You can, as always, make these props look a lot cooler by soaking them in hot tea and drying them to give them an aged look.
For the solved version of the Erisu ritual, you might consider covering it with yogurt, stained with yellow food coloring or mustard to make it look like it’s been in a bird’s nest in the rafters for a hundred years. It’s a good idea to have a prop ready for the solved version, so that it doesn’t look like you’re just giving it to them because they couldn’t solve it themselves.
- Elizabeth Mardel’s Notes
- Elizabeth Mardel’s Notes in House of Lisport: Props
- Lisport Family Missal
- 1. Old Hundred
- Lisport Manor plans
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- Melody’s diary
- Melody’s diary begins like any teen-age debutante’s diary. She’s very proud that she’s “figured out how to play the piano”, and compares not playing it to being “lost in darkness”. She’s learning all of the songs in the family missal because she doesn’t feel she’s ready to play. The diary unexpectedly darkens in the autumn of 1897. One moment she’s talking about the view of the garden from her window in September, then a few weeks later she…