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The Slender Man ([personal profile] topopathy) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-05-13 04:11 am
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Ghost Hunting Meme

Maybe you're part of one of those big paranormal research societies that have their own TV show, top of the line equipment, and merchandising contracts. Maybe you're an aspiring director who's noticed the boom of paranormal TV shows lately and decided to cash in the time is right for your art. Or maybe you and your friends just decided that messing around in someplace that's supposed to be haunted sounded like a fun way to spend an evening, especially when there may or may not be beer involved. Whatever the reason may be, you've decided to go

GHOST HUNTING



Choose your haunting, or let the RNG pick for you:

1. Setting Up: You're on location, and the locals have told you about the place's super creepy history and your location is definitely haunted. You just noticed that the clouds in the sky are forming an X over the location - just like the electrical tape X's you used to mark locations for your infrared cameras! - so you know you're going to get a lot of activity tonight. It's time to start unpacking your gear and encountering some ghosts.

2. YOU GUYS WHAT WAS THAT NOISE: There's no way that was just the building settling, and wind definitely doesn't make a sound like that! Clearly, something paranormal is afoot (a spooky, disembodied foot) here.

3. Era Cues: One of the best ways to draw out ghosts is through the use of stimuli from the era in which they died - so put on some oldschool jazz, light up a cigar, and start cooking some down-home southern cuisine. It's for science!

4. EVP Time: Your completely uncalibrated EMF detector just started spiking, and you may or may not have felt a cold breeze just now, so the spirits must be with you! Switch on that tape recorder and start asking them some questions, and maybe you'll be able to pick their responses out of the background noise (what is "pareidolia," anyway?)

5. Motion Detector Mayhem: The device you bought to make a horrific racket if anything moves is making a horrific racket, and what could possibly be moving in an empty, dark room where your teammates totally haven't been, except for a ghost? You haven't even seen any huge moths since you began this investigation, so it has to be something paranormal!

6. COME AT ME BRO: Provoking the ghosts is a really good idea. Shouting and posturing at the air like a tough guy makes you look cool, and it's always the best way to-- oh god, did something just scratch you?!

7. The Infrared Camera Just Caught Something: Or maybe it was the ultraviolet camera, or hell, maybe even the regular old visible light camera. Either way, it definitely wasn't one of your teammates sneaking off to take a leak or a smoke without telling anyone else like it was the last four times, because everyone is finally present and accounted for. Which leaves only one thing it could be...

8. That Object Just Moved!: Despite the fact that you finally wised up and placed the trigger object far away from anything that you could trip over or hit with your camera, it just fell over. And that piece of concrete that just landed next to your foot? It totally didn't come from the ceiling - it had to have been thrown by something.

9. Possession: Suddenly, one of your teammates can't quite seem to remember his last name, and is talking about how he'll "scuttle your legs" - or maybe he's talking about how this place fills him with demonic rage, or just acting dumber than usual. Either way, he's obviously been possessed by an entity!

10. Other/Pick One: Choose your own haunting.
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usaki toudou | DOLLS

[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-13 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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FIVE. with a guy who can't hear any suspicious noises.

[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-13 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wow, that is a pretty horrible racket. fortunately, they know that the device works now!

unfortunately, it means that there are ghosts around. oh well. ]
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[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-13 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ to be honest, the noise is starting to give him a headache, but he doesn't want to say anything... ]

... Is it broken? Maybe it needs a change of batteries. [ or maybe there's a rat infestation, because he doesn't even want to entertain the possibility of actual ghosts. ]
dogtagged: (by the way i can't hear you)

[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-13 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ nic shrugs. rats would suck, but at least he can get rid of those. ghosts are harder.

picking up the device! it looks pretty stereotypical for a ~ghost detecting~ thing; he turns it over. how do these things work... ]
exonerate: (the law of my mind)

[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-14 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Usaki hasn't the slightest idea either, he left all the technology-type things to its respective department... ]

There aren't instructions written on it anywhere, I suppose. [ that would just be too easy. ]
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[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-14 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ tries to find a battery latch — he knows what those are for, at least.

he shakes his head, and hands it over. there are other noises, too, but the device is mostly blocking it out. ]
exonerate: (from this body of death?)

[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-14 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ he takes it, staring at it with a mildly bewildered expression for a few moments - what if he makes it worse? - before hesitantly trying to turn a dial that looks like it might be volume, but nothing seems to happen. after another few fruitless attempts, he finally gives up and just starts pointing the device in random directions (it's supposed to detect something, he knows).

it does seem to fluctuate in tone in different areas of the room, so he supposes it must be working. suspiciously enough, it's the darkest parts of the room that seem to be the noisiest... ]
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[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-14 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, it must be doing something! Nic watches him for a few seconds, then points towards one of the darker places that Usaki seems to be interested in before starting to walk towards it. ]
exonerate: (for in my inner being)

[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-15 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ he can't help but feel a little on edge - seriously, they still have no idea what this thing is even tracking - but he follows, a cautious half-step behind with one hand on the device and the other at his sword, just in case. it never hurt to be prepared for any situation... although he doubts this "situation" involves much more than maybe a wild animal that accidentally ended up trapped in the basement or something. ]
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[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-15 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ seeing that Usaki is following, Nic keeps walking. the shadows seem almost unnaturally heavy, hiding a doorway in a corner of the room. whatever's through it is nearly invisible. there are only vague outlines and — what was that? a blur of possibly suspicious movement?

SOUNDS LIKE A MYSTERY.

Nic glances back at Usaki, and shrugs before turning towards the dark doorway. ]
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[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-21 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
... I hardly need to say to be cautious, I'm sure.

[ if anything, he's saying it for his benefit than anything else. even though he doesn't believe in ghosts, he still has a slightly uneasy feeling about all of this. ]
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[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-21 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ his footsteps are heavy and regular as he approaches the door. glances back at Usaki, though, only to say hmph and keep walking.

well, into the darkness. Nic's hand goes to the handle of his sword. time to go in literally blind. ]
exonerate: (of the law of sin)

[personal profile] exonerate 2012-05-22 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ for a few seconds after the door opens, all is silent - even the machine goes rather eerily quiet, before starting up again just as there's the sound of something moving a few feet in front of them.

there's definitely something in there. what exactly it is - well. ]
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[personal profile] dogtagged 2012-05-22 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he feels the presence more than he sees it, and goes still. Usaki will hear him shifting lightly, before whatever it is starts to move closer. ]