>>5451335There are still some hours left in the night, and you should make best use of them. While watching a movie and masturbating does sound like a splendid way to end the evening, time is limited and there is much to do. For now, you will do your best to survey the house before you head to bed. If you're going to be living here, you should at least know where everything is after all.
You head down the stairs and poke around the first floor's entryway for a moment. It's fairly large and has an assortment of items near the entrance like a hat and shoe rack, but nothing except the welcome mat looks like it sees much use despite their age. Whether that's because people simply don't use these sorts of things anymore or because your uncle never had guests over isn't clear. You poke your head inside the coat closet and find that it's completely empty besides a few lonely hangers dangling from the valet rod.
The happy whistling of Madness and Folly greets you as you move into the living room. It's pretty bare for its size, with an old leather couch and chair sitting across from a CRT television on a small table. A coffee table sits in the middle, stains from drinks long past marring it. The rest of your boxes and the guinea pig enclosure sit at the far end of the room, near the window.
It's at this point that you notice something odd about the windows. All of them, with zero exception, have curtains drawn very tightly to them. It all has a... very distinct effort put into it, in sizing and making sure nothing peaks through. You're not sure if it was always like this, or if your father or his brother thought it would deter thieves, or what. A bit more light wouldn't hurt though.
You move up to the living room window, untie the curtain, and move it out of the way so that you can get at the window. Upon catching sight of it, however, you involuntarily laugh. Just like the side door, the effort put into locking a single window goes above and beyond. Instead of the default clasp lock used for a window, its instead been fitted with a key lock, with another lock fixed between the windowsill and the window to stop the window from being raised unless it's unlocked as well. Now you're fairly certain of a couple things. The curtains were always like this, and your uncle was a very paranoid man. Maybe that's normal for old men living alone. You're not sure.
Note that the layouts included are slightly rough, I can't guarantee that rooms are exactly to scale compared to each other. Kitchen/dining room on this are longer vertically then I'm actually envisioning them, as an example 