Fatum-Exhaurio House: The Fatalist’s Final End
The moment the heavy, bronze-plated door to Fatum-Exhaurio House was carefully pushed open, the air rushed out—cold, dense, and heavy with the pervasive, unsettling odor of dry materials, mineral dust, and the sharp scent of heavy metals. The name, combining fate/destiny with exhaustion/drainage, perfectly captured the manor’s function: a physical space dedicated to achieving the ultimate truth of predestination, now embodying its own absolute termination of outcome. This abandoned Victorian house was structured not for ordinary living, but for unwavering, controlled prescience, its internal layout a bewildering maze of small, isolated event-tracing cells, soundproofed probability rooms, and meticulously designed light filters intended to eliminate all external variables that might corrupt a pure glimpse of the ultimate end.
The final inhabitant was Fatalist Master Sors Vacuum, a brilliant, but intensely reclusive master diviner and deterministic theorist of the late 19th century. Master Vacuum’s profession was the study of chance, consequence, and the fundamental nature of destiny, seeking to codify a single, unified, and perfectly consistent event that was free of all unpredictability, variation, or subjective interpretation. His singular obsession, however, was the creation of the ‘Zero Outcome’—a single, perfect, flawless event that would, through the absolute synthesis of all known probability principles, reveal the ultimate, objective truth of existence, free of all beginning, process, or measurable result. After realizing that the very act of observing an outcome required a previous action (the necessity of cause and effect), proving that absolute, independent and secure determinism was impossible, shattering his faith in fixed causal law, he retreated to the manor. He dedicated his final years to resolving this single, terrifying goal, believing that the only way to achieve the Zero Outcome was to understand the ultimate absence of all events. His personality was intensely systematic, fearful of chance, and utterly consumed by the pursuit of existential finality.
The Consequence Chamber
Master Vacuum’s mania culminated in the Consequence Chamber. This secure, sealed room was where he spent his final days, not predicting, but deconstructing the act of happening itself, attempting to define the ultimate objectivity by isolating the point that offered no detectable event. His journals, written in a cramped, precise hand that eventually gave way to complex equations concerning non-linear causality and the theoretical limits of absolute stasis, were found sealed inside a hollow metal tarot card case. He stopped trying to define the perfect event and began trying to define the un-destined, concluding that the only way to achieve the Zero Outcome was to eliminate the need for any form of occurrence whatsoever. “The cause is a lie; the effect is a phantom,” one entry read. “The final end requires the complete surrender of all chance and all happening. The truth must be a single, self-evident, unstated conclusion, contained in a fundamental, perfect void.”
The house preserves his systematic rigor structurally. Many internal passages are fitted with small, precisely calibrated environmental controls and absolute static regulators built into the walls, now all rusted and frozen, remnants of his attempts to create a universal, absolutely fixed and non-interfering environment for abstract deterministic contemplation.
The Final Event in the Abandoned Victorian House
Fatalist Master Sors Vacuum was last heard working in his chamber, followed by a sudden, intense sound of heavy brass crushing and glass shattering (from the astrolabe and the divination discs) and then immediate, profound silence. He did not leave the manor. The next morning, the chamber was cold, the Consequence Chamber sealed, and the man was gone. No body was found, and the only evidence was the singular, physical alteration to his final philosophical work.
The ultimate chilling clue is the small hole in the black rubber. It is the final event—the Zero Outcome achieved, representing the cessation of all existential results and the perfect, objective truth found in a single, un-dimensioned point of pure, absolute nothingness. The broken pendulum and blank rubber ensure no further attempt could be made to chart the flawed, unfolding world. This abandoned Victorian House, with its silent chambers and broken tools, stands as a cold, imposing testament to the master fatalist who pursued the ultimate, pure form of destiny, and who, in the end, may have successfully defined the Perfect Non-Result, vanishing into the un-happening, objective finality that he engineered as his final, terrifying statement of pure existence.
