Prompt: A spacious room made into a work office, all the walls of which are covered with photographs, notes, newspaper clippings, incomprehensible symbols, diagrams and drawings. There is a massive shelf of books against the wall, and a desk littered with papers stands by the window. Several thick candles are burning on the table. In the corner of the table there is a small wooden altar, on which stands a photograph of an old man's face in a cracked frame, surrounded by a semicircle of candles.