[He doesn't mind using the video function on the shellphone, he'll switch to that without much complaint. Likewise, Erichthonios will be met with a young man with strawberry-red hair and blue eyes.]

Please forgive me, I fear the name Emmerololth stirs only the faintest echo in my memory. Might I trouble you to remind me?

As for these afflictions ... they are all too common in these parts, afflicting both the landborn and those who, like us, hail from beyond the rift. It's for that very reason I strive to keep such knowledge close at hand. One never knows when it may save a life.

And you are correct. Petrifaction can indeed take hold of the living. I have uncovered a handful of treatments that may stave off its grasp for a time... but a true cure, I have yet to find.