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Number FIVE ☂ ([personal profile] somebadnews) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2023-06-25 05:00 pm

un: ut malum pluvia | audio

[ Five is walking out of the lighthouse as he addresses the network, since it's generally quieter where ghosts aren't constantly interrupting his thoughts. The beauty of this form of communication is it's not entirely unlike talking to himself, which is really his preference. ]

Okay, listen up. Since we're all sharing, let's see if we can't come up with an actual plan, before we experience the next shift and you all inconveniently forget who you are again.

[ To say nothing of a haunting that has already sent him into a panic attack or how he nearly drowned just to see for himself what he'd already heard second-hand. Nothing but success for Five Hargreeves. ]

Two orders of business. One, Miang-Si is obviously a catalyst, if not the cause of what's happening here. I searched her room one of the nights she was out galavanting with her lake friends. There was correspondence that suggested she was enamored with someone, who I now assume was the Huntress. I also found evidence that the woman in white, and another in red, visited her there. The witches she's involved with also may have dragged in women doing laundry nearby into their lake at some point, judging by what was found with the skeletons at the bottom.

Secondly, these hauntings aren't just some curse. If they are spirits, we need to figure out a way to trap them. There's a woman in white, a man in black, a lumberjack, and another woman in red. Who else has been seen and how often? If we can capture one of them, maybe we can get some answers before whatever triggered this starts again.

[ He has no doubt it'll happen at the worst possible moment.

Just as he's about to continue with his all-important conspiracy theories, he's approached by a young girl with a silver coin in hand. Distantly she can be heard saying she's worried about her family, and asks him to take a donation for Kathoo'lul's blessing. Dumbfounded, he takes it and promptly loses his train of thought as she scurries away. ]


...Amazing how easy it is to start a cult around here.
northerndragon: (full of blame and sympathy)

[personal profile] northerndragon 2023-06-26 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I cannot explain all of it, but time was strange to me when I was trapped there. It was only moments, but it felt like days. What if there's more than one mirror, each holding a different time?
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Jon, please start making sense

[personal profile] northerndragon 2023-06-27 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
No, not as such. I'm not sure it would have to.

Miang-Si told me I could aid the water that was wronged. Don't know if that has much to do with anything. We know the dead come from it. Dead in the water can't go far where I'm from. But the moon is in the water, too.
northerndragon: the terrible things that happened to you didn't make you. you always were. (i am who i am - animated)

[personal profile] northerndragon 2023-06-27 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, when they took her from house to house.
northerndragon: (welp.)

[personal profile] northerndragon 2023-06-27 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He thinks on that.]

Might be. Or it might only be that she speaks of the dead rising again from the waters. If they were thought to stay, then don't stay anymore, if the water loses what once belonged to it, that might be a way of wronging it.
northerndragon: living forever is like living in a living nightmare (dismay)

[personal profile] northerndragon 2023-06-27 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I asked how I might help. That was her answer. But not the only place we've heard of something being wronged here. I don't know if she means to help or hinder.
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[personal profile] northerndragon 2023-06-28 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
No. I've had no chance.