[video] a long belated introduction

[curriculum_fictae]

[ This video opens on a pale, nervous ginger who speaks with a rather pronounced British accent. (London with a hint of Manchester.) Has ... he prepared notes? He keeps looking down off screen, like he's written down everything ahead of time.

And yet, somehow he's still caught a little off guard when the feed starts up. ]

Oh, er - hullo, I'm. Well. I guess I've been here for a little while already, but it's taken ages to. To really settle in? This place is profoundly different and. Frankly a bit distressing. So I'm new here, but not completely new, just definitely trying this video post thing out for the first time and --

[ Deep breaths Martin. Focus. ]

M-my name is. Is Martin Blackwood. If you know Jonathan Sims, then I'm his Archival Assistant. We, er. We both work at the Magnus Institute? He's sort of my boss.

It ... well, it specialises in horror - archiving accounts of supernatural unpleasantness and. The like. I - I've heard a couple interesting stories here already, and I'd like to keep up. Er. Archiving.

[ Another glance down at his notes. ]

If you'd like to contribute, I set up a mailbox here. Just - please make it written or typed accounts only, please? Verbal statements are really not recommended.

[ A pause. Is he forgetting anything? Not on this topic, but... ]

Oh, and if there's any healers about, I'd really love to get your contact information, if you're willing. Just for - for general emergencies and such.

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audio; un: lumen

[flickeringlight]

Neither of your names strike me as familiar, neither does your Institute but what does strike my curiosity are these 'stories' you collect.

Tell me: what counts as an interesting story to you? One that warrants archiving?

un: martinkblackwood; audio until noted otherwise

[curriculum_fictae]

O-oh, well. We focus primarily on anything supernatural. Generally the unpleasant sort of supernatural? Monsters and strange occurrences and the like.

[flickeringlight]

I see... though most humanity does consider encounters with the supernatural unpleasant, do they not?

[ There's a small hum of thought. ]

Humans fear the unknown.

[curriculum_fictae]

Yes, well, it's a bit of a vicious circle, really. The unknown does unpleasant things to us, so we regard the unknown as being terrible unpleasant.