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Ryan Buell ([personal profile] hauntedasachild) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2018-07-12 09:24 am

What's your surname, Francis?

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.
bellerophontes: (Snow drives back the foot that's slow)

John Sheppard | Stargate Atlantis

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[personal profile] citrusfree 2018-07-12 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Rodney McKay did not believe in ghosts, or in anything supernatural for that matter. Rodney McKay believes in science -- which makes his current activities perhaps a little odd on paper. Yet for Rodney, 'Ghost Hunting' is both a hobby and a passion. It's a hobby because Rodney, of course, has far more important things that he does day to day. Rodney McKay (PhD x2) is a problem solving genius, paid the big bucks by folk who need their understaffed projects boosted along quickly by his trademark technique of yelling, snapping and finding every single fault imaginable.

Proving people wrong by doing something as easy as, say, working out what idiotic creaky floorboard or psychotic manipulative 'medium' is convincing them there's a ghost is easy in comparison.

Or it should be. After a minor, unfortunate misunderstanding where Rodney may or may not have lost his temper at a well loved famous TV psychic live on air Rodney has had a little more attention for his pet hobby than he would strictly like.

(It wasn't at all minor, and had been in the papers for several days. Digging up personal information on him just to corner him in an argument on live TV? Is cheating, underhand, and anyone can do that so it proves nothing. Also, bringing up dead people and pretending they've told you something? Cheap drama.)

In the aftermath, it made sense to hire a man to help him lug equipment and to loom menacingly at anyone who feels the need to defend the honour of some John Edward wannabe.

"Careful, careful!"

Sheppard is, at least, stronger than Radek but begrudgingly Rodney wonders if it would have been better to have the Czech's minorly useful hands on site. He's busy, though, without whatever underpaid nonsense it was that NORAD threw him. Rodney had skimmed and turned it down because it was boring. So instead, now he was going to spend the night in this old pile with some guy who had all the grace of an elephant.

"Just so you know? Those flight cases are worth more than you make in a year so please -- gently when you put them down."

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Jacob Johnson | A Nightmare on Elm Street

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watching_over_you: ohnoafterlaughs (what's all this then)

Dr Angela ' Mercy' Ziegler | Overwatch | OTA

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dickbrain: (the key so distant)

Richard Braintree | Silent Hill 4

[personal profile] dickbrain 2018-07-12 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
((Because why the hell not. Of course, he's convinced it's not really a ghost, and he's here to make sure that whoever it really is doesn't come back.))
flamethrowerfuckyeah: (Cigarette)

Sam Kincaid | The Damned of the 2/19th

[personal profile] flamethrowerfuckyeah 2018-07-12 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
((You can kill ghosts with a flamethrower, right?))
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hunk | relionce

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ulfhethinn: (devil dog)

Ryan Smith | OC

[personal profile] ulfhethinn 2018-07-12 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
((He would say hunting ghosts is a nice break from the wendigos he's usually tracking at this time of year, but a particularly nasty poltergeist taught him different not too long ago.))
zhongda: (become a mystery to gaze into)

Sima Yi | Romance of the Three Kingdoms

[personal profile] zhongda 2018-07-12 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
((This is probably Cao Pi's idea, somehow.))
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neveroutofammo: (It's all a coverup by the government.)

Burt Gummer | Tremors

[personal profile] neveroutofammo 2018-07-12 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
(("Ghost"? Try "secret government experiment," and Burt's here to get to the bottom of it.))
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Citan Uzuki | Xenogears

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Kara | Detroit: Become Human | OTA

[personal profile] mamabot 2018-07-12 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A necessary part of learning to human is dealing with ghosts, right? ]
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lightofthelucii: (smirk)

Noctis | Final Fantasy XV | OTA

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((Either haunted or haunter is good. I could easily see Noct trolling from beyond the grave))
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Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane | VLD | ota

[personal profile] headspacedad 2018-07-12 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[he'll be the ghost. Can AU this as near or far from canon as we'd like. Open to cross-canon/medium as well as canon, season 6 compliant]
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scott lang | mcu

[personal profile] resizing 2018-07-12 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
( hunter and absolutely terrible at it. found a real ghost once and no one believes him. but at least he's pretty!! def has his own ghost hunting show on youtube with his boiii luis )
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goro majima (yakuza)

[personal profile] thwackuza 2018-07-12 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[probably in the ghost hunting biz for fun and curiosity when he isn't using it as an elaborate money-making racket/front for picking fights.]
ghoulish: (3e2dtnj)

lila jo foster ( original )

[personal profile] ghoulish 2018-07-12 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
( she's a ghost in a stolen body. oh, and she has to eat people to stay "alive." see profile. whatchu gonna do, ghostbusters?? )
hellshaped: (the sleeping and the dead)

Hellboy / also Hellboy / ota

[personal profile] hellshaped 2018-07-12 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[despite appearances, he is not here to be hunted. maybe he's a guest investigator on your ghost hunting show??]
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Fiona / Borderlands / ota

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[as The Skeptic]
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Wicked | Marvel

[personal profile] youwickedgirl 2018-07-12 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ota

Wicked's abilities: Wicked has the ability to summon necroplasmic residue left behind by the death of living beings and manifest them as ghost-like entities to do her bidding. The psychic manifestations she summons are transparent and float about like traditional ghosts. They also possess the ability to become tangible or intangible upon Wicked's will. She has an empathic link with the apparitions, feeling their pain if they are wounded. Fortunately, she can incorporate others into the empathic link she shares with her apparitions to ease the pain or experience the same sensory input her ghosts are experiencing.

So if she's going ghost hunting with someone, it's probably to screw around with their head:D]
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Princess Allura of Altea - Voltron: LD - OTA

[personal profile] of_mice_and_lions 2018-07-12 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
*Can be the haunted or the haunt.*
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Estinien Wyrmblood | ffxiv

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robert small | dream daddy

[personal profile] gruffs 2018-07-12 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ absolutely the hunter, lbr ]
knoticals: (Like fire)

5???

[personal profile] knoticals 2018-07-13 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Why is Joseph Christiansen, Youth Pastor and overall well-regarded neighbour of the cul-de-sac in this haunted mansion trying to contact ghosts? You tell him.

No, really, you tell him because he really has no idea how he ended up being convinced to tag along for the ride. Robert has a way or pressing his buttons on the worst possible way, of making him want to prove himself in the most absurd of ways.]


Okay, we’re in the haunted house, it’s dark outside and there’s obviously nothing to see here. Let’s go! [He all but whispers as he walks besides Robert. Why whisper if he doesn’t believe in ghosts? Look. …. It never hurts to be cautious, does it?] You have to come tell the twins a ghost story next week now, okay? You promised-

[But of course, as soon as he says that EMF Robert was holding (which is, if you ask Joseph, was a bunch of scraps but nobody ever asks Joseph) starts going… crazy, the needle moving around all over and pointing towards… who knows where.]

What is it doing?!

hell yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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ryo asuka (devilman crybaby)

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[Hey there, demons, it's me, ya boi. Gotta churn out new content for PROFESSOR RYO INVESTIGATES, new episodes hitting YouTube Red every Wednesday. Patreon subscribers get early peeks, buy him a Ko-fi, etc.]
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drownedgrief: (it's in the pills)

Iris | OC | Open

[personal profile] drownedgrief 2018-07-12 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Actually a ghost, generally not dangerous just don't get her mad. Generally not actually visible to humans except as a shadow in the corner of someone's vision, but capable of moving a few small things and a walking cold spot. Open-ish to anyone who wants a lot of ghostly giggling.]

Revali | Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | OTA

[personal profile] 123voicetesting 2018-07-12 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[maybe HE IS the ghost. he was too smarmy and smug to pass on so now he's haunting A Location Of Your Choice.

of course hunter would be fun too. both options are available.]

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