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{{Neath_Location|image1 = royalbeth.png|caption1 = Red, gold, and Marvelous. Art from FL.|image2 = Bethlehemsuitegaz.png|caption2 = A suite at the Royal Beth. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[Fallen London]]|alias = The Royal Beth|allegiance = The Manager of the Royal Beth|notable_inhabitants = The Manager|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/veilgarden-last-call Veilgarden Last Call]}}''"The manager of the Hotel offers free rooms to guests of particular note or interest. He irritably denies the suggestion that he might be 'collecting' them."''
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{{Neath_Location|image1 = royalbeth.png|caption1 = Red, gold, and Marvelous. Art from FL.|image2 = Bethlehemsuitegaz.png|caption2 = A suite at the Royal Beth. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[Fallen London]]|alias = The Royal Beth|allegiance = [[The Manager of the Royal Bethlehem Hotel]]|notable_inhabitants = |music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/veilgarden-last-call Veilgarden Last Call]}}''"The manager of the Hotel offers free rooms to guests of particular note or interest. He irritably denies the suggestion that he might be 'collecting' them."''


The '''Royal Bethlehem Hotel''', formerly the hospital of the same name, is an elite hotel run by a very mysterious manager. __forcetoc__<br />
The '''Royal Bethlehem Hotel''', formerly the hospital of the same name, is an elite hotel run by a very mysterious [[The Manager of the Royal Bethlehem Hotel|manager]]. <br />
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==A Hotel for the Mad==
==A Hotel for the Mad==
It is located across the Stolen River from [[Ladybones Road]]. [[Fallen London]]ers may purchase a room there for a quite exorbitant price (no, this is NOT a free room like in the quote, unless you're "interesting", see below), then upgrade it for one that is simply ridiculous for all but the most famous among them.
[[File:Royalbethroom.png|thumb|left|A room at the Royal Beth. Art from FL.]]The Royal Beth, as it's often called, is located across the Stolen River from [[Ladybones Road]]. Its manager likes to collect "guests of particular note" (and by that he means the mentally ill or nightmare-plagued), prowling the streets of London at night<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_where_you_can_locate_the_players|Ask where you can locate the players|Fallen London|}} ''"The Manager: often perambulates London at night, searching for those afflicted, to collect for his hotel."''</ref> and visiting bedrooms through mirrors.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Follow_the_Merry_Gentleman|Follow the Merry Gentleman|Fallen London|}} ''"The Merry Gentleman keeps going, out again through the other side of the mirror. You try to follow, but this time you lose him. You are alone, in the second-storey bedroom of an ordinary rooming house."''</ref> If anyone starts showing symptoms of insanity, he will be by their side, ready to take them in when they finally snap. As long as they stay there, he harvests their most eerie dreams for his Garden.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Arm_Yourself_Against_the_Garden_of_Nightmares|Arm Yourself Against the Garden of Nightmares|Fallen London|}}</ref>


[[File:Royalbethroom.png|thumb|left|A room at the Royal Beth. Art from FL.]]The manager likes to collect "guests of particular note", and by that he means the mentally ill/nightmare-plagued. If anyone starts showing symptoms of insanity, he will be by their side, ready to take them in when they finally snap. It is unknown what he gets out of this. The higher the room he provides them with, the more interesting he finds their malady.
On the Surface, the Royal Beth was a [[wikipedia:Bethlem_Royal_Hospital|psychiatric hospital]].
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==The Manager==
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{{Character|title1 = The Manager|image1 = mad.png|caption1 = A merry gentleman. Art from FL.|name = Gilgamesh (?)|location = [[Fallen London]]|allegiance = [[Revolutionaries#The Calendar Council|The Calendar Council]]|alias = May|relationships = [[Polythreme#Welcome to Me|The King with a Hundred Hearts]] (lover)}}
''He also chucks you under the chin, which is a little over-familar, but, well. His buttons are so very shiny. It's difficult to quarrel with a man of such shiny buttons. 'Thank you,' he says. 'I do hope you'll continue to enjoy your stay.'''


'''The Manager of the Royal Beth''' is the Priest-King of the First City; his lover is the King with a Hundred Hearts. He is probably Gilgamesh (Enkidu, then, is the King with a Hundred Hearts), though this has been cast into doubt. He is responsible for its Fall, as he sacrificed his city in return for the King with a Hundred Heart's good health (the King was dying of "fits").


As of now, he also acts as '''May''' of [[Revolutionaries|the Calendar Council]].
== References ==
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He is also certainly a player of the Marvellous, and his desire is to share [[Polythreme|his lover's fate]] by becoming a second living city. It may be a reason why he collects diamonds, since all he needs is a diamond from the [[Gods of the Unterzee|Mountain of Light]] to replace his heart.
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In [[Parabola]], he keeps the Garden of Nightmares.
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His uncle is the [[The Relickers|Capering Relicker]], the man who brewed the first Hesperidean Cider.
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"The manager of the Hotel offers free rooms to guests of particular note or interest. He irritably denies the suggestion that he might be 'collecting' them."

The Royal Bethlehem Hotel, formerly the hospital of the same name, is an elite hotel run by a very mysterious manager.

A Hotel for the Mad[edit]

A room at the Royal Beth. Art from FL.

The Royal Beth, as it's often called, is located across the Stolen River from Ladybones Road. Its manager likes to collect "guests of particular note" (and by that he means the mentally ill or nightmare-plagued), prowling the streets of London at night[1] and visiting bedrooms through mirrors.[2] If anyone starts showing symptoms of insanity, he will be by their side, ready to take them in when they finally snap. As long as they stay there, he harvests their most eerie dreams for his Garden.[3]

On the Surface, the Royal Beth was a psychiatric hospital.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Ask where you can locate the players, Fallen London "The Manager: often perambulates London at night, searching for those afflicted, to collect for his hotel."
  2. ↑ Follow the Merry Gentleman, Fallen London "The Merry Gentleman keeps going, out again through the other side of the mirror. You try to follow, but this time you lose him. You are alone, in the second-storey bedroom of an ordinary rooming house."
  3. ↑ Arm Yourself Against the Garden of Nightmares, Fallen London
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