We already proved that they can die and come back. But if it's damaging them that's a different story. [...] Let me know what you find out from the four of them. What's different, what's the same...we can figure out how to handle them from there.
Then again, after tomorrow we might only have two or three to deal with anyway. [...he's going to take another long drink, oh well.]
[From all four of them... including the extremely cursed Polly...
Haha that sure is a possibility though, isn't it!! He's quiet for a second.]
--Do you still want me to see what I can do about separating hosts and spirits?
[The tone of his voice suggests what he doesn't say aloud, though: that he doesn't think he'll be finding anything any time soon. Not soon enough for Carlos, if at all.]
I do, yeah. In case this happens again, if we have the information on-hand we might be able to save future victims. [But his own tone suggests that he doesn't think it'll save Carlos either and maybe he's accepted that a little more than before. It's still awful, but it's fine.]
There's something understanding in his expression for a second before he nods, in any case.]
I'll do what I can. I think I'll try to speak to some of the others who work with possessions and spirits and the like in their own worlds, too. The more we have to work with, the easier it might be to figure out what we can make work here.
There're a few people I'm sure you know about already. Some of our swords are used to spirits. Tamamo. Kagachi. Muzet, in theory. They're the ones I can think of right away.
I think splitting things into smaller teams is going to help us right now. A group to work on protection and knowledge of possessions and spirits. A group to work on research. A group to work on finding paths to the other floors. Something like that.
Mm, I was planning on talking to at least Kagachi, since it seems like he's dealt with other cases of forced bodily possession before.
[THAT'S GONNA BE A FUN TALK. Also, he nods pretty much right away. Though he's the type who tends to fuck off on his own and try to do things without help, sometimes you just gotta admit that the sex demons have you in a stalemate.]
I think that's our best bet for getting as much done as we possibly can at once, too. Focus the specialists where their specialties lie - usually doesn't work out too badly.
[My dude he is also there? Sometimes you're a one-man show and the next sex demons force teamwork on you.]
It's the usually that's a little concerning, but we'll figure that out as it comes. The best thing is we can get a schedule of things, so we know how many days we have at a time to figure out ideas.
[hi5 lone idiot wolves that are now forced to Join The Team
Anyway just sighing and carding a hand through his hair, god.]
Do we have a rough idea of that just yet? If the source of the disturbance is dispatched on Sunday, I'm hoping we won't have to go through this again for another week... Unless they decide to switch up the days on us. Which, you know! That would be perfectly aligned with our luck so far, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would, but once a schedule is set I think whoever's actually doing all of this will stick with it. Wouldn't they be breaking their own rules otherwise? Of course, there's the chance we won't have to do this again at all.
[But he doubts that. Now that it's started, they're on a fast track. ]
[YEAH HE JUST laughs at that... This is not a situation to be laughing in but look! Even the mere suggestion they'd have that level of decent luck is hilarious!]
--I do wonder what the aim is in all of this, though - just how far things are meant to be taken. Clearly none of our dear predecessors were still around when we arrived. [...] Haha, well. Presumably.
[When your item is billed as A Lucky Hand sometimes you just have to think about believing in luck.]
I don't really believe that. Somehow some of them are still around. Otherwise how would they know things are going according to their plan? Even if it's been set up beforehand, they have to have someone nearby to make sure.
I was talking about the group that supposedly died, unless you're implying that you think the ones behind us being here were among them? I'm more inclined to believe that's a separate group, but plants wouldn't be unusual.
[Someone Among Them Was The Demon Summoner All Along.]
That's what I'm implying, yeah. Whoever's been leaving messages for us obviously lived through something horrible, but that doesn't mean they aren't behind this re-enactment. It happens. [He doesn't like it, but it does.]
We need to keep listening for new recordings and new information. That's the other big priority.
[He says with a little laugh, but doesn't otherwise seem surprised or unhappy about the theory. People are terrible!! He certainly knows the things they're capable of.]
So we've just got to keep trying to poke our noses everywhere that they clearly don't want us to be, hm? Well! Good thing a lot of us seem to specialize in exactly that.
[Another drink is the answer.] More than once. [It's fine, people suck and sometimes things just happen.]
I've been trying to make contact with everyone to up my chances of getting information back to me. If people are going to keep looking around in places I don't get to right away, I want to be informed as soon as possible to complete the bigger puzzle.
Hah, really? Were they making fun of you with that "luck" thing, then?
[BECAUSE TRULY, THAT IS SOME VERY BAD LUCK. Almost inspirationally bad.]
Anyway, since you're making yourself such a good hub of connection, you had better take extra care not to do anything that could get you possessed or killed.
[And he doesn't press, because that's just the kind of dude he is (usually), fortunately for people who don't like Those Nosy Prying Types.]
Still working on that one, unfortunately. Outside of the obvious "don't touch things that look cursed, don't read things aloud in languages you don't understand, don't put anything strange in your mouth or carry it around in your pockets" and the like, I still have no idea what we're actually dealing with outside of an entity that can be evicted from a body with those "prizes" of ours. Usually they have a preference for certain hosts, or for certain actions those hosts perform, but until there's a pattern...
[He's got no clue. "SEX DEMON" IS STILL LIKE. WEIRDLY VAGUE AND ALSO OUT OF HIS WHEELHOUSE.]
[Well he touched the demon book so that's something. But the rest makes sense.]
A gamble then. [Well. That's fine.] I can work with that just fine. I was thinking about trying to lure whatever this is to myself, but...might be a better idea to wait until we learn more about what it is. [...] We didn't think it would be causing this much damage.
[TWO DUMB PEAS IN A DUMB POD. But since he's come to the same conclusion, more or less, he also figures... it's best to err on the side of caution...]
Hopefully we'll have a little more to work with sooner rather than later, though. In the meantime, perhaps there are other entities in the house that we could attempt to contact? Things that are less inclined to tear us into shreds if we don't have enough protection, with luck.
You mean like the people our newly revived mentioning coming into contact with? You heard what Chuuya-Red said about guidance didn't you? If we can contact someone who was here before, we could make some progress.
Something like that. Though maybe not exactly like it, considering what they had to go through to make communications with those particular beings possible.
It would probably be enough to bait something into making contact, depending on how fresh or desirable they find it. But with any sort of blood or flesh sacrifice, you'll almost certainly be drawing in something dangerous rather than benign. Blood alone might be a safer bet, but I couldn't say by how much.
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Then again, after tomorrow we might only have two or three to deal with anyway. [...he's going to take another long drink, oh well.]
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[From all four of them... including the extremely cursed Polly...
Haha that sure is a possibility though, isn't it!! He's quiet for a second.]
--Do you still want me to see what I can do about separating hosts and spirits?
[The tone of his voice suggests what he doesn't say aloud, though: that he doesn't think he'll be finding anything any time soon. Not soon enough for Carlos, if at all.]
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I do, yeah. In case this happens again, if we have the information on-hand we might be able to save future victims. [But his own tone suggests that he doesn't think it'll save Carlos either and maybe he's accepted that a little more than before. It's still awful, but it's fine.]
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There's something understanding in his expression for a second before he nods, in any case.]
I'll do what I can. I think I'll try to speak to some of the others who work with possessions and spirits and the like in their own worlds, too. The more we have to work with, the easier it might be to figure out what we can make work here.
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I think splitting things into smaller teams is going to help us right now. A group to work on protection and knowledge of possessions and spirits. A group to work on research. A group to work on finding paths to the other floors. Something like that.
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[THAT'S GONNA BE A FUN TALK. Also, he nods pretty much right away. Though he's the type who tends to fuck off on his own and try to do things without help, sometimes you just gotta admit that the sex demons have you in a stalemate.]
I think that's our best bet for getting as much done as we possibly can at once, too. Focus the specialists where their specialties lie - usually doesn't work out too badly.
[Usually.]
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It's the usually that's a little concerning, but we'll figure that out as it comes. The best thing is we can get a schedule of things, so we know how many days we have at a time to figure out ideas.
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Anyway just sighing and carding a hand through his hair, god.]
Do we have a rough idea of that just yet? If the source of the disturbance is dispatched on Sunday, I'm hoping we won't have to go through this again for another week... Unless they decide to switch up the days on us. Which, you know! That would be perfectly aligned with our luck so far, wouldn't it?
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[But he doubts that. Now that it's started, they're on a fast track. ]
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--I do wonder what the aim is in all of this, though - just how far things are meant to be taken. Clearly none of our dear predecessors were still around when we arrived. [...] Haha, well. Presumably.
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I don't really believe that. Somehow some of them are still around. Otherwise how would they know things are going according to their plan? Even if it's been set up beforehand, they have to have someone nearby to make sure.
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[Someone Among Them Was The Demon Summoner All Along.]
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We need to keep listening for new recordings and new information. That's the other big priority.
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[He says with a little laugh, but doesn't otherwise seem surprised or unhappy about the theory. People are terrible!! He certainly knows the things they're capable of.]
So we've just got to keep trying to poke our noses everywhere that they clearly don't want us to be, hm? Well! Good thing a lot of us seem to specialize in exactly that.
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I've been trying to make contact with everyone to up my chances of getting information back to me. If people are going to keep looking around in places I don't get to right away, I want to be informed as soon as possible to complete the bigger puzzle.
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[BECAUSE TRULY, THAT IS SOME VERY BAD LUCK. Almost inspirationally bad.]
Anyway, since you're making yourself such a good hub of connection, you had better take extra care not to do anything that could get you possessed or killed.
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I'm pretty good at not dying, but possession's new to me. I'm open to suggestions if you have them besides "don't."
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Still working on that one, unfortunately. Outside of the obvious "don't touch things that look cursed, don't read things aloud in languages you don't understand, don't put anything strange in your mouth or carry it around in your pockets" and the like, I still have no idea what we're actually dealing with outside of an entity that can be evicted from a body with those "prizes" of ours. Usually they have a preference for certain hosts, or for certain actions those hosts perform, but until there's a pattern...
[He's got no clue. "SEX DEMON" IS STILL LIKE. WEIRDLY VAGUE AND ALSO OUT OF HIS WHEELHOUSE.]
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A gamble then. [Well. That's fine.] I can work with that just fine. I was thinking about trying to lure whatever this is to myself, but...might be a better idea to wait until we learn more about what it is. [...] We didn't think it would be causing this much damage.
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[TWO DUMB PEAS IN A DUMB POD. But since he's come to the same conclusion, more or less, he also figures... it's best to err on the side of caution...]
Hopefully we'll have a little more to work with sooner rather than later, though. In the meantime, perhaps there are other entities in the house that we could attempt to contact? Things that are less inclined to tear us into shreds if we don't have enough protection, with luck.
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[No one else die in botched rituals.]
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...think a limb would be enough to bait them into making contact?
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It would probably be enough to bait something into making contact, depending on how fresh or desirable they find it. But with any sort of blood or flesh sacrifice, you'll almost certainly be drawing in something dangerous rather than benign. Blood alone might be a safer bet, but I couldn't say by how much.
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It's frozen, so it should be okay? But it was a thought I had. If it's not advised then we'll leave it alone.
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