Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/10(Sat)18:58 No. 978270 ID: b5fb67
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Girl 3: "Here we are, our first real case! Aren't you guys excited? Can you smell the mystery in the air?"

Girl 2: "Smells like rotting wood and dead spiders."

Girl 1: "And maybe some mold. I should have brought an air filter..."

Girl 2: "The old Schwartzenberg Mansion. Built in 1952 by Kurt Schwartzenberg, had a lavish family of 5 living in it until the family just disappeared."

Girl 3: "And nobody has occupied it since! So many rumors of ghost sightings and paranormal activity coming from these walls... if we can solve this mystery, we can really put our names on the map!"

Girl 1: "Just like Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway, right?"

Girl 2: *snrk*

Girl 3: "You laugh, but this is our chance to become famous! Besides, you remember what the realtor said, right?"

Girl 2: "If we get rid of the hauntings, we'll get a cut of his commission when he sells this place. That's easily a couple grand."

Girl 1: "We got that in writing, right?"

Girl 3: "Yes! Maybe! Ummm..."

The three girls stand in the entry way of the decrepit mansion. But... what are their names?

(Girl 1 is the left-most person, Girl 2 is the center one, and Girl 3 is the right-most person.)

Melody, Trish and Jackie.

>>978271
Switch Trish and Melody and it sounds good to me.

Left to right: Charlotte, Allison, Tracey(but everyone calls her trace)

Carmine, Melody, and Brigette.

when you name drop like that, there is only one choice. it turns out the girls were making a double simpsons reference, because in addition to being the names of cities, they are also the names of our intrepid ladies. that's right, they're Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway.

Trudi, Kimiko, and Abilene.

I like Carmine, Trish and Melody sound good to me

Clarissa, Shelby, and Luxury.

from left to right
Raelyn, Molly, Jessica

Double check you all have your panties.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/11(Sun)21:25 No. 978345 ID: b5fb67
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All of the girl's undergarments are intact.

Carmine, Melody, and Jessica stand in the entryway discussing their next move.

Carmine: "So what's the plan here?"

Jessica: "It's simple! We have three objectives: find the names of the ghosts or spirits, find out what is preventing them from passing on, and then help them pass on!"

Melody: "You're talking about the theory that ghosts are souls that cannot move on to the afterlife due to a trauma or lingering unfinished task that still binds them to the physical plane?"

Jessica: "Exactly! We solve that task or soothe the trauma and they leave! Easy!"

Carmine: "That's pretty optimistic. I get the feeling that it won't be that easy."

Melody: "Did we bring any equipment? Any kind of devices or objects that can sense or call ghosts? Even an ouija board?"

Carmine: "...the hell is a Luigi board?"

Jessica: "Well no... my budget kinda got eaten up by car repairs."

There's a long silence.

Carmine: "Fine, so where do we start?"

What will the girls do?

Split up and search for clues

Say. "Yoo hoo, spooky boo."

Well, whoever the ghosts are seems to have been taking good care of the plants, and was even nice enough to light the chandelier.

Maybe the ghosts will appreciate it if we cleaned the place up for them like the dusting off the webs (unless the ghosts are keeping the spiders as pets) and the dirt spots on the walls

Make sure you have a heavy supply of bullets pepper spray in case something other than ghosts lives here.

Also, consider your friends' hotness.

Review the details of the disappearance case - whether there's ghosts or something more mundane causing all of this, I'm sure that case will have something to do with it. Try to reconstruct the family's final day (or night, depending). Start with the bedrooms if it was during the night.

Just in case Luigi board confused anyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nNY7uofNw
Make sure door opens behind you, and look into building, possibly start making a map.

Donut 2020/10/12(Mon)11:15 No. 978403 ID: 51b56d

Step 1 of any relationship is to establish healthy communication.

Since the family disappeared sometime around mid century, let's try giving them a call on their rotary telephone!

Take a potted plant each to light the way.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/12(Mon)23:30 No. 978427 ID: b5fb67
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The plants are plastic. The chandelier is electric with fake candles. There seems to be a lot of tacky decor in this place, like it was staged for selling and the realtor never came back for the props. And there seems to be no sense in hauling around heavy pots!

Jessica briefly regards her friend's attractiveness. But because they've been friends since grade school, the brief saunter into curious territory is dissipated.

Jessica: "Before we split up and search for clues, what do we know about the family here?"

Melody: "Let's see..."

Melody pulls out her Beri™ brand smartphone and opens a browser. The girls gather around to watch.

Melody: "Okay, so Kurt Schwartzenberg was an up-and-coming lingerie designer before his company got bought out by Elizabeth's Unmentionables. He supposedly invested a chunk of his new fortune in underwear research to make the most comfortable bra in history, allegedly because his wife had enormous... tracts of land and wanted to make her more comfortable. They also had three daughters who seemed to inherit her mother's... generous assets."

Carmine: "Huh. I wonder if we can find one of those boulder holders here."

Melody: "They were going to throw a premiere party at this mansion so Kurt could show off his latest invention, but it got cancelled at the last moment. No one knows why. Then the family just fell off the face of the earth until collection agencies came for overdue bills and discovered the alleged hauntings."

Jessica: "Interesting!"

Carmine: "Not really the word I would use."

Before the girls split up:
-Carmine is the strong one of the trio. She can move, lift, and break objects the other girls cannot. Additionally, thanks to 4 semesters of karate at the community college, Carmine knows how to fight.
-Melody is the smart one of the group. She is analytical, logical, and has high perception when hunting for clues.
-Jessica is the leader of the group. Award-winning member of the Debate Club in high school, she has high charisma and is able to talk her way out of many problems.

What happens next?

haunted houses has hidden rooms that can open when triggered by weird mechanisms. try pulling down on the chandelier and see if it is actually a lever that can open a hidden door on the wall or something. If you cant reach it, give each other a boost to reach it.

(either that or maybe a cute black fur coated cat can arrive to greet the girls :3)

>>978427
Split up and search for clues.

Venture forth in a westerly direction!

Checking for hidden passages is SOP for haunted house investigation. If we can reach the chandelier, Carmine can lift Melody up to investigate!

If we want to make contact, maybe the ghosts will be drawn to the girl who shares their "bountiful spiritual assets"?

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/13(Tue)23:02 No. 978502 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Mel, any chance that chandelier can reveal a secret passage?"

Melody looks up.

Melody: "Nope. It might collapse on us if we pull it, though."

Jessica: "Damn. Oh well. Let's hit the next room, split up, and look for clues!"

The trio walk into the adjacent room. It is very dark. The faint outline of dusty furniture and cobwebs is the only thing that can be seen.

Jessica: "Wait, what kind of room is this? Isn't there supposed to be a mezzanine type of area after the entry way? Like a sweeping staircase that leads to all floors?"

Melody: "I think Kurt Schwartzenberg was better at making lingerie than he was at designing mansions."

Carmine: "I really hope there are some Clue-style secret passages here."

examine that grey card on the table

Ah, on the wall there is something written that says "LEAVE". Sounds like a hint to me! go outside and get some leaves from the trees, then attach the leaves to the wall under the word "LEAVE"

What's that on the far end of the bookshel? Looks important!

Pulling at random books might work

>>978502
>Menorah
Looks like they were a Jewish family. Start goose stepping while heiling ol' uncle Adolf to try and rile their spirits up.

Why did none of you bring flashlights, pepper spray, or your mothers' skintight body armor?

Grab some books and start chanting horsepucky.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/15(Thu)23:42 No. 978667 ID: b5fb67
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The girls split up, each heading to a different part of the room.

Squinting through the dark, Jessica spies a paper on the dusty old table. Leaning in, she can barely make out the text in the dark:

--OCTOBER 30th!--
THE GREATEST UNDERGARMENT INVENTED!
You are invited to an EXCLUSIVE unveiling of Kurt Schwartzenberg's greatest invention: the Schwartzenberg Support Surprise! An undergarment that will revolutionize how women carry themselves! Increased comfort! A life of luxury, free from the crushing pain of normal shapewear!

The rest are address details, showing the reader how to get to the mansion. It appears to be an invitiation.

Melody takes pictures of the various parts of the room with her phone.

Carmine goes through several books on the end shelf until spying the bloody writing, and becomes unnerved.

Suddenly, a vague echoey noise reverberates throughout the room...

"Lllleeeeeeeaaaaaaavvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee."

Melody activate your sound recording ap! or go full video in case the voice says something else!

We come in peace! Jessica's time to shine to convince the ghost we want to help.

Melody can record for liability purposes if/when the ghost sues for trespassing.

Ah, so that’s what a house of leaves sounds like. Take the invitation with you and look for supplies - matches, torches, prototype underwear...

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/17(Sat)14:32 No. 978768 ID: b5fb67
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Melody spins around and hits 'record' on her phone.

Melody: "This is it! Actual paranormal activity!"

The low, echoey voice sounds again.

"Lllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaavvvvvvvvvvvveeeee."

Jessica speaks up.

Jessica: "Mr. Schwartzenberg! Is that you? We're here to help you! We want to help you move on to the afterlife!"

Suddenly, a faint blue glow surrounds the table in the middle of the room, along with the plastic plant and adjacent chair. They start to slowly float above the ground, stopping in midair before they start to violently vibrate. The voice sounds again.

"Nnnnnooooo ooonnneeee caaaaannnn hhhheeelllppp meeee."

The echoey voice suddenly becomes louder, a faint vibration runs through the floor like the bass being turned up.

"Nnnnnooooowwwwww LLLLEEEEEAAAAAAVVVVVVEEEEE."

Carmine: "It sounds pissed!"

>>978768
but why though?

Help us help you!

Offer to sit back and talk it over. Communication is key!

Grab that plant. Show that ghost who's boss.

You should get out of the room before you get pelted with furniture.

"No! We want stuff! Like answers about spirits!"
"And the combination to your safe!"
"And larger knockers!"

>>978768
Turn on a phone light, see if there are any strings holding things up.

Leave the building. But only because you wanted to, not because it told you to.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/25(Sun)23:24 No. 979619 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "But-but wait! We want to talk to you about stuff!"

Melody: "Yes, like how to help you!"

Carmine: "And if you have any more of that fancy lingerie lying around."

The voice becomes an echoing, raspy hiss as it fills the room. The floating chair and table suddenly begin to pick up speed as they move towards the girls.

Jessica: "RUN!"

The three girls dart towards the leftmost door. Carmine reaches it first, being the most athletic, but finds it locked. Desperate, she begins to kick it down with heavy high-kicks. The door frame begins to groan and crack as the hinges and deadbolt being to loosen and fall apart.

Jessica: "HURRY!"

The table and chair begin to break apart into smaller pieces that rain down on the trio. Chair legs, table legs, chunks of wood all turn into missiles that smash into the areas around the frantic ladies. Melody barely dodges a table leg.

With one final swift kick, Carmine breaks open the door, hanging on by only a rusty hinge. Carmine and Melody sprint through, Jessica ducking under a chair leg that smashes against the wall.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/25(Sun)23:25 No. 979620 ID: b5fb67
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Unfortunately, Jessica is hit right in the head with a chunk of table, knocking her off her feet and right onto her face. She slides through the doorway right as another chair leg rakes across her back, tearing at her shirt and shorts. Carmine slams the door shut as Jessica rolls through, the sound of broken wooden furniture colliding against the old entryway.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/25(Sun)23:25 No. 979621 ID: b5fb67
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The sound of angry wood chunks stops. The house is silent again.

Carmine: "Well THAT was harrowing."

Melody: "This ghost is in a lot of turmoil if it can lift objects and throw them."

Jessica lifts herself from the floor.

Jessica: "Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!"

Melody: "Good lord, Jessica! Are you OK?!"

Carmine scans the dark room while Melody attends to Jessica.

Carmine: "So wait, is THIS the entryway? Did we originally come in through a side entrance? I'm so confused."

Go upstairs to escape the carbon monoxide fumes that are clearly to blame for your hallucinations of ghosts.

Well, talking didn't work. Guess the ghost won't be of any help...

Press on! You must be close to the original entrance. Maybe there are secrets hidden ahead.

Looks like you're in the main hall, dramatically swing open the front doors to gaze at full moon during the storm. Just think about how great that image will be when you write your autobiographies!

How hard did Jess get hit in tbe head?

It might be best to check if she has a concussion, is she feeling tired? Blurry vision? Dizzy?

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/27(Tue)21:40 No. 979810 ID: b5fb67
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Melody: "Do you have a concussion? Dizzy? Tired? Blurred vision?"

Jessica: "No, my head just hurts."

Carmine moves to open the front door. The heavy wooden doors do not budge. It seems like they are boarded up from the outside.

>>979810
What's that on the stairs? Is that... b-b-b-b-blood?!

Oh no. That had better be ketchup or this place's resale value just tanked.

>>979810
Inspect that puddle of red.

HA! jokes on the ghost, we can't leave if we are locked in here.

with Melody's high perception, she should inspect the red liquid. If it is blood, how fresh is it? it would mean another living thing was here recently.

Check the red puddle

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/28(Wed)22:23 No. 979933 ID: b5fb67
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As Jessica massages the tender spot on her head, Melody spies a crimson stain trailing down the bottom staircase. She walks up the marble stairs to the gruesome spot.

Melody: "Got a bloodstain here! Might be a clue!"

Jessica: "Gross. How old is it?"

Melody touches the tip of a stain with her shoe.

Melody: "Very old. It's been here a while."

Carmine: "Think it might have been from one of the Schwartzenbergs?"

Melody: "A definite possibility. There's enough blood here to indicate a fatal wound might have been suffered, if the rest was soaked into the clothes of the victim."

Jessica: "Could it have been Kurt?"

Melody: "Hard to say. If it was, you'd think he'd haunt this room instead of the other one."

Carmine: "Hey yeah, why isn't the ghost from the other room harassing us in here?"

Jessica: "Ghosts are attached to certain locations and/or objects! Their trauma is what binds them to our world!"

Carmine "Where did you read THAT?"

Jessica: "A... website. We need to look for more clues. There seems to be 3 exits to this room that we can take. Should we split up?"

Melody: "Never split the party! My D&D games have taught me that."

Carmine: "Nerd."

>>979933
Let's try door number 1. Whatever that is.

Check the bannister above the bloodstain and be ready for a ghost encounter. Someone is definitely bound to this place with all that blood.

Anything behind the stairs?

up the stairs. Starting at the top and working your way down is the best way to do these things.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/30(Fri)12:48 No. 980055 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica looks behind the stairs. It's hard to tell in the darkness, but it seems like nothing is there.

Jessica: "Let's check the upstairs rooms for leads!"

The trio march up the stairs, avoiding the blood. They head to the rightmost room.

Jessica: "I've got a good feeling about this room!"

Melody: "Hopefully it will be safer than downstairs."

Carmine: "Just give me a chance to punch a ghost. I can make it happen."

Melody: "Doubtful, as ghosts are spectral entities that defy physical laws with their-"

Carmine: "I will punch a ghost!"

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/30(Fri)12:48 No. 980056 ID: b5fb67
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The three girls open the door to arrive in a dark bedroom. It smells vaguely of old perfume and mildew.

Jessica: "This must be one of the daughter's bedrooms!"

Melody: "I'm jealous of the canopy bed. I kinda want one."

Jessica: "Let's look for clues. Where do we start?"

>>980056
Dresser drawers.

Nightstand! There might be a diary.

search the vanity!

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/31(Sat)22:48 No. 980164 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica goes over to the nightstand. Carmine heads over to the dresser. Melody investigates the vanity.

Carmine opens some drawers. She doesn't find much other than scattered mid-1970's era women's clothes, consisting of t-shirts, jeans, dress shirts, skirts, socks, and some underwear. Not much else of interest.

Melody tries to open some of the vanity drawers. After jiggling several handles, she discovers that most are locked. The few that are not locked are empty save for a nearly empty stick of lip balm and some costume jewelry.

Melody wonders if there's a key nearby...

Jessica checks the nightstand. The top two drawers have nothing in them except dust and a dried out ballpoint pen. The third drawer has a book, with "Diary" written on the cover in a gold embossed font.

Jessica: "Jackpot! Let's check the last entry..."

Jessica grabs it and flips to the last written page.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/10/31(Sat)22:48 No. 980165 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Girls! I found a diary! Gather 'round!"

Carmine and Melody rush over. Melody pulls out her phone and shines a light on the diary pages.

The girls should try to dress up in those old clothing.

What does the first entry on the diary reads?

Also, it looks like there is a red bookmark of some sort on that diary. What is on that page that was important enough to mark?

Uh oh. I'm getting Haunting of Hill House vibes.

Find mom's room!

Look for the vanity key. Check under the rug!

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/04(Wed)21:45 No. 980381 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica flips to the first entry. It's nothing but teenage angst poems.

Carmine: "Hey what's the bookmark holding?"

Jessica flips to the bookmarked page; it's just blank pages towards the back.

Jessica: "Mom is the big lead! We should find her room and check for more clues."

Meanwhile, Melody looks around for the key to the vanity. She checks under the rug, and much to her pleasant surprise she finds a small square key.

Try the key on the locked drawers!

Jessica and Carmine: tell Melody she did a great job.

Lets see if that key fits the locks of the vanity

hmm... I still find it suspicious that it is bookmarked to a blank page...

Wait, Idea: do we have a black light of some sort, something that can detect invisible stains, or in this case, invisible writing? Just because this ghost didn't use a pen doesn't mean they're not using something else to write.

Don't forget to look under all the furniture.

>>980426
The classic 'invisible ink' is lemon juice, revealed by heating the paper.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/15(Sun)16:02 No. 981073 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Think it could be invisible ink? That lemon juice trick?"

Carmine: "Got a blacklight?"

Jessica: "No..."

Carmine: "Maybe we should check under the rest of the furniture."

Meanwhile, Melody runs up to the vanity with the key. She starts unlocking the locked drawers. The first she unlocks contains nothing.

The second one, nothing.

The third drawer, though, contains a stack of papers.

Melody: "Guys! I unlocked a drawer in the vanity!"

Jessica: "Ooooo! Nice!"

Suddenly, the papers begin to emit an ethereal glow...

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/15(Sun)16:02 No. 981074 ID: b5fb67
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The papers fly into Melody as a glowing spectral mass darts out of the drawer. As it passes by her, the ectoplasmic energy from the spectre destroys a portion of Melody's skirt.

Melody: "GAH!"

???: "Wwwwhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..."

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/15(Sun)16:02 No. 981075 ID: b5fb67
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The entity flies around the room in circles before coming to rest in the middle of the girls, undulating slowly as it hovers inches above the floor.

Melody: "Dang it! I liked this skirt!"

Jessica: "Whoa! This is it, first contact with an apparition!"

Carmine: "Kind of expected it to be more human-shaped."

???: "Wwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyyyy..."

Author's note: I won't be adding clothing damage to the sprites because it would take way too long to edit each and every one.

Oh no! Jessica, distract the ghost while Melody speed reads the papers. Maybe there's clues!

Why who?

Or just grab the paper to read later, probably better that way.

obtain papers

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/17(Tue)00:12 No. 981168 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Why what? What happened to you?"

???: "Wwwhhhyyyyyyy diiiiiid mooooooommmmmm haaaaaavvvveeee tooooooo ddiiiiiieeeeee..."

The spectre moans mournfully.

Jessica: "Your mom died? You must be one of the Schwartzenberg children! How did your mother die?"

???: "Sshhheeee wooorrreeee daaadddd's iinnnvveeenntttiiiooonnn. Iiiiit eexxppppllooooddddeeedddd... aaannnddd iittt kiiillleeeeddd uuuusssssss..."

Jessica: "A clue! The shapewear the mom was wearing somehow exploded and killed her and the siblings! Or at least one of them!"

Meanwhile, Melody scans the documents. They seem to be erotic fan-fiction of 1973's American Graffiti. Many pages are devoted to Ron Howard's character making out with a nubile yet shy and reserved girl in the backseat of a 1958 Chevrolet Impala. Melody deduces that it might be a self-insert as she scoops up the pages to... save for later analysis. Yeah, that's it.

I suspect sabotage. Ask the ghost if their father had any rivals.

Okay, let's ask the obvious question... how did Mom's bazookas explode?

Seriously, that's one amazing feat of engineering if there's anything temotely explosive in there.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/17(Tue)22:55 No. 981278 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Wait, how did your mom's bazookas explode?"

???: "Boooo hoooooooo hoooooooo."

Jessica: "No seriously, how did it happen?"

???: "Boooo hoooooooo hoooooooo."

Carmine: "Doesn't seem to know or want to say."

Melody: "Did your dad have any rivals? Do you suspect sabotage?"

???: "Booooooooo hooooooooooo hooooooooooo."

Jessica: "I don't think we're getting much else out of this ghost."

Melody: "Should we search a different room?"

Carmine: "Do you wanna rifle through more of their stuff?"

I think the ghost needs a good cheering up. Maybe someone knows some good jokes?

Let the ghost write in her diary, maybe she can vent her troubles in writing.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/18(Wed)23:15 No. 981407 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica produces the diary.

Jessica: "Here, maybe writing in this will help? Or you could like... dictate to us and we could write it down in case you can't hold a pen?"

???: "Booooooooo hooooooooooo hooooooooooo."

The specter fades from view, and it's cry echoes into the room before silence takes over once again.

Melody: "I... guess that's it?"

Jessica: "Do you think it's gone?"

Melody: "Hard to say. What do you want to do now?"

get angry at each other for not getting that ghost on camera

Squabble over forgetting to nab the ghost on camera

Keep the diary open to the bookmarked page and place it on the nightstand so that the ghost can write in it later. If you girls can find a pen or pencil nearby, place it next to the diary then just leave to the next room. We can check later to see if the ghost writes in it. Other than that, Nothing more to be done here. Go back into the hall and admire that giant landscape painting.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/20(Fri)18:03 No. 981506 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Hey! Why didn't you take any pictures, Melody?!"

Melody: "Me?! Don't you have a smartphone with a camera on it?"

Jessica: "The camera broke when I dropped it!"

Melody: "Well I can't be held responsible for your clumsiness!"

Jessica: "Well I can't be held responsible for wearing the panties of a grade-schooler, Miss Strawberry Undies!"

Melody blushes as she covers her damaged skirt with one hand.

Melody: "That's not fair! These were on sale!"

Jessica: "Ugh! Our first shot at paranormal photographic evidence and we have nothing to show for it."

Jessica places the diary on the nightstand, opened to a blank page.

Jessica: "Let's just go look for more clues."

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/20(Fri)18:03 No. 981507 ID: b5fb67
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The trio return to the foyer walkway.

Carmine: "Alright, where do we go now?"

Melody: "We have this other room up here, might be another bedroom."

Jessica: "Also that room on the bottom floor. Not sure where it goes."

The girls think for a moment on what to do next.

No point in going downstairs just to go upstairs again later. lets go to the next bedroom.

Or jump into the landscape painting like Fabio does in Super Fabio 94

Bedroom time!

go to the other bedroom! don't try on any exploding bras

>>981507
Become bedroom intruders

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/24(Tue)00:24 No. 981939 ID: b5fb67
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The trio walk across the balcony in the foyer into another large bedroom.

Melody: "This seems like the master bedroom."

Jessica: "Good. Time to look for more clues!"

Carmine: "Keep your phone handy, in case more spook-ums show up."

Carmine: check inside the grandfather clock and the two nightstands by the bed (Is that a mirror on the right nightstand?)

Jessica: check the dresser on the right.

Melody: check the dresser on the left

>>981941
sounds as good as any other initial plan of action.

I too support this plan of action

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/25(Wed)22:30 No. 982146 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "Carmine, check the nightstands and the grandfather clock. Melody, check the far dresser. I'll check this dresser here."

Carmine: "Check."

Melody: "OK."

The girls head to their respective locations and begin searching. Jessica begins to rifle through the dresser. Many of the drawers are empty, save one that is filled with nothing but blankets, linens, and duvet covers.

Jessica: "I got nothing here."

Melody searches through her assigned dresser drawers. Many of the drawers are empty, save for some dust bunnies. Curiously, there is one drawer that has a lock on it, but seems to be unlocked. It has nothing in it.

Melody: "Same. Nothing to see here."

Carmine examines the nightstands. Aside from an odd lamp, there is nothing. She checks the grandfather clock next. The glass casing holding the pendulum seems to be locked. However, in the dark, Carmine spies a small place with an inscription below the clock:

Oft am I round, though sometimes not.
I can be cloying and cold, yet piquant and hot.
You can put me out for thou to see
But there's only once place I am destined to be.
What am I?

Carmine: "Guys! I have a fuckin' riddle here!"

>>982146
Boobs. The answer is boobs.

Actually it's probably not boobs. It's something that can be cold and hot at the same time, which implies it can be spicy or minty.
Round and spicy? Fruit?
Or a tongue? Hmm, yeah. It's a tongue. Tongues are pretty round, but you can flatten them. The riddle could be talking about the perception of cold and hot, so that works too. You can stick out your tongue but it belongs in your mouth.

Based off of previous experiences where the ghosts had damaged Jessica and Melody's outfit, I wonder if this will be a situation where the more we answer the riddle wrong, the more damaged Carmine's clothing will become somehow.

We can go with tongue

It's clearly a magic, temperature changing orb that unlocks the door of legend.

No no, it's a magic candle! They're often round, but wax can be made into different shapes. Being magic, they can be both hot or cold, depending on the colour of the flame. Also being magic, they can produce darkness rather than light. Thus, 'putting it out' would allow you to see. As for where they are destined to be? A candle holder, duh.

Or my more serious answer would be a cookie. It's destined to go you your stomach

A friend of mine said water or maybe cheese

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/27(Fri)13:39 No. 982270 ID: b5fb67
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The girls gather around the grandfather clock. Melody carefully parses the riddle.

Carmine: "I've never been good at riddles. I usually look at the back of the book for the answers."

Jessica: "I'm kind of the same; if I haven't heard of a riddle before, I can't solve it."

Melody turns to face the girls after a minute of reading.

Melody: "Let's see... it says 'I can be cloying and cold, yet piquant and hot.' Cloying is a word that means excessively sweet or extremely sentimental. Piquant means to be interesting and to be of a savory flavor. Since temperature is referenced to both... maybe the answer is a food?"

Carmine: "But what food has to do with an old clock?"

egg timer???

Yeah that's a pie.

BREAD!

Jessica and carmine, suggest finding a kitchen and bake a pie

Melody, roll your eyes and set the clock to 3:14

It has to relate to the clock? Then what about breakfast? It can be a nice, rounded meal. Can be either cold or hot. What time would be considered breakfast on the clock then? 8?

>>982270
Habañero ice cream

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/11/29(Sun)20:21 No. 982487 ID: b5fb67
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Carmine: "Bread?"

Jessica: "Cheese?"

Carmine: "Habanero ice cream!

Jessica: "Breakfast? It's in the morning..."

Melody sighs and turns the clock to 3:14.

There's a soft 'click' as a hatch on the base of the clock opens up.

Melody: "It was pie! But in this case, 'pi' the irrational number, like 3.14159."

Carmine: "Ugh, math."

Jessica: "Same, I never liked math. But let's check out what we got!"

The girls look into the hatch. Inside is a small key.

Jessica: "Looks like one of those dresser keys."

Melody: "Only one drawer on the dresser I checked had a lock, but it was already unlocked."

Jessica: "Hmm."

Try the glass casing for the grandfather clock, or if there's no key, try locking the "unlocked" drawer!

Check under the rug

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/12/01(Tue)00:36 No. 982584 ID: b5fb67
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Melody picks up the key and looks at the glass casing of the grandfather clock. It doesn't fit in the keyhole.

Melody: "Hm. Maybe the drawer...?"

She runs over to the unlocked drawer and inserts the key. The other girls walk over and watch.

Melody: "The key fits! Now let's see if my hunch is right."

Melody turns the key. The open drawer's lock engages with a click. Melody turns the key again, but this time, the bottom of the drawer briefly jiggles as another soft click is heard.

Melody: "Ah ha! A false bottom!"

Carmine: "Good call."

Jessica: "Nice! Let's see what's inside!"

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/12/01(Tue)00:36 No. 982585 ID: b5fb67
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Melody removes the false bottom of the drawer. Inside sits a paper pouch and a journal embossed in gold leaf with the name "Cynthia Schwartzenberg."

Melody pulls the journal out and flips to the last entry as the girls lean in.

I wonder what she was cooking which caused food poisoning.

We're going to probably need more clues to get the bigger picture, but right now, we can assume that turning that dial caused the explosion. Also note, usually righty tighty, lefty loosey. So maybe she felt more comfortable if the space bra was tighter?

I think signs are pointing to go to the kitchen.

Time to move on! Let's head downstairs.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/12/29(Tue)15:46 No. 984469 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica: "I wonder what she made that gave her food poisoning..."

Melody: "Well, it's probably safe to assume that this dial thingy caused the accident that got her and some of the family killed."

Carmine: "Must be one hell of a tightly wound brassiere."

Jessica: "Maybe. Let's see if if we can find more clues!"

The girls start to move towards the entryway when Jessica stops. The other girls stop with her.

Carmine: "What's wrong?"

Jessica: "Do you feel the floor here? It seems kind of... soft."

Melody: "Well, now that you mention it, the floor does feel kind of squishy."

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/12/29(Tue)15:47 No. 984470 ID: b5fb67
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*CRASH*

Suddenly, the floor gives away underneath the trio as they go tumbling through the floor into the room beneath.

All: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/12/29(Tue)15:47 No. 984471 ID: b5fb67
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Melody and Carmine fall flat on their faces. Dazed and still in a darkened room, they pick themselves up. The two girls notice that they are missing a third.

Carmine: "Jessica? Jessica! Where are you?!"

Jessica: "I'm up here! Help!"

The girls look up to find Jessica, hanging by her shirt held by jagged parts of the ceiling.

Jessica: "I'm stuck! Help me down!"

Don't just stand there! Grab ahold of her and help her down! Vigorously!

>>984471
Drop out of the shirt for a smooth escape

Carmine should catch her, and Melody should pull!

Grab her firmly by the belt and pull her down

Melody: explain you will go upstairs back into the room you were in before you fell through and that you'll get her unstuck safely from there.

Carmine: complain that would take too long and just yank Jessica down with your strength

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/01/18(Mon)18:50 No. 985949 ID: b5fb67
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Melody and Carmine nod at each other and grab onto one of Jessica's dangling legs. They begin to pull.

Carmine: "We'll get you down, Jess. Give us a second."

Jessica: "W-wait, I think I may be caught on something else! I think it might be my braaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Melody and Carmine yank as hard as they can. There's the sound of tearing cloth and a couple of 'twang' sounds as Jessica falls from her hanging position and hits the floor. Unfortunately, she leaves behind a couple pieces of her shirt, and a heart-print bra.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/01/18(Mon)18:50 No. 985950 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica stands up from hitting the ground. She rubs her legs as she looks back to her hanging position. She gasps as her hands dart to her chest, realizing she is a little more... jiggly.

Jessica: "I said WAIT, damn it!"

Melody: "Oops."

Jessica: "Yeah! 'Oops' is right! Thanks for destroying a perfectly good brassiere!"

Melody: "We had to get you down somehow..."

Jessica massages her temples as she attempts to calm herself. Meanwhile, Carmine starts looking around at the various boxes that litter the kitchen area.

examine boxes!

Search box, receive clues, and make sure to prepare for inevitable ghost jumping out of anything and errything!

Jess: retrieve your bra, but accidentally drop it in the drain of the sink.

Melody: at the same time, turn on the disposal switch mistaking it for a light switch (destroying the bra). Wonder why there is still electricity in this abandoned building afterwards.

Carmine: check boxes

Alternatively, maybe Melody and Jessica can try to cook something to lure the ghost of the mother here or something since she seemed to like cooking considering she was writing about cooking in her diary. See what kind of old moldy food they have here.

>>985950
Search through the drawers and cabinets.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/01/21(Thu)23:25 No. 986082 ID: b5fb67
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Jessica tries to retrieve her bra. She has to jump a couple times before she can grab it and pull it off the broken floor. She examines her poor support garment: the straps are busted, the hooks are broken, and some of the underwire might be bent. She sighs a heavy sigh as she folds it up and shoves it in her back pocket.

Melody and Carmine turn to examine the boxes.

Carmine: "Looks like these are moving boxes. They're labeled for appliances and cutlery."

As she finishes her sentence, a box lid tears open. Many knives float into the air, held by the same spectral glow that the girls saw before. More knives tear through another box and float into the air.

The blades start to turn to face the trio.

"GEEEEEETTTTT OOOOOOUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT."

Carmine: "Uh oh!"

FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES! Run from the knives!

TAKE A PICTURE THIS TIME

Hey, now it's Melody's chance to take pictures of the ghost! Get your phone out quick, Melody!

as the tough girl, Carmine, it is your responsibility to act as a shield to protect your friends! keep them behind you.

Jessica, use your charisma to talk out of this situation. Tell Mr. Schwartzenberg you met his daughter and she was begging for help, tasking you to find out why her mother had to die so she can be at peace.

>>986084
THIS! PHOTO DOCUMENTATION IS IMPORTANT!

>>986082
Make like a tree, and get out of there.

Carmine, use karate to bap back the knives while your compatriots escape

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/08(Mon)23:53 No. 987410 ID: b5fb67
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Carmine: "LOOK OUT!"

In an instant, Carmine shoves her friends out of the way of the floating kitchen knives. As soon as her friends hit the kitchen floor, however, the array of sharp implements fly towards Carmine. She puts her arms up to protect her face while angling herself to give herself the lowest profile, all the while dodging cutlery. The knives barely graze skin and slice clothing, then embed themselves into the cupboards and counters. Seeing the knives stuck in the furniture, Carmine grabs her friends and hauls them into the nearby room.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/08(Mon)23:53 No. 987411 ID: b5fb67
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The girls pick themselves up in a darkened dining room.

Jessica: "Thanks Carmine. That was a close..."

Jessica stares at Carmine.

Jessica: "...call. I couldn't bee-lieve we almost got attacked!"

Carmine: "What?"

Jessica: "It's fine, though I guess you could say that ghost was not bee-having itself."

Carmine looks down and sees her cut up clothing exposing her underwear. It's too dark to see Carmine turn red.

Carmine: "Aw piss."

Jessica: "Don't worry 'honey,' I have some bandages in my back pocket."

Carmine: "Maybe I should just call YOU the Queen of HEARTS!"

Jessica: "Okay okay, point taken."

As Jessica starts pulling a handful of adhesive bandages from her pocket, Melody scans the room.

Melody: "Think there are any clues here? We're running out of rooms to examine."

Fine why don't you take your camera out BEFORE spooky things start happening then.

Rifle through the drawers.

Search the furniture for clues. Check the Buffet table for stock advice.

Check behind the stuff in the background for hidden papers. Maybe someone stashed a diary back there!

>>987415
ooh that would be spicy! Do this!

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/10(Wed)00:07 No. 987506 ID: b5fb67
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The girls fan out and check the furniture. Carmine finds a buffet, Jessica goes to the dish cabinet, and Melody investigates the liquor cabinet.

Jessica: "I got nothing. Carmine?"

Carmine: "I found a note at the bottom of one of the drawers! It says 'lab entrance is old fashioned.' What does that even mean? Like a stone door or something?"

Jessica: "Don't know yet. Mel? What do you got?"

Melody: "This is a well-organized liquor cabinet. There's a compartment for sugar cubes, bitters, fruits, and ice... each cabinet door is individually labeled for rum, brandy, vodka, whiskey, gin, tequila, cognac..."

>>987506
Okay listen carefully, there is very little time and I have reason to believe you may never have an opportunity like this again so you must act now . Drink everything you can reach, the party starts RIGHT NOW.

The obvious solution to the puzzle is for them to drink so they can be at their sharpest mentally.

Make a cocktail!

I think a good idea is some sugsr cubes muddled with bitters, mixed with whiskey and a zested orange, garnish with cherry.

An "old fashioned" is a cocktail. Simple syrup, water, bitters into a whiskey glass and mix. Add ice, pour whiskey over ice.

>>987511
This sounds right

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/10(Wed)22:09 No. 987632 ID: b5fb67
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Carmine: "An Old Fashioned is a cocktail! Maybe making one will open the door somehow."

Melody: "That's right! We just need whiskey, sugar, water, bitters, and an orange or cherry garnish!"

Melody opens the whiskey cabinet... but finds it empty. Confused, she opens the rum and tequila cabinets and also finds them vacant. The ice, fruit, sugar, and bitters drawers are also bare.

Jessica: "We have no ingredients. Now what?"

Carmine: "I guess getting wasted is off the table..."

>>987632
Maybe it has to do with the drawers and cabinets themselves? Like you're supposed to turn their knobs, or there's hidden switches inside?

Maybe it's a trap door? check under the table or the cabinets. Trap doors are really old fashioned.

Old Fashioned is also a type of glass. Check for places where glasses used to be stored.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/13(Sat)19:48 No. 987997 ID: b5fb67
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Melody checks where the glasses would be stored, but finds nothing.

She then closely examines the individually labeled liquor drawers. Nothing in tequila or gin... but she stops after checking the whiskey drawer.

Melody: "There's a button built into the door hinge of this drawer! It gets activated when the cabinet is opened."

Jessica: "Nice find! Do you think there are more?"

Check the drawer for bitters and garnishes!

>>987997
Ok, so, just open the related drawers.

Did you push the button? push the button if you haven't yet.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/16(Tue)16:26 No. 988283 ID: b5fb67
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Melody proceeds to open the remaining drawers related to the ingredients of an Old Fashioned: whiskey, sugar, water, bitters, ice, and fruit.

Nothing happens.

Melody looks around for a few seconds, confused.

Melody: "Oh! Right!"

She quickly darts over and closes the rum and tequila drawers.

There's a soft click, and the entire liquor cabinet slides to the left, revealing a secret passage.

Melody: "Ha!"

Jessica: "Wow. And here I thought secret passages were only on a Clue board."

Carmine: "I'm still disappointed there wasn't any tequila."

Melody: "Let's go!"

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/02/16(Tue)16:26 No. 988284 ID: b5fb67
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The three girls make their way down a spiral staircase, their hands on the walls as they carefully navigate the steps. Upon exiting the stairs, they go down a short hallway which opens up into a room filled with cloth, designing equipment, and drafting tables.

Jessica: "This is it, this must be where Kurt Schwartzenberg spent his time inventing in secret!"

Melody: "There seems to be junk all over the floor of this room. Probably from all his time making prototypes..."

Carmine: "Yeesh, this place smells like a laundromat crossed with a basement."

>>988284
Is that a sigil, or a lingerie one-piece?

>>988284
Get your camera out. Things are about to get spooky.
Investigate the notes before you approach the Object.

Ground yourself before touching anything! Then check out the centerpiece masterpiece with appropriate caution.

Lets find out how the finished piece exploded by examining the paperwork

>>988286
DOCUMENT EVERYTHING!

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/03/12(Fri)20:38 No. 990904 ID: b5fb67
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Melody takes a moment to whip out her phone and record everything she sees, including the strange bodice apparatus on the craft table.

Carmine: "What is this thing??"

Melody: "I assume its the shapewear that Kurt Schwartzenberg was engineering for his wife to show off."

Jessica: "So then this must have been what killed her! Look, there's a dial on the front of it and everything!"

Sure enough, the girls inspect the lingerie and find a 'tightness adjust' dial on the front.

Jessica: "Cynthia Schwartzenberg must have turned the dial to a faulty setting... but how would that have killed her?"

Carmine: "Who knows what kind of wacky shit is built into this thing."

Melody: "I need a closer look. Hang on..."

Melody moves closer to the bodice, phone in hand, as she attempts to turn it over.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2021/03/12(Fri)20:39 No. 990905 ID: b5fb67
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Her investigation is interrupted, however, as another blue specter flies out of the bodice. Melody drops her phone in surprise as the ghost flies past her chest, destroying her shirt.

Melody: "AAAAAAAAA!"

???: "Kuuuuuuurrrrrrtttttttttt... oooooohhhhhh mmmmyyyy sswwwweeeettt hhuuuusssbbbaaannnddd Kuuuuurrrrttttt..."

GET THE FUCKING PHONE

OH MY GOD GET THE PHONE AND RECORD

Get phone, record evidence, this is groundbreaking stuffs

>>990905
We need ALL THE EVIDENCE. Record our increasingly naked friend in order to show this evidence to vast numbers of people later. I'm sure she doesn't mind.

Carmine: grab phone and take picture of Ghost (and Melody by accident). Send pix for proof of ghosts.

yes photo record this!