The cheerful voice behind Asylum’s speaker keeps notes on every session. Newest first, as he insists: “we look forward in this practice!”
In short: Notes From the Intercom is a comic, fictional journal by the unnamed voice on the intercom, villain of Asylum at Escape This Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD. It is safe for work and safe to read before you play: no puzzle is given away.
The voice on the intercom is the villain of Asylum, a strictly 18+ psychological horror escape room designed, built and run by Escape This at Escape This Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD. Players wake restrained in a padded cell while he promises therapy, and must escape before he returns for a final procedure.
This diary is comic fiction written by Escape This. He is not a real therapist and no real hospital, patient or event is described; patients in his notes are never real players. It gives away no puzzle. Lorraine, his Melbourne microphone, is invented for the diary.
Readers of theundertaker.com.au will recognise him: in that comic diary the Undertaker claims the intercom voice as one of his own personalities, and here the therapist returns the favour by calling him the gentleman downstairs. Facts beside each entry, such as group sizes and the 18+ rule, come from Escape This’s booking records and are kept current.
A comic, fictional session journal that Escape This writes in the voice of Asylum’s villain, the cheerful, unnamed therapist on the intercom. He writes up his favourite patients, his three practices and his feelings about the panic button. The notes are safe for work to read; Asylum itself is strictly 18+.
No. The therapist writes about patients, moods and house rules in the broad terms the room’s own pages use, and never records a code, a hiding place or what to do next. Reading every note before your session leaves Asylum’s 8 out of 10 puzzles untouched.
In The Undertaker’s Diary, yes: that comic diary treats the voice on the intercom as one of the Undertaker’s alter egos, alongside Cannibal’s Northbridge Butcher. In the Notes From the Intercom he calls the Undertaker “the gentleman downstairs with the boxes”. Asylum itself never names its villain, and both diaries are fiction by Escape This.
The three openings. Escape This’s booking records give Asylum’s first day at Escape This Northbridge as 31 October 2023, at Sydney CBD as 23 May 2025 and at Melbourne CBD as 3 October 2026, and the therapist’s opening-day notes carry those dates. The other dates are picked for the story.
About monthly through 2027. Each note appears on the Asylum site on the date written at its top, so returning patients usually find a fresh one.
Book Asylum in Northbridge, Sydney or Melbourne. Two to four adults, one padded cell, sixty minutes before he’s back.
