Ghost Watching

[animusmods]

Characters: characters participating in the Ghost Watching game
Setting: a small house at night
Format: any
Summary: It's time to look for ghosts
Warnings: general horror/creepiness warnings

OOC INFORMATION

MINGLE
GROUP ONE | GROUP TWO | GROUP THREE | GROUP FOUR
GROUP FIVE | GROUP SIX | GROUP SEVEN | GROUP EIGHT

House Description
The house is in the style of a modern for 2013 home, except in the lack of any computers. It is well-furnished for a middle-class house. The windows are easy to open and shut unless otherwise noted. The dining room contains a large wooden table with six chairs, chandelier, and buffet in which china is stored. The table is set. The living room contains a sofa, two chairs, two endtables at either end of the sofa, a coffee table, and a television. The kitchen contains standard modern appliances. Bedroom one is a master bedroom with a king-sized bed, two nightstands, a small desk, a chair, and a bookshelf. The walk-in-closet is filled with clothes for men and women. The master bathroom is sparsely decorated in black and white. The second bedroom is a nursery in yellow, with a crib, rocking chair, changing table, and toys. There are more toys, along with baby clothes, in the closet. There is a teddy bear in the crib. The second bathroom is sparsely decorated in blue. The third bedroom is a little girl's room in pink. There are toys scattered all over the floor, a small bed, a small desk, bookshelves, and a toybox. There is a doll on the bed. There are clothes and toys in the closet.

All windows in the house have curtains, not blinds.

Comments

MINGLE

[animusmods]

[floreatnoctem]

[Chidori is more or less silent and displeased as ever, especially considering that both she and Jin have been taken by the retrieval units. She stands with her arms crossed and her head lowered, staring at the house with very little in the way of trust.

Whatever the robots say, she doesn't believe nothing is going to go wrong either way.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko had gone along with the drones without a fight, as she thought that they were probably much stronger than she was. It was best to deal with whatever game Ruana had thought of awake than asleep.

However, upon hearing what this game was, she looked a little..nervous. This sounded like the old tests of courage she used to play at home, or a setting from an old ghost story, where spirits would come and attack the people playing.

She hoped that this wasn't one of those stories. While she had met plenty of friendly non-human things in the Tower, violent spirits still..spooked her.]

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch seems as if he's fighting off sleep as he listens to the instructions. Opening and closing windows while ignoring creepy things? Sure...

He stifles a yawn into the back of his hand and rolls his shoulders to try to wake himself up a little more.*

[idolizer]

[ Sayaka had followed the drones without discussion. She knows better than try to escape these sorts of situations... but she feels like she's being walked to a scaffold to be executed along with all those people, some of which she knows.

A game? At the explanation, the first thought she's had is that the task shouldn't be too difficult to complete, unless an inconvenience happens, which is completely possible in these kinds of situations. She can't help but look very worried as she stands in the lawn, waiting to be called. ]

[doesasordered]

[Hey guys, one of your recent non-collared imports is here, and he looks none to happy. Who here would? This was suspicious as hell. He mutters something under his breath in Russian about really needing a cigarette right about now.

He'll look to one of the locals for some clarification.]

Is this sort of thing typical? "Games"?

[He'll also be looking for any familiar faces from Hinoto-Ri.]

[unteachableapprentice]

[Ow, okay, resisting the drones aren't exactly the best idea in the world. But he was already dozing on his bed, damnit; if you assault someone who's sleeping he's going to lash back.

So he's still nursing a lump on his head when the entire 'game' was explained to him.]

That's it? Open some windows and close it back?

[Of course, he's already suspecting things aren't as easy as it seems. So he's just going to quietly look around at the congregation of people already assembled here while waiting to be called.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[Hizumi follows the retrieval drones without complaint. He may not know what it is they plan to do with him, but he's far beyond the point of caring. The sooner it's over, the sooner he can return to skulking about the Tower, avoiding people like the plague. Upon arrival at the lawn, he walks mechanically to the side, his steps slowing to a stop near the edge of the group. He doesn't seem particularly interested in what's going on, or even who else is present - his gaze is elsewhere, or perhaps nowhere at all. Although he's turned towards the house, he doesn't seem to be truly seeing it.

For somebody who normally radiates energy, this is a pretty glaring change to have taken place over only a few days.]

[seasidecherry]

[Nagisa was trembling by the time the retrieval unit took hold of her and brought her down the elevator. She'd screamed and tried to run away, but no luck. And now this, about watching for ghosts? Color her confused. Confused and scared. Maybe it wouldn't be too bad, though.

...and maybe it would be awful. She couldn't stop herself shaking, not with how overwhelmed and completely frightened she felt already. Every once in a while, she looks at the house, but it's never for very long.]

[maybe_a_king]

[Arturia had put up a fight when the retrieval units came for her and had subsequently been knocked out and deposited on the lawn of the house. When she came to, she was groggy, her head pounding, but she quickly got to her feet and looked around for any familiar face.]

[primordial]

[It's not really nice to be waken up from sleep like that. It's really not nice when you find you're being dragged by robots to god knows where. And it's really, REALLY not nice when you hear just what exactly you've been woken up to do.]

[Well...Sam never encountered any ghosts before in his life, and honestly, he wasn't that scared of them. But either way, he plays the part, fidgeting nervously with his head bowed at the ground, catching quick glances at the house while he does so.]

[He's murmuring to himself, too:]

G-g-ghosts can't be real, right? It's all some kind of joke...

[yamaxanadu]

[Eiki had quietly gone along with them when they came to get her. It didn't seem worth it to argue otherwise. It would also give her a chance to understand more of the sorts of things that happened in the tower. However when she arrived to her destination and understood the sort of task they had... she was doubtful.

She had no reason to be afraid of ghosts, she was a Yama, she dealt with the dead and their spirits on a daily basis, she was the things unruly souls feared. But, she was unsure of what might happen since the rules of the tower were not the rules she knew.]

Hopefully if no one makes a mistake, this should be simple.

[neverbeamemory]

[What gives? There had been a sense of deja vu when the red collars had burst into the Dormitory after almost all of them. He'd had the damn collar check already made up from the 16th what were they doing here.

Ever the unwillingly one to go anywhere unless it suited himself, Sephiroth had probably come to in the elevator on the way down. Eyeing everyone else in the lift for the remainder of their trip down to the designated floor.

Once on the lawn he's all folded arms while the retrieval unit explains the nature of the game and their allocated group. Jungo and Hidetoshi - great...if anything could make the prospect of working in a team anymore sour than it already was. He might have burned a hole into that retrieval unit with the level of not-impressed passing into his gaze.

The task itself seems easy enough, though he fancied that simply having to work as a team will bring with it complications. He doesn't do teams. And apparently they're going in first.]

[blitzkriegzwei]

[Ludwig was the kind to follow rules. So when he was told that he had to get up and go play a game, he did. He listened to the instructions faithfully. So it was just opening and shutting windows? That should be simple enough, for Ludwig at least. Unlike some people, he actually followed orders. Hopefully the others wouldn't get in the way too much.]

[taintedwhite]

[Shiro had knocked out a few drones at first. Because it was kinda rude to wake up people like this... But once she had understood they wanted her to take part in a game, she had immediately stopped putting a fight and gladly followed them. A game! What a wonderful idea! She remembered how much fun the Dog Race with Ganta had been. Ganta would certainly have loved that game too! Even if a game that was mostly about opening and closing windows seemed a bit weird... But hey, a game was a game!]

Shiro wonders if they will give candy to the winner of this game. In Deadman Wonderland, they always did.

Re: MINGLE

[notayoungkitten]

[A ghost, hunt, huh? Ocelot couldn't exactly say that she didn't believe in such things. After all, her father had been The Sorrow, a man who had made a career out of speaking to the dead. Even so, it was not a gift that Ocelot herself possessed, and one that she figured wouldn't make a difference. Right now, her greatest fear was that she would be killed and unable to continue to protect Liquid. He may say that he didn't need the protect, and he may have been right, but...

No. Right now, she had to focus on the task at hand. That was all that was important]

Re: MINGLE

[fiesta_de_los_muertos]

[Aradia is suspicious of everything happening right now.

She hasn't been here for very long but she already heard about the weird things happening in the tower. Getting kidnapped by robots definitely counts as weird.

She's glad not to be left alone here but she isn't sure if she should trust any of the others either, what if they are on the same people responsible for this?]

GROUP ONE

[animusmods]

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Sephiroth - Living Room: Towards 1st Window

[neverbeamemory]

[He'd cast a glance around the other members of his 'team' as Sephiroth had walked into the house through the front door; doing nothing more than a quick head count to ensure they were all there, saying nothing at all before directly approaching the first window. Convenient as it was just to the left of where they'd all come in from.

He couldn't get over how pointless this so-called 'game' was, it was best to just get it over with. All that muttering of ghosts - pffft. And not to touch anything, what in Gaia did they think he was, 3 years old?

After a few moments peering through the glass out onto the lawn where all other people were gathered, Sephiroth very precisely went to push the first window open. Taking care not to even brush against the curtain.]

GROUP TWO

[animusmods]

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Nagisa - nursery

[seasidecherry]

[For most of the time in the house, Nagisa had stuck close to the group, opening the windows, making sure not to touch anything else. But she hung back a little after the last window in the nursery was opened. This was just too sad, thinking that someone so small had been here but now wasn't anymore...

Without thinking, she moved over to the crib, noticing the teddy bear. It looked so sad and so alone. Taking it with her would be bad, but she doesn't feel like she can just leave it. Instead, she softly sings a quiet song to it, almost like a lullaby, before pulling a blanket over it.

There. Better.

Now, to catch up with the rest of her group...]

GROUP THREE

[animusmods]

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Living room

[warriorscribe]

*In contrast to his groggy state on the lawn, Enoch is wide awake and alert as he steps through the front door, taking in the scene. When he needed it, he was awake, that was true enough.

First things first, there was a window to his left...that would be "clockwise", right, the way a sundial's shadow moves? Lucifel had compared the clock on his phone to a sort of sundial made numbers, and he'd seen time digitally kept in the terminals here as well. Strange how these things worked, the term had remained but the symbol itself was gone.

He'd go straight for it to open it. If there's one thing he learned about Ruana's games, and the tower in general, is that disobedience is usually painful or lethal. Unless it was some grave injustice he couldn't stand for, he'd play along, if it would keep him and his group from harm. He glanced back at them as he opened the window, making sure they weren't wandering off to open the windows out of order or something.*

GROUP FOUR

[animusmods]

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Sam Erstwhile - Dining Room

[primordial]

[Well, they've finally been let into the house, and...it's actually not as bad as he imagined it to be. Sure, a bit dark, but otherwise normal and currently ghost free.]

[At the moment he's actually getting distracted by the china cabinet near the table, peering in to see if he can see anything interested. Somebody remind him of what he's supposed to be doing?]

GROUP FIVE

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Nursery

[idkworldruler]

[This seemed far too simple, and quite frankly silly. Just open all of the windows in a specific order. There just had to be a catch, right? It couldn't be this simple.]

Alright, hurry up and close the windows. [In truth he probably looked far more scary in his mask and suit.]

GROUP SIX

[animusmods]

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living room

[doesasordered]

[Nik wants to get started, but he's not sure where.]

We're to open all the windows in clockwise order, correct? But where do we start?

GROUP SEVEN

[animusmods]

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ARTURIA: LIVING ROOM; OPENING WINDOWS

[maybe_a_king]

[This game seems simple enough as it is, for all the trouble she heard. How hard can it be to just go around opening and closing windows?

Almost as if to prove a point to herself, upon heading into the house, she immediately goes to the window to the left of the door and pulls it open.]

There. One down. This shouldn't be too difficult.

GROUP EIGHT

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Rune: Living Room. LET'S GET THOSE WINDOWS OPEN

[pistolsakimbo]

[Nevermind this is horribly late.]

[Well, this sounded like a boring as hell game; Rune couldn't help but wonder why the heck she got dragged away from Ferrus and Tin Man for something like this, but whatever.]

M'kay... up it goes.

[Grab the lip and... yep. Window's open. Well, that's just fascinating.]