There was once a Doctor, known as Griffin, who discovered and tested upon himself a Strange means of making himself invisible. When the process was found to be irreversible, the harm inflicted to the doctor's psyche was great, and ultimately lead to a spree of antisocial behavior and to the doctor's confinement to the lower levels of Bethlem Hospital. As for the process and the Doctor's notes thereupon, it was quite purposefully lost somewhere deep within the archives of Special Branch. Or so it was thought.

Unknown to the Agents (who believed the genie of Invisibility to be firmly back within its bottle), however, a second set of Doctor Griffin's notes-- from his college years, when the meddlesome refraction agent was only a half-understood dream, rather than a mastered reality --did survive and a brilliant enough mind with access to them could potentially recreate the process and even improve upon it. The notes passed, initially, through members of the Good Doctor's family until they were summarily acquired on a lark by a Lady Lucille Belleville-- a psychiatrist, amateur chemist, notorious gambler and frequent patron of the Gates of Hades club. It is unknown to what to what use the Lady put the notes, other than the obvious fact that she (or someone in her employ) must have recreated the formula. It was not her endeavors, however, that truly perfected the process of invisibility.

It is at this point in our story that we, instead, focus on the activities of an unlikely pair: a reclusive scientist and mad-man, Sebastian Bryce Hall, and his methodical world-traveling wife, Minerva Jane Hall, who had fled the London scene some 30-years previous to dwell in a secluded family estate not far from the Bay of Ireland in the County of Cheshire- just a ways outside the County Seat. Nursing a grudge against the royal family that went back generations, the pair raised their large clan to share in their hate and singular obsession. Each child was schooled in esoteric science, dark oriental mysticism and a total mastery of self.

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