| Operation ALICE Retainer |
FBI/CDT retainer on Mr. M's desk; 5 Spirit tickets Dallas→NY stapled; receipt book on top |
found |
| Mr. M's Vet Note |
"Taking Climaxtus to the vet… I did not pay for carry-ons"; office empty, no dog |
found |
| The Microphone |
Wired mic in the rug outside Abigail's door (1A); cord runs to Thomas Manuel's apartment |
found |
| Abigail's Mailbox |
~8 weeks of past-due bills; personal mail removed, bills left in — curated absence |
found |
| Abigail Wright Case File |
NYPD+FBI dossier; junk-tableau apartment, Patience MD credit card with forged signature, gold-ink symbol, Marcus = Dr. Marvin Bloom (M-cell) |
analyzed |
| Kips Bay Post Article |
NY Post clipping; June 4 disappearance, "locked from the inside," Kips Bay |
found |
| Abigail's Polaroid |
Self-taken, out-of-focus photo; back stamped "WRIGHT, A. 1-JUN-2015" |
found |
| The Paper Dragon |
Street performer's dragon draws the Rooftop Symbol in the air; actor recognizes it, character doesn't |
found |
| Night Floors Map |
Abigail's butcher-paper map of the building annotated with "night floors," Mr. Ostanovic, "door on 7/12" — same impossible space as Box 13 HQ |
found |
| Hotel Broadalbin Map |
Map on 1933 Hotel Broadalbin stationery (pristine); marks basement, elevator, "JL Bottle," "WL" |
found |
| Cocktail Napkin Diagram |
Patent-style scissor/lift mechanism on a "GBR" napkin, annotated "LEÃO" (lion); physical napkin vanished by 1 AM, photos retained (Session 5) |
analyzed |
| Apartment 10-B Receipt |
Rent receipt, Abigail, Sept 3 2015, $850, apt "10-B" (no such floor); form & paper forensically 50 years old |
analyzed |
| The Purson Seal |
Parchment + gold ink; letters spell PVRSON (Purson, a King of Hell); lifting it released a captured NYC street sound |
analyzed |
| The Carcosa Song |
Handwritten sheet music; lyrics are King in Yellow / Carcosa verse — Abigail was scoring the play |
found |
| Queen of Old Argyle |
The impossible music room's record, now playing on the jukebox at the off-screen cast party — night floors bleeding into the actor layer |
found |
| WW2 Backpack Radio |
WW2 field radio in Abigail's apartment; receiver transmits "India Moon Dallas Extra Dominion Seere" (Seere = a Goetic demon), then dies — names Dallas (Session 5) |
found |
| The Phone Nook Names |
Three names in the ground-floor telephone nook: Johnson, Spedding, Helbert (Session 5) |
found |
| The Sixth-Floor Party |
Lewis Post & Manuel both describe a party in a 6th-floor smoking lounge when Abigail "moved upstairs" (Session 5) |
found |
| Manuel's Clown Painting |
Basement canvas: a dancing clown trailing a white paper dragon; Manuel tensed when examined (Session 5) |
found |
| Michael Witwer Boarding Pass |
United pass (not Abigail's): WITWER/MICHAEL, LAS→BOS, 6 Jun 2015 — another stranger's belonging in her hoard (Session 5) |
found |
| Airshaft Symbol |
Napkin taped inside the airshaft vent bearing the Rooftop Symbol; Sanity check on sight — the Dallas roof sign, now in Manhattan (Session 5) |
found |
| The Smoking Lounge Play |
Play script casting the tenants (Thomas, Michelle, the Dog, Mark Roark); ends "(ENTER FEDERAL AGENTS)" — scripts the investigators' own entrance (Session 5) |
analyzed |
| The Defaced Portrait |
Photo of an older couple, eyes scratched out, a white-gloved hand on the woman's shoulder; last item from the apartment (Session 5) |
found |
| The Red Book |
1951 English King in Yellow (red leather, Yellow Sign on cover) in Michelle's room — confirms the recurring symbol is the Yellow Sign; reading the play "opens" the victim (Session 5) |
found |
| Antique Tomahawk |
Antique tomahawk in Michelle's room — a usable weapon (Marcus denied firearms) (Session 5) |
found |
| Art Life Dossier |
Marcus's file on Art Life: building was Lundine's mansion, refit 1953 by child-drowner architect A. Darabondi; owner died on the roof stairs in a white mask (1952); son Charles hanged in the ballroom (1950); Star Corporation owned it to 1967 (Session 6) |
analyzed |
| The Masked Books |
Antique pornographic albums on the night-floors shelf: everyone masked, bodies suspended from odd contraptions, leather — masks + lift-machinery motif (Session 6) |
found |
| The Clockwork Marionettes |
The two "men" shot by the gas-masked gunmen are marionettes — torn open to clockwork + red tissue, in 1930s suits; the night-floors people are constructed (Session 6) |
found |
| The Sleeping Man's Library |
1941 novel (Lewis Lamb) found in a night-floors library: a hobo eats books, one of which is the real player Jeremy's last dream; every book in the room is this same book (Session 6) |
found |
| The Group Photograph |
B&W photo of the emotionless "taken" (incl. Daribondi, H. Lundine, + Losette, Linz, Moseby, Carver, Topchick); center bottle names the next inductee — reassigned to Mordant when he took it; whisper "…the hands of the living God" (Session 6) |
found |
| The Decraig Box |
Box (printed "Decraig Corp, Chicago") delivered to applause: a Hygromanteia grimoire, vials of Melonia pods, and Lundine's silver plastic robe — an induction kit (robe + ritual + sedative) (Session 6) |
analyzed |
| Hygromanteia |
15th-c. Goetic grimoire (72 Ars Goetia seals) attributed to "Solomon" / a Castaigne (a King in Yellow surname); Elias identified it (not yet read — study = +2% Occult / +1 Corruption); states power sits "in herbs, words, and stones" = the drug, the scripts, the carved sign (Session 6) |
analyzed |
| The Daribondi Clipping |
~1906 Chicago article naming Asa Daribondi a dream-architect "Picasso"; Yellow Sign on the back — flipping it forced Mordecai, then the whole party, to say "Have you seen the Yellow Sign?" with no memory of doing so (Session 6) |
analyzed |