Quick question for y'all: if, say, you came across an alien castle that had been deserted for a very, very long time (we're talking thousands of years), what sort of state would you expect the furnishings to be in? I was thinking all gone, but then I thought, hang on a moment, there are stately homes around the UK with Elizabethan furniture still in use, and that'd be 500 years old... and I'm sure I remember going to castles that have chairs and beds and such from the time of the Norman Conquest, and that was 1000 years ago... The stuff is probably not in use, because it needs to be preserved, but it may be potentially useable... So if, say, this alien castle had been deserted for two or three thousand years, and the castle is still liveable, the furniture couldn't be, y'know, dust - right? Besides the fact that it's alien furniture...

I guess what I'm asking is, what feels right? I'm trying to get a picture in my head.