"You'll have a whole support team," Diego says. "We can assign roles. We should have a scribe copy down everything you say, and someone to make sure Gabriela doesn't bother us."
"You make it sound like we're talking about a normal hobby," Addy says. "This isn't normal."
"Normal gets over-hyped," you tell them.
"Let's do this! I'm excited," Diego says, and he leads you all on a parade to his house where the tools of the trade are kept.
In Diego's Attic
The attic is uncomfortably warm and muggy, but it's the quietest place in the house and therefore the best place to host this operation. Sunlight streams in from the single window, but otherwise the light is dim. It smells like decaying cardboard and dust.
"What's that?" Anuja asks as Diego comes through the room with some blankets, a pillow, and something on a chain dangling from his hand.
"That's a pendulum," Kirill says. "People use it for asking questions."
"I'm going to use it to hypnotize Petzeiros," Diego says as he arranges the blankets to form what almost looks like a little bed. "I think it'll help."
"Think? You haven't tried it?" you ask him.
"Not exactly. But it should be safe."
"'Should be,'" Addy snorts.