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[anangryinch]

[When you wake up this morning, the mansion looks considerably... spookier.

The walls seem creakier. The wallapaper's peeling. Spiderwebs and an inch of dust coat everything. It looks like nobody's been here in ages, and the shadows are very dark and deep.

There's a chill in the air and a sense that something's watching you.

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[anangryinch]

That was my experience.

That, or be the victim of something truly occult.

[She snrks slightly. you're no one to talk, thistle, you turned into goddamn sand when you died]

I suspect it's just this place at work, then.

[but i'm going to stay away from you anyway]

[masokaiser]

I see.

Hopefully I'm not stuck this way.

[He thinks for a moment, leaning back on...nothing, in midair.]

...how do you possess someone?

[anangryinch]

[Her eyes narrow.]

I'm not about to tell you.

It requires more finesse and willpower than a mere amateur would possess.

[punny]

[masokaiser]

[thistle. don't do that.]

...Does it.

[SIZING HER UP]

[anangryinch]

[She steels her jaw and folds her arms tightly, a hair defensively.]

I'm the last person you want to try that on, boy.

[your ghost couldn't even fit all the way in me]

[masokaiser]

[...she does have a point there. At least when he's so inexperienced with ghost things.]

I might as well find someone else, then. I don't want to let my death go to waste.

[anangryinch]

Tch.

If you are truly dead, and this isn't merely a farce put on by this place, your time would be better spent figuring out why you're still here.

There are fates worse than death, and you've found one.

[masokaiser]

Yes. You told me that.

[He floats down a little closer to the ground.]

This isn't ideal, but I don't see how it's worse.

[anangryinch]

You might be fortunate enough to be ambulatory - and to have retained your mind - but there are plenty of other pleasures of the living now denied to you.

Even if it doesn't need it anymore... The mind still remembers hunger. Still remembers sleep. Still remembers chills.

And there is no way to satisfy the cravings of the flesh when you no longer have it.

The dead torment the living out of envy.

[masokaiser]

[...well.

That's not good news.

He's staring down at the spike and looking distinctly unsettled.]

[anangryinch]

Hmf.

[She sighs and loses a BIT of her tension, but you're still GHOST SCUM]

There was a time I would've told you to find whoever did this and exact revenge to put yourself at rest.

When I was dead, I had always assumed getting vengeance would be the end of it.

But it wasn't.

[masokaiser]

...mm.

[He sinks down more and more until he's actually sitting on the floor. Well, he looks like he is, at least.]

There's no point to revenge. It gets in the way.

[anangryinch]

Hah.

That's easy to say when it isn't all you have.

[she sounds a HAIR defensive |<]

I don't know what else could bind a simple mortal soul to unlife. A violent unjust death usually does the trick.

[masokaiser]

Didn't you also say it wasn't enough?

[he starts messing with the spike again...at least he can wiggle it now]

Not much I can do about the death. I don't see how I didn't hear them coming, though.

[anangryinch]

It wasn't really a question of being enough. It just wasn't the right thing.

Perhaps you're not the only supernatural creature about.

[masokaiser]

...probably.

Given the ghosts and the cobwebs.

[He tugs at the spike again and

whoops

it pops out.]

...

[anangryinch]

...

[She raises an eyebrow. nice HOLE]

The best place to start for answers would, I assume, be to find the rest of you.

[masokaiser]

[...okay now NOT having the spike feels really weird

puts it back in.]

...true.

I'm not sure where my body is now. When I manifested it was gone.

[anangryinch]

[wow i don't want to watch you stuff large phallic objects into your holes]

Well, where were you murdered? I suspect a bloody trail would at least be a start.

[masokaiser]

[wow this is a TOTALLY INNOCENT hole-stuffing thanx]

...this way.

[He starts to drift down the hall, expecting her to follow.]

[anangryinch]

[She follows him at a distance, still keeping an eye out for either other spirits or murderous living.

If there are any CONSPICUOUS BLOODY STREAKS around, she'll stop and kneel by them to gauge how fresh they are.]

[masokaiser]

[It takes him a few minutes of wandering roughly where he remembers getting offed, but...there are some streaks on the ground eventually that look an hour old at most.]

...well. That answers one question.

[anangryinch]

Hmm.

[She starts following the blood trails.]

Whoever did this must've been strong enough to lug your carcass around. Big. Probably slow.

[She slides some of her knives out of her sleeves to arm herself as they follow the trail.]

[masokaiser]

He was quick enough that I didn't have time to turn around.

[He's watching over his shoulder every so often, peering into dark halls.]

[anangryinch]

Hmf. Messy. Clearly not concerned with concealing the deed.

We've got some kind of large unhinged psychopath in our midst. Fantastic.

[as opposed to just the tiny knife-wielding psychos]

This works in our advantage. Such a creature is not apt to consider that he may be being hunted himself.