[This call comes a little after the meeting has ended, with enough time that you might have had a quick snack or made it to your room to lounge around and relax. Her voice is amiable and warm, almost cloying.]That was an interesting meeting, wasn't it? Suppose it was a little much, hoping for a vacation. I've only been here two days, but that's ( Read more... )

[He doesn't sound concerned, certainly, but he's had a good careful look around and he knows he's not asking this for no reason.]

Where's Lenalee?

[After a long day and even longer night in this place, and nothing to indicate that there would be any sudden return trips to No.6, Nezumi had sent the old phone in his room several scathing glares before finally picking it up. The technology was too old to have anything like voice printing or tracing technology, and yet he was still loathe to use ( Read more... )

Um, hey. Is this thing on? Can I start? Alright, er, so some of ya might not know me all that well but my name is Private Preston Marlowe. And I was wondering what everyone knows about this town we're stuck in.

Also does anyone else get the feeling that something...not exactly right is going on here?

Excuse me?

[The young woman sounds pretty confused, and is speaking a little too loud, as if unsure that anyone can hear her.]

Everyone can be reached this way, right? So I thought perhaps maybe... I should introduce myself?

[Except that almost everything she would normally say about herself is pointless in this world, where her status means ( Read more... )

[At around 1pm Elias and Taylor can be found in the drawing room, along with an older gentleman with iron gray hair, a hawkish nose, and wire-rimmed spectacles. He is smoking a pipe which he seems to be in the habit of tapping nervously against the palm of his hand ( Read more... )

[ Phones. How quaint. Truth be told, he hardly ever uses phones. The Order has relied too long on golems and the like. But it’s not as if he’s forgotten how to use one. ] Hello?

[ …make that it’s been a long while since he last even said that word. But it’s the appropriate thing to say, yes? ] I don’t know who is on the end of this line, or ( Read more... )

[At around 8:30, which is just under two hours from when the ghouls vanished, when the mansion is free from the sounds of crashing, combat and impending violence, there suddenly rings out an almighty SHRIEEEK! from somewhere on the ground floor of mansion ( Read more... )

[the voice in the phone starts out a little unsure and hesitant, and it only gains more confidence as it goes. you probably recognized this one back in the drawing room; he talked entirely too much.]

I'm not sure if I'm using this right -- definitely not familiar with old technology -- but here it goes:

if there's anyone else awake --

[a pause ( Read more... )

[It's mid-morning on Tuesday when Kanda walks into the front hall of the Dixon house, looking around somewhat bemusedly.

Late the night before, a message arrived at the boarding house where he and his de facto companion had been given rooms. It read simply: If you would both be so good as to relocate your residence to 513 W. Miskatonic Avenue. We ( Read more... )