Re: The ORder's Safehouse.
Iris didn't look up from the books, but spoke up anyway, "Um, Gate? Key? Whoever you are right now? The mindworms are a lot like babelfish from Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galexy. They feed off of transmitted brain-waves from others around you and transmit thoughts of others into understandable language. Completely harmless, like Earth. I'd think the worst you'd get is an echo." That being clarified, she added, "You lock and unlock stuff, right? Well, how's this for phrasing. The real Andy is being locked off from his mind so that this demon can have control. The demon needs to be locked off from his powers - or even Andy's body. I'm not sure how you work, so I don't know if you can force him out to lock him down. He also needs to be locked off from wherever it is he's getting his energy and/or backup from. I'm not sure how Gate can help with his thing, since opening a gate to hell and pushing Andy in would be effective, but also needlessly dangerous and really mean to poor Andy. And opening a gate in Andy, while likely also effective, would have similar consequences. Perhaps you could open a mental gate for Andy in his mind to regain access. I haven't had the chance to observe how your metaphorical locks and gates work, so I couldn't say for sure."
Shutting the book she was working on and pulling another, Iris continued, "Cutting Andy off from the mind-cycles may not be the best idea. From strategy, yes, but he's in there somewhere, and we all know that he's a good guy. We have worse people in on the loop. Andy's just this guy, y'know." Catching herself lapsing back into Hitchiker's Guide, Iris jumped topics, "At any rate, he is part of the team and would want to help us fight. He'd feel uber guilty when he got back if he thought that he allowed himself to do this and didn't fight it. We need to be able to tell him that he did to prevent any... well, I don't understand this emotional stuff, but Dr. W assures me that repeated failure result in despondancy, even if the failure is mearly a perception. Why don't we use the worm to call to Andy and encourage him to try to fight his way out from the inside. At least that way, we can tell him that he fought as hard as he could! I can recite some good battle-verses from him, like the trumpet knocking down the walls stuff, if you think it'll help. Honestly, I don't think they'll have a holy laser pointer and my experience with using actual weapons is limited - usually I just helped make them."
She returned that book and pulled another. Her voice had, the entire time, been uncomfortably fast. She was obviously trying to slow it down, so occasionally it slowed into the realm of comfort. She did manage to keep it from drifting into the realm of unintelligable.