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The chantry's main building is an old castle like structure that cobbled together from different gothic buildings and churches in England, that were razed and transported in parts to the US — as it was all the rage around the 1900s for the nouveau riche.With the economic crises of the 1920s, many such buildings were not longer maintainable and fell over time into disrepair. As did the chantry. Over the next 40 years it was used for different purposes, lastly as a storage facility for a woodworking business until the death of the workshops owner. It was then forgotten, until the chantry's deacon discovered it during the 1970s. She bought the land very carefully, to have nobody notice what gem lay hidden in a region that should become — years later, after the rise of Microsoft in nearby Seattle — heavily gentrified.
The chantry is located in a plot of woodland at the Puget Sound just outside the city of Olympia.
The chantry has two wings. A main wing and the former servant's wing. The latter is, today, the apprentice's wing. In the former, the regular (and teaching) members of the chantry live.
The rooms are approximately dorm-sized, and located on the first and second floor (or second and third, if you count the ground floor as first floor). Each floor has four rooms. A ninth room is located in the attic. Every apprentice has their own room (except if they chose to share one). There is no hard separation between girls or boys rooms and at least one apprentice identifies as non-binary anyway. Yet, the shared bathrooms are split the way everybody can feel comfortable.
Two rooms are courtyard/garden facing, two are facing to a meadow behind the chantry and the wooded area. The most coveted rooms are corner rooms, facing either to the courtyard or the meadow and the resident Verbena's herb garden on the small side of the building.
Since Lucy is the newest arrival she has no free choice of rooms. Hers will be on the first floor facing the meadow and resides thus on the quieter side of the house
As her control only slipped when under the influence of drugs, the deacon will be very vocal of quickly enrolling Lucy at a local high school to continue her mundane education without disruption.
Lucy will discover that all apprentices are encouraged to attend and finish high school, to enroll in a (community) college after finishing, to create and maintain friendships with non-mages and have hobbies that have little or nothing to do with magic, to prevent Quiet.
If attending school or college should prove impossible, no matter the exact reason, enrolling with an home schooling program or a distance learning college or university is offered.
Maintaining close contact with parents and friends at home will also be encouraged, but won't be enforced — as not all apprentices have happy childhood homes or happy connections to their former lives.
Doing some kind of sport is not only encouraged but required, much to the dismay of the nerdier apprentices. This requirement can be filled by joining a team at school, a club, attending the daily yoga sessions offered by the resident Verbena at least twice a week or going on a weekly sailing trip with the deacon and the chantry's small sailboat.
Use of (non-prescription/mind-altering) drugs is discouraged, even the over-use of caffeine-containing drinks, as it is often so common among computer people. The adult population of the chantry leads by example. Alcoholic beverages are only consumed on very rare occasions and are just not in stock on a regular basis.
Many apprentices are vegans or vegetarians, but not all, as are the adults. There will be two options at every meal that will satisfy all needs and cover wishes as best as possible. Yet, meat isn't offered on every day.
For underage apprentices a curfew of latest 22:00 on weekdays and 24:00 on weekends exists. The importance of establishing and maintaining healthy habits, like a healthy sleep pattern is instilled be their teachers over and over.
While the chantry sees itself as a VA and SoE chantry, the VA side is slightly more dominant. It has three VA residents/teachers, among them the deacon herself and three SoE residents/teacher of which are only two permanently on site (+ one Verbena). The third SoE, Ariana Austen, is sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks absent and thus does not fulfil regular teaching duties. If she is at the chantry for some time, she offers lectures in a wild variety of mundane and magical topics, from electronics (especially rapid prototyping), over history to offensive and defensive magic and insights into magical field work. She also organizes and offers extracurricular activities from museum visits to hiking trips.
The apprentices are split 5:3 (VA:SoE), not counting Clement. At the moment the search for a visiting Psychic that can best tutor Lucy is ongoing.
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