Paranormal Encounters ((Full))

[AlyssumReika]

Paranormal Encounters

Six best friends, together since elementary school. They've always been drawn to the paranormal world. As they've grown up together they have always had a dream of taking off and traveling the world in search for paranormal activity. They've saved the money to buy a motor home and all the equipment to investigate and document their findings. Now they are graduating and all that's left to do is leave town.

•Roles•
~Male~
Tech guy- Handles the equipment, development, set up, etc. : Whisper_of_the_East
Camera man- Handles the camera and main footage. : FuneeBuns
Investigator- Books most of the locations and leads the exploration. : Dimon Valor Cross

~Female~
Audio tech- Handles audio equipment and sound such as EVP's. : Kairakoi
Camera girl- Helps with the cameras and filming. : OpenThe Lady Reaper
Investigator- Does the research on the history of the locations and helps lead the investigations. : AlyssumReika

°Note°
*All parts help and take part in the actual investigation, but they have other responsibilities.
*Anyone who joins is allowed to help with the hauntings.
*Also, anyone who wants to join just to act as a haunting is welcome, just PM me.

•Rules•
1. Keep things appropriate. Swearing, gore, romance, its all fine but let's not go overboard.
2. Be active. Posy as often as you can and let me know if you'll be gone for a while.
3. Be at least semi-lit. At least a good 5 sentence paragraph per post. Be as grammatically correct as you can. No text talk.

Other than that just be respectful, kind, and just have fun. smile

[AlyssumReika]

Gaia name: AlyssumReika
Name: Riley Montgomery
Age: (note, they are just graduating high school, ages must be at least 18 ) 19
Role: Female Investigator
Personality/Interests: Riley is kind of a spunky, alternative type of girl. She is very friendly, and doesn't really belong to any specific clique, because her interests and talents are wide spread. Though she is almost always with one of her best friends, she is friendly with lots of people. She wouldn't be considered popular, but lots of people know her or know of her. She loves music and writing. In her free time, you could find her sitting beneath a tree, ear buds in her ears and a notepad and pencil in her hand. Her favorite subject in school was history, she took every class she could. She is really good at finding old, hidden histories. She could find the past of anyone, or any place, whether ahe has only a name or a picture. Other than that, she is really brave. She doesn't get frightened easily. Which makes everyone want to try and frighten her, but it doesn't really work. She is absolutely fascinated by the paranormal world. Riley is head strong, determined and extremely stubborn.
Bio:(Doesn't need to be extravagant, but include something) Riley is the youngest of five child. This has lead to a lot of high expectations. All of her syblings are going to be doctors and lawyers. Her parents wanted the same thing from her, but Riley just wants a simple life. She wants to travel the world doing paranormal research. By her senior year in high school, her parents finally realized that no matter how hard they pushed her, Riley wasn't changing her mind.. This caused them to practically kick her out the minute she graduated high school. They told her that they weren't going to provide for a freeloader with no aspirations in life. Though it was hard on her, Riley tries not to let it get to her. She is a free spirit and happy soul, though when it comes to her fascination with the paranormal world she is extremely serious about it. It all started when she was very young. It was during the winter and she was the only one out of school. Riley's mother had no choice but to take her to work with her at the hospital. She had seen many spirits pass that day, but there was once that stuck out in her mind the most. She remembered seeing an old man, he called for her to come near. Riley was only young, so her naive self walked forward without thinking. She talked to the man for a long time before he got frightened and told her he must leave. Later that day Riley asked her mom about old Mr. Peters. Only, Mr. Peters had passed away the night before.
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[The Lady Reaper]

Gaia Name : The Lady Reaper
Name : Mina O'Connor
Age : 20
Role : Camera Girl
Personality/Interests : Mina is typically the shy quiet one of her group of friends.She's the type that can be relied on, even if she knows it'll end badly in some way or another, so basically, she's not one to leave a friend hanging.Mina has always had an interest in the arts,, filming, and cooking.So her friends very rarely had to buy or pack their lunch. As an unknown to her friends, at least for awhile, she had a secret passion passion for the paranormal, spending every free moment looking into old tales.
Bio : The only child of an electronics storekeep and a librarian, Mina never had to worry about being pestered about college.Her parents were content with her straight A's and trusted her enough to choose her own path in life. Her father does supply a good deal of the equipment to the group, giving them freakishly amazing deals on cameras and the like.While her mother let's them use the city and library archives for research during a particularly hard case.Both are supportive to her, and her friends, not at all bothered by the mass of teens crashing in the living room every now and then.Mina'sjust happy she's found people that accept her as she is.

Her interest in the paranormal began a bit early in her life however.When she was small, she remembered her parents saying their family had a 'gift', a sixth sense if you will.In certain places, and with some people, the could sense things.When she turned six, her family moved into a slightlk larger house close to the edge of town.She began to have nightmares of a buning building and smoke.She told her parents an they looked int the matter.Their home had been rebuilt atop the ruins of another that had burned down in the fifties.Every now and again, she still has the same nightmare. On anothernote, her grandmother, before she passed, told Mina e family gift was a sort of empathy.As the group started to get into the bigger cases, Minas odd talent came in handy, but it worked best when she wasn't given the big details about the haunting, being able to pick some of it up on her own.
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[Kairakoi]

Gaia name: Kairakoi
Name: Helene 'Elle' Halkyone
Age: Twenty-Three
Role: Audio Tech
Personality/Interests: Helene is rambunctious young lady. She just does things with all of her passion and intensity and doesn't really think too much about the mundane details. With her equipment, she if focused, precise and patient. But with people, she could be more forgiving. In an environment as one would find themselves as a paranormal investigator, Helene has no patience for people talking out of turn or making other such noises to put the validity of her evidence into question. She is a master debunker, and usually the group's registered skeptic. She likes to believe she is the group leader, pressing the group forward to more interesting, darker, more terrifying places. She wants to get the goods and will not be the one to praise her teammates for doing their job. She comes off as bossy, mean, and driven.Don't get in her way.
Bio: She was born and grew up in a wealthy family in a major community, she lived free of trouble until he was 9 years old, but at that point things changed. Her mother had twins. All of her parents attention was suddenly funneled into the babies. From the moment they were old enough to stand on their own, she was the boss of them. They would make the most embarrassing home movies together, with Helene in the directors seat. While re-watching them, Helene found some odd occurrences in her video tapes and her interest in paranormal investigations began. She started using her siblings as bait for the ghosts that haunted her family's mansion, her wealthy parents providing all of the equipment her little heart could ever desire. Now, she provides the equipment and knowledge she has gained over years of messing around to her paranormal crew. But now, she is serious, determined and unwilling to let them knock her off course when searching for the truth.

[Whisperer_of_the_East]

Gaia name: Whisperer_of_the_East
Name: Dante Rhodes
Age: 23
Role: Tech Guy
Personality/Interests: Dante is a pretty relaxed individual with almost no worries or fears...except for snakes and the unknown. He is passionate about his work, even if some would mock his current job. He drinks occasionally and has recently quit smoking, though he’ll cave and have one when nervous or scared. Though he may look big and scary, Dante is a very friendly and open person who will listen to anyone’s problems and try his best to get people to smile or laugh at his horrible jokes.
Bio: Dante was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an upper middle-class family. He always had a passion for electronics, taking things apart to figure out what was what and how everything inside worked before dissembling them to put back together perfectly. When Dante was 8, he awoke in the middle of the night to find a robed figure across from his bed, with red eyes staring back at him. He covered his head with his blanket, hiding there and unable to sleep until the first light of dawn peered through his window. He told his parents what he saw, but was told it was only a bad dream. Dante knew, however, that this was not a dream and so came a new interest: paranormal investigation. He never had the wits to be in front of the camera as the main investigator, but he always wanted to work among a team of paranormal investigators, exploring the unknown and potentially making contact with the deceased. He provides the equipment and helps set them up to seek out paranormal sightings, showing the non-believers that the world isn’t as simple as one would like to believe.

[FuneeBuns]

Gaia name: FuneeBuns
Name: Jesse Harper
Age: 22
Personality: Jesse is usually calm and collected and is mostly never stressed unless he finds himself in a really troublesome situation. Whenever he is working on something, he's very dedicated and serious. He is very observant which gives him the advantage of easily reading another person based on their body language, though he keeps his thoughts about it to himself, not wanting to make the other person feel embarrassed. With his friends however, he wouldn't mind pointing out some things, since he enjoys teasing them about it. Being observant also means that he pays a lot of attention to very small details, which served as a definite advantage in spotting paranormal activity whenever he reviews their gathered camera footage. Jesse is quite the risk-taker, always diving head first into anything that tickles his interest, however he can be quite reckless and would often find himself in the midst of trouble. Lucky for him, he still manages to get out of the ditch unscathed, but there would eventually come a time when he needs to think first before charging into anything.
Bio: Jessie was born in an average-family household, and was brought up by a single-father since his mother had died when he was at a young age. His father worked as a night security guard in a hospital. His father would always bring him along to work since there would be no one to watch him at home. His dad usually lets him hang out the hospital's surveillance room. Jessie's interest in the paranormal started in his elementary years when his dad brought him to work one night. He was sitting in the surveillance table, watching the surveillance camera's of the hospitals. He was getting really bored and was just about to get off the leather chair when he noticed one of the television screens. It was the surveillance camera in one of the hallways of the hospital. There he saw a little girl in a hospital gown, just standing in the middle of the hallway. He stared at the girl for a while thinking that she was probably a patient lost but then she slowly disappeared, and he saw it all happen in camera. At first being the kid who was into the paranormal made his classmates think he was a creepy weirdo, but it didn't take long until he met his friends who shared the same interest.

Ever since that night at the hospital, Jesse had been so inclined into capturing more footage of ghosts, that he bought his own camera and started going to their town's abandoned hospitals with his friends in hopes of getting footage of ghosts. He created a "paranormal channel" in an online video hosting site and uploads his paranormal adventures with his friends. He wasn't that much good in camera work before since he was still quite young. But when he reached highschool, that's when he joined the school news and current affairs club where he became the main cameraman and was taught everything he needed to know about capturing footage. With his newly improved skills in video editing and camera work, the videos got better and the paranormal channel garnered subscribers from around the world. He continues to maintain the channel and is currently enjoying the paranormal world with his friends.
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[CartelValentine97]

Gaia name: Dimon Valor Cross
Name: Vincent Mercer
Age: 21
Personality: Vincent is a very reserved and calm individual, that analyzes each situation before walking in...underneath his soldier like posture and emotionless tone. he is a very loyal friend that puts immense passion in everything he does, especially investigating the paranormal with his friends and team...Vincent will never take no for an answer, If he feels the rush of spirits or abnormalities, he will do anything it takes to catch it on footage and contribute to his gang's rise in the investigative world. behind the scenes, he is a simple and fun loving guy that only want's the best for his team...especially in their chosen business...he considers himself the leader or at least co leader with Riley, as he handles most commercial and public relations...
Bio: The second youngest of 4 children, Vincent was the only man in his household, since his Father was killed in a mafia raid and his siblings were all girls...as a result, Vincent was forced to grow up early so he could protect his family...this taught him the core values of friendship and loyalty...Vincent was the popular kid in high school...captain of the wrestling team and the quarterback of the football team....however one day his life came to a halt, as he suffered the loss of his girlfriend to a drunk driver...Vincent hurt his knee, so he was forced to give up sports for the time being...however, as he lay in the hospital, he was shocked to see what seemed to be the ghost of his girlfriend Stephanie....ever since, Vincent decided he wanted to become a paranormal investigator....Ever since, Vincent teamed up with fellow investigator Riley Montgomery, and the rest of the crew that became one...


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[AlyssumReika]

Dimon Valor Cross

The Lady Reaper

Whisperer_of_the_East

FuneeBuns

Kairakoi

"So! Where to next?" Riley asked, specifically to Vincent, but really they all had a say in it. The group had just finished a case at an old hotel. It hadn't been everything they'd expected, but they did get some decent footage and EVP's. Now they were just finishing loading their equipment into their motor hom and they were back on the road. Riley couldn't be happier, traveling the world with her friends, doing the one thing they all shared a passion for. Riley was the youngest of the gang, so they had to wait for her to graduate before they could go very far from home, it had been an agonizing wait. It had been a year since Riley graduated and her parents practically through her out on the curb. It was a good thing they had saved so long long to purchase their motor home. It left them wanderers, but not homeless. That was the way they liked it they, or at least Riley did.

With their combined savings, and the help of parents who weren't as stubborn as Riley's, they were able to get a cozy motor home and all the equipment they could ever dream of. They had just about every gadget there was to both track and document the paranormal world. Their motor home was nice and fit them all comfortably. It was a good thing they had grown up together though, it didn't really have much privacy, and despite its coziness, it was still a motor home, not a house. Either way, Riley didn't desire anything more. Since they left home they had been doing very well. They seemed to be getting bigger and better, finding more documentation everywhere they went. Their locations were growing bigger and darker. People were starting to know of them, which made it a little easier to get access to their haunted locations.

((By the way, I don't really care how fancy or simple you make your posts.))

[The Lady Reaper]

Mina glanced at Riley, her hands steady as the motor home rocked gently with the flow of late night traffic. Her gaze shifted back to the camera lenses she was cleaning, the polish on them nearly blinding when light hit it. She loved her friends, and certainly didn't mind having to wait for Riley to graduate to get on the move, but she really hoped they could figure out a different arrangement for storing their equipment for the sake of sanity. Her own patents had offered up the old Volkswagen van just before they left, and she couldn't remember why they had refused. Ah well, what didn't kill you right?

Mina brought the lenses up to eye level, checking for smudges, before setting it aside and starting on the next one "Wasn't there that family in Maine? The one that had to shut down their training center because something was spooking the horses?" Her voice had a bit of a lilt to it. She polished the second lenses to a shine as well before putting everything into a small black case.Mina usually had little to say about where they went, simply because she'd asked the others to leave some details out when telling her of a case.But the fact she'd spoken up about this one was a little odd for her.

She didn't have much to do in way of research, nor in meeting with the clients.Her job was to set up the cameras and film the others, and she was perfectly content with that.But everyone in their little group had a talent that was just a little too strong to be called normal.

[CartelValentine97]

The Lady Reaper

AlyssumReika

Vincent looked up from his desk as he heard Riley and Mina talk about the next investigation. he nodded in agreement as he gazed down at the files from his computer. "Yes...as Mina said, there is a good sized county style manor out in Maine...owner has complained about the horses being spooked...feeling uneasy at night...and hmm...scratches being inflicted upon them on the 100... acre property" he said as he wrote down the address and handed it to Mina..."Property that big could be a 2 to 3 day investigation should we have the time for it in our schedule...What do you think?" He asked the younger Riley, who had recently graduated, allowing them to take their business out of their small town...

compared to the rest of the crew, Vincent came from a very luxurious household, so as soon as he graduated, he used some money to do solo investigations around more local areas...this kept on for just below 3 years until the entire crew was out of high school..."I can book us a hotel to sleep in the mornings...about 10 miles from the manor...it is a bit isolated..." he said as he pulled his hair back and continued reading about the manor...

[Whisperer_of_the_East]

Dante overheard their conversation as he drove down the silent road, listening to soft jazz in a single ear bud. He looked down at the clock on the dashboard as it read eight forty-eight in the evening. “Mina if you could put that address in the GPS for me I’d greatly appreciate it” , he said, glancing back through the rearview mirror for a second before looking back towards the road. Though the team always took turns driving the RV, he usually stepped in to drive as it was almost like a means of relaxation for him after each job.
“Three days, Vincent? We haven’t done one of those in a while. Could be promising” . He loved his job, but he always felt each location they investigated was never long enough for him. “I do hope there’s a diner near the motel….starting to really crave some pancakes” smacking his lips as he imagined a tall stack of pancakes in front of him.

[FuneeBuns]

Jesse sat on the top bunk of the double decked bed at the far end of their motor home. His
laptop sat across his thighs as he scanned through the footage that they gathered from their
recently debunked investigation. He had headphones on, but kept his other ear open in case
any of his friends calls for his attention. After checking a couple of the footage, he went and
checked their online channel and found that they had new subscribers. He even saw some
comments inviting them over to investigate in their town. It's been years since Jesse started the
channel, and seeing how much people are appreciating what they were doing, shows how much
they've worked hard. People were always so skeptical about the paranormal, but Jesse and his
friends were very dedicated to prove its existence, that people are now actually taking notice.

Just then Jesse overheard Mina mentioning something about a haunted training center in Maine.
He closed his laptop and gently placed it on the bed before jumping off the top bunk. His landing
caused their home to shake a bit. He then started walking down the small walkway of their home
and joined the others. "Oh yeah, I've heard about that place. One of our subscribers mentioned
it." he says walking over to where Mina was and started helping her with the camera lenses.
Jesse let out a light chuckle after hearing Dante's craving for pancakes. "If Vincent's doing
the booking for the hotel, I'm pretty sure we'll be eating more than just pancakes." he teased.

"Anyway, is that the manor? Looks fancy." Jesse says as he walked over to Vincent and looked
over at his computer screen. He was reading about the manor. Jesse kept his eyes on Vincent's
screen as he continued cleaning one of the camera lenses. He then spotted one picture in particular
of the stable for the horses. "Woah. Hold on." he says patting Vincent's shoulder. "See that?"
he asked pointing at a white faded figure of...well...something. "Doesn't look like a glare from
a camera. It's too translucent to be a person either." Whatever it was it was far too early
for conclusions as the image was too distorted.

Whisperer_of_the_East

Dimon Valor Cross

The Lady Reaper

AlyssumReika

[CartelValentine97]

FuneeBuns

Vincent lightly chuckled at Jessie's comment."Heh...of course...you better count on it...being a former athlete, I can't go an hour without eating something..." he said before gazing at the various images of the house, pinpointing the various places that he could put cameras and whatnot...Vincent happened to have a slightly successful channel in the ghost hunting community, but the one thing holding him back was the lack of a big crew...the one man army wasn't enough to get both audio and visual evidence at the same time, since he was also the one communicating with spirits...

Vincent zoomed in on the picture and enhanced the image..."That don't...look right..." he said, focusing on the human like picture of what seemed to be an otherworldly mist..."s**t...that does it for me...I think this picture was taken with a phone...imagine what we can get with our equipment?" he said as he began to book the hotel information...

[Kairakoi]

Helene "Elle" Halkyone

Helene was laying the bottom bunk of the rear bed going over and over this one piece of recording about twenty-four seconds long where there was... something. No one else heard it, but she heard it and it was something. She'd show them. With her eyes closed, and her hands pressing uselessly against the giant headphones that enclosed her ears, Helene listened closely. ...There! What was that? Or was it? A rather bouncy bump tossed her about an inch above the sheets. She landed with a soft thump, on the mattress. Jesse landed on the floor beside the bed and the floor shook The headphones bounced off her head and she heard Dante asking for GPS coordinates. She rolled over and let her arm hang off the edge of the bed and hit the pause button. "Spooked horses? Really?" Her heart had been set on an abandoned penitentiary. It didn't seem like real evidence to her. Staying in a fancy Manor wasn't her idea of something special, since she had grown up in a fancy Manor. Okay, well, not a manor, but a mansion at least. Hell, half of this mobile home and the vast majority of their equipment had come from her fancy shmancy family. That's how they could even fit six people in a motor home. It wasn't the smallest. Not huge, but something.

Everyone seemed on board with this new Manor plan. She groaned internally. Jesse found something interesting on one of the photographs on whatever screen of research Vincent had been looking at. Then the conversation turned to pancakes. If there was something she could agree to, it was Diner food. She squinted hard from her place on the bed trying to see down the hallway and to the screen which was more or less impossible. Getting up was such a bother. Well, it was settled, they were going to investigate a place that would probably feel more like home than an investigation. "I wan't french toast." She called down the hall to the rest of the crew in the front of the bus. "And a god damn fruit cup." Mmm.. Fruit cup. She took the audio recorder in her hand and ejected the tape. Carefully checking the label on the tape and matching it with a case of the same label. She pulled a tub filled with tapes and filed this one away. Sitting up with her headphones around her neck. Helene cracked her knuckles. Time to start getting her s**t together for the Manor.