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#THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE WAS AN ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO ACADEMIC RESEARCH INTO THE ESOTERIC AND PARANORMAL
starsandwriting · 2 years
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Ok gonna be honest i was kinda ambivalent since the announcement of the magnus protocol but now knowing that its AN AU???? Dude im so excited for march im chewing at the bars of my enclosure thinking about that synopsis
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find-me-in-hell · 9 months
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just read the summary/snippet thing about tmp, why are we in manchester suddenly
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transbookoftheday · 3 months
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Trans Horror Podcasts
My post about trans horror books last year was much more popular than I expected, and since I've recently fallen in love with fiction podcasts and audio dramas, I thought I'd make a post about trans horror podcasts as well.
If you like trans horror, please give these a try - especially if you enjoy listening to audiobooks!
Hello From The Hallowoods:
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Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer fiction podcast, an eldritch narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It's a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity's last moments.
Hello From The Hallowoods is my absolute favorite podcast! If you only listen to one podcast from this list, please make it this one - it's so beautifully written and super queer! Also: season 4 starts today!
Trans main characters include:
our nonbinary eye-affiliated podcast host
a nonbinary "Frankenstein's creature"
a transmasc ghost
a genderfluid storm witch
a trans woman who can visit other people's dreams
multiple characters using neopronouns
Camp Here & There:
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Good morning, campers! Camp Here & There is a weekly horror comedy podcast tuned in to the loudspeakers of a small midwestern sleepaway camp plagued by supernatural terrors and natural disasters. Sydney Sargent, resident camp nurse, cheerfully reports on all the terror we must face with a big smile. Let’s hope there’s nothing weird about that!
Sydney is a trans man.
Dos: After You:
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Things have changed. Deck has fallen in love with someone who isn't human, and leaves a hungry house behind to see him again. Will he be waiting for you? The world has changed… but what about him? Dos: After You is a queer urban fantasy/horror audiodrama available in both English & Spanish
Deck is a trans man.
Jar of Rebuke:
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Follow Dr. Jared Hel's journey as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure'. These audio journals, and other recordings, dive deep into Midwestern US cryptids and folklore while also telling a mystery about identity, queerness, neurodivergence, and community.
Jared is nonbinary.
Spirit Box Radio:
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Spirit Box Radio is an award winning, horror audio drama podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane. Follow Sam Enfield a former postboy with no experience in the arcane arts, who finds themselves forced to take over running the show, following the disappearance of the previous host. Sam soon discovers there are more than ghosts haunting the show, and finds himself amidst a mystery which threatens everything he knows about the world beyond his tiny basement broadcast studio, and maybe even himself.
Sam is a trans man.
The Silt Verses:
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Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations amongst the reeds and the wetlands. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories. This is a world where divine intervention takes place through prayer-markings scratched into stumping-posts, and offerings are left squirming to die in the flats of the delta. This is a world of ritual, and hidden language, and sacrifice. This is folk horror, and fantasy, and a dark road trip into the depths of unusual faith.
Faulkner is a trans man.
The Magnus Protocol:
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The Magnus Archives 2: The Magnus Protocol is the prequel/sequel/”sidequel” to the internationally renowned Magnus Archives podcast. The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger. If this intrigues you then it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Office of Incident, Assessment and Response. Make sure you pick up your badge at desk and report to your line manager before sitting down. Oh and stay away from I.T., seriously.
I'm not sure if Alice is canonically trans, but her voice actress is a trans woman.
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himemiyaaah · 4 days
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My name is Jonathan Sims. I work for the Magnus Institute, London, an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal. The head of the Institute, Mr. Elias Bouchard, has employed me to replace the previous Head Archivist, one Gertrude Robinson, who has recently passed away. MAG001 - #0122204 - Anglerfish
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timeloopbuddy · 2 years
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"The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger."
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swordsonnet · 8 months
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it's interesting that the magnus institute in the protocol!verse is (at different points) described as both "an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal" (like in the original tma!verse) and an organisation running "educational programs for gifted children and adults".
so which one is it? was it doing both at the same time? was one of them a front for the other? or is "gifted" a euphemism here and it was doing some kind of ESP research?
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alchemistoftheend · 2 months
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TMA: Season 1
Anglerfish (Case #0122204)
Pre-Statement
Jonathan Sims introduces himself, as the New Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London
Gertrude is dead 🪦 (apparently~)
Magnus is an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal
Elias Bouchard is Head of the Institute
hired Jon for the position
the Institute was founded in 1818
“the Institute prefers the ivory tower of pure academia to the complicated work of dealing with statements or recent experiences and you have the recipe for an impeccably organised library and an absolute mess of an archive” (this feels important 🧐)
Jon plans to reorganize the almost 200 files scattered around the archives
He’ll have the help of Tim Stoker and Sasha James, and Martin Blackwood who’ll be doing supplementary investigation to see what details may be missing from what we have
Statement
At the time of the incident, he was out at a pub celebrating his friend’s acceptance into a Masters Program
He was violently ill around midnight, and decided to walk home via Old Fishmarket Close
About halfway down the street he drunkenly takes a tumble on one of the steeper hills
Rattled, he rolled a cigarette to calm himself, when he hears a voice asking, “Can I have a cigarette?”
Speaking was a figure in an alleyway across the street
their voice was masculine
no intonation
they seemed to sway ever do slightly
Nat offered a rolled-up but the figure was unmoving and simply asks the question again
“I stared at the stranger” 🤔
Their face appeared blank, expressionless, and their skin seemed damp and slightly sunken, like they had a bad fever
reminded him of an anglerfish
this swaying got more pronounced
They asks a 3 time “Can I have a cigarette?” and Nat realizes
Its mouth hadn’t opened once and it’s feet weren’t quite touching the ground
The stranger’s form was being lifted, ever so slightly, and moved gently from side to side
The figure disappeared, sort of folding at the waist and vanished back into the darkness, as if a string had gone taut and pulled it back
The next day, Nat returned to the scene to discover nothing, but but an unsmoked Marlboro Red cigarette
Few days later, a missing appeal goes up for another student, John Fellowes, who was at that same party.
His missing photos shows the same brand of cig sticking out of his pocket
Post-Statement/Thoughts
Sasha looked into police reports between 2005-10, and there had been 6 disappearance in the area
Before Dobson’s disappearance, she had sent a photo to her sister captioned “check out this drunk creeper lol”
The picture matched the Nate’s description of the alleyway
No one appears to be in the photograph
Sasha did some work on the photo, and by increasing the contrast, was able to make out the outline of a long, thin hand, roughly waist level on a male of average height
the stranger was mentioned multiple times and well
the imagery of long, thin hand and a blank face perhaps alluding to what stranger looks like
tbh my smart brain doesn’t have any more thoughts 😐🤷‍♀️
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agnesmontague · 7 months
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Lottie my dear I have NOT been following the TMA2 stuff, should I be hyped, what's the deal
hi archie dear, loooong story short they had a whole ARG and now a trailer for tma2 (called the magnus protocol); it's kind of a misnomer to call it tma2 bc it's not a direct sequel at all and it's even dubious if it's set in the exact same universe as the last one, but we can be sure there will be some connection?? ANYWAY here's a link to the trailer if you'd like to check it outttttt
the trailer gives the january 2024 premiere date but it is releasing early for patrons and kickstarter backers, ie TOMORROW, so a lot of us are hyped as fuck
the official synopsis is as follows :
Statement begins.
The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger.
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theninjamouse · 2 years
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Directly from the kickstarter:
Statement begins.
The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger.
Is this Somewhere Else??
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Jonathan Sims Becomes Head Archivist (Approx. Date)
MAG – 001 – Anglerfish:
My name is Jonathan Sims. I work for the Magnus Institute, London, an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal.
The head of the Institute, Mr Elias Bouchard, has employed me to replace the previous Head Archivist, one Gertrude Robinson, who has recently passed away.
People:
Jonathan Sims
Gertrude Robinson
Elias Bouchard
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hell-is-desolate · 2 years
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According to The Magnus Protocol kickstarter:
‘The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999.’
To compare, MAG160 (The Eye Opens) took place on the 18th October, 2018.
What does this new timeline mean for the wider Magnus Archives universe? Have we diverged into a parallel universe where the Entities were released sooner, or are we in a universe affected by the repercussions of MAG200?
More importantly, can Agnes still win?
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foineswoine · 1 year
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This post is gonna compile all my thoughts on The Magnus Protocol. All taken from various ramblings I’ve subjected my friends to (lmao) (if any of y’all see this, no you do not.)
All seasons spoilers.
I have. questions about The Magnus Protocol. First, I’ll go through the small amount of info we have. https://rustyquill.com/show/the-magnus-protocol/ "The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later..." right so. from this we can gather that this takes place in an alternate universe where the Fears leaked into, because the Institute was originally in Edinburgh, not Manchester. And it didn’t burn down in 1999 the OG timeline. This raises questions:
If the Fears didn't originally exist, how come Jonah founded the Magnus Institute?
I've been trying to figure out his original reasoning, but it hasn't been... exactly forthcoming. He was always intrigued by the esoteric, even before discovering the Fears (as mentioned in #24, a letter to Jonah before founding the institute, "but I recall that during your visit last spring you mentioned your fascination with the macabre and strange..."). And I can gather that he had known about the Fears before 1824, when Barnabas wrote to him about being in the Lonely (because, if Mordechai Lukas could have popped him into the Lonely, he must have been an avatar, and their cohort learnt about the fears from Rayner as a little group <3- "When Smirke first gathered our little band – Lukas, Scott, and the rest – to discuss and hypothesize on the nature of the things he had learned from Rayner, I felt what I believe we all felt: curiosity, and fear."). So, he learnt about the Fears before 1824. Well, Milbank was designed by Smirke as "a temple to all the Fears in equilibrium." And he started working on it, after being convinced by Jonah, in 1815. Three years before the institute was founded. So, in this alternate universe, why would he found it? If there weren't any true paranormal sightings? Hm.
“It burnt to the ground in 1999.”
I found this notable because, in 1999, the Institute was subjected to a data breach. Is this where the timelines diverged? ("but when all those statements were leaked back in ‘99..."). I saw a post regarding this, suggesting that perhaps this IS where the timeline diverged. And instead of leaking the documents, the person who obviously wanted to damage the Institute just resorted to good old-fashioned arson.
Now, this is a bit meta, but most of the tidbits of information given in statements have some importance to them. We revisit it- especially when it concerns the Insitute. But aside from a throwaway comment in 68, the data breach never comes up again. This would make sense if it was something set up specifically for the Magnus Protocol.
“Now, almost 25 years later…”
25 years after 1999. 2024. Our time. Not 2018 or 2019. Hm.
Now, this next section is talking about fucking Manchester. Because Jonah moved the Institute from Edinburgh to London because of the Panopticon. So, there must have been some big event to cause him to move to Manchester. Now, some of the Magnus Archives is based on real events- the concept of using the panopticon as a prison design certainly was (although, Robert Smirke being involved was not). This is where my ramblings get a bit off the rails- I skimmed through the Wikipedia article on large events that happened in Manchester, just to see if there was any historical significance to the area. And I found the corn laws.
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Not particularly relevant, but since I am compiling all the thoughts and rambles I felt it was necessary.
The teaser trailer! Woo! We hear Martin’s voice in it, so one can assume that he will make an appearance. But- there were no bodies found in the wreckage (end of ep 200). No bodies. Not Elias’, not Jon’s, not Martin’s. And we’re talking about a separate universe. An alternate dimension. No bodies found, the fears were dragged into a different universe? What’s to say that Elias, Jon and Martin weren’t dragged in with them. Or, well, Elias’ (and Jon’s? I hope not) dead bodies. God, that would be fucked. Martin waking up in a new, alien universe clutching the body of his dead boyfriend. That’d be fucked.
I’m not gonna stake my life on this theory, but it is a possibility. Just throwing it out there.
And with the teaser, at the very end there’s a slight whisper. Or is it the sound of wind? Of breathing? I am terrible at identifying sounds. Someone’s probably already done it though. Lmao.
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A reddit thread I saw (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMagnusArchives/comments/znrhlk/tshirt_design_for_magnus_protocol/) already identified the “non vacillabimus” to be “We will not flinch,” or “We shall not falter.” And the aforementioned tumblr user identified the two symbols in the centre of the coat of arms to be salt and mercury (they also pointed out sulfur? Although I can’t spot it), and that it resembles the British Civil Service logo/coat of arms. 
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The O.I.A.R. at the top of it all stands for the Office of Incident Assessment and Response (probably).
Other snippets of thoughts that don’t really merit their own section: >Daisy’s first name is Alice. Alternate universe Daisy as a main character? I doubt this a bit, but it would be interesting if that were the case.
>”"have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger." what does this mean???? It’s extra stuff that may mean that Jonah'll return (if not as a character, he will be at least talked about again. yk?)” -me at 9 (slightly comprehensible)
>”if jonah magnus doens't show up in the magnus protocol I am suing and crying and weeping just let my favourite charavter suffer more!! let the cast attack and maim him!!! let the bastard man be all smug and then let people b eat the shit outta him!! thats all I want!!” -me at 2am (not very comprehensible)
Closing Thoughts: Jonah Magnus really wanted the Corn Law drama.
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circe-pendragon · 1 year
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british horror man: “Test… Test… Test… 1, 2, 3… Right. My name is Jonathan Sims. I work for the Magnus Institute, London, an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal.”
me:
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thestalkerbunny · 2 years
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"The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger."
The initial summary of the magnus protocol, it is looking really, really interesting.
I unjokingly plan to give money to this.
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lighthausen · 2 years
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The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger.
From The Magnus Protocol kickstarter. Protagonists are named Alice and Sam.
What's interesting is that the institute used to stand in Manchester, rather than in London. A glance over the Magnus Archives wiki reveals that Jonah Magnus "was working on esoteric cases in [an] Edinburgh Townhouse" in 1841, (Note, the institute was founded in 1818, and while I couldn't find anything in the text itself that said outright that this the early Magnus Institute was in Edinburgh, we can probably assume this is the case.) Anyway, sometime after 1841 in The Magnus Archives, the institute was moved to Chelsea. There's probably a reason in The Magnus Protocol's universe that the institute was built in Manchester instead. Can't wait to find out why!
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radiosandrecordings · 3 years
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'Cause here’s the thing To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time
Transcript under the cut
(Lyrics from Road to Hell (Reprise) Hadestown are layered over audio from TMA 200. The first segment is:) 
[HERMES]
A'ight It’s an old song It's an old tale from way back when It's an old song (spoken) And that is how it ends (sung)That’s how it goes
Don't ask why, brother, don't ask how He could have come so close The song was written long ago (spoken) And that is how it goes
(sung) It's a sad song It's a sad tale (spoken) It's a tragedy (sung) It's a sad song (spoken) But we sing it anyway
'Cause here’s the thing To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time I learned that from a friend of mine
Overlaid over this is the TMA dialogue: 
ARCHIVIST: [Gasping] I… I can’t. Martin, I’m part of this place.
[STATIC SCREECH AND HE WINCES AUDIBLY]
MARTIN: Goddamn it, John!
ARCHIVIST: [Enduring] Aaaaaaargh! I can… withstand it. I just need to hold... on...
[EXPLOSION RESOUNDS]
MARTIN: [Gritted teeth] Come on, John! Come on!
[THE ARCHIVIST’S VOICE DISTORTS AS BUILDING AND REALITY START CRACKING, WITH STATIC SCREECHING AND SQUEALING THROUGHOUT]
ARCHIVIST: [Struggling] No! I can feel the pull… The web, the tapes, it wants— No! I won’t let it!
MARTIN: For god’s sake, John, move!
ARCHIVIST: I can’t! Martin get out of here! What’s going to be left of me after this, you can’t see that.
MARTIN: No!
ARCHIVIST: I can’t protect you from this. Go!
MARTIN: I’m not leaving you trapped here killing the world while I watch!
ARCHIVIST: If you stay, you’ll die!
MARTIN: Then I’ll die!
ARCHIVIST: No!
[CRUMBLING STONE AND MARTIN CRIES OUT AS IF STRUCK BY SOMETHING, STARTS SOBBING]
ARCHIVIST: Martin please! I can’t lose you. Not like this…
MARTIN: Tough! Okay? Where you go, I go!
ARCHIVIST: That’s the deal...
[PANOPTICON CONTINUES TO COLLAPSE AS A SHARP STATIC WHINE RINGS OUT]
Okay.
MARTIN: What?
ARCHIVIST: Do it! The knife’s just there. Let them go.
MARTIN: [Tearful] I’m not going to kill you!
ARCHIVIST: Cut the tether. Send them away. Maybe we both die. Probably. But maybe not. Maybe, maybe everything works out, and we end up somewhere else.
MARTIN: Together?
ARCHIVIST: One way or another. Together.
[METALLIC CLINK]
MARTIN: I don’t think I can...
ARCHIVIST: It has to be you. The Eye won’t let me do it.
MARTIN: [Sobbing] Are you sure about this?
ARCHIVIST: No. But I love you.
MARTIN: I love you too.
[KISS]
[MARTIN STABS DEEPLY; THERE IS A SINGLE GASP]
[PAINED SOB]
[DISTORTED SCREECH, WITH SOUND LIKE TAPE RAPIDLY UNSPOOLING AMIDST A RISING CRESCENDO OF STATIC]
(After this, there is a cut to an instrumental version of Road to Hell Reprise, in which audio from episode 1 of TMA comes in.) 
[CLICK]
ARCHIVIST Test… Test… Test… 1, 2, 3… Right.
[COUGH]
My name is Jonathan Sims. I work for the Magnus Institute, London, an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal. The head of the Institute, Mr. Elias Bouchard, has employed me to replace the previous Head Archivist, one Gertrude Robinson, who has recently passed away.
I have been working as a researcher at the Institute for four years now and am familiar with most of our more significant contracts and projects. Most reach dead ends, predictably enough, as incidents of the supernatural, such as they are – and I always emphasise there are very few genuine cases – tend to resist easy conclusions. When an investigation has gone as far as it can, it is transferred to the Archives.
(Here the Hadestown audio once again comes in, and continues over Jon’s dialogue, which fades out as he continues talking as the song ends) 
ARCHIVIST: Now, the Institute was founded in 1818, which means that the Archive contains almost 200 years of case files at this point. Combine that with the fact that most of the Institute prefers the ivory tower of pure academia to the complicated work of dealing with statements or recent experiences and you have the recipe for an impeccably organised library and an absolute mess of an archive. This isn’t necessarily a problem – modern filing and indexing systems are a real wonder, and all it would need is a half-decent archivist to keep it in order. Gertrude Robinson was apparently not that archivist.
From where I am sitting, I can see thousands of files. Many spread loosely around the place, others crushed into unmarked boxes. A few have dates on them or helpful labels such as 86-91 G/H. Not only that, but most of these appear to be handwritten or produced on a typewriter with no accompanying digital or audio versions of any sort. In fact, I believe the first computer to ever enter this room is the laptop that I brought in today. More importantly, it seems as though little of the actual investigations have been stored in the Archives, so the only thing in most of the files are the statements themselves.
It is going to take me a long, long time to organise this mess.
[HERMES] Everybody looked and everybody saw That spring had come again With a love song
[PERSEPHONE] With a love song [COMPANY] With a love song [HERMES] With a tale of a love from long ago [HERMES] It's a sad song [COMPANY] It’s a sad song [PERSEPHONE] It's a sad song
[HERMES] But we keep singin' even so It's an old song [EURYDICE] It’s an old song [ORPHEUS] It's an old song [COMPANY] It's an old song [HERMES] It's an old tale from way back when And we're gonna sing it again and again We're gonna sing, we're gonna sing [ALL] It's a love song It's a tale of a love from long again It's a sad song We keep singing even so It's an old song It's an old tale from way back when And we're gonna sing it again and again [HERMES] We're gonna sing it again
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