Being a dog, burying a bone, not calling 811 before you dug

The last thing you remember is actually not super helpful. You really just rember the taste of strawberry ice cream. Not how you looked, or where you were, just that flavor is all you’ve got to go off of, as to what your life was like

Last thing you remembered was being a rapping dog on the Titanic and the rest is a blur.

(1/2) OMNI 2025/10/26(Sun)22:12 No. 1115588 ID: 43c2d7
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You rack your ghost brain for any semblance of a memory. It would've been so cool if you were a rapping dog with a bone that drove a shopping cart into a paramedic on the Titanic. Then promptly got hit by someone's convertible that drove off a nearby iceberg.

Boooooo.. And a part of you does want to say that! But you also don't want to be dishonest to your newly acquired friend. You don't have many friends to throw around. But maybe you can juggle them later!

"It's not that big. I just remember the taste of strawberry ice cream and being outside." You squint and try to form the vague memory into something that makes sense. But it feels like a dream. The more you think, the less you can make sense of it. "I miss ice cream. And being outside."

"Oh." They seem deep in thought. "I haven't had ice cream much."

"I remember that it was really good! You should have some."

"I'll try."

(2/2) OMNI 2025/10/26(Sun)22:13 No. 1115589 ID: 43c2d7
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When you both finally emerge from the sink drain, the sudden light causes Mister Depressed Rat For Now to squint.

"I can't remember the last time I wasn't in the pipes." They say.

You stare at them in disbelief. "How do you know what time it is?"

"I don't." They glance down at themself. "Cheezits.. I'm dirty. You think the human will still like me?"

"Of course!"

"Well... Should I still do this? I'm starting to think that maybe this was a bad idea.. I don't want her to get mad at me since I had her stuff."

"Why would she get mad at you? Did you steal it?" You ask.

"No... I took it."

"Then that's different!" Stealing and taking are just sliiiiightly off from the other after all.

"Oh.. Then.. What should I say?" They seem to shuffle nervously. "... Can the human even understand me? What if she can't and she starts screaming?"

Vocalizations are hard for humans to understand. So words are probably a no go. What they do understand is music, so let’s see about remembering the friendliest music you ever heard…

How about squeaking the theme from Friends? And clapping along?

First off you didn't take it, you found it. Finders keepers means you were within your rights to keep it.
Second she hangs out with ghosts, which are so scary. She definitely won't be afraid of a little rat.
Third She doesn't need to understand what you say, squeaks are cute.
Just offer it up to her and she'll get what you mean

Try to present yourself as a cute little rat and she will adopt you as her pet.

(1/4) OMNI 2025/10/27(Mon)22:21 No. 1115623 ID: 43c2d7
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"Psh! She hangs out with us ghosts, and we're suuuper scary. She won't find you scary at all." You shake your head. "Besides, she might not understand you, but humans can understand the power of music!"

".... The power of music?"

"Yeah! And humans love squeaking. We can squeak together and clap along to the Friends song."

"Right."

"Right! Friends, friends, friends." You singsong and clap. "Like that."

They seem to practice muttering it to themself before nodding. "Okay."

"Great! If she really likes it, maybe she'll adopt you too."

Mister Depressed seems to get embarrassed at the suggestion. They squirm and mutter. "Someone's pet huh..."

Okay!

(2/4) OMNI 2025/10/27(Mon)22:26 No. 1115624 ID: 43c2d7
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You both scamper down, past the bathroom, and back to the bedroom area. It's quieted down now that it's hitting later in the day. Most all the other ghosts have departed to haunt other areas of the complex and to get their fill of the night's haunts.

When you enter, Syven notices immediately, smiling and putting down her phone. She's partially dressed. Must be getting ready for her date!

Excitedly, she crouches down to greet you both.

"Hi Boo. Who do you have here?"

Mister Depressed seems to freeze at the sight of her. You nudge them encouragingly then give a wink.

"We have a present for you!"

"Oh?"

(3/4) OMNI 2025/10/27(Mon)22:31 No. 1115625 ID: 43c2d7
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You start to clap a tune, squeak singing as Mister Depressed joins along. They seem to realize their hands are preoccupied, moving to wave the tooth earring instead of clapping. You clap louder for the both of you.

"SQUEEeEee SQUEEAAK ssquee squeeak SQUeeAaAak!"

You don't really know when to stop and neither do they! You didn't talk about that part!

Your singing is eventually interrupted by Syven's giggling, growing louder and louder, until she's fully laughing.

"Okay, okay. That was great. Thank you both." She continues laughing then moves to hold two fingers out for them to drop the tooth onto. Mister Depressed complies.

She holds it up as she examines it closely, "Huh. Looks cooler than I remember."

(4/4) OMNI 2025/10/27(Mon)22:37 No. 1115627 ID: 43c2d7
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Syven leaves for a moment to finish getting ready. In the meantime, you reconvene with Mister Depressed on your success. They still seem unsure, but they're smiling as they talk. Maybe they do want to be a pet rat after all?

When Syven returns, now fully dressed, she shows off the earrings. "Looking good, huh? Anyway, you earned that favor, Boo. What do you want me to do?"

BOO-YAH!

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Conditions for the Favor:
- Syven can only act as a support to the main scare plan. Boo will need to be the main actor.
- Syven can only act once.
- Syven will not physically harm the target.

Time to enact our scare plan on the new tenant! He showed nervousness at his laptop not working… perhaps we could get Goth Psychic to help read his mind and see/hear why he is being so rude?

Sure, Syven can't hurt the guy physically but that doesn't mean she can't hurt him in a mental way. She can be the one who tells him the spooky story and that can be our opportunity to strike!

She could be a potential distraction while we try to figure out how a phone works! If he freaked out when you haunted the laptop, haunting the phone would REALLY scare him. We just need an opportune moment to learn. Wait for a moment where he has it charging, then have Syven occupy him with some polite neighbor chatter! Then, while he’s distracted, we try and figure out what a phone is!

She should introduce herself like friendly neighbor. And use the opportunity to both probe him for his fears and plant the seeds of how there's something very wrong about his apartment.

You can use the favor for Syven to be our ghost mediator, we can have a proper introduction, set a time for a haunting, if he suffers from allergies and what we can do with our target during our off hovers.

(1/2) OMNI 2025/10/30(Thu)19:51 No. 1115961 ID: 43c2d7
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>She could be a potential distraction while we try to figure out how a phone works!
>help read his mind and see/hear why he is being so rude?
>probe him for his fears and plant the seeds of how there's something very wrong about his apartment.
>ghost mediator, we can have a proper introduction, set a time for a haunting, if he suffers from allergies and what we can do with our target during our off hovers.

Awww yessss it's all coming together in your mind's eye.

While Syven introduces herself as a friendly neighbor, she can use her Totally Legit Psychic Skills to gather more information and probe his mind more intimately. Find out his fears and what keeps him up at night. Maybe tell him a spooky story to get the mood going! While she does so, you'll use that time to figure out what that darn phone does and how to use it.

Your target has a fear around technology, so you just have to get technological! BOO-LOGICAL!

And once that's all squared away, you can have a proper ghost-duction, and better discuss haunting etiquette. He can learn the proper manners and you can both plan accordingly how the scare should be done. You've done all this work to get to know him after all, he should do the same for you!

(2/2) OMNI 2025/10/30(Thu)19:52 No. 1115962 ID: 43c2d7
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You convey your plan to Syven, who gives you a thumbs up of approval.

"I have a couple ideas on what I'll say. Like that old couple that fell down the stairs a few weeks ago... Sad they died from a mutual heart attack."

You nod solemnly, "Yeah, too bad they didn't become ghosts."

You don't fully know the criteria of what makes someone a ghost or not, but it doesn't always happen when someone dies. You'd know, this apartment complex has deaths every year!

Syven moves to put her bag on, "We can start the plan tomorrow? I won't be back until tomorrow morning. Give yourself some time to rest, you're going in and out."

You blink and glance at your ghostly form. You're turning a bit toooo off-shell-egg-white. "Okay! Thanks Miss Syven!"

Syven giggles at you and gives you a little pat on the head. She then looks down at your new rat friend and brushes a finger down their fur, "I'll give you a bath later."

Mister Depressed seems to wiggle shyly at the gesture. Nice! Everything's going well.

As she exits, you regard your next course of action.

Options:
>A) Check on Target
>B) Find More Allies
>C) Rest
>D) ____

I wanna see the results of the “Boo!” Pizza we set up! Our side quest hopefully took the exact amount of time for the pizza to arrive outside! Once we see the confusion, we’ll have finished a day’s work and can rest, in preparation for phone haunting tomorrow!

>>1115962
>this apartment complex has deaths every year!
...that's not normal, unless there's like hundreds of people living here and a lot of them are very old?

>what do?
Quickly check on the target, then rest.

>>1115964
Yeah this!

>>1115964
yeah yeah! I wanna see if the pizza worked. and maybe he got out some more belongings to check out.

No now it is not the time for rest, now you need to go to the ghost gym and start working on improving your ghost muscles. Have to develop some impressive physique, and maybe even gain ghost nano-machines.

(1/6) OMNI 2025/10/31(Fri)21:20 No. 1116041 ID: 43c2d7
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>Deaths every year isn't normal

You wouldn't really know what's normal or not! The complex houses around a hundred people, from your rough estimation, and all of varying ages but usually skewing to young adults. Most die of tragic occurrences, though always within the complex. Sometimes, it's because they get too scared from a haunt and die from fright.

But everyone tries to avoid those! It's always suuuper awkward if someone comes back as a ghost. There's a lot of fights that start that way that Mapa has to resolve.

>Check Target
>See if Pizza worked

OH YES!! Let's see the spoils of your hard won labor! You kindly say goodbye to your friends, adding that you will come back to introduce your new rat friend to the other rodents as well. The building blocks of Rodentopia starts with you.

You phase through the wall and down into the first floor, where the new tenant has conveniently finished paying and picking up their pizza. He didn't even open it yet! Score!

(2/6) OMNI 2025/10/31(Fri)21:23 No. 1116042 ID: 43c2d7
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You quickly approach as he opens the pizza and rub your ghostly limbs in anticipation.

Once the decadent pizza box-top has risen high enough, the new tenant stares down at his presumable spoils, blinks, rubs his eyes, then looks again. His mouth opens in palpable confusion then looks over his shoulder, presumably to you. You smile wide and giggle to yourself, kicking your feet.

That's right! Another one for BOO!

(3/6) OMNI 2025/10/31(Fri)21:28 No. 1116043 ID: 43c2d7
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Once he looks over and sees nothing behind him, he gazes back down at the pizza box. The new tenant's expression goes blank... And the distraught look disappears back into that smarmy smile...

"Huh. The pizza people must be pranking me. Real funny." He says and shakes his head.

BOOO!! BOOOO!! AND NOT THE GOOD KIND!

The new tenant chuckles, snatching the humor that was meant to be for your ghoulish enjoyment!

What a fiend.

He starts to head upstairs. You know you should get some rest, but you're peeved enough to follow him up and curse him for his lack of manners once again.

(4/6) OMNI 2025/10/31(Fri)21:30 No. 1116045 ID: 43c2d7
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He opens the door to the bedroom...

(5/6) OMNI 2025/10/31(Fri)21:30 No. 1116046 ID: 43c2d7
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(6/6) OMNI 2025/10/31(Fri)21:31 No. 1116047 ID: 43c2d7
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...... That's a lot of pictures.

So is this the, it is the one thing you can't replace the room? Well call the police and get this guy arrested, or at least inspected.

perfect, he's a photographer. Ghosts showing up in photos is classic spook

Is he in all of these pictures with the woman? Like, does it look like all these pictures were taken with her permission, or does it look like some were taken in secret? It's kinda creepy but not outright stalking if he knows the girl (or is her current boyfriend) and just, like, loves her a lot but uses the wall instead of a photo album.

>>1116046
Oh hmm one of them is torn, like it was her and someone else that the guy doesn't like.
Could be he loves her but she loves someone else...

Ooooh! Illusioning all these to be blank could be a real scare! These are clearly important to him! We’ll keep that in our back pocket. I think it’s time to rest for tomorrow now though~

Haunt the photos make them talk to him. That will freak out this freak.

>>1116085
Even if we weren’t low on spirit energy, I feel like we should get more data on what to have the photos say for maximum spooky effectiveness. At the very least they should say his name, which we DO NOT KNOW actually. We should make sure that’s intel Syven is gathering! (He’ll probably introduce himself naturally, but as a ghost it’d be cute to ask Syven to add it to the list regardless, since we’re not as familiar with human customs)

>>1116085
No, he might like that! Don’t do that!

Oh right, after getting a little more info on the photos, go rest.

(1/6) OMNI 2025/11/04(Tue)19:06 No. 1116351 ID: 43c2d7
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>Call the police

Huh? The people in the black and red uniforms with the red lights? You don't see why they would need to be called. As far as you're aware, there's no one dead here but you!

Unless you count the way that the new tenant is absolutely murdering that pizza. Completely in their own world as they scroll on their phone.

You try to decipher what is being shown on the small screen, but he scrolls too quickly for you to read. As if he's looking for something specific.

(2/6) OMNI 2025/11/04(Tue)19:06 No. 1116352 ID: 43c2d7
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>Investigate photos

You put your detective cap on and saunter over to the photo wall to ponder their significance. The subject of each one is constant; a smaller, almost nerdy, human, that matches the one you saw on his lockscreen previously. The subject seems to be aware of the photographer in the majority of the photos, their gaze towards the camera, except in more scenic pictures.

A few of them are torn. A handful have people(?) completely blacked out in marker.

Here is what you gather:
- Seems like a romantic photo album!
- All the photos are of this subject. There are no other people visible except the new tenant.
- Most of the photos look worn/yellowed. The newest ones seem to be torn or vandalized.
- Some photos look to be taken at a far distance.
- The subject... looks a lot like the guy you saw across the street!

Perhaps there's a romantic tryst going on between the two? How juicy! How interesting!

If you didn't dislike the new tenant, you may be rooting for them!

(3/6) OMNI 2025/11/04(Tue)19:07 No. 1116353 ID: 43c2d7
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>Illusion photos

Manipulating photos is not your expertise, but it's good to practice anyway! If you were to make them all blank, it would take a significant amount of energy. If you were to try and have them speak, you could probably do one at a time. Otherwise, the least amount of energy would be spent in making yourself show up in them.

As practice, you muster the last of your strength to possess the photo, your ghostly visage taking shape where the subject once was. Their spectacles appear too to match of course. You feel a sense of joy that was likely captured in the moment. It feels nice!

Your understanding of photos has increased! You'll be able to appear and make the photo speak.

Though it would definitely help if you knew how the subject sounded.

(4/6) OMNI 2025/11/04(Tue)19:08 No. 1116354 ID: 43c2d7
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>Rest time

You exit before the photo rejects you.

PHEW! You sure got a lot done today. As tired as you are, you feel proud of what you have accomplished!

You head on out to retire for the day. Up into the secret attic.

(5/6) OMNI 2025/11/04(Tue)19:08 No. 1116355 ID: 43c2d7
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DAY 1: END.

Tip: Ghosts cannot be physically harmed by humans.

(6/6) OMNI 2025/11/04(Tue)19:09 No. 1116356 ID: 43c2d7
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DAY 2: BEGIN.

You wake with the day. You feel BOO-FRESHED and ready to get your haunt on!

Syven has not yet returned, so you have some time before you can put your plan in motion and let her know of all the new information you'll need her to gather, like a name.

At the moment, you are in the back hallway area. It connects the surrounding apartments together as they all have backdoors. It's a bit of a maze, but you're used to navigating it.

The back hallway can also be used to access the garage, the front office, the utility closets, and the storage closet Mapa resides in.

Where would you like to go?

>>1116352
Ah, that's a guy. So, looks like ex-boyfriend, or former friend, but they split up and our target has resorted to stalking. This kinda seems like something we should tell the psychic. Even if our GHOST persona doesn't understand romance, we could at least mention the room full of photos as a potential route for a scare.

How far away from the building can we go? The guy in the photos is nearby, so it'd be useful to spy on them for a bit to learn about them and thus get better context for photo haunting.

>>1116356
Ah, if it's only these locations... Wait, who is Mapa exactly? Let's go say hi, check the storage closet.

the front office probably has tenant records to spy on

>>1116359
I like these ideas

Snooping through front office sounds like a good idea, then we can go say hi to Mapa~

Why does the tip feel more like a threat, yeah the ghost can't be hurt but we have living friends. As for the destination just follow your heart.