9:12 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle's fine (not really) ass is in here
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9:14 AM <Don1Charles> Charles arrives! He brought his big bug knife along this time, too, with his armor on
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9:23 AM <AidenEldritch> There's a woman in briefing waiting for you all! She's got a big, heavy-looking suitcase on a desk in front of where she's standing, and as you watch she unclasps the case to reveal a large, bulky gun that looks like it was ripped straight out of a 50s sci-fi pulp novel. Noticing you all appearing in the briefing room, she motions for you all to take a seat.
9:24 AM <Knyght> Irene shows up in the briefing room, full security equipment as usual.
9:24 AM <Knyght> She finds a seat quickly
9:24 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle sits down
9:25 AM <Don1Charles> Charles takes a seat, sitting nearby the briefcase, his eyes trailing the gun
9:27 AM <AidenEldritch> "Evening, agents. I'm Dr. Evelyn Eckhart, and I'll be the one supervising you all for the duration of our little testing project here." She pats the gun almost lovingly, like you would to a teacup poodle.
9:27 AM <Don1Charles> "I just went on a mission yesterday, where we were test subjects. We are testing more things?"
9:28 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Testing? Oh boy, are we going to be guineah pigs?"
9:28 AM <Knyght_> Irene sighs. "Nice to be back in business."
9:29 AM <AidenEldritch> She nods and ch-clunks something from the case into the side of the gun. It's black, slim and looks like H. R. Giger's wet-dream of a rifle magazine. "You're going to be testing the prototype of what we at the Esoteric Containment Research Group have spent about the last year working on. It's this thing, as you might've guessed."
9:29 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "[i swear, if they shoot me with that god damn gun]"
9:30 AM <Don1Charles> "What's it called?"
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9:32 AM <AidenEldritch> "We had a technical name for the device about three paragraphs long, but we pet-named it the Brainstorm."
9:32 AM <Don1Charles> "Clever." He mutters, allowing her to explain further
9:34 AM <Knyght_> Irene listens intently, eyeing the gun.
9:35 AM <AidenEldritch> "I'm assuming you don't want me to regurgitate my doctoral thesis at you, so I'll tell you what this thing does in simple terms: Basically, this thing over here will knock the soul out of your body for a few minutes. We're hoping that with a little more work, we could use it in the field for non-lethal detainment: shoot someone with one of these things and
9:35 AM <AidenEldritch> they'll be out of it for a few minutes while their soul tries to fumble its way back into its body."
9:36 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Woah, woah! You couldn't try this on animals first?"
9:36 AM <AidenEldritch> As a side note, it looks like it weighs half a metric tonne and you'd need a tarp the size of Mount Rushmore to hide this thing from view.
9:36 AM <Don1Charles> "I don't wanna get shot with that, if you're implying such."
9:37 AM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn cocks her head at you, Janelle. It looks like a hawk deciding whether it's looking at a mouse or a wallet. "Animal souls and human souls are different beasts, if you'll forgive the pun. What might be five minutes of unconsciousness for a human could be just up and killing a mouse."
9:39 AM <Knyght_> "So you haven't tested it."
9:39 AM <Knyght_> "Brand New"
9:39 AM <Knyght_> "And you have no idea what it will ACTUALLY do to a human…"
9:39 AM <Knyght_> "Just theorized."
9:39 AM <Knyght_> Irene finishes.
9:39 AM <AidenEldritch> "Before we packaged it all up into this thing over here, we did it the old-fashioned way."
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9:39 AM <AidenEldritch> "Baseball bat with a nail in it, animal blood, pentagram, candles, yada yada."
9:40 AM <AidenEldritch> "We're really just testing to see the experience from your end. Wouldn't want the suspect you shoot with one of these to pass through the Devourer of the Abyss' realm accidentally, now would you?"
9:44 AM <Knyght_> "Great…" She sighs. "Fine, fuck it, I got nothing better to do."
9:45 AM <AidenEldritch> "Excellent." Evelyn flicks a switch on the side of the device and it purrs to life. "Now if you'll just get comfortable in that chair, we can start."
9:46 AM <Don1Charles> "Why don't you just hit one person with it first and see if it fucking kills them?"
9:46 AM <AidenEldritch> "Sample sizes."
9:47 AM <Klurg> "[I'm starting to regret my life and job decisions…]"
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9:50 AM <AidenEldritch> "Now, any further objections or do you all just want to get this done and over with?" You all might start feeling the hairs on the back of your skin start to prick up at the energy this thing is putting out: it's a bit like putting your hands on a plasma globe.
9:50 AM <Knyght_> "Shoot me first then. Bunch a babies." She grumbles, crossing her arms. "Should I take my shell bandolier off?"
9:51 AM <Don1Charles> "Yeah. Shoot her first."
9:52 AM <Klurg> ~I better come back, I got shit to do~
9:52 AM <Knyght_> Irene leans over to punch his shoulder. It's an Irene punch so, probably hurts a bit.
9:52 AM <AidenEldritch> "No need." Evelyn levels the gun at Irene, checks the scope real quick and then fires, before wheeling round to Charles and Janelle.
9:52 AM <Don1Charles> Charles has his armor on, but he can still feel the force of it.
9:53 AM <Knyght_> Irene is bopped.
9:53 AM <Don1Charles> "Hold the fuck up." He says, looking to see what it did to Irene
9:53 AM <Knyght_> She slumps down in her chair, ded af.
9:53 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene is, for all intents and purposes, asleep.
9:54 AM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn looks really impatient. "Come on. It'll be like taking a nap, all there is to it."
9:55 AM <Don1Charles> He checks to see if Irene is breathing
9:55 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Just get it over with"
9:55 AM <AidenEldritch> She's breathing. Or snoring, whatever.
9:55 AM <AidenEldritch> "Gladly!" Evelyn fires and pooft, Janelle is bopped.
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9:56 AM <Don1Charles> Charles sighs, leaning back in his seat. "I guess it'll make a good story."
9:57 AM <Don1Charles> He makes a finger gun and fires it towards himself
9:57 AM <Don1Charles> to signify her to go
9:57 AM <AidenEldritch> "You'll have plenty to talk about." And wham, Charles is out.
9:57 AM <AidenEldritch> === PAUSE FOR A SEC ===
9:58 AM <Don1Charles> Charles looks so innocent when he is sleeping
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9:59 AM <AidenEldritch> You all come groggily back to consciousness, Irene first, then Janelle, then Charles. You feel like you've just woken up from a heavy nap, and when you get up, you realise everything looks weird: kind of like you took the opacity slider on reality and turned it a couple notches down. The gun's still on the desk: Evelyn, however, is not.
10:00 AM <AidenEldritch> The room looks pretty much like it did before, except for a bunch of sloppy grafitti on the walls.
10:00 AM <AidenEldritch> === Aaaaand unpause. ===
10:01 AM <Knyght_> Irene gets up, scratching her head, looking around slowly. Do they have their equipment?"
10:01 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Wat…"
10:01 AM <AidenEldritch> You do!
10:01 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene might notice that she is, in fact, kind of floating above her own body.
10:01 AM <Don1Charles> Charles stands, looking around. "Are we a buncha souls now or something?"
10:03 AM <Knyght_> Irene looks down at herself. "Huh. Damn, I look good~" Vanity obsessed as ever. She tries to touch her own body, if she can.
10:04 AM <AidenEldritch> Her hand just kind of whoofs through herself. It's like shaking hands with a sockful of damp jelly.
10:04 AM <Don1Charles> Charles looks to see whatever graffiti was on the wall
10:04 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, roll PERC.
10:05 AM <Don1Charles> (does this count as a different environment?)
10:05 AM <AidenEldritch> Sure, why not.
10:05 AM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 perception, and maybe find anything else out about the room!
10:05 AM <Glacon> Don1Charles: perception, and maybe find anything else out about the room!: 9 (4df+6=+, +, 0, +)
10:05 AM <Knyght_> Irene stands up, looking around again. "Weird."
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10:07 AM <AidenEldritch> Fucking nice. Charles, you can see that the grafitti looks like it's been scratched in: in certain places, it's writing: in Italian, [WHERE ARE WE NOW], [WHO'S THERE], [ALL KINDS OF NOISES]. In other places, it's rows of weird symbols, and in other places… You don't know what's on the wall, but you just feel really irrationally pissed off at it. The
10:07 AM <AidenEldritch> feeling fades when you look away.
10:07 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "This is surreal"
10:08 AM <Knyght_> Irene looks around, are they physically there or non corporeal?
10:09 AM <Knyght_> Are they spirits or physical people?
10:09 AM <Don1Charles> "Stupid fucking writing on the wall, that stupid science nerd bitch sending us into weird places with her gun." He mutters, aggressively, as he looks at the symbols he cannot understand and the weird things on the wall
10:09 AM <AidenEldritch> They're physically there, walking about. They all pretty much look like normal people to one another.
10:10 AM <Knyght_> Irene goes to the door of the room, going to peek out.
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10:11 AM <Don1Charles> Charles will go and touch the gun, noting down what he saw in the wall in his mind
10:11 AM <AidenEldritch> She can unlock it! The handle's freezing to the touch, but she can open it.
10:11 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, touching the gun gives you a feeling like you've gotten sparked by static shock.
10:12 AM <Don1Charles> Even through his leather gloves?
10:12 AM <AidenEldritch> Mmyup.
10:14 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Sorry for the slowness)
10:14 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle tries to phase through her body
10:14 AM <Don1Charles> He recoils his hand, grumbling and floating back, looking at the bodies of themselves in the chair. He slaps Irene's face to see if it does anything
10:14 AM <Don1Charles> Of the body in the chair
10:15 AM <AidenEldritch> Again, icky-jelly feeling. Your hand encounters some resistance but apart from that there's nothing.
10:15 AM <Knyght_> Irene would peer out into the hall then, recoiling at first from the ice cold handle.
10:16 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle tries to poke Irene spirit form
10:16 AM <Don1Charles> Charles groans before following over to Irene.
10:16 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene, as you peer out into the hall, you can see even more grafitti blanketing the walls. There's also a guy in spectacles walking down the hall, carting a bunch of specialised-looking medical equipment.
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10:17 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, Irene's ~~SPIRIT FORM~~ is pokable.
10:18 AM <Knyght_> Irene would cycle a round into her shotgun, and move out into the hall. She recoils at the sudden poke, stumbling out into the hall with a yelp.
10:19 AM <AidenEldritch> Glasses Boy doesn't seem to notice anything as he walks, whistling as he goes.
10:19 AM <Don1Charles> Charles groans, walking into the hallway. If this guy can't appear to see us, Charles will attempt to grab something from his cart
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10:20 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle tries phasing through medical equipment guy
10:20 AM <AidenEldritch> The cart vooshes through him. It's like what drinking liquid nitrogen would probably feel like.
10:21 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle you successfully go through the guy.
10:21 AM <Don1Charles> (Charles just tried to grab something out of it as it passes, how does that feel like liquid nitrogen)
10:22 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> How does the guy react?
10:22 AM <AidenEldritch> (Well then it feels like being the banana the science teacher drops in liquid nitrogen, except the banana ACTUALLY IS YOUR HAND :O)
10:22 AM <AidenEldritch> The thing on the medical cart makes a sound like a mic being breathed on for a second, but otherwise doesn't react to Charles' touchy.
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10:23 AM <Don1Charles> Charles recoils his hand, stumbling back a few steps and cursing, gripping his hand. "Jesus, fuck this place."
10:23 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, he looks round kind of worried for a second and then rolls down his sleeves, shivering.
10:23 AM <Knyght_> Irene huffs, rubbing her arms. "What is this place? Why is everything so cold?"
10:24 AM <Don1Charles> "So we're pretty much ghosts who can slightly scare people, and everything is cold, and we can touch each other, and there are weird drawings on the walls. It's like being in… I don't even know I can't even think of a metaphor for this stupid shit."
10:24 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene, roll PERC.
10:25 AM <Knyght_> 4df+4 One Eye, Bad Sight
10:25 AM <Glacon> Knyght_: One Eye, Bad Sight: 7 (4df+4=+, +, +, 0)
10:25 AM <Knyght_> Or not
10:25 AM <AidenEldritch> …Holy shit, Glacon.
10:27 AM <AidenEldritch> Anyway, Irene, you notice the grafitti on the wall pulse and an angry red blotch appears momentarily, as if in response to your outburst, covering a bunch of other grafitti. Janelle, Charles, if you were looking at it, you'll start to get exceedingly pissed for no real reason.
10:28 AM <Don1Charles> Charles wasn't looking at it, for the moment. He just keeps looking around. "So, are we in like, a fucked-up version of Site-77?"
10:31 AM <Knyght_> "I think we're in a fucking ghost world. And I don't like it…"
10:32 AM <Don1Charles> Charles flips out his handgun, aiming it at the wall and firing it.
10:34 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Family stuff sorry for the wait)
10:34 AM <AidenEldritch> It makes an echoey kind of BANG noise and hits the wall, flattening itself against the plaster and otherwise just kind of falling limply to the ground. The guy doesn't seem to notice despite the fact that, y'know, a gun just went off.
10:37 AM <Don1Charles> Charles slides away the handgun, sighing. "Has it been five minutes yet? Why aren't we back in our bodies?"
10:37 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "This is a problem.."
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10:37 AM <AidenEldritch> It's been longer than five minutes.
10:37 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Well, we may as well have fun while we're here"
10:38 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Where's the lady who did this?"
10:38 AM <AidenEldritch> The grafitti squirms on the walls in response to Charles' irritation.
10:38 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Is she still in the office?$
10:38 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> )
10:38 AM <AidenEldritch> She's not, no.
10:38 AM <Don1Charles> "What does that even mean? What is fun in this fucking place?" He says, watching the graffiti, narrowing his eyes
10:38 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Or we could study the graffiti…" she looks at it, and she gets angry for no reason as described
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10:39 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> You hear a growl coming from her, and she looks away from the graffiti
10:39 AM <Don1Charles> Charles slides on his sunglasses. No idea if this will help curb the effects of looking at it, and that wasn't why he did it. He just wanted to wear his sunglasses
10:39 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, the grafitti squirms even harder and a noticeable red stain appears on the wall as if in response to your increasing level of pissed-off.
10:39 AM <Knyght> "I don't know… I mean, it is kinda cool but… Cool also physically… Like it's fucking cold."
10:40 AM <AidenEldritch> Again, if you look at it for too long you'll get real angery.
10:40 AM <Don1Charles> "You want my jacket or something?" He says, more aggressively then he means to say it as he looks to Irene. His tone cools down. "If you are feeling too cold. I don't know if it'll help."
10:42 AM <Knyght> Irene huffs, going to punch the wall. "Why am I so fucking pissed all of a sudden. I want to crush something."
10:43 AM <Don1Charles> Punching walls was Charles's thing! "For fucks sake, chill out." He says, narrowing his eyes and looking back at the wall. "This stupid red shit keeps changing whenever we say stuff."
10:43 AM <AidenEldritch> The wall's pretty solid. For something that looks like it should be made of two-buck plaster from the hardware store down the street, it makes a boom that sounds like she's smacked her fist against a steel bell.
10:44 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, the text could also be pretty useful.
10:44 AM <Don1Charles> What is the text?
10:45 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Can I roll an academics or science to figure out the properties of the text?)
10:45 AM <AidenEldritch> In English: "THE WALLS TALK BACK."
10:45 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, go ahead.
10:45 AM <Don1Charles> "Fucking say something then, walls."
10:45 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle studies the wall, trying to resist the urge to get angry
10:46 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> 4df+5 they both be the same
10:46 AM <Glacon> Klurg|Aximiam: they both be the same: 9 (4df+5=+, +, +, +)
10:46 AM <AidenEldritch> I
10:46 AM <AidenEldritch> Okay then
10:46 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Glacy, you're forgiven)
10:49 AM <Knyght> Irene just huffs, grabbing her hand, rubbing her knuckles through her glove. "Fuck… Everythings all wonky around here."
10:49 AM <Don1Charles> "Yeah, thanks Sherlock."
10:49 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, you achieve a godlike comprehension of the writing on the walls: it's like a bunch of messages have been scratched in there with tooth and nail. There's even lines of symbols and more blotches of red buried underneath the graffiti, except these don't so much make you angry as they do a bunch of other emotions. One of them gives you a real craving
10:49 AM <AidenEldritch> for caramel apples, and another one makes you feel like smelling some freshly-cut grass.
10:50 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, the wall wriggles with writing at your little taunt. Roll /Persuasion/.
10:51 AM <Don1Charles> What was he persuading it?
10:51 AM <AidenEldritch> Probably to talk!
10:51 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "This writing, they seem to be scratched in with teeth and nails, and there are more symbols underneath the graffiti"
10:51 AM <Don1Charles> 4df+5 persuasion no bonus.
10:51 AM <Glacon> Don1Charles: persuasion no bonus.: 6 (4df+5=+, +, -, 0)
10:51 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "And they instill more emotions than just anger"
10:51 AM <Don1Charles> "Speak, please, walls."
10:52 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Also, I have got a craving for caramel apples, anybody else?"
10:52 AM <Don1Charles> "Janelle, shut up for a minute."
10:52 AM <Knyght> Irene watches closely, sitting down on the floor. Is that super cold too?
10:52 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you see words start to scratch themselves into the walls, and they spell out pretty much exactly what you said: "SPEAK, PLEASE, WALLS." In perfectly fluent Italian, no less.
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10:53 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene, you feel like you're sitting down on a sheet of really cold steel. It warms up after a bit but it's not the most pleasant thing to sit on.
10:53 AM <Don1Charles> Thank goodness Charles actually knew Italian. [Where are we?] he says to the wall
10:54 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> ~what is he speaking to the wall, Italian? I assume by the pronunciation of the words it's Italian, but I'm not sure…~
10:56 AM <Knyght> Irene just watches, confused beyond belief. She's fine sitting on a cold floor, she's used to uncomfortable.
10:57 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Is medical guy still there?
10:58 AM <AidenEldritch> Medical guy has disappeared to corridors unknown.
10:58 AM <Don1Charles> Does wall do anything else
10:59 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (May be a bit slow)
10:59 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Family stuff)
10:59 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you see a couple arrows scratched into the wall pointing at a word repeated across the wall in various languages: SEVENTY-SEVEN.
11:00 AM <Don1Charles> [Can you explain this place to me?]
11:02 AM <Don1Charles> Was he still getting made?
11:02 AM <Don1Charles> *mad?
11:02 AM <AidenEldritch> Not really, no.
11:04 AM <AidenEldritch> "THEY'RE NOT QUITE HUMAN." "THEY CAN BE TALKED TO." "THEY CAN BE LIED TO." "WE'RE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN SEE THIS."
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11:05 AM <Don1Charles> He sighs. [Thank you. Are there any dangers here?]
11:05 AM <Knyght> Irene just gets up, and begins to wander down the hall without another word, letting them do whatever. SHe was intent on checking this place out.
11:06 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene, as you walk, you can see lines of neatly stencilled arrows pointing down the hall.
11:06 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles: "IT'S LONELY."
11:06 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle gets bored and starts checking the area out
11:07 AM <Don1Charles> [It feels like talking to a brick wall, with you. So hard to get answers.] He grins. Maybe it had a sense of humor? Might as well check
11:08 AM <AidenEldritch> It's plaster, not brick. It is very offe- nah, it just kind of shimmies.
11:09 AM <Don1Charles> [I'm going to follow my teammates, please, feel free to supply me with anymore information as we go.] He walks, his eyes still trailing the walls, following his teammates
11:09 AM <Knyght> Irene would follow the arrows, calling back. "Come on guys, there's like a… Path laid out.
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11:11 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "alright if you say so"
11:12 AM <Don1Charles> Charles was already coming!
11:12 AM <Don1Charles> (no aiden)
11:12 AM <AidenEldritch> As you lot follow the arrows, you hear a lot of cursing in German from around a corner.
11:13 AM <Don1Charles> Charles's hand moves to his handgun. He didn't like all the German
11:14 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle doesn't understand German
11:14 AM <AidenEldritch> It's Evelyn, who looks equal parts terrified and irritated. She seems to be glaring at the walls as she tromps down the hallway. She snaps in English, "You /aren't/ helping right now", apparently at the walls? before continuing to stomp back towards the briefing room.
11:16 AM <Don1Charles> Charles wonders what would happen if he shot her. "What happens if I shoot her, ya think?"
11:16 AM <Knyght> Irene would follow her! "Dunno, give it a shot." She snickers at her stupid joke.
11:17 AM <Don1Charles> Charles walks up to Evelyn, sliding out his handgun and pressing it against her shoulder. He chuckles back before firing
11:18 AM <AidenEldritch> HER SHOULDER EXPLODES IN A SHOWER OF BLOOD, CHARLES YOU F- Nothing happens, the bullet just goes through her and everyone feels a little bit silly.
11:19 AM <Don1Charles> (Jesus christ aiden that scared the fuck outta me)
11:19 AM <AidenEldritch> (kek)
11:20 AM <Don1Charles> He lowers the gun, putting it into his holster. "Nothin'. Fuck, where do we go from here?" He says, looking around, and looking at the wall
11:21 AM <AidenEldritch> She can apparently see the writing on the walls!
11:21 AM <Don1Charles> [Tell her that we are right next to her in ghost form, please, wall]
11:21 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Charles! What the hell!" Janelle just caught up
11:22 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "And you Irene, encouraging him!?"
11:22 AM <Don1Charles> "It's a test, jesus christ."
11:22 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "I'm not supposed to be the adult scolding you, get a hold of yourselves!"
11:23 AM <AidenEldritch> "[WE'RE RIGHT HERE]" appears on the wall, as requested. Evelyn kind of jumps at the sight of the words appearing, but then squints at the message: turning around, she glances from side-to-side self-consciously and ventures, "…Hi?"
11:23 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle pinches the bridge of her nose and sighs
11:24 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Is there any personnel nearby besides Evelyn?
11:24 AM <AidenEldritch> Nobody.
11:24 AM <Don1Charles> [Tell her we want to know how to get out]
11:26 AM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn frowns at the writing. "So, you're the ones who've been leaving the messages… That's the thing, I don't know. I-I saw the arrows, but there wasn't anything in the room, just a lot of arrows pointing at… nothing."
11:27 AM <Don1Charles> Charles sighss. [I'm going to go try to figure it out. Tell her to wait here.] Charles says, going to go find the nothingness the arrows had been pointing at
11:27 AM <Knyght> "She wanted to send us in this spirit world. We get to test." She grumbles, going to keep watching over Evelyn.
11:27 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Can Janelle attempt to use GHOSTLY POWERS to get in Evelyn's mind and communicate telepathically?
11:29 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, you wriggle your fingers and try real hard to get a look into Evelyn's braincase. You hear… the sound of everyone looking at you awkwardly.
11:30 AM <Don1Charles> Charles was off following the arrows!
11:30 AM <Knyght> Irene just keeps walking, following Evelyn. "I wonder how long until we phase back to our bodies."
11:30 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Well, I can cross that off of the list of ghost powers"
11:31 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, they're all pointing – no, practically /swarming/ towards a single, unmarked door.
11:32 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Well, that seems to be the way…"
11:32 AM <Don1Charles> Hey you were still with Evelyn Charles was over by arrows
11:32 AM <Don1Charles> He looks at the door, frowning, looking to the walls. [Is it safe?]
11:32 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Hey, if you see anybody besides Evelyn, tell me, I wanna see if I can posses someone"
11:34 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, the arrows keep pointin'.
11:34 AM <AidenEldritch> Irene, you notice nothing in particular about Evelyn apart from the fact that she's now pacing the corridor, waiting for another message to come up. Too bad the guy who mastered GHOSTMAIL™ is off with Janelle.
11:35 AM <Don1Charles> Charles extends a hand to touch the knob, before remembering the prior reaction that Irene had. He wraps his jacket sleeve around his gloved hand and goes to open it
11:35 AM <Don1Charles> (AidenEldritch did she receive the final message Charles gave her?)
11:35 AM <Knyght> Irene just starts back down the hall since she's not interesting her.
11:35 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, she did.
11:35 AM <Knyght> She'd head off to find Charles.
11:35 AM <Don1Charles> Charles will open it with wrapped hand!
11:36 AM <AidenEldritch> The door's locked! You can jiggle the knob back and forth and rattle the door, but apart from that it refuses to yield.
11:36 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle, not finding anything to possess, tries to follow Charles
11:36 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Whatcha doing Charles?)
11:36 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "*
11:36 AM <Don1Charles> Charles steps back and kicks the door
11:37 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle tries to phase through the door
11:37 AM <AidenEldritch> There's a tremendous THUD, but nothing happens. It's like you've kicked a traffic light pole.
11:37 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, you mush your face up against it successfully.
11:37 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Odd…" she says as she rubs her face
11:37 AM <Don1Charles> Charles lowers his foot, cursing out the door and all of the doors family members. "Janelle none of the ghost-shit you try to do works."
11:38 AM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn bustles back around the corner. "I have the key, just stop trying to assault the poor doorframe!"
11:38 AM <Don1Charles> He says, irritated but laughing a little
11:38 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Well excuse me for experimenting"
11:38 AM <Don1Charles> "You just got mad at me for experimentin'. "
11:39 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Yeah, but she coulda died"
11:39 AM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn unlocks it and shoves the door open, coughing as a bunch of dust is kicked up.
11:39 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Or got horribly injured"
11:39 AM <Knyght> Irene stops behind Charles, yawning softly. "Man I'm confused as well… All this weird ass ghost shit…"
11:39 AM <Knyght> hell*
11:40 AM <Don1Charles> Charles steps back, fixing his glove as the dust comes out. "That wouldn't have killed her. Jesus, we are going in there?" He looks to Irene, sighing. "Yeah, apparently."
11:40 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Well, off we gooooooo" Janelle says as she follows Evelyn
11:41 AM <AidenEldritch> The room is a relatively small one, about thrice the size of a janitor's closet: there's a lone, cardboard box in the corner that looks like it's been halfway opened and then forgotten about, as well as a shelf full of books. Evelyn clicks on the dingy lightbulb that kind of dangles from the ceiling, and covers her mouth for a sneeze. "God, this place-
11:41 AM <AidenEldritch> ACHOO."
11:41 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> ~maybe I should posses her? Nah, she's the one who knows the most about this mission~
11:41 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle investigates the cardboard box
11:42 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, there's a moth-eaten teddy bear inside it. Awww.
11:42 AM <Don1Charles> Charles follows in, tugging his balaclava over his nose and mouth like a black bandana.
11:42 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle tries to posses the bookcase
11:42 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> And make books fly out of it, just to see if it's possible
11:43 AM <Knyght> Irene just, follows Charles, looking around the room curiously.
11:43 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, you spoon the bookcase real good and do, in fact, knock one of the books out!
11:43 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Hey, something I tried finally kinda works"
11:43 AM <Don1Charles> "This is the room? What are we supposed to find?"
11:43 AM <Don1Charles> Was this area different enough from the area we were in at the beginning?
11:43 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, ACAD to see if you recognise what this book is.
11:44 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, aye.
11:44 AM <Don1Charles> 4df+6 perception
11:44 AM <Glacon> Don1Charles: perception: 7 (4df+6=+, +, -, 0)
11:44 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> 4df+5
11:44 AM <Glacon> Klurg|Aximiam: 6 (4df+5=-, +, +, 0)
11:44 AM <Don1Charles> Charles tries to find anything good!
11:46 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you find a quarter on the floor.
11:46 AM <Don1Charles> :11:47 AM <Don1Charles> Charles takes the quarter
11:47 AM <AidenEldritch> Hey, it was minted back in 1920. Apart from the bookshelves, the light and the box, there's really nothing worth looking for.
11:47 AM <Knyght> Irene just shrugs, looking around for anything else of interest.
11:47 AM <Don1Charles> Charles walks out into the hall, looking to the wall, [was that all?]
11:51 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, you've found the Grimoire of Astral Bodies. It's the first real solid thing you've gotten to touch that isn't part of the building, which is particularly odd. As you leaf through its pages, you can, in fact, pick up a ritual for Rebinding the Spirit.
11:51 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Am back)
11:51 AM <AidenEldritch> Charles, aside from the books, that's pretty much it.
11:51 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Guys, I found something!"
11:51 AM <Don1Charles> "What is it?"
11:52 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Here, its a ritual for rebinding the spirit"
11:52 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "This'll help us reconnect to our bodies"
11:52 AM <Don1Charles> "Ah, ok. Flip it open, then."
11:53 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> She picks up the book and tries to wave it in front of Evelyn's face, to the page for rebounding the spirit
11:53 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Rebinding*
11:53 AM <AidenEldritch> Janelle, Evelyn is blowing her nose into a floral hankerchief, but even if her eyes weren't watering she wouldn't be able to see it.
11:53 AM <AidenEldritch> Yes, that's right, I am implying this is a GHOST BOOK.
11:54 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle reads the ritual herself then, if Evelyn is too busy and fleshy to do so herself
11:55 AM <Don1Charles> "Is there like a spell you read to get us out?"
11:55 AM <AidenEldritch> There is, Charles.
11:55 AM <Don1Charles> "Read the spell, please."
11:56 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Not yet, it may go wrong if I don't do it under the correct conditions"
11:56 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "So I gotta make sure I got everything right"
11:56 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> She reads to be 100% sure she's got this right
11:56 AM <AidenEldritch> It's not just an incantation, though: first, you need to draw a complicated-looking knot on the wall, then recite a bunch of Latin, then… verbatim from the book, "get real ready to beat shit up."
11:57 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> ~…~
11:57 AM <Don1Charles> Charles reads over her shoulder.
11:57 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Looks like we may need to fight something"
11:57 AM <Don1Charles> "How do we fight it? With fists? Our weapons?"
11:57 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "No clue"
11:58 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Let's hope our minds, cause I can't aim, like at all"
11:58 AM <AidenEldritch> It just cuts off after the "beat shit up" thing, ending with a bunch of what look like customer testimonies.
11:59 AM <Don1Charles> "I'm going to punch some ghosts."
11:59 AM <Knyght> Irene wanders back in after a short time. "Hey guys, find anything?"
11:59 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Yeah, a ritual to rebind our bodies"
11:59 AM <Don1Charles> "We're going to havfta fight some shit."
11:59 AM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Charles, can you tell Evelyn to meet us in the briefing room?"
12:00 PM <Don1Charles> [Tell Evelyn that we plan to meet her in the briefing room after we finish using an incantation from this book] He informs the walls
12:03 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn gets the message, nods, and bustles off.
12:03 PM <Knyght> Irene huffs, readying her shotgun. "Fight stuff? Fun."
12:04 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle heads off to the room where their bodies are "come on"
12:06 PM <Don1Charles> Charles shrugs and follows.
12:07 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> (May be a bit slow now)
12:08 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn's in the briefing room, and you all manage to follow along without much difficulty. "So what do you guys want me to do?"
12:09 PM <Knyght> Irene huffs. "Get us back now?"
12:09 PM <Don1Charles> [Get me a writing utensil]
12:10 PM <AidenEldritch> She fishes around in her pocket and comes up with a marker. "And you want me to write…"
12:14 PM <Don1Charles> Charles flicks the book around, showing the symbol in it to the wall. [Repeat this. Tell her to trace over it in her marker]
12:14 PM Soulless → %Soulless|Dreamin
12:17 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, an excellently concise description of the symbol appears written out on the wall.
12:18 PM <Don1Charles> ~Huh well that works too~
12:19 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn looks confused as shit, but tries to draw the symbol on the whiteboard anyway.
12:19 PM <Knyght> Irene just hangs out, and watches. "Hrmm…"
12:20 PM <AidenEldritch> You're still missing a couple parts of the ritual, though.
12:20 PM <Don1Charles> Once she is done, Charles picks up the book, looking into it and looking into the wall. [Tell her to read this. '___(insert random latin here)' out loud]
12:20 PM <Don1Charles> Charles will then pass the book back to Janelle and look for a good hiding spot in order to ambush whatever was going to be attacking
12:21 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, hit me with Persuasion because that's a long-ass GHOSTMAIL™ you're trying to send there.
12:21 PM <Don1Charles> (spec applicable in any way)
12:21 PM <Don1Charles> (idk that Charles is just innocent soul-man trying to get home ;-;)
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12:22 PM <Don1Charles> *;-;
12:22 PM <AidenEldritch> Unfortunately, you shot the walls. And then tried to shoot Evelyn.
12:22 PM <AidenEldritch> It's not falling for that one.
12:22 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+5 persuasion
12:22 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: persuasion: 6 (4df+5=+, 0, +, -)
12:22 PM <Don1Charles> "Please, one last thing."
12:23 PM <AidenEldritch> It's uneasy about it but otherwise complies, and "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus tellus odio, laoreet ut risus id, posuere semper arcu. Morbi porttitor rutrum est, vitae mattis nisl mattis convallis. Morbi bibendum metus sit amet diam volutpat posuere. Vivamus pulvinar nibh at ligula hendrerit, vel lacinia velit
12:23 PM <AidenEldritch> egestas…" appears on the walls.
12:24 PM <Knyght> Irene is just, super confused right now. She lets her team do their thing.
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12:24 PM <Don1Charles> Charles takes a good ambush spot!
12:25 PM <AidenEldritch> There's one final bit to the ritual, that all being said.
12:28 PM <Knyght> Irene takes a defendable position as well.
12:29 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn stares at the wall, chants the Latin thing, and you all start feeling a minor tug towards your physical bodies. When she's done with it, though, the pull fades.
12:30 PM <Don1Charles> Charles sighs and get's ready to fight!
12:30 PM <Don1Charles> He tugs his mask on all the way
12:30 PM <AidenEldritch> …Nothing's actually happening.
12:31 PM <Don1Charles> "Irene, go see if you can get back into your body."
12:32 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> (Am back)
12:32 PM <Knyght> Irene would move over to her body slowly, going to press her hand to it.
12:32 PM <AidenEldritch> Irene, you go through it. Whatever the binding thing was meant to do, it didn't quite go the entire way.
12:33 PM <Don1Charles> "Well, sonuva bitch, what do we do?"
12:33 PM <Don1Charles> Charles says from his spot
12:33 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, another angry red blotch pops up on the walls.
12:33 PM <Don1Charles> Charles looks to the blotch. [How do we get back in our bodies, wall-friend?]
12:34 PM <AidenEldritch> "[GET REAL READY TO BEAT SHIT UP.]"
12:35 PM <Knyght> Irene steps back again. "What?"
12:35 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Uh oh"
12:35 PM <Don1Charles> Charles get's real ready!
12:36 PM <AidenEldritch> Rarrrrrrr. Charles, another anger blob appears on the walls, but you can't quite hold it there.
12:38 PM <Don1Charles> :O
12:40 PM <Knyght> IRENE GETS SUPER READY!
12:40 PM <Knyght> ROAR.
12:42 PM <AidenEldritch> Irene, you get mad as SHIT and the walls are fucking shooken. An angry red oilslick spreads across the back of the wall, and Evelyn catches wind of it halfway into her chant – practically shaking in anger along with you, she spits the last words of the spell like she's trying to curse you lot.
12:43 PM <AidenEldritch> The pull's a lot stronger now, and all of you are practically dragged bodily (spiritually?) towards your unconscious physical bodies.
12:44 PM <Don1Charles> Charles just… lets that happen, I guess?
12:45 PM <Knyght> Irene gets dragged over to her body!
12:47 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, Irene, Janelle, you all get SCHLORPED back into your bodies.
12:47 PM <AidenEldritch> Actually, amend that: *A body.
12:47 PM <Don1Charles> Charles shoots up from his seat, looking around at the room
12:48 PM <AidenEldritch> Charles, you notice a distinct lack of depth perception. Irene, you know how to speak Swedish for some reason. And Janelle, you get the sudden urge to put some sunglasses on.
12:49 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle looks around
12:49 PM <Don1Charles> Charles blinks his eye, or eye, or, wait what the hell?
12:49 PM <Don1Charles> *eyes
12:49 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn's currently kneeling over you very worriedly, Janelle. "Right, okay, the binding seems like it worked. Tell me your name, Agent?"
12:50 PM <Don1Charles> "What in the fuck?" He says, in… does he sound normal?
12:50 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Janelle finding…" she says uncertainly
12:50 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> Finlin*
12:50 PM <Knyght> "Irene… Carver?" She sits up slowly.
12:51 PM <Don1Charles> "Charles. What?"
12:51 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn stares at Janelle for a long moment. "…Oh, god, oh god ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod-" Pretty quickly she just blurs into a mush of indistinguishable vowels. "I- Do any of you have a mirror on you?"
12:51 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Let me guess, wrong bodies?"
12:51 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> ~I swear if this ruins my scheduling…~
12:52 PM <AidenEldritch> At Charles: "You sure as hell don't look like a Charles."
12:52 PM <Don1Charles> Charles searches his pockets and then realizes he didn't have what he normally had in his pockets. But, they could just look around and see the other people? He looks around, seeing himself, and Janelle, and the woman.
12:52 PM <Don1Charles> "Fuck me am I Irene??"
12:53 PM <AidenEldritch> "I. I need to go report this to Overseers." Evelyn looks like she's going to twitch herself apart at this rate. "God all fucking mighty /nothing was meant to go this wrong/…"
12:53 PM <Knyght> Irene is… Who?"
12:53 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> Janelle looks around and sees no Charles "guess I know who i am"
12:54 PM <AidenEldritch> Irene's Janelle.
12:54 PM <Knyght> Irene looks down, huffing. "Charles… Do anything funky with my body… And I'll kill you…"
12:55 PM <Knyght> "Legitimately… I will castrate you." She seems… Pissed off beyond belief.
12:55 PM <Don1Charles> Charles looks down. "Oh jesus I don't want Carson making moves on me."
12:56 PM <AidenEldritch> Evelyn books it to Containment and Science before anyone can turn on her.
12:56 PM <AidenEldritch> ~~~FIN~~~ for the run, not necessarily for whatever the hell's going on here.
12:56 PM <Don1Charles> (WAIT SHIT_
12:56 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Irene, you're not allowed to do anything with my bod"
12:56 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> (I knew it, I knew some shit would happen)
12:56 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> (On the bright side, at least I can aim)
12:57 PM <Don1Charles> "Janelle, jesus, just, pass me my stuff." He says, running a hand through his hair, looking down at himself. He did feel strong!
12:57 PM <Knyght> Irene huffs. "What the fuck am I supposed to do?"
12:58 PM <Don1Charles> "Heh, you got the nerd-body."
12:58 PM <Knyght> "Yeah, mhrm."
12:59 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Hey, I get your muscle memory and my smarts, thanks Charles"
12:59 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Here you go" Janelle hands Charles his stuff
12:59 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Good luck carrying them though
12:59 PM <Don1Charles> Charles take his leather jacket and his armor. Hey, Irene was goddamn strong!
1:00 PM <Knyght> Irene sighs, slumping down. "I'm going to go get drunk, I'll see you when they fix this.
1:00 PM <Don1Charles> "My switchblade is in the pocket. Careful, Irene, you might kill her little kidneys."
1:02 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Hey, I'm not a heavy drinker!"
1:02 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> "Take good care of that is"
1:02 PM <Klurg|Aximiam> Bod*
1:02 PM <Knyght> Irene just dissapears to the extra room assigned to Carson, and locks herself in there for now.
1:02 PM <Don1Charles> Charles looks to Charles. "So. How you doing?"
1:03 PM <Don1Charles> "Damn I look good."
Sick, Sick, Sick