Before anyone reads further and gets frustrated at my laziness/disappointed because I've been picky: I expect a casual level of writing. Advanced walls of text are just overkill, and Free... well, I like grammar, and I dislike scripts.

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The Umehime Mansion: an ornate edifice placed strategically by both a beach and a highstreet, depending which of the paths through the estate you choose to exit it by. Yet despite being a private residence, it is quite firmly the centrepiece of the town that surrounds it, as its owner--fabulously rich and fabulously strange--has ended up building a town around the place, and inviting people to live and work in it. And the final thing to do is to get new maids, as the mansion has only just finished renovation, and she can hardly expect her ageing butler to take care of everything...

All in all, it is a peaceful enough place--save for the occult library and portal at the bottom of the well, and the secret underground dungeon complex-cum-robot production facility.