[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... )

[Ring, ring!]

Good afternoon everyone. It seems as though you're all settling in rather well. [There's a fairly high chance that most of the current tenants will recognise this voice as belonging to Professor Taylor Aldrich, who, despite being on the receiving end of the housekeeper's shrieks about the mess that's been made, seems in a pretty ( 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... )

[Ring, ringOh yeah, the phones are indeed working now, kids. Though to begin with there is only the sound of a faint exhale through the person's nose. Then there is complete silence ( Read more... )