Room For One
Original notation by Doctor Richard Golde, March 12th 1987.
Revised by Maximilian Golde, head of the Golde Research Foundation, May 10th 2024.
File: A26
Class: Silver
Location: Lear
[R]
GRF-A026 is a little silver desk bell. When rung by someone, the first person to hear this bell ring will invite them into their home, offering them a room. In case the person doesn't have a spare bedroom, they will offer up their own bedroom and sleep on the couch themself. The effect wears off after 24hrs, after which the victim realises that they invited a stranger into their home, though they do not realise it happened because of anything paranormal.
I was given this bell a few days ago in the Lear police station, they called me specifically to come and take a look at it. It had been in the possession of a serial killer named Kelly Sheene who had been going around Lear, terrorising the local populace. She had been using the bell to force people to invite her into their homes, where she would proceed to kill them and mutilate their bodies. She got to 23 people before unknowingly being invited into the house of local detective, Percy Kolmann, who proceeded to quote “beat the piece of scum into submission when she pulled the knife.”
The following is a short excerpt of a longer interview with the detective, who spent a lot of the interview talking about unrelated cases throughout his career. He also used a lot of vulgar language, which has been censored for the sake of professionalism.
INTERVIEWED: Percival Steele, Lear Detective.
CONCERNING: The Tennant Killings.
DATE: March 9th 1987
We spent months looking for the ███. At first, we thought she was a guy since a lot of the victims were young women. You know how serial killers typically are. Monsters. But at one point we found underwear belonging to a woman in the apartment of a gay couple, which kind of tipped us off.
This bell though, the █████ feeling it gave me when she rang it in that supermarket. It was indescribable. You’ve never felt anything like it. It’s like, not only do you invite her into your own house, the one place that’s supposed to be safe, that’s supposed to be yours. You feel like you’ve known them for █████ years. It’s like she’s an old friend, just looking for a place to stay after hitting some ███ times. ████, man.
You want to know the worst part? I used it on my wife after. My █████ wife, man. Not intentionally, of course, but I found that bell in her bag after searching it and I pressed it almost as a reflex. I don’t think that’s anything… you know… weird. I think that’s just something human. You see one of those █████ bells, you █████ press it, you know? ████.
Anyway, when your wife offers you a room in your own █████ house, you know something is seriously █████ wrong. So I took it with me to the station and we decided to call you.
[END OF INTERVIEW]
[R]
I’ll add more details to this document if they come up but for now this bell is going to be locked away tightly in object storage.
This bell is made from silver. Silver represents the moon, which is associated with femininity, the home, security… I don’t know if I like that.
[END OF GRF-A26]
[M]
So. Big thing of note here, which is why I showed you this case in particular. It is the earliest file I’ve found where Richard mentions alchemy. “Why would alchemy be important?” I hear you ask. Well, dear reader, because the logo of the GRF is the alchemical symbol for gold. Because, dear reader, because the very first file Dr. Golde ever wrote had the alchemical symbol for salt stapled to it.
Richard had tons of books lying around the house on alchemy, astrology, hermeticism and all other kinds of weird religions and pseudosciences. It seems that for one reason or another, here, in this area, those sciences might be more pertinent than elsewhere.
I'm sure it's all connected. I just don't know how yet.
