"Welcome to the stomach of the house, the Kitchen." Ann says spookily as you enter the kitchen.
She flicks the lights on, revealing a kitchen that might have looked cozy were it furnished, but the closed and curtained windows along with the lack of kitchen tools and empty well-carved shelves makes it feel rather lonely. There is a large, bare wooden prep table, a well as two other doors and a staircase going up. The glass panels of the door reveal them to lead back out into the foyer and backyard.
"The Gravel Family was known to have chopped, filleted, diced, baked, and boiled all sorts of... 'Ingredients' here." Ann says, running a hand along the counters and stopping at the stove. It's a pretty nice gas stove. "Many servants went missing over the years, who knows where they went... Or if they actually ever left alive."
"Whoaaa... Hey, where does this go?" Tamako says, glancing around and spotting the staircase.
"Whoa, careful, kid. Those stairs are pretty old." Ann says. "They go up to the servant's quarters. That way guests couldn't see the help come and go."
"Ah yes! The palaces had something similar." Seshat remarks, looking over to the staircase as well.
"Palaces? Ah-ha, you guys are pretty well traveled, huh?" Ann comments.
"O-oh well you know... They uh, just, I mean I've only been to a few, mostly the Pharoh's-" Seshat babbles.
You move in to interrupt and ask if there are more secret passages like these in the mansion.
"Okay, cutting ahead in the script here a bit but..." Ann says, and then readopting the spooky voice says, "They say the Gravel Family might have been rum runners during prohibition, and that they installed secret storehouses throughout the mansion. For the booze of course, but also for... Their rivals."
"Oh cool can we see those?" Tamako asks, her attention taken away from the passage upward.
"They are apparently so well hidden that most historians haven't been able to find the biggest one." And then returning to a normal voice says, "They turned it into a giant freezer for the other kitchen.
"They have two kitchens here?" Tamako says confused.
"This historic one and a more modern one in the eastern wing, yeah." Ann nods.
"So we do get to see it?" Tamako asks.
"Yeah, it's like the only other spooky room on that side. The rest of the rooms in the east are a bit too new to have any fun stories." The tour guide remarks.
