<div class="floatleft">  (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/bf/95/70/bf957079801f40f947b552c7b21e8fff.jpg)</div><br/>Name:  Preston Connors<br/>Location:  Inside the Mansion<br/>Tagging:  Everyone<br/><br/>Mason sat down without a word.  Preston started“Why you are most certainly welcome.”  He said to those that thanked him.  He shifted his weight in the chair by lifting himself up with his hands.  “Now, most of you know on what the public knows about the Empire Club.”<br/><br/>Jeeves stood behind Preston as the man continued.  “Most see the Empire Club as a group of explorers and adventurers.  We go places no other human has been before – or very few have gone.  But I assure you that it is much more than that.  So, I do appreciate you maintaining what this place really is to yourselves, because secrecy keeps us going.”<br/><br/>“The Empire Club started in 1770 by Martha Washington herself.  That's right Mr. Forester.  This Club was started by a woman.  The goal was to help in ways that the public may never know about.  So, she gathered the most accomplished individuals of her time.  Her impact helped win the Revolutionary War and not a single person here would know about her effort.”<br/><br/>“Every 20 or 30 years; the Club gathers new members as the others ones retire, die, or simply quit, keeping the real workings of the Club to themselves.  I assure you that I, myself have seen things that you would think I was making up some tall tale worthy of Jules Verne himself. “<br/><br/>He paused to judge the effect his words were having on the group.  “But what if I told you that Mr. Verne was a member and that his exploits were not fictional?  He found a way around the secrecy pack by calling his adventurers fiction, and maybe changing certain names or locations in his books.  Perhaps you would call me crazy.”<br/><br/>OOC:  Perception Roll<br/><br/>