History Webcomic / TheMansionOfE

After a long hiatus, as of December 2022 the strip is [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/ posting again]] on Platform/ComicFury (while still maintaining [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/ the old site]] on the now mostly defunct Website/ComicGenesis.) There's also a [[http://mansionofe.wikia.com/wiki/Mansion_of_E_Wiki fan-run wiki]] and a [[http://imaginarymongoose.co.uk/Mansion_of_E/ fan-made backup and mega-summary up through 2019 or so.]].

After a long hiatus, as of December 2022 the strip is [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/ posting again]] on Website/ComicFury (while still maintaining [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/ the old site]] on the now mostly defunct Website/ComicGenesis.) There's also a [[http://mansionofe.wikia.com/wiki/Mansion_of_E_Wiki fan-run wiki]] and a [[http://imaginarymongoose.co.uk/Mansion_of_E/ fan-made backup and mega-summary up through 2019 or so.]].

After a long hiatus, as of December 2022 the strip is [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/ posting again]] on Website/ComicFury (while still maintaining [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/ the old site]] on the now mostly defunct Website/ComicGenesis.) There's also a [[http://mansionofe.wikia.com/wiki/Mansion_of_E_Wiki fan-run wiki]] and a [[http://imaginarymongoose.co.uk/Mansion_of_E/ fan-made backup and mega-summary up through 2017 or so.]].

%% * NotGoodWithPeople: Rufus has this problem sometimes.

''[[http://www.mansionofe.com The Mansion of E]]'' is a daily fantasy webcomic created by Robert Cook, AKA Troper Tropers/{{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 [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/ hosted]] on Website/ComicFury (still maintaining [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/ the old site]] on the now mostly defunct Website/ComicGenesis.) There's also a [[http://mansionofe.wikia.com/wiki/Mansion_of_E_Wiki fan-run wiki]] and a [[http://imaginarymongoose.co.uk/Mansion_of_E/ fan-made backup and mega-summary]].

As of November 2022, the main site has been unavailable for many months, and non-filler strips frequency is down to weekly.

%% * BigLabyrinthineBuilding / {{Bizarrchitecture}} / BuildingOfAdventure: The Mansion and the Basement.

%% * CrapsackWorld: The [=SubShafts=]
* CrossOver: A character from the (now-defunct) webcomic ''[[http://sandwichworld.comicgenesis.com/ Sandwich World]]'' came for a visit.

%% * DastardlyWhiplash: Mortimer Gree, the villain of the novel ''Lo The Plow Shall Till The Soil Of Redemption.''

* DoubleWeapon: Rosemary's new "Can Opener". A long thick shaft with an asymmetric crescent at one end (hence the name) and a paddle on the other end.

* FantasticLightSource: Glowing Balls Of Light and Amorphous Balls Of Light. Produced by The Tree, have to be cared for.

%% * FourFingeredHands: Actually a plot-point.

** Taken a bit further in their backstory. A few centuries earlier the Earls of E led a ragtag alliance of small princedoms that challenged TheEmpire and at its peak controlled a quarter of its territory.

%% * InsistentTerminology: "Crazy" Rhid!

%% * InterspeciesFriendship: Sprocket the Gnoll and Flange the Helipath, among others.

%% * TheJeeves / ServileSnarker: Hector the robot.

%% * LiteralMinded: The Spindizzies are an extreme case of this.

%% * MadBomber: Crazy Rhid, shading into PsychoForHire.
%% * MadScientist: Sylvester's ancestor Ludwig, though he was a well-meaning one. Again, Crazy Rhid might also qualify.

** TheMagicComesBack: However, the inactive devices survived just fine, and energy is still abundant at "trickle points". And the new generations of humans have their usual share of magicians, who only need someone to teach them. [[spoiler:Mortimer is a magician.]]

%% * TheMole: [[spoiler: The Weirdo Who Lives In The Attic]] has some sort of hidden agenda.

%% * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Rosemary has had this problem.

%% * NotAfraidToDie: Crud the Gnoll.

%% * OnlySixFaces: The Gnolls; they all have different hairstyles.

* ScienceFantasy: Ettins had a {{Magitek}} civilization, with intermingling magic, {{Tin Can Robot}}s and [[BiotechIsBetter taylor-made servant species]]. Iron-age humans discovered their ruins and eventually adapted much of their knowledge.

** The panels with their neighbours and then bitter rivals from S have "S" insignia.

%% * SticksToTheBack: An explicit technique used by Comshaw and Agorn the Gnolls.
%% * SwissArmyAppendage: Hector the robot has various hands he switches between.

%% * TimeForPlanB: Invoked by Rosemary after meeting some angry Ghasts.

%% * TunnelKing: "Digger" Odel

%% * TheVoiceless: The Pales, with the exception of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Zpeaker]].
* WebcomicTime: Since 2003. Roughly ''two days.''

** Creator/{{Infocom}}: zorkmid coins, Nome names, the city of Frobozz, numerous references to Grues, "the great underearth empire" of Polarites.
** WesternAnimation/KimPossible: pompous and overrated novel ''Lo The Plow Shall Till The Soil Of Redemption''.

** VideoGame/DwarfFortress: Boatmurdered island, the site of bloodiest and most pointless battle. Tower caps, giant mushrooms cultivated by the Pales.

** ''Literature/JonathanLivingstonSeagull'': [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/comics/5223/ here]].

** In the Mansion of E the and its Basement the "E" is all over furniture and Human-made machinery.

On hiatus since November 2021.

** Whatever Leny the Trog [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/comics/3395#content-start did]] [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/comics/3396#content-start at]] some unspecified time in the past. No details have been given at all, but the tone seems to indicate it was something embarrassing.

** Creator/HPLovecraft: Ichyoid design, the statue of Cthulhu in the storage of the most dangerous artefacts.

** Whatever Leny the Trog [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/comics/3395#content-start did]] at some unspecified time in the past. No details have been given at all, but the tone seems to indicate it was something embarrassing.

* InMediasRes: Cully's little [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/comics/2873#content-start excursion]] from [=subShaft=] 44f is [[https://mansionofe.the-comic.org/comics/2887/ shown as he relates it]] to Chunner and Crud after his return.

** VideoGame/DwarfFortress: Boatmurdered island, the site of bloodiest and most pointless battle.

* {{Cephalothorax}}: [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20040615.html The Gobules]]. A green ball with legs.

* AfterTheEnd: See below under The Magic Goes Away. The comic is set five decades after a cataclysm ("The Crash") destroyed every {{Magitek}} device, killing the majority of trained magicians, and cut off the primary source of magic, {{Ley Line}}s.

* ArtEvolution: Color is eventually added, and used as [[spoiler: an indicator of the level of magic available in a particular locale.]] About at the same time strips start having pespective.

** Briefly, a running gag in Subshaft 44g. Saying an innocent word may provoke Crud the Gnoll to attack the speaker. And he had many triggers.

* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20040619.html The Ichyoids]]. Green aquatic humanoids with tentacles and pincers. Several times human size.
* CulturedWarrior / WarriorPoet: Sylvester's ancestor Milo. "Probably, the first Earl, who could write."

* GoneHorriblyRight: If business rivals of Earl Ludwig killed him, expecting the family business to fail under his son, who was no inventor, they were half right. He was not good at inventing weapons, but he was good at commanding armies. He started a war and killed all rival rulers.

** On a larger scale, Ettin machinery survived The Crash as if they were designed with such event in mind.