On the evening of Day 26, as the sun begins to set and residents (hopefully) start to head home to get out of the cold, John will hear an indistinct whispering coming from the front of Town Hall. It grows louder the closer he moves to the bulletin board, the voices unrecognizable but speaking in a strange harsh language that is unknown to him. Suddenly, an urge will overtake him, a need to find something, to make it known. Searching the desk, he'll find a letter opener that will be used to pry loose a wooden board from the wall beside the bulletin board, the voices rising in volume and ferocity until he reveals another layer of the wall behind the board, painted red with black spiraling shapes painted in perfect detail.

As he takes in those shapes, so familiar from his other investigations around the town, the lights in the building flicker, once, twice— On the third flicker, the entire room is suddenly bathed in red, the walls, floor, and ceiling covered in the shade with those symbols. The voices rise into screams and then go silent as the building falls into total darkness.

The need has been satisfied and the room will be as normal when next lit. Later, though he may try to recall the exact words spoken, he will be unable to form them again in his own mind.

(If anyone is with John when this occurs, they will neither hear the voices nor see the room in red during the flickers.)

John will lose 3 sanity points.