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>>34702969
Your kind didn't have names. You're just known as a Spectre, a Ghost Master, and in one instance, Thrillhor the Spectre Supreme because you decided to get creative with a Ouija Board.

Your most recent assignment is haunting a house to scare out the recently moved in family. The previous owner of the house committed suicide in the bathtub. The Bureau has tasked you with driving out the family using the fetters of Water and Blood, to build belief that the house is haunted by the previous occupant.

Your Haunters consist of three ghosts:

Skitter, the ecto spider. A Rank 3 Haunter who specialized in summoning ghostly spiders. He doesn't take much ectoplasm to manifest, as he is already fed in part by the mortal fear of spiders.

Hector, the poltergeist. A telekinetic ghost in death, a con man in life, the opinionated and stubborn man is your highest rank Haunter at Rank 5.

Gale, the wind elemental. Her ability to control the weather is dependent on how much ectoplasm you feed her. She can also manipulate clouds, she does great weatherwork.

>>34703177
Yay, Ghostly fun!

I've been thinking about the possessed teddy. Hector cant affect the cursed nails directly, but can he affect them indirectly.

Instead of trying to tk the nails, levitate a claw-hammer and use that. Would that insulate from whatever was stopping him?

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>>34703177
The family you are tasked with haunting is a family of six. A dad, a mom, a baby, two young boys, and a teenage girl. They live in a suburban house with two floors, a basement, an attic, and a pool.

There's a river mermaid haunting the pool, she calls herself a nixe. She currently causes a haunting music to emanate from the pool when she is fed enough ectoplasm. who can leave only when the water from the pool is returned to the natural cycle of evaporation. Hector might be able to telekinetically empty the water, but it would take far more plasm than you currently have.

More disturbingly, you've come across a rather eerie looking teddy bear. It hangs crucified with a bunch of nails inside one of the walls in the room the teenage girl had chosen for herself. It started to move when you investigated it closely, uttering the phrases “Trapped.” and “Release me.” You had Hector try to pull the nails out, which caused the Poltergeist great pain. It seems you'll have to get one of the humans to remove it.

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>>34703308
The Bureau assigned you the task of haunting the house with the fetters of Water and Blood, but you opted to save your hard-earned gold plasm and instead get creative with how you haunt.

Luckily, you sought out the most renowned blood-fetter spirit for pointers, Bloody Mary herself. She seems favorable toward you for helping her out by chasing mortals away from her house, but even she thought you foolish for accepting a mission without a Haunter with a blood-fetter.

She gave you a few pointers for getting around the lack of a specialty spirit. Humans were not blood experts, especially when scared. You can convince the humans with any sufficiently colored substance. When a human is scared out of their wits, they're not going to pay enough attention to see that the smears, writing, or handprints are ink, paint, or even tomato sauce.

You're confident that you can do this, you just have to keep your wits about you. Time to show those mortals an the Bureau that creativity and ingenuity can be just as effective as a specialized Haunter. You're not just any Ghost Master. You're the Spectre Supreme.

>Start haunting on the outside
>Start haunting on the inside
>Start haunting the family
>Write in

>>34703256
he could try to indirectly remove the curse nails with a mundane hammer. Of course, that would require getting the hammer into the wall.

>>34703453
>Start haunting on the inside

We can get real blood easy enough. Have Hector go to a local butchers in the middle of the night and get some blood there.

A little blood on the walls. Some clawing hand prints that look like someone was dragged away. Maybe some creepy message written on the walls.

I recommend that all excess blood be poured in the vents. Never underestimate how visceral and primal the sense of smell is. Having the whole house reek of blood will set people on edge.

>>34703483
>Of course, that would require getting the hammer into the wall.
The teddy got into the wall space. There must be a hatch somewhere. Failing that, we can just make a small hole.

I vote we give it a try.

>>34703644
I think you underestimate the effort required to TK blood of any given volume all the way from a butchers to here.

I say we start haunting the inside. Let's systematically stop up all the drains, then turn on all the faucets with hot water until everything starts to overflow.

Can Nixie and Teddy do anything besides sing? Typically bound ghosts have some powers - just not enough to free themselves. If either of them can do any gore effects once we get them loose, that would be fantastic.

You said last time that returning her to the groundwater table would work - could we flood the pool? Maybe, once we get some fear going, have gale do a really heavy rain?

What time of day is it?

>>34703747
Hector created a tornado of levitated objects. Levitating a couple pints of blood in a container isn't even in the same league.

You are overestimating how difficult it would be.

>>34703826
Nixe didn't say. You'd have to talk to her again.

Also, it's late afternoon. The family is bringing in the last of the boxes from the moving truck out front.

I suppose a new option would be
>return to Nixe and ask her if she has any other abilities than making the pool sing.

>>34703838
Hector was able to create a tornado of levitating objects because he was being fed plasm by a cadre of spooked teens. Out here in suburbia during a time of relative calm he won't be nearly so powerful. We need to start building up some fear before we can do anything complicated or powerful.

>>34703904
Oh, let's take this opportunity for a quick jump scare then, shall we? Have Skitter pop a bunch of spiders into one of the boxes right before they open it. Bonus point if the box contains like, the baby's toys and junk.

If we filled a large bucket from the pool, could the Nixie get in?

If she's willing to help, it would be a great effect if we could put her in the bath tub. Put some blood in the water to make it turn red, then have her manifest a female form in the tub.

Would fit our theme perfectly.

If she doesn't want to help, the easiest way to set her free would probably be to throw something hard and heavy into the pool. Crack the tiles at the bottom and it'll drain itself.

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This game was the SHIT

>>34703982
Typically, freed spirits enter the service of their liberating ghostmaster for at least the duration of the haunt and typically for any future haunts the ghostmaster invites them on later. Freeing spirits is the bureaus primary method of recruitment.

>>34703923
We could easy give him some plasm. We have a nice little stockpile from the last job.

We'll recoup it soon enough.

I vote for the Real Blood Experience.

>>34703453
>Start haunting the family
Get the two boys a minor sighting of something faint and ominous. They can both corroborate it when they run to tell their parents (unlike if we prioritized the girl, which would just lead to the two brothers NUH UHing her into oblivion.)

Any future spooky happenings the adults/daughter are privy to will be amplified if they can think back and dwell on the boys maybe having been telling the truth after all.

They're going to be unpacking vital boxes, so they might not be out back any time soon. Might as well run a garden hose into the pool, turn it on, clog the drains and start slowly raising the water level so that Nixe will be able to spill out if the hose is left unmolested.

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>>34703453
You decide to start the haunting inside. Watching the family unpack their belongings, you get an idea.
“Skitter.” you call, and the massive eco-spider manifests at your side. Mortals were bound by their own five senses, unable to comprehend the waist-high ghost spider standing in the middle of their kitchen. You bind him to the room, and feed him a little of the sparse ectoplasm in the area.

“Skitter, fill that with spiders.” you say, pointing to a large box labeled 'Baby Stuff'

You're rewarded by a shrieking scream as the woman opens it up, only to launch the box away from her, smashing against the wall and falling to the floor. “HONEY! GET IN HERE!” the mother screams. The man drops the box he was carrying and bursts into the room. “What, what is it!?” he says in alarm.

“There's spiders all in the baby's toys!”

The husband moves to comfort the woman as you feel a fresh influx of ectoplasm. It's sparse, only meriting a tiny amount more than you spent to have Skitter manifest the spiders in the first place. An infested box of that severity was an oddity, but nothing about spiders in a moving box screamed supernatural.

>Bind another haunter
>Increase Skitter's plasm band
>Unbind Skitter
>Write in

>>34704160
Oooh, this is a good idea.

Where is the baby at the moment?

>>34704265
Rolling around the kitchen in a walker. Further freaking out the parents due to the now overturned box of ghost spiders.

>>34704194
The important thing is that this will get them thinking of spiders later, when we have them all filled with dread. Then BAM! We hit them with more Spiders. You can never go wrong with spiders, is what I'm saying. Let's put skitter away for now.

>>34704194
>Unbind Skitter
Spiders aren't our theme on this job. It's fine for a jump scare, but that's it for now.

Seconding the garden hose in the pool and clogged drains.

Also, whenever one of them uses a tap, have it turn back on when they walk away.

>>34704194
>Write in
Have the spiders crawl past the parents and quickly go for the child

>>34704343
We don't want to go overboard with the spiders. Our theme for this job is blood and water.

>>34704377
Second.

Don't suppose Hector is strong enough to lift a baby?

>>34704265
>Where is the baby at the moment?
Wheeling about in one of those baby walker gizmos.

Maybe have Skitter stick a covert strand of webbing to the walker and start slowly pulling the baby toward adjacent rooms every now and again so the parents look up from their freaky spider box ordeal to find their baby missing.

The baby'll be fine, obviously. This time.

Maybe two or three Baby's Day Out escapades later they'll get to run off into another room and see the baby happily playing with a bloodstained bath towel while water leeches through from the ceiling.

While they're distracted, let's turn on all the faucets in the house.

>>34704430
>Maybe two or three Baby's Day Out escapades later they'll get to run off into another room and see the baby happily playing with a bloodstained bath towel while water leeches through from the ceiling.

Ooo, seconding.

>>34704537
Third. Nothing is more terrifying to a parent then their child being unaccounted for, even for just a moment.

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>>34704194
“Skitter, leash the baby.” you say, standing over and watching the father grab a broom and sweep the spiders away from the baby. The ectoplasmic spider manifests a strand of silk and attaches it to the walker.

“Sharon, open the door!” he yells. The woman obliges and moves to hold the door open while the man sweeps the box and the contents out into the yard.

“Skitter, pull the baby into the other room.” you order. The giant spider slowly walks, pulling the walker behind him as he drags the baby away whilst the parents are dealing with the spiders.

Some of the smaller spiders follow Skitter as he pulls the child. Given that no one can see Skitter himself, the spiders form a neat little trail right toward the baby. Maybe there's something to do with this. Unfortunately, you don't know if you should continue the spider motif given that haunting with a spider fetter isn't your task. Still, ectoplasm is ectoplasm....

>continue with Skitter
>move on to something else
>write in

>>34704686
Can... can skitter make the spiders blood red?

I say we get the kid into a bathroom and then, as soon as the parent set foot in the room to get him, we turn on all the faucets full blast.

>>34704686
>move on to something else
We're just using this as a set-up for the Babys Day Our scare. Once the kid's moved to another room, unbind Skitter and move on to something else.

Clog the drain in the pool and turn the garden tap on.
Have the facets in the house turn themselves back on after someone uses them.

>>34704760
Actually, yes.
Skitter can control the appearance of the spiders. He can color them blood red, but it would look like blood red chitin. He can't make the spiders appear as if they were made of blood. Maybe if there was some red paint...

>>34704686
>>move on to something else
We need to start doing SOMETHING related to our actual job.

If we've got an upstairs bathroom, we may as well plug up the drain and start the tub filling. If they stay distracted downstairs, we're going to get a beautiful water-cascading-down-the-stairs effect once it overflows.

If they've got a box of kitchen materials inside the house already, we should use a kitchen knife as one of the blockages in the drain for the suicide tie-in, and if they reach in thoughtlessly to try and unclog it they'll slice their finger open and start bloodying the waters themselves.

>>34704860
>If they've got a box of kitchen materials inside the house already, we should use a kitchen knife as one of the blockages in the drain for the suicide tie-in, and if they reach in thoughtlessly to try and unclog it they'll slice their finger open and start bloodying the waters themselves.

First the Babys Day Out thing, now this. You're good at this. Maybe a little to good..... Can ghosts get internet access?

Seconding.

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>>34704686
You have Skitter drag the baby into the bathroom, where it sits quietly and contently, having enjoyed the ride. The smaller spiders wouldn't harm the baby, Skitter's nature is docile. The Bureau trained him that way from his inception as a Haunter, and the Bureau doesn't like mortals to be harmed directly.

“Thanks, Skit. You're done.” you say to the massive ectospider as you dismiss him. The ectoplasm goes slack with relief of the tension Skitter put on it from manifesting, and the smaller spiders dissipate back into the Spirit World.

“Hector.” you call. The poltergeist manifests right beside you. “Boss.” he answers.

“I need you to clog all of the drains. ”
“I aint got that kinda power, boss.” Hecto answers. It seems there's not enough plasm for his telekinesis to do everything at once. It seems you'll have to take it one step at a time. You notice the adults finishing up their spider patrol.

“...Where's the baby!?” you hear the woman scream. It seems you had to make a decision.

>clog kitchen drains while they search for the baby
>have Hector turn on all the bathroom faucets once they find the baby
>take this opportunity to clog all the drains on the upstairs.

>>34705144
>Clog the bathroom drains and turn the water on before they get here.

>>34705144
>Write in
Have Hecto grope the mother, suckle on her breasts akin to a child.

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>>34705144
You watch the scene unfold as the parents scramble to look for the baby. The fear of the parents causes a little more ectoplasm to feed into the Spirit World.
“Hector, clog the drains and open the faucets.”

The poltergeist obliges. He telekinetically moves the stops into the drains and turns the spigot on full blast. The water quickly fills up the sink, but the bathtub is only roughly a quarter of the way full before the noise of rushing water alerts the parents and they find the baby sitting in the middle of the room. Hector even flushes the toilet for good measure.

“What on earth...” the father mutters confusedly as he moves to turn off the taps. The mother utters her relief as she moves to pick the baby up off out of the walker, talking in mortal babytalk about how worried she was about the child's safety. Mortals.

>Move on to the other children (moving on to the other children would free Hector to move the hose into the pool to cause the pool to overflow)
>Have Hector work on the upstairs
>Have Hector work on the downstairs
>Write in

>>34705634
>Move on to the other children (moving on to the other children would free Hector to move the hose into the pool to cause the pool to overflow)
We'll scout the kids while Hector says hi to a mermaid.

>>34705757
Have hector turn the taps back on first, then go have him say hi to the mermaid.

>>34705634
Let's go deal with the other kids. We can use them to generate fear while we work on freeing the other ghosts.

Let's see if we can start with a bunch of blood-red spiders on the wall spelling out "HELP ME" that disappear as soon as they look away.

I get the feeling though we're not going to be able to get any real work done until we get a bit of a time skip. I think if we do a bunch of scratching noises and stuff in the middle of the night we can see about freeing Teddy, and no one will notice if we flood the pool while they're all sleeping. We can also use their bed time to start setting up our 'blood' scares.

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>>34705634
“Hector... give them one last blast and then go rig the pool to overflow.” you order. As the parents leave the bathroom, the poltergeist turns the faucets back on.

The couple jumps in alarm before the man wanders back into the bathroom to turn the faucets off again. “What the fuck...” he mutters as he does. “Looks like I'll have to call the plumber to come out and take a look at these damn pipes.”
Good. Another mortal to scare. Of course, having an expert on what pipes should and shouldn't do would only serve to drive home the supernatural aspect of your haunting. The poltergeist debinds from the room and moves out back to rig the pool.

>Go haunt the kids
>Bind Gale to the outside to have her start manipulating the weather
>Go haunt the adults some more
>Timeskip ahead to the evening hours
>Write in

>>34706138
Go haunt the kids. If we can get them good and spooked - or even convinced that the house actually is haunted - it'll make it that much easier to convince the parents.

Let's see how they like spiders.

>>34706138
>Timeskip ahead to the evening hours
We can set up blood during the night. Set the bath to overflow. All the stuff that needs prep work.

>Other
Try the claw hammer idea for the teddy. If you can't find a way into the wall space, have Hector knock a small hole in the wall once you've got some fear building.

>>34706033
I say we do this with the spiders, but spell out "NEED BLOOD" instead. Maybe we can get them to cut themselves up a bit.

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>>34706138
You decide to go haunt the kids a bit before nightfall, get a big of plasm coming in from the whole family before you move on to the harder hitting scares at night.

Your consciousness drifts up the stairs. Outside, you can sense Hector rigging the pool with the hose to overflow. Good.

You look around. The young boys, twins apparently, mill about the rooms, jumping on beds and harassing the older teenage girl.

The girl, it seems, had taken the biggest room upstairs for herself. Strangely enough, this was also the room that housed the haunted teddy bear crucified in the walls.

>concentrate on the girl first
>concentrate on the twins

>>34706494
Why not both?
Put gale in the wall where Teddy is, have her make a bit of noise.
While that's going on, hit the twins with a bunch of spiders.

>>34706494
>concentrate on the girl first
We really need a lust ghost or something

>>34706494
Have gale start raining on the girls parade.

Still with us, Grub?

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>>34706951
I am but unfortunately, an emergency has come up and I am required to drive someone to the hospital.

I'm sorry guys, but it appears the haunting will have to wait until next Saturday.

Twitter link is in the archives for specific times, otherwise just look for the same OP image I use all the time.

Sorry to cut the haunting short, but again, kind of a medical emergency. Thanks for reading.

>>34707006
No worries, Grub. See you next time. Good luck with whatever's going on.