The Mansion of E

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The Mansion of E is a daily fantasy webcomic created by Robert Cook, AKA Troper Geoduck. The eponymous structure is a large cactus-shaped edifice mysteriously perched on the side of a high cliff overlooking a Specific Ocean, surrounded by a ruin-strewn forest. Underneath is the "Basement", a collection of caverns and tunnels and such, going deep into the earth. The strip painstakingly details the activities of the Mansion/Forest/Basement's many and diverse inhabitants; including a few Humans, who technically own the entire place. The plot is set in motion by the sudden arrival on the scene of the wandering heroine Rosemary Ripley, who sets off a long series of events disrupting the established order.

The strip is currently hosted by Comic Genesis. There's also a fan-run wiki.

Tropes used in The Mansion of E include:

• Action Dress Rip
• Action Girl: Rosemary
• Aerith and Bob: Humans have 'normal' names. Everyone else..
• After the End: See below under The Magic Goes Away.
• Apothecary Alligator: Rhid has a crocogator hanging from the ceiling in his chemical workshop.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Sylvester is nice enough. His ancestors, on the other hand..
• Art Evolution: Color is eventually added.
• Art Shift: Silhouettes are used to depict memories/flashbacks/speculations.
• Author Avatar: Sylvester. Sorta.
• Beat Panel
• Berserk Button: Crud the Gnoll has a couple.
• Big Labyrinthine Building / Bizarrchitecture / Building of Adventure: The Mansion and the Basement.
• Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: The Motihauls.
• Cephalothorax: The Gobules
• Chekhov's Gun
• Cow Tools
• Crapsack World: The SubShafts
• Crossover: A character from the (now-defunct) webcomic Sandwich World came for a visit.
• Cryptic Background Reference: It's a big world...
• Cryptic Conversation
• Deadpan Snarker: Chunner the Gnoll, among others.
• Double Weapon: Rosemary's new "Can Opener".
• The Dreaded: The Woman of Mystery tends to provoke this reaction, as do the demons Chauncy and Edgar.
• The Faceless: Mr. Hand. Digger Odel wears so much protective gear he is essentially this. The Boogiemen and Ichyoids start out like this.
• Fictional Document: Lots of book titles.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Actually a plot-point.
• Four Lines, All Waiting
• Frogs and Toads: Frowgler the Horned Frog, plus the Motihauls are a race of bipedal amphibians.
• Gambit Pileup
• The Ghost: Skibble, plus the entire race of Sneeches; it eventually turns out the latter have left the Basement entirely.
• Government Agency of Fiction
• Hammerspace / Bag of Holding
• Heli Critter: The Helipaths
• Humans Are Cthulhu: At least as far as the Basement-dwellers are concerned.
• The Jester: This world calls them Weirdos.
• Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
• The Jeeves / Servile Snarker: Hector the robot.
• Kudzu Plot: maybe..
• Lazy Artist
• Lizard Folk: The Troglodytes and the Saurs.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: The cast page features 31 nearly completely major characters.
• Loads and Loads of Races: Humans Gnolls Motihauls Gobules Troglodytes Nomes Pales Wyrms...
• Love At First Sight: Mortimer and Yasmine.
• Mad Bomber: Crazy Rhid, shading into Psycho for Hire.
• Mad Scientist: Sylvester's ancestor Ludwig.
• Meaningful Name: Many character names are actually obscure English words.
• The Magic Goes Away: And not gradually, either.
• Missing Mom: Vezza the Nome's, among others.
• Neck Lift: Happens to various Gnolls; they are small and light enough it's not an automatic sign of super-strengh.
• Nice Hat: Rosemary's helmet.
• The Nameless: The Woman of Mystery AKA the Scary Lady. Eventually revealed to be Myrrh.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: Rosemary has had this problem.
• Oh Crap: Rhid when Wrawa the Trog calls his bluff.
• Only Six Faces: The Gnolls; they all have different hairstyles.
• People Puppets: Fixits do it by attaching themselves to people's heads. And they look like hats..
• Pettanko: Rosemary, at least by webcomic-heroine standards.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Basement may be this, if the Subshafts do indeed have an important purpose.
• Shout-Out: Infocom, Terry Pratchett, Kim Possible, H.P. Lovecraft, Nethack, PG Wodehouse, Dwarf Fortress..
• The Slow Path: The Woman of Mystery and her interactions with Frowgler the Horned Frog.
• Swiss Army Appendage: Hector the robot has various hands he switches between.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
• Theme Naming: Most of the Forest Nomes are named after spells from the Zork series. Many of the Motihauls working in Sidestep Hall are named after shopkeepers from Nethack.
• They Called Me Mad: Sylvester's scientist-ancestor Ludwig.
• Time for Plan B: Invoked by Rosemary after meeting some Ghasts.
• Timey-Wimey Ball
• Tunnel King: "Digger" Odel
• Unsound Effect
• Unusual Euphemism: Zark! Fratz!
• Upper Class Twit: Sylvester and Mortimer are both well-meaning variants on this.
• The Voiceless: The Pales, with the exception of Zpeaker.
• Webcomic Time: Eight years. Less than two days.
• Weirdness Magnet: Mortimer. He and his family are well aware of it. It is eventually revealed that he is an unknowing wizard.
• Zeppelins from Another World: If only in flashbacks and memories.