[ AGGREGATE INFOSHARE ] AUDIO | UN: 354.204-S

[bijective]

Pardon the interruption, but perhaps now is a good time as any to parse through our current intelligence. I’ve offered a simple template of questions to get the ball rolling, so to speak—

- What/Where/Who have you investigated?
- What do we know from said investigation?

I believe these should be clear-cut to answer. Now, I may lack the proper rigorous experience like the lot of you. But it would be to our benefit to double-check the unmarked areas within this town.

[ ooc: assume this is around the second week into the mission. before all hallow's day and all that jazz. the goal is to see if there are any opportunities for potential search request baton passes and piecing what we know so far! so go forth! thread hop. be merry. ]

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text | un: claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

I think I've found some interesting stuff - y'all tell me what you think.

General town area: There's some kind of energy being gathered up into a few locations from all over town. I can confidently place some nodes in the cemetery and the elementary school, and a few others around the neighborhoods, but those are fuzzier.

Residential: Something really powerful here. I don't know what or where exactly it is, but anyone that goes to check it out should be really careful.

Cooper Family: Sam Cooper had an imaginary friend named "Freddie" that I have reason to believe wasn't just an imaginary friend. Sam also felt like he had to leave town to protect people, I guess from himself or something related to him, which might be why his family moved away.

[Is Clayton going to say how he found out any of this information? Not right away.]

{ text } un: joric

[drawsblood]

I spoke with a woman named Gemma who knew Sam. She said one day he was staring off at nothing and when she tried to speak with him, he jumped in the air in alarm. If this Freddie is real, than perhaps they were there speaking to Sam and that is why he was caught off guard.

She said he and his family left when he was accepted to a university and one of the few things left in the house was a piece of paper with the university name on it, so that appears to be true.

[ By "piece of paper" he means envelope but he honestly doesn't know that's what they're called. Letters are folded and sealed with wax or rolled up and tied shut where he's from. ]

[dr_unconscious]

That makes sense.
For the first case, I mean. Sam and Freddie probably kept in touch telepathically, if Freddie was some kind of disassociated spirit.
I'm not sure about the university thing. I wonder if it was a cover to get them out of town?
Do you know if anything else was written on the paper? Like, was it an acceptance letter or just a brochure or what?

[drawsblood]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[ He's trying, but they don't have universities in his land. Being here in town has been a crash course in modernity. ]

It was a rectangle of paper that had been sealed shut and so it was ripped open. Nothing was left inside. The outside said University of Uppermount in one corner. The paper was yellow with age and crumpled up.

text | un: Lan er-gongzi

[gusurules]

[It has taken him some time to calm down, but now that he has, he knows that what he and Yennifer experienced needs to be said. Not all of it. But the matter of the Orb's desire.]

An attempt to contact the Orb was made. It was successful. The Orb expects to be found and it does not wish to be taken from this place. The contact was made at the school.

[dr_unconscious]

Woah, really?
Did you do that? Are you ok?

[gusurules]

[physically, yes.]

Yes. I am unharmed.

[His guqin, however...]

It was brief. The orb was not happy to be contacted.

text | un: castiel

[foolintherain]

I spoke with one of the gravekeepers by the name of Harry. He told me the "hauntings" began four years ago, exactly when the Cooper family moved away.

He also told me that additional families had bought and resided in the home over those years but had all moved out quickly, claiming that it was haunted. When I investigated the house, I found nothing that would suggest a haunting.

The only thing out of the ordinary I noticed was a concentration of chaotic energy around the video tape player, almost like a residue of where the orb had been. I have no idea where it may be now.

[dr_unconscious]

Weird.
It kind of sounds to me like Freddie was left behind. If he's an actual spirit, I could see why he'd be upset by Sam moving away.

No idea what to make of the tape player, though. I don't know enough about how these orbs work to even begin to guess about that stuff.

[foolintherain]

Unfortunately, I have no idea what these orbs are or how they operate, either.

[ And he's extra pissy about it tbh. This would all be much simpler if it were just a malevolent spirit that needed to be put to rest. ]

If Freddie is a soul tethered to this plane, then burning his remains, or whatever material thing he's attached to, would cut that tether and release him. However, I searched both the graveyard and the Cooper's house, and there was no sign of a recent death and burial of a child.

text. un: barnes.

[starer]

you know how long sam knew freddie for?
does it tie up with when this town went to hell?

[dr_unconscious]

No clue. Sounds like it was a long time, though - at least since his grandmother passed away.
It seems like the town went to hell when Sam moved away, not necessarily when Freddie showed up. Much more recent thing. But if Freddie's been around for longer, I wonder if he's been doing more subtle stuff that the other townspeople know about?

[starer]

so it could be that freddie's throwing a temper tantrum about sam leaving
or the orb's making it worse somehow

text | un: silent

[callada]

Templates aside,

Has anyone else here so far experienced waking up somewhere far from where you last remember being, and finding most of a day has passed without you knowing?

If so, do you remember any of the time in between?

text un:Aleksander

[cruelyethuman]

I found eternity.

Yet observations of my surroundings suggest that I was unconscious for less than five minutes.

[callada]

Nearly the opposite of what I experienced, then.

Were you all right when you woke up?

[cruelyethuman]

Were you?

text. un: [blank]

[spoors]

Went to the school. Ended up talking to something. Drew some pictures on a chalkboard. Played catch with a doll's head that talked. The ghost or whatever it was said its name is Freddie.

It was trying to say something about someone leaving him, then coming back later. Tried asking if it was Sam, but he got mad. Sent a doll out who started shouting. Couldn't stay there much longer though. Something weird was going on with the room.

[And he hasn't been able to sleep through the night since. Thanks again, buddy.]

text | un: claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

Humor me - what did the doll look like?

[spoors]

A boy with pale skin. Wearing a white shirt and black shorts. Black eyes.

[Hold on. He's been practicing. So have a video of this doll being shared. From the moment it turns up to the moment it loses its head.]

text - un; nightmoves

[ruinously]

I talked to Debbie, the lady who used to babysit the Cooper kid. Said he was a little weird, that it feels like something has been following her for years - something evil. She said he was a kinda creepy, Sam - Halloween/All Hallow's Day was his favorite holiday, obsessed with horror movies, said he knew a ghost - Freddy, I'm assuming. Course, she thought it was a prank, but I think we all know better.

Anyway - she said he never said anything about hearing voices or having wishes granted, so I'm not sure if he's got anything to do with the orb or not.

Has anyone thought that maybe Freddy is a real ghost, and he's the one who made the wish?

text. un: Aleksander

[cruelyethuman]

A while back, an orb granted a wish to bring a whole town back to life. The one who made the wish was the only living thing for miles.

[ruinously]

cowboys, right?

maybe it's the other way around this time. maybe all these people are ghosts and freddy's the only one alive

im reaching i know

text; un: castiel

[foolintherain]

It's possible. If Freddie wished for something four years ago that caused the town to become "haunted," it may have scared Sam into leaving.

[ruinously]

[ oh hey baby ]

Kinda what I was thinking. Big question is why would he do that? How's it benefit him?