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 Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:12 pm
They could hear Michael mount the stairs and wander around on the second floor in true ghost fashion, and then abruptly it stopped. Four minutes passed, and the faucets in the kitchen and downstairs bathroom simultaneously turned on.
"Wellp, here we go," Toby said, standing to address the kitchen first. The spigot said it was luke warm, but the water itself was steaming. Toby sighed and turned it off. The temperature misread could easily be the plumbing. The handle flipping up? Not so much. But they had brought generators and Michael wasn't the only one who could use them.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:26 pm
Maia followed Toby to the kitchen. "Can ghosts be in two places at once?" Maia asked. What was the point of turning water on, though? Just making sure they knew it was there?
"What did Michael mean by 'something'?" She asked.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:32 pm
"Not usually," Toby said, "but that doesn't mean there's two ghosts. Two taps turn on, but they're the same type to activity. Was that you, Michael?"
Dari shook his head. "It wasn't him. He's talking to it now."
"Well," Toby explained as he went to turn off the bathroom faucet, "There are many different categorizations for hauntings. Trapped energy that plays events back for no conscious reason, conscious entities who've either lost their humanity or logic, or like Michael who're just... dead people." The water in the bathroom sink was steaming too. "That's rare, just a dead person, and of course the amount of time they've been dead has something to do with their personality, just like any immortal. This sounds like something conscious, but I guess Michael doesn't think the--"
The bath tub turned on full-blast but the handle hadn't been turned.
"--the entity is totally all-there."
Well there was no way to turn the tub off. He'd have to leave the family a little tip for their water bill.
"That was Michael," Dari said.
"Ah." Toby nodded, as if that was the most normal thing in the world.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:49 pm
Oh. Great. An insane ghost. That made things better. She followed them into the bathroom. She watched the bathtub turn on and looked to Toby. Did two ghosts communicating cause water things to happen? Huh. "What're they doing?" she asked.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:51 pm
Toby shrugged. "We'll find out when they're done. Most of the time agents sit out of ambassadorial talks. I mean, the use of an ambassador is to deal with people that won't deal with agents."
The water stopped after another 30 seconds or so. A voice crackled over Toby's walkie.
"It's entirely reactive, and it's not happy." Michael.
"At us?"
"I don't know if it's anything in particular. It won't talk. It just wants to fight. Show off, even."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:06 pm
"Maybe it's just territorial?" Maia asked, hopefully. She hoped it wasn't the type that would fight everyone who entered, that'd be awkward... Well, they weren't leaving.
"Try impressing it, Michael, see if it'll talk to you then."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:10 pm
"I turned on the tub and it disappeared," Michael said.
"Disappeared? It has an apparition?" Toby asked.
"No. Sorry. I misspoke. It left. I ceased to feel it.
"Alright, well. I guess we might as well try provoking it into action for the family's sake."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:16 pm
An unfriendly ghost who could hide. "Well, it's probably connected to something in the house," she said. "Any idea where it might've gone?" Provoking the ghost probably wasn't the best idea ever, but...
Well maybe after, it'd talk to Michael.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:24 pm
Michael gave an amused little scoff at Maia's assumption. How would she know? Toby smiled but said nothing.
"It's more likely the house itself," Michael said, "and if it's been dormant as long as they say it has, something must have tipped it off. The baby, maybe."
"So now we play with triggers," Toby said. He motioned for the others to follow him into the kitchen again and passed the dining chairs. They were stacked again, even though they had specifically unstacked them. "Hey, look at that."
He took them down again and set a glass on the table, and just sat down to watch and wait with his camcorder.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:47 pm
Why would the baby upset a ghost? Hm... Maybe it was lonely? But no, then it would've reacted positively. Maybe it resented the change?
She followed Toby into the kitchen and sat, waiting to see something.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:50 pm
Nothing happened for quite some time, so obviously the cup wasn't the issue. Toby nodded to Maia. "Come on, let's go do a walk-around." He stood and started around the first floor. As they passed it, the basement door slowly opened.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:17 pm
Maia followed Toby's lead. "Maybe they did some renovating for the baby's room?" She suggested. She'd heard--from that nonlegit television show that redoing something or tearing up rugs sometimes triggered ghosts.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:37 pm
Toby continued around the first floor, not asking anything of the spirit but recording the ambient sounds nonetheless. Nothing seemed amiss, so he headed upstairs and checked out the bedrooms.
...huh.
Interesting how all of the baby's toys were arranged in a circle like that. They hadn't been that way in the walk-through.
"I think it's a fair bet most of this activity is baby-based.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:46 pm
Maia paused at the baby's room, and walked inside. "What do you think?" she asked. "Malicious, not malicious?" It'd be a great plot twist if the ghost just wanted to befriend the baby, but she wasn't sure that was probable. They had to do something, though, she didn't like the thought of the baby being in danger.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:49 pm
"Hm."
Toby circled the circle and kicked over a lavender hippopotamus. He followed this up with a stack of blocks that unfortunately spelled nothing interesting and a pull-along duck, all at random intervals. He picked up his walkie.
"Dari, I have a theory. Can you get me some audio of an infant crying?"
"A sound-based interruption, you think?" A voice in the room. Michael, invisible.
"Maybe," Toby shrugged.
"On it," Dari said over the walkie.
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