poetic about Victorian aesthetics. I, of course, tried to “athletically” leap onto a dusty chaise lounge and nearly face-planted—classic Tara move. LaLa snorted, “Graceful as a giraffe on ice, Tara,” while John scanned the room skeptically, muttering about hidden cameras. Laura sweetly suggested we look under the cushions, and that’s when we found it: the aquamarine ring, sparkling like it had just been polished, tucked in a hidden compartment of an old jewelry box.

As we passed it around, the ring’s cool stone felt alive with history. I spun a tale on the spot—picture this: a shy inventor named Elias, trembling with unspoken love for his neighbor Eliza, who adored the sea. He crafted the ring from a gem he’d found on a stormy beach walk, engraving a tiny wave inside the band. One night, during a masked ball in this very room, he slipped it onto her finger mid-dance, whispering, “Love starts small, like a ripple, but grows into an ocean.” The message? That even hesitant hearts can make waves with one bold gesture. Julie nodded approvingly, calling it “symbolically resonant,” but LaLa quipped, “Romantic? More like he chickened out on a proposal.”

We laughed it off, but the ring sparked something—John pocketed it “for safekeeping,” joking it might fund our next trip. Laura sketched it in her notebook, eyes dreamy. By evening, we were theorizing if the house was haunted by lovers, and I felt a weird thrill, like we were part of their story now.

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Guild: Double D’s

день 1
гильдия Ежик в тумане

когда домик был еще в проекте, будущая хозяйка придумала, что там обязательно должна быть мистическая гостиная. А в ней должно быть место для торжественного предложения руки и сердца влюбленных. Сказала- сделала.
и по сей день в мистической гостиной вершится обряд помолвки, где жених одевает на палец возлюбленной помолвочное аквамариновое кольцо.
после обряда счастливое кольцо бережно прячется на свое почетное бархатное место и с нетерпением ждет следующую пару…

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Даже тигры любят игры!
Ррррррр! 🐅

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Guild Quest Day 1 Message of Hearts
Guild:  Double D's

Day 1 – Mystical Living Room
📌 FOUND: The Aquamarine Ring

I have always found this Manor to be a place of Fascination and Mystique. That's why I always come back. Every trip here is another story told, and not all at once! Sometimes it takes days for the House to give up another mystery or love story. The House, and objects found inside, don't so much speak in words, but in waves of thought, shades of light and shadows, images and emotional impressions all brought here by previous guests over centuries of time and absorbed by the Manor. Then the Manor releases them over time to a few carefully selected guests.

John, you always start with what you can measure — weight, light refraction, probable age. Yet when you lifted the aquamarine ring from the mantel in the Mystical Living Room, your pilot's hands trembled just slightly. The gem caught the firelight and fractured it into soft blue shards that swam across the walls like living water. You told yourself it was only optics. The Manor breathed otherwise.

The imprint left upon it stirred as you turned it between your fingers. A whisper unfolded — not in sound, but in memory. He had been clumsy, the lover who carried it. Not wealthy, not grand. He traded a compass heirloom for the stone because her eyes once reflected the sea in exactly this shade. He hid the ring here on a storm-heavy evening, intending to propose beside the hearth when courage finally outweighed fear.

But she found it first.

Her laughter filled the room — startled, luminous. She didn't slip it on. Instead, she pressed it to her heart and said, "Let this remind us — love begins quietly. Like a pilot lining up a runway in fog. You trust the lights before you see the ground.” They left it there as their first confession: small, trembling, deliberate.

You pocketed the memory, John. The ring remained.

Guild: Double D’s

Day 1 - The Mystical Living Room
"Why do we keep coming back here?" I asked, staring at the purple velvet chaos of the "Mystical Living Room."
"Because deep down, we love the drama," LaLa said, flopping onto a moon-shaped ottoman.
I found it by the fireplace—an aquamarine ring on the mantle, delicate and glowing. My hands trembled as I picked it up. "There's an engraving: 'First courage, then everything.'"
Julie nodded thoughtfully. "Aquamarine calms fear and encourages truth. Someone left this as a symbol—the moment they were brave enough to confess." I imagined them here, one person's heart racing as they offered this ring. The biggest loves start with the smallest acts of courage.

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Day 2 - Kitchen

Day two dragged us to the kitchen, a cluttered haven of antique pots and faded recipe cards that smelled faintly of cinnamon. I attempted to “athletically” climb a stool for a high shelf and wobbled like a newbie on stilts—John steadied me with a chuckle, “Stick to storytelling, Tara.” Julie analyzed the room’s layout like it was a historical artifact, while LaLa griped about the dust triggering her allergies.

Sweet Laura started rummaging through drawers, and boom—there it was, the golden apple, perched on a silver platter like it was waiting for us, its skin gleaming unnaturally bright.
Holding it up, I couldn’t resist weaving a prankish romance: Imagine lovers Clara and Theo, kitchen conspirators in this house decades ago. Theo, a baker with a wicked sense of humor, baked a fake golden apple pie for Clara’s birthday, hiding a real love note inside one slice that read, “Bite quick, my sweet—before our love vanishes like this treat!” But Clara, feisty as ever, turned the tables by swapping it with a real apple laced with harmless itching powder, leading to a giggling chase around the counters.

The prank’s message? Love thrives on shared laughter and surprises that keep the spark alive, even if it leaves you scratching.

LaLa cackled, “That’s the kind of romance I could get behind—no sappy stuff, just chaos.” Julie pondered the symbolism of forbidden fruit, and Laura suggested we bake something ourselves. We ended the day munching on makeshift snacks, the apple becoming our inside joke, with John skeptically testing if it was edible (spoiler: it wasn’t, just decorative). The house felt less torturous, more like a playful puzzle pulling us closer.

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Guild: Double D’s