Good evening, I am Jennifer leMercier duQuesnay, Countess Hanus deJumecourt , lately of Hamilton, Scotland.
By way of an introduction I will tell you a brief story.
I possess the sole remaining shellac recording of a narrative and incantation spoken by the one who taught me. It is the only surviving evidence of his existence beside an antique photograph and a key .. the rest consumed long ago, in an unholy fire which destroyed the house.
One evening, late at night I was disturbed from my meditations by a delivery.
A man, very much the sort one would not admit to your home, called at the side door. His knockings and banging were of the urgency one would expect in an alarm of possibly fatal consequences, his desperation to make the delivery palpable.
When I opened the door I was met with the face of one hardened by ill luck and ill will yet his eyes were ablaze with fright.
"Take the accursed package, take it I tell you ! This last service fulfills my obligation and now I am free ! "
Thinking this odd delivery could have only come from one source I asked the man if it had come form Tallus and was immediately met with a look of horror so pitiable I discharged him at once pressing him no further for information.
I knew only too well the affects Talus' magic had on the weaker mind.
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I look forward to sharing with colleagues as we tread this bizarre path ...