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[freshprints]

Ghosts are real and now they're haunting you for being a dick.

OoooooOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo.

[hierophany]

Well fuck. I'm spooked.

I'm going to guess that's the source of the laughing that's been keeping people up at night. Not that I have any proof, it just seems like a ghost-like thing to do, going around cackling at night.

[freshprints]

I imagine so. Thus far they don't appear malicious, however. Slightly irritating, perhaps, but benign.

[hierophany]

Have you seen them yourself? Have you noticed anything more death-ish than usual?

Is death-ish the right term? ‘Morbid’ doesn’t fit. Necrotic seems appropriate, perhaps, aside from the existing medical meaning.

[freshprints]

I've been going out to try to learn more about them, yes. Thus far when I try to approach, they disappear. However, the fact that they come back soon after I afford them some space is suspect.

[hierophany]

Are you.

Are you suspicious just because you’re unpopular with ghosts, Bottle-chan?

[freshprints]

I am not unpopular with ghosts.

[hierophany]

Are you sure? Because it sounds like you’re unpopular with ghosts. That’s what it usually means when you show up and everyone else leaves~

[freshprints]

Hauntings are not social events.

[hierophany]

The words of someone who’s never been invited to a ghost party.

Do you know what they’re the ghosts of? Because I suppose there’s no good option other than ‘people who died of old age after a long and happy life’, but I’m rather hoping the answer isn’t ‘the last batch of newcomers they found in a crater’.

[freshprints]

Implying that you have been?

Eyewitness accounts are varied, so there's no reliable conclusion yet. However, a number of the reports have suggested that the ghosts are childlike, and monstrous in nature. Which would also explain the laughing.

[hierophany]

You don’t know what my socail life is like, Bottle-chan. Maybe I have lots of ghost friends.

Childlike and monstrous. Both of those are concerning for entirely different reasons.

[freshprints]

Friendships like that must keep you in high spirits.

I'm curious which you find more concerning. Young, or inhuman?

[hierophany]

Wow. If you’re not invited to their parties, clearly the ghosts are missing out on stellar entertainment.

Young, mostly. Then the fact that it’s ‘ghosts’, plural. Then the possibility of them being something that might be able to rip my arms off and eat them. Mostly, I’m concerned about how so many children became dead.

And slightly concerned that they might have parents who may or may not also be ghosts and enthusiastic about ripping arms off. Who might be equally concerned about the dead children situation and ready to express that.

[freshprints]

The fact that they've been reported as ghosts doesn't automatically mean they're the lingering spirits of deceased once-living mortals. It means that whoever perceived them and made the report interpreted their qualities to be ghostlike.

For all we know, they could be living energy beings who just happen to resemble what we think of as ghosts.

[hierophany]

I'm not sure I have no concerns at all about the concept of children who cannot be contained by walls.

Though I will admit, that would be far better than dead children.

[freshprints]

What is your objection to children generally?