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October Event: Feeling Like a Ghost (Part I)

OCTOBER EVENT: FEELING LIKE A GHOST
Who: Anyone and everyone
What: Your past returns to haunt you
When: October 10th and onward
Where: All over!
Warnings: Character death, as well as potential for discussion of trauma and suicide ideation - please mark as you go!
Try and Hear Me, Then I'm Done

You can find most of the information you need in the OOC info post! In the meantime, feel free to use this log as a catch-all for the duration of the event. While this log will focus on the past portion, you're free to use it for the future portion. As always, you can also make your own logs if that's your preference! Come the 21st, however, we'll likely get an additional log up for those who want to play around with their future echoes as well. Remember also that the present portion will be played out in Mu, during this month's Storytelling.

Remember to let us know if your character dies during this event. Bear in mind, however: death penalties will NOT be reduced for this event.
Event Timeline
[ ♆ ] October 10th: The ghosts of the past appear.
[ ♆ ] October 20th: The warped Storytelling occurs, the Storyteller returns, and those who have died are revived.
[ ♆ ] October 21st: Future echoes replace the ghosts of the past.
[ ♆ ] October 25th: With equilibrium restored, all visions vanish, and life returns to how it was.

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counterblows: (} if home is where the heart is)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-11-20 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[That actually takes him a second to parse. The rock - not the bulletin rock, but the rocks they all carry that are...rockie talkies, as someone once told him. Weed Guy actually told him that. He just doesn't actually know that Connor is synonymous with Weed Guy.]

[He's had bigger problems to worry about.]


Probably not, no. Is that seriously your priority right now?
lesbeau: (« [Squint] youre literally talking trash)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-11-28 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks at him like he's a dumbass.]

Uh, yeah. What else am I gonna do? Wander off a cliff at the suggestion of my dearly fake follower? Wallow in crap for a week? Nah. I'm gonna get baked and watch the ocean until this shit blows over. I won't remember any hallucination is real with good enough stuff.
counterblows: (} and my ego's in a sling)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-11-28 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
You're not worried about anyone else that might not be as adjusted to this?

[Maine is saying something - for a certain value of "saying," as it doesn't involve very many words - but he ignores it. Maine is difficult to ignore. He was difficult to ignore even before he was hollowed out into something that ripped his friends' minds out of their skulls in pursuit of the A.I. they housed.]
lesbeau: (« [Grimace] uuuuuuuuuuugh no)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-01 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
And what, you are, holed up here?

[It's not that she's heartless, just... not a savior type.]

I've made sure my team is alright, so yeah, I'd like time to pass faster in the meantime. I don't see you running around offering to be everyone's therapist.
counterblows: (} and it's kinda funny)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-01 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not about to die.

[Not any more than usual, anyway. He closes his eyes, briefly. They're sticky with lack of sleep, but they always are. Maine doesn't really go away. He's a solid wall of white fog and golden-domed faceshielding and a low, annoyed rumble. Stop it, he's saying without saying anything at all. Stop falling asleep.]

[So he opens his eyes again.]


There's someone I still need to find.
lesbeau: (« [Bored] oh yeah huh bout that)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-04 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She screws up her mouth, squinting down at him.]

Then c'mon. Get up.

[Beau gestures to him, flipping her wrist towards herself as a gesture of 'come on'.]

Don't just sit here and wallow, let's do something.
counterblows: (} then we're all just fucked)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-04 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
She's not making herself easy to find, is the thing.

[He sighs heavily. Wonder of all wonders, but that's not sufficient in getting him upright right away. But, after a moment, he levers himself up on one elbow, and then onto his side.]
lesbeau: (« [Concern] no hard feelings yeah)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-05 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? Because she's full in on this death shit?

[Ugh, great, here she goes helping.]

Guess I got nothing better to do. Who is it?
counterblows: (} follow the disorganized religion)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-05 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She thinks it's real.

[Because he keeps saying it's not, and he's - well, he's gone crazy before, hasn't he? Why should his word mean a damn thing? Since when has it ever mattered?]

Name of C.T. Armor like mine, but it's brown and - a different config. [If she even knows what that means.]
Edited 2018-12-05 20:55 (UTC)
lesbeau: (« [Look] yeah you got some shit right th)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-09 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah, I got one like that. We've been taking shifts.

[Also Beau tied her to a tree with a lot of rope but that's neither here nor there.]

How long has it been since you saw her? Hours, days?
counterblows: (} on a passenger plane)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-09 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
She disappeared as soon as it started happening.

[He hasn't had any luck seeing her face to face, is what he means.]

If I'm lucky, I can get her on one of the stones, but she hasn't been... [She doesn't respond as often, now. It's getting less and less frequent.] She's not responding.
lesbeau: (« [Uh] cool motive still murder)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-12 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit.

[That's bad. Real bad.]

Any favorite hangouts? Dangerous places she knows about? Any ways she's afraid of dying so we know what to rule out?

[Alright, so we're already there.]
counterblows: (} follow the disorganized religion)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-12 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[What does he say to that? How does he explain that C.T. has died twice now, and went into both situations knowing she probably wouldn't walk back out? How does he explain that he might have been one of her closest friends in the Project at home, but that, in the end, he didn't really even know her?]

She's not afraid to die. I just don't think she wants to believe she will.

[Again.]

I don't know where he'd take her, and she's not talking.
lesbeau: (« [Breathe] i have -7 patience)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-16 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[She just kind of sighs, because this guy is not helping and she doesn't even know how to help. Maybe she shouldn't be getting involved, but she got concerned, and now she's here. Damnit. Shoulda found weed guy instead.]

Course she doesn't. Mine's like that too.

[Just to really sell the damn thing, she holds out her hand towards him.]

Well, come on. Now you've gotten me involved. You're welcome. Let's go.
counterblows: (} if home is where the heart is)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-16 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Wash, for his part, is not optimistic of their chances. It's not generally his job to be.]

[But if she's bent on making something of this and helping, then he's not about to tell her no. Throwing himself into something productive is more useful than lying around and waiting for things to change.]

[Something he knows full well.]


You know we're likely to cover more ground splitting up.
lesbeau: (« [Look] yeah you got some shit right th)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean yeah, I have no intention of babysitting you.

[She has less investment in this, which is good for as sensitive a situation this is. But it's something to do, something distracting, something that might actually help someone. Wasn't she supposed to be doing more of that?]

You can call me on the rock if you see her. I won't approach or whatever, you can do all of that, seeing as she probably won't wanna talk to some rando. But I'll call.
counterblows: (} follow the disorganized religion)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-22 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, [says Wash, the word a wry, sarcastic pull. Not very fucking reliable, is he? No. Needs to be babysat. Needs to be watched over. He'd rather be disparaged and underestimated than treated with kid gloves any day, but that doesn't mean it feels great.]

[Any irritation he can afford is vague, displaced, temporary. There's too much to worry about to allow himself to get hung up on that, so he doesn't.]


You're probably right about that one. Just...calling is our best bet.
lesbeau: (« [Serious] patient defense)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2018-12-30 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, Wash. You probably need someone better than her. Most people do. But she's not the hero people deserve or the one they need right now. She's just a mess that does things that are helpful at least 75% of the time. It's not a bad ratio.]

Look, I don't know what I'd say to her. But if I see her, I'll call you and trail her until you get there. Unless you have a better plan.
counterblows: (} and it's kinda funny)

[personal profile] counterblows 2018-12-30 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
...yeah. Yeah. Sounds like a plan.

[On my mark. Sync?]

[But he doesn't say it. Of course he doesn't say it. He'd probably come out sounding like someone who's just had a stroke, to anyone not familiar with Freelancer-styled terminology.]
lesbeau: (« [Look] yeah you got some shit right th)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2019-01-06 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[She'd just assume he was saying gibberish, yeah. The on my mark sounds correct though.]

Cool. Talk to ya soon.

[And without waiting, she sprints off.]