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3.0 - week three
WEEK THREE
Last night might have been exhausting for any number of reasons - maybe it was the emotional
toll of dealing with those ghosts, or maybe you stayed up too late after watching Jim Shrok. Who knows, but Saturday is over, even if some of you haven’t quite left it behind and half spirits that are still hanging on, tethered to you and weighing you down…
But that’s not going to stop a new week from starting. There’s no breaks in an eight week course.
There’s very little fanfare to the start of your third week of the course, though it does seem like the fog has lifted even more. It’s a bit more of a trek down the abandoned streets of Estelline, but surely a mile is walkable? Or you could grab a bike or try to hotwire one of those cars in the mall parking lot… Whatever you plan to do this week is up to you. All you know is you've got some new locations to explore.
As always, Florence and Lorelei are available.
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
TASK LIST
( OOC Note: Luci, Mutsu, and Mae will each receive a small roomba! Congrats on the successful egg drop. It's a tiny little friend that cleans extra well, though this also means its trash compartment is a little smaller so it'll need to be cleaned more often. )
toll of dealing with those ghosts, or maybe you stayed up too late after watching Jim Shrok. Who knows, but Saturday is over, even if some of you haven’t quite left it behind and half spirits that are still hanging on, tethered to you and weighing you down…
But that’s not going to stop a new week from starting. There’s no breaks in an eight week course.
There’s very little fanfare to the start of your third week of the course, though it does seem like the fog has lifted even more. It’s a bit more of a trek down the abandoned streets of Estelline, but surely a mile is walkable? Or you could grab a bike or try to hotwire one of those cars in the mall parking lot… Whatever you plan to do this week is up to you. All you know is you've got some new locations to explore.
As always, Florence and Lorelei are available.
TASK LIST
( OOC Note: Luci, Mutsu, and Mae will each receive a small roomba! Congrats on the successful egg drop. It's a tiny little friend that cleans extra well, though this also means its trash compartment is a little smaller so it'll need to be cleaned more often. )
gym
Unfortunately(??), the ghoul still haunting Shin happens to just pop out of his body right when he passes the treadmill to fly straight at Phantom's face. noclip goooo]
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That being said, Shin is practical and quiet and fine in his books. He is perfectly happy to ignore Shin passing by him until he is suddenly under attack by a jumpscaring ghoul.]
Ack--!
[Phantom is as surprised as anyone that he still has enough breath left to yelp before he startles backwards, tripping over his feet and... unceremoniously being yeeted right off by the still-moving treadmill.
Ow. He's maybe a little sorry to Marcus for that one.]
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Anyways, as indifferent as Shin can be, even he can't quite ignore the scream and the sounds of a dude flying off a treadmill. As he looks over to inspect the carnage, the ghoul draws back, seemingly satisfied by the reaction and the possibility of gaining a new ghost friend (no). There's a small glance over to the treadmill before his gaze goes back to Phantom's body.]
Maybe you should go slower.
[Because clearly that was the problem right.]
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[If Phantom becomes a ghost there is going to be spirit fisticuffs, and hopefully the energy he is sending the ghoul right now is getting that across. He might be inclined to be a little less crabby if he weren't in pain. Not that a few more bruises are going to make much of a difference in the broader scheme of things.]
Has that thing been following you since Saturday?
[You live like this??]
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[He turns to the ghoul like he just remembered it still exists in his general vicinity. Meanwhile, the ghoul continues to stare at Phantom menacingly(??) although it's content to popcorn for now.]
No, it's only been like this since this morning. Before that, it was still possessing me.
[Reassuring??]
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[Whichever that one is, Phantom doesn't want it. Too bad his training to run away from future problems has left him completely incapable of bolting from this one. Shin gets another glare for how blasé he's being about this, though.]
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It's possible. I can't claim to understand its thoughts, but it's tried jumping out at a few others, too. But it doesn't appear to do anything more threatening than that.
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I'm less inclined to be an optimist. You might consider warning people before it does that, however.
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[He also doesn't think it's feasible to watch it 24/7 either.]
It'd be easier for me to just avoid speaking to anyone, I think.
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[And how long they intend to stick around?? What are the odds the instructors know anything helpful.]
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None of the others I've spoken to today seem to have one, but I didn't ask them about it either. If we have another meeting, we could check everyone at once.
[Zero faith in the instructor here for sure!!]
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As well as the possibility that not all of them would be so... conspicuous. Unfortunately, you're correct. This may require another meeting. Perhaps one of the others will know a way to remove them permanently.
[What he wouldn't give for his spells, honestly!]
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[This is his entirely useless contribution to this discussion. Although... he'll turn to look at the ghoul again.]
Do we even know what it actually is? We've been calling them ghosts, but it's possible it could be something else.
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[Between how tame the ghoul seems now and Shin's relative calm, Phantom apparently decides it's safe enough to approach after all. He gives the ghoul a warning little glare and then reaches out to poke at it.
noclip.gif, huh.]
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A monster, huh... [Also right, Phantom was a magic user, huh.] Do you run into these sorts of things often?
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This is so useless. He can't measure anything. But it's kind of fascinating.]
Monsters aren't uncommon, so I suppose. Although as is no doubt obvious, I'm not often fighting them directly. Monsters that can possess human bodies... less so. Generally speaking, you could only put human anima--a human soul into a human body.
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But souls, huh. The way that's worded is a little...]
If you're saying it like that, then there are probably exceptions to that rule... should I assume that?
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Of course. Rules apply to magic as well as science, but there are a number of factors that complicate both. ...It's not an accurate way to put this, but I suppose you could imagine that a soul has a shape, and not every container would accommodate it. However, in circumstances where the animus is broken down into particles, it can fill a different container. We have monsters that incorporate bits of animal and human souls, though it's not like this possession.