Admire your poster and it's abs for courage, creep to the door and look in the hall.

Put on earplugs, it hasn't hurt you in 3 days, it's not likely gonna hurt you now.

lking22 2018/03/19(Mon)04:16 No. 874471 ID: ebe878
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Katie considers just putting in earplugs and going back to sleep, a plan which she is completely ready to go through with before she remembers that she doesn't actually own any earplugs.

The only other thing she can think to do is look down the hall. Of course, since it's the middle of the night, she can barely see a few feet down there. Really, her apartment doesn't need a hallway. The door in the side leads to the bathroom, the only other room in the house. The kitchen is out the front door (the one obscured by the strangely thick shadows), in the communal areas.

Not that she can think of food with the possible rat infestation. Those sounds are-

... Suddenly not actually going anymore. Weird.

...There's someone at the end of the hallway.

>strangely thick shadows
Strange how? Describe what's so peculiar about them.

Well, the noise is gone, so now you can go back to sleep.
If the noise starts again, or you can't go to bed because of some other reason (door locked/gone, crazy axe murderer in the way, meeting a doppelgänger etc.) see if you can find a light somewhere, you're only gonna hurt yourself stumbling in the dark.

lking22 2018/03/19(Mon)05:01 No. 874474 ID: ebe878
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Is that... someone at the end of the hallway?

No, of course not. It's just the outline of the front door.

>Describe what's so peculiar about them.

Well, the fact that they're almost completely obscuring the front door is the most notacable thing. That, and they aren't evenly distributed. They're focused on the end of the hallway, and look to be swirling almost like liquid.

Katie laughs nervously at herself and her imagination, deciding to try to find the light switch. It seems like the damn thing moves around all the time.

It takes a few moments of blind scrabbling (she isn't taking her eyes off the hall) to find the switch. When she does, she finds that it isn't working. Damn faulty wiring. She should complain to someone in the morning to try to get it fixed.

Do you have a flashlight?

lking22 2018/03/19(Mon)17:35 No. 874522 ID: ebe878
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Katie glances back into her room, looking on her shelf. Usually her flashlight sits there, but it's gone. She must have left it in the bathroom. To get to it, she will have to go into the hallway.

Might as well.

lking22 2018/03/19(Mon)22:18 No. 874548 ID: ebe878
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Alright, just need to stop in the hallway and-

OH GOD, HOLY SHIT!

...

The sound of scratching fills the hallway again.

Well... shit.

RUN!

Punch your attacker in the face.

Or the lack of one anyway.

lking22 2018/03/20(Tue)19:58 No. 874649 ID: ebe878
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Katie lashes out, punching... the air...? Weird. Slowly, she sits up, finding herself back in bed. Was all of that just a nightmare?

Either way, it's morning now, and the scraping sounds have stopped. Maybe it's safe to investigate now?

>>874649
Get your flashlight.

Do you have a mirror in your room that you can look at, by chance?

lking22 2018/03/20(Tue)21:42 No. 874659 ID: ebe878
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Katie's first thought is to go grab her flashlight. Of course, that's all the way in the bathroom, so she may as well finish up everything she needs to do in her bedroom first, then go get it.

The only thing she can think of is to glance at herself in the mirror by her bed. God, she looks like a mess...

>>874659
And see-through. And there's another person in the mirror.

lking22 2018/03/20(Tue)22:20 No. 874666 ID: ebe878
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See-through?! That's... a little more than just weird, but 'weird' is all Katie's shell-shocked mind can come up with. Then again, that really isn't the main thing on her mind, anyway.

She jumps, swinging around to face whoever it is. The hulking mass of darkness edges closer, a thin, hissing noise escaping it. Slowly, the noise forms into words.

"Why... don't you... stay... dead...?" it asks.

>>874666
because you would miss me too much.

That is just an incomprehensibly terrible thing to say, but what is important is: Do you have lungs? Of course you do! You can feel them. What's this inside them? It's that time that a kid pushed you over in a playground, and when someone stole your bracelet, and all those nasty rumours you heard, people can be so cruel. You were cut-off, degraded, mocked, harassed so many times, and those people who were wrong on the internet... Everything that ever made you angry, it is all down there, wailing desperately to escape. Just open your mouth...
and SCREAM!

lking22 2018/03/21(Wed)03:24 No. 874683 ID: ebe878
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"B-because you- you'd m-m-!" Katie doesn't make it all the way through her sassy comeback, not before the urge to scream rises, drowning out all other thoughts. She shrieks loud enough that the mirror behind her cracks, but that only encourages the thing to move forward and cover her mouth.

"Shut... up...!" it hisses. "Do you... want... them... to try to... get... rid of us...?

Look at the shadow with the most confused expression you can, well, express.

lking22 2018/03/21(Wed)08:13 No. 874687 ID: ebe878
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Yep, Katie's just about got that expression on already. She struggles to talk through the thing's hand, but the thing talks over her.

"If you can't... die... at least have the decency... to help me... haunt this place."

mumble something at it.

I'M ALIVE, DAMN IT!!!

lking22 2018/03/21(Wed)12:21 No. 874724 ID: ebe878
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"I'm alive!" Katie mumbles through the thing's hand. It looks confused for a moment before backing away and gesturing for her to repeat herself. "I'm ALIVE, damn it!"

The thing chuckles. "If you're so sure... check... the hallway."

Time to go look at your own dead body!

Don Dressing-gown and go check on the hallway. Bring your torch...
Keep half an eye on Murder McMurderface.

lking22 2018/03/21(Wed)13:43 No. 874750 ID: ebe878
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With a slight glare at the thing, Katie dons her dressing gown and takes her time going to the hallway (partly to spite the thing and partly because she's dreading seeing what's there).

She freezes at the sight of her body, lying cold in the middle of the hallway. "H-holy shit..." With a sob, she falls to her knees. "I'm actually dead..."

The thing doesn't seem to know what to do. It twitches, looking around awkwardly. "Oh. Oh no. Please... don't cry..."

It's only a little dead, barely even bleeding... Get back in there and try to move stuff! Even if you can't be alive again, possessing your own corpse is better than nothing!

Wait... You were in the corridor, Everything went dark, as though the darkness was attacking you, and now you are dead? And there is a dark thing that says it is haunting the place? Did it kill you? Don't let it get off by claiming that it just blinded you and you fell over on your own! That wouldn't fly in court and it certainly won't fly to a vengeful haunt!

lking22 2018/03/22(Thu)13:43 No. 874932 ID: ebe878
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Sobbing, Katie attempts to try to slip back into her own body.

"... That doesn't work."

That ghost... that damn ghost! They killed her! Katie snarls, turning on the thing. "then what WILL work?!"

The thing just shrugs.

If you're really a ghost, then you must be able to make the lights flicker. Try that. Then do the same thing to your body. Once you can flicker your body on and off, then focus on turning yourelf on all the time.

Or try poltergeist telekinesis? Zombiedom isn't great, but I hear that makeup and perfume can work wonders!

As for the ghost... It is black, like ash. Ash builds up in ovens and is shovelled away. It's weak to shovels! Hit the black ghost with a shovel and steal its black robe. That thing looks comfy!

"Are you the one who killed me?"

Slap the shit out of the ghost.

lking22 2018/03/22(Thu)19:49 No. 875033 ID: ebe878
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"Are you the one who killed me?!" Katie hisses, grabbing the other ghost's shoulders.

The other ghost huffs, looking away. "You were in my house..." they mumble.

Katie scoffs, turning away and focusing back on her body. There has to be some way to get it to move, right? She tries pushing it with ghost-powers or something, but it doesn't make any difference.

What?
Their house? Their house! Did they pay for it? Well so did you! Did they live here? Well so did you! Do they keep their stuff in it? Is it where people know to find them? Maintenance? Rates? gardening? Have they ever done anything at all to keep it from being levelled to build apartments?
You have at least an equal claim to this place, what sort of maniac thinks murder is a valid response to sharing a house with someone who is paying rent for the both of you!
If they want to be alone so badly, then they can invert whatever ghost voodoo they used to kill you and you'll be happy to be done with the place. You could even turn it into a parking lot so people only visit twice a day. Or they can go hide in the attic because you aren't going anywhere because the biggest idiot in history decided to get rid of someone by killing them, even though they were conclusive evidence that it wouldn't work!
...
Try Everything on your body. Draw upon anger, draw upon love, meditate, push life into it, pull memories through it, imagine it getting up with a hangover and staggering into the bathroom for painkillers... Think through every ghost story you've ever heard for anything that might work...

lking22 2018/03/22(Thu)23:11 No. 875074 ID: ebe878
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"Your house?!" Katie snaps. "Like hell it's your house!" She rants and raves for a while about paying rent, keeping up maintenance, and how stupid it is to murder someone over something that isn't even actually trespassing!

The shadow fades a little. "I might have... overreacted," they mumbled. "It's been hard to... focus... and control... my temper... since... I died."

Katie ignores it, lying back down with her body and focusing on how angry her death makes her.

Nothing else but revenge. Keep trying to revive. If you can focus on keeping it fresh then medical types might revive you?

Keep trying. There's not enough blood on the ground for you to be dead!

Blood is life? Try sucking it back in?

Son of a bitch must pay.
If it thought to be a ghost up to this point sucked, now they have another ghost around who despises it and wants to make its unlife even more miserable.
Swear vengeance on the shadow thing.

lking22 2018/03/23(Fri)01:57 No. 875101 ID: ebe878
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Finally, Katie feels something click. She opens her eyes and stumbles to her feet, trying hard to keep her focus. She had lost a lot of blood... She has to do something, quickly, before she dies again.

Fuck that shadow jerk. Katie's going to survive, damn it, even if only out of spite.

>>875100
Immediately call 911.
Try to contact your neighbors for assistance.
Do you have any medical supplies? Do you know first aid?

>>875103
Or call 999 if you live in the UK.

Badass! But yeah, you're undead.

You get to keep your body though, that's a plus. Important question: can you still feel heat? Because the first thing you're going to want to do is stuff yourself in a fridge box before your body rots. Or some other thing to slowly replace your body parts with cybernetic / golem augmentations so you can survive.

Second thing is to prevent yourself from killing the paramedics with frenzy, but focus on reconnecting your spiritual links to your body for now.

Applying pressure to wherever the wound is would help. Otherwise, leave >>875103 unchanged, and try not to think about how you managed to revive yourself after what must have been like ~4-6 hours.

lking22 2018/03/23(Fri)02:33 No. 875110 ID: ebe878
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First things first, Katie tries to call the hospital. Of course (as usual for her crappy apartment) there's no reception. With a frustrated growl, she hangs up and decides to deal with this shit herself. There's a first aid kit in the bathroom, so she can at least wrap up the wound.

As she does, she considers her situation. She can hardly feel anything, but it's hard to tell if that's from shock or because f the whole 'ghost posessing her own body' thing. If only robot bodies or magic were real, she could just use those to replace her body if it starts to rot. Though, considering ghosts turned out to be real, who knows if magic and robots are secretly real or not?

Speaking of things that are suddenly real, Katie tries and fails not to think about how she might be some sort of zombie now. Will she attack the first person she sees? That would be rich, going off at that ghost for attacking her then immediately attacking someone else.

Nope, no worries. You are hard-core enough to be alive through will alone. No frenzy will control you. At least not if you predict it, which you did.

Would your neighbours have a land-line? Ambulances do come highly recommended and concussions can get nasty down the line. And if you have no heartbeat then you can play dead and raid the morgue for preservatives...

Try talking to see what you sound like, and mind the gaping wound on the back of your head.

>>875110
The other ghost disappeared doesn't that mean we are back alive? Plus he did say he was trying to kill you (and failing), so that could mean that he couldn't kill you only injure and maim you, thus causing a near death out of body experience.
If we patch our self up and get a check up at the hospital things may go back to normal.

lking22 2018/03/23(Fri)06:19 No. 875130 ID: ebe878
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Katie takes a deep breath, trying not to worry. After all, she managed to pull herself back into her body from sheer force of will. She can resist any urge to hurt people, right?

With that out of the way, she bandages up her head and cleans off as much blood as she can.

Looking a little better.

She considers going to the hospital herself. Obviously driving is a bad idea, since she still feels off-balance, but the ghost did say she wasn't dead. That had to mean that a quick hospital visit to get the probable concussion sorted would have her feeling back to normal, right?

As normal as she can feel with a ghost stalking her. she glares at the shape in the mirror. "Can you just-"

Katie freezes, putting both hands over her mouth. That voice wasn't hers. Well, it was, but it was also around five or six other voices at once.

Even the ghost looks confused. "That shouldn't... be... happening."

"...What the fuck have you done to me!"

Hearing yourself in stereo is going to get old very quickly.
Try out what you can do with your new voices, like saying multiple different things at once.

You need medical attention. Now. While you're waiting for the paramedics, get your story in order and figure out what the extent of your weird. Grab a pen and notepad, be ready to write everything you need to communicate.

Check your own pulse. If you have no pulse, then you're just a corpse.

There must be someone who can get you to a hospital. Friends, family, coworker, neighbour you at least vaguely trust, or at least a high point to get reception to call for a taxi or something.

While you work on that, try singing. You may be cursed by the thousand voices of us damned souls, but that doesn't mean that auto-choir isn't fun!

>>875169
Yesss... Documentation ho!

>>875130
Oh fuck we're a medium now.

Gonna say you should be trying to get to a hospital. If your phone doesn't work, you can ask someone else to call for help when you come across them.

Making sure you don't go all the way dead is priority one. Figuring out what to do about other ghosts is a distant second.

>Will she attack the first person she sees? That would be rich, going off at that ghost for attacking her then immediately attacking someone else.
If you raise concerns with first responders or medical personal that some kind of psychotic break or your head injury might might you try to hurt someone, they'll at least be on guard for it.