hauntedasachild: (We are students. We are seekers.)
Ryan Buell ([personal profile] hauntedasachild) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2017-10-31 06:53 pm

Merry Spookmas!

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.
beeped: (💊 Gᴏᴛᴛᴀ ʙᴇ ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀɴᴅ ᴊᴜɪᴄʏ)

Richie Tozier (IT 2017)

[personal profile] beeped 2017-10-31 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ota!]
silver_spoon: (2)

Ginosaji | TISMWTIW

[personal profile] silver_spoon 2017-10-31 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
tacete: (f)

kang jiwoo > the silent grim (original)

[personal profile] tacete 2017-10-31 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Come meet the grim reaper!]
screamingclass: (doppelgänger)

Yomi | zekkyou gakkyuu

[personal profile] screamingclass 2017-10-31 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[The ghost.]
backwatertrooper: (backwater expert - talking)

Cloud Strife | FFVII (crisis core)

[personal profile] backwatertrooper 2017-11-01 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
septad: (are flowing.)

mildmay the fox | dol | ota.

[personal profile] septad 2017-11-01 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
dreamweaving: («52»)

Felicia Bailey | OC

[personal profile] dreamweaving 2017-11-01 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She's a legit ghosthunter!]
t65: (i bet we all survive and its gr8.)

luke skywalker | star wars | ota.

[personal profile] t65 2017-11-01 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
burnedchild: (Default)

Jacob Johnson | A Nightmare on Elm Street

[personal profile] burnedchild 2017-11-01 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
((Alternately, if you want, I'll tag you as Alex Wright from Grave Encounters 2 or Michael Konner from Evangeline, since it's Halloween.))
muskeg: (Default)

IDEK. kind of an other?

[personal profile] muskeg 2017-11-01 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ghosts, for all that they are made out to be in popular media, are not usually at the top of the list of things that freak Sage out. Unicorns? Terrifying. A bog spirit? Suitably horrible and enough of a reason for him to reroute his hike. Hell, even most forest fae were more frightening to him than ghosts were, and they often were covered in flowers and bunny fur with eyes like Bambi (which is how you knew to be leery of them really). But ghosts? Sage had charms for those, wards and sigils carved in silver wrapped around his wrists to keep the more malicious ones at bay, and more than a few spells wrapped in cloth in the pockets of his leather jacket to help banish and put many others to rest.

So yeah... ghosts were not things that worried Sage at all.

At least not enough to stop him from heading into woods on the edge of the university grounds to look for a very specific fungus that could possibly make or break his experimental potion that he was brewing. Sure, there were quite a few rumours about the place being haunted, that there was something 'other' about the place, but the swamp witch really wasn't worried enough about that. Not when this fungus (a small, lime green moss-like thing that glowed when you mixed it just right over a fire) could easily make him a great deal of money, both in the potion he was brewing and as stock in his online store.

Sage dons all the necessary charms and protections, makes sure to wrap his arms in the right sigils, and fills his pockets with spells (and his phone, some earbuds, a small pocket knife, and a glass bottle with good soil in it) and makes his way out to the woods. When he gets there, he has a moment where he just-- stands at the edge, eyes closed and feet rooted in the grass as he tries to feel the energy of this place, tries to find that tangle of wild power that grows in forest spaces, just to see if he should be worried.

This is how he stays for a moment, looking perhaps a bit lost (or drunk) until--]


Motherfucking--!

[ It feels like a bucket of cold water being dumped on him; fast and freezing and not at all nice, and the sensation sends Sage stumbling back as he blinks at the trees before him.

Yeah, there was something not so nice in there.]
gwisinbang: (Default)

Lee Jaehyeon | Original

[personal profile] gwisinbang 2017-11-01 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ actual ghost hunting youtuber, come hang with the next zak bagans minus the douchebro yelling and nipple scratching ]
uncleanspirit: (Default)

Cheonil | Original

[personal profile] uncleanspirit 2017-11-01 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's halloween! he could be out raising hell like a demon do! he could be at a barbeque! but noooooo someone had to come down to this haunted house and start some shit and WHAT IS THAT SMELL ]
preternaturalist: (Default)

David Moon | Original

[personal profile] preternaturalist 2017-11-01 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ cool dad cable access tv psychic hey let's talk to ghosts or hey let's fix the shit that started happening because you talked to ghosts ]
pollywogus: (08)

dustin henderson / stranger things

[personal profile] pollywogus 2017-11-01 12:27 am (UTC)(link)

diggingupdirt: (Default)

Olivia Wu | Original

[personal profile] diggingupdirt 2017-11-01 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ the fuck you talking about this place is haunted, can't a private eye just come and look for a missing person/a missing cat/a missing person missing a cat/your missing shit/whatever without there being a haunting god ]
traansient: (im going to murder you)

[personal profile] traansient 2017-11-01 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, but I still don't see why we have to stay in a fucking haunted house overnight! Can't you just-- salt the damned place and call it a day?

[ If you were to ask Jezeræde how he got into this position, he would have a really hard time explaining it to you. He was fairly certain that he could blame Felicia being stupid convincing and him being maybe a little bit intoxicated for most of it, and maybe a certain dumb-ass demon for making him interested in the whole concept of ghosts and hauntings in the first place, but that still didn't make enough sense for him.

Maybe he should have gotten drunk before trudging out here with Felicia. Maybe that would have made it all better.

As it is though, he is terribly sober and more than a little cold and not at all afraid of potentially meeting specters and shit in one of the creepiest old houses that he has ever seen in this universe. Nope, not afraid at all. He is not clinging to you in the least bit there, Felicia. You're imagining it.

You are not, however, imagining the whining he is doing as he drags himself along behind you.]


Is this because I portaled a wet cat into your living room last week? Because I am telling you, I didn't mean to do that!
ginormo: (Default)

sam winchester | supernatural

[personal profile] ginormo 2017-11-01 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ spook hunter, family business and all. ]
tacete: (a)

a-ok with this

[personal profile] tacete 2017-11-01 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[With the USMLE Step 1 approaching, Jiwoo doesn't have a lot of spare time to do more than study or memorize the dog-eared copy of First Aid eternally tucked into his back pocket. His roommate asks where he's going in the middle of the night, voice high and tight and Jiwoo forces himself to ignore the concern. For anyone other than a Grim, the USMLE Step 1 determines residencies, who might come knocking on the door of the future. For anyone other than Jiwoo and a handful of others spread around the world, studying should come first. The university is a hotbed of supernatural activity, like only two other institutions in the world, but nothing enough to scare the mortals.

At least, nothing on the campus proper.

Out in the woods, where the ley lines cross, sits a long-lost home for the damned. Where the willows break in a perfect circle, no physical structure exists, but a tear in the fabric of the world brings together the Here and the After, where Grims practice their extraordinary skills to serve those stuck In Between.

It's an internship, of sorts, but Jiwoo's taken the night to go beyond his usual tutors- the full-blooded Grim that teach him his rituals. The older spirits who refuse to travel to the After are friendly enough and have told him he can visit any time.

This time, though, he's brought graveyard dirt along with his usual tools: something he's not supposed to touch yet.

Someone's here whispers in his ear just as he starts drawing wide circles in the dirt. At first he wonders if a new spirit has joined them, but the handful of ghosts gathered with him look into the Here, into the mortal realm and Jiwoo sighs.

He hates October.

Breaking the circles, he steps back through the tear, back to the Here, eyes glowing with the traces of the After. He's only a handful of feet away, behind Sage, where the willows begin to break and fold at the will of the tear.
]

Can I help you?
intentio: (Default)

paul rovia ( the walking dead )

[personal profile] intentio 2017-11-01 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
preternaturalist: (008)

FLASHBACK TIMES

[personal profile] preternaturalist 2017-11-01 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shuts off the microcassette recorder, frowning, after listening to a full two minutes of silence after his last question on the tape. ]

EVP's a bust too. Okay. Time for Plan D.

...Plan F? Whichever letter we're on, that's where we are. I have a plan. It's a little outside the box but nothing else is working, so let's try it.
autolatrist: (pic#11625513)

Karamatsu Matsuno | Osomatsu-san

[personal profile] autolatrist 2017-11-01 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Guess who didn't pay much attention to anything besides getting to be on TV?]
hasabat: (Default)

Steve Harrington | Stranger Things | OTA

[personal profile] hasabat 2017-11-01 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
laura2theletter: (Default)

Laura Hollis | Carmilla | OTA (f/f for shipping purposes)

[personal profile] laura2theletter 2017-11-01 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
relieable: (maybe lay off the guinness next time)

rng gave me 6... good...

[personal profile] relieable 2017-11-01 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[you know, what's scary is Karamatsu. Karamatsu is scary on Halloween, or just when he wants to wear a costume (or nothing) in general. thankfully, Osomatsu is not saying much about Karamatsu's costume. the eldest is dressed up as his 4353453rd vampire and is enjoying himself.

he has dragged his twin out of the house, and they are ghost hunting. whether that means trawling the graveyard, or searching a real haunted house, but Osomatsu might be a little drunk, so he feels brave. he's such an idiot]


Yoooo! Ghosts! [he calls into the darkened area] Come out, come out, wherever you areeeee!
deadboywalking: (Default)

Will Byers | Stranger Things

[personal profile] deadboywalking 2017-11-01 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ota even though he Does Not Want to be here]

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