Subject: “The Button Was Not Alone.”
Status: Guild Lights Behaving Suspiciously. Keith Is Pretending Nothing Happened.
At precisely 12:07 this afternoon, Guild HQ experienced a sudden, coordinated flickering of lights.
Witnesses initially assumed this was residual trauma from Corvus’s “artistically disruptive” button mash of Door 12.
However—
and this is important—
no one could explain why the lights were blinking in patterns.
Or why Keith was sitting directly on top of the Guild’s central rune panel
with the exact expression of a dragon who knows more than he’s willing to admit.
Blue squinted at the nearest ceiling lamp and announced,
“That’s Morse code.
Or a cry for help.
Or a threat.
I haven’t decided yet.”
Eglantine listened for six seconds, hooted once, and translated it as:
“DOOR… OPEN… NOW.”
This caused several problems:
• The wreath on the east wall began rotating like a slow but determined fan.
• A snowman shifted two feet to the left without permission.
• Hades blinked at the glowing runes under Keith, muttered “absolutely not,” and exited reality.
• Brin ate a spare button “just in case.”
• Corvus loudly denied responsibility while standing on a cable he should not have been standing on.
Further investigation revealed three additional unlabelled buttons taped beneath the speaker system.
They were accompanied by a handwritten note:
“Do NOT press unless authorised.
This means you, Corvus.”
Corvus denies ever seeing this note.
Keith denies knowing how the rune circle turned on under him.
Blue has added a new HR category:
‘Mystically Questionable Electrical Interference.’
Morale: alert.
Lights: still blinking, possibly spelling rude words.
Keith: sitting very still, as though afraid standing up will activate something else.
Corvus: circling the room with deep scientific interest, which is making everyone nervous.
Investigation ongoing.
Door 14 expected to escalate.
