The group is in a parlour just off from the main entrance.

In the first OOC post, there is a map of the Asylum. We are in the room labeled parlour. If you go into the first room (the entrance) and go right, there is a stairwell on the map, and if you continue right into the next room, there is a parlour. Essentially we're not very far in the asyl;um, we've only gone through the entrance, and into a room just off the entrance.