19 May 2027
Wednesday. One of my favourite recruits this month was a gentleman who is hard of hearing. He brought three friends and a very loud niece.
My catacombs speak. The narration comes aloud, in English, and some of what a hunter needs arrives that way. So the team must be his ears and pass on what is said, and he in turn did what the best hunters do: he watched everything. Not every puzzle depends on sound, and plenty depend on noticing what the others walked straight past.
The papers I leave behind want a confident reader of English, too, although not every recruit needs to be one. A party that is mostly fluent does best; one good reader and a team that shares will get you started.
The niece shouted every clue twice. He heard most of them the first time. I am still not sure which of them was being polite.
— Prof. Van Helsing
