You’ve found a painting which has a night sky! And the right stars! What are the odds? (Pretty unlikely, actually, since you’re beginning to think the library might actually stretch out into infinity…) It also has a gothic mansion, or maybe a castle? It’s not the gothic mansion that you’re in, so it’s worth investigating.
The answer to whether it’s supposed a real vs fictional house is easy because, well, you’re in a library, and the candle near the plaque that says ‘Class 800 – **LITERATURE**’ has flared up like a hacked lighter. A vigorous debate over fictional gothic/haunted houses winds up with two contenders…
[you can let the writing challenge dictate your ‘guess’, or you can let your irl guess dictate which challenge you do. No, you can’t choose one of each 😉 well, okay, you *can*, because this is just for fun and you have free will…]
| OPTION 1 | OPTION 2 | OPTION 3 | |||
| If you… | Then… | If you… | Then… | If you… | Then… |
| think it might be Hamlet’s ‘Haunted Halls of Elsinore’ | sprint to 271 (822×0.33. Hamlet’s DDC# is 822.33) | think it might be Rebecca’s Manderley | Sprint to 741 (823×0.9 because Rebecca is 823.9) | aren’t sure, because the picture won’t stay in focus | Sprint to 1,012 (271+… yeah, you get it) |