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[Walkabout] Do you like your spirits scrambled or fried?
[Within an hour of the sounds of murder subsiding, there's a careful voice on the network.]
Sooooo, uh. Quick-- quick little update on the whole thing we're dealing with right now?
Because I said there was, like- a necromantic lich thing, before? Some updates there. Wish it was good news, but... yeah. Rarely ever is with this type of thing.
So, first off. The dead dude upstairs? Previous host. I got a good look at the scene, had a poke around, and there're signs of a pretty bad struggle before our dude just out and died. Someone was beating it up pretty bad, probably with some kind of holy magic just judging by the burn marks alone. They would've won, probably, except then I think the other lich exploded and fuckin' just-- ran like the wind.
S-- so, uh. Bad news - there's a life energy-eating spirit on the loose. But, uh, goooood news? [Debatably] Seems like it needs a host, so. It can't go far. Especially with that barrier up.
Uh, second thing. I managed to get a couple 'f answers out of the corpse itself. Poor schmuck just - really did not know what hit him; ol' Lichy'd been possessing him for a few weeks, minimum, before he got here and got murdered to the Nine Hells and back. But, I did get two leads out of him, maybe. The guy's employer, whoever that is, and some Hunter he said was following him for pretty much the entire time - and, honestly, knowing ghost bounty hunters, was probably the murderer.
That's, uh. That's all I got.
Sooooo, uh. Quick-- quick little update on the whole thing we're dealing with right now?
Because I said there was, like- a necromantic lich thing, before? Some updates there. Wish it was good news, but... yeah. Rarely ever is with this type of thing.
So, first off. The dead dude upstairs? Previous host. I got a good look at the scene, had a poke around, and there're signs of a pretty bad struggle before our dude just out and died. Someone was beating it up pretty bad, probably with some kind of holy magic just judging by the burn marks alone. They would've won, probably, except then I think the other lich exploded and fuckin' just-- ran like the wind.
S-- so, uh. Bad news - there's a life energy-eating spirit on the loose. But, uh, goooood news? [Debatably] Seems like it needs a host, so. It can't go far. Especially with that barrier up.
Uh, second thing. I managed to get a couple 'f answers out of the corpse itself. Poor schmuck just - really did not know what hit him; ol' Lichy'd been possessing him for a few weeks, minimum, before he got here and got murdered to the Nine Hells and back. But, I did get two leads out of him, maybe. The guy's employer, whoever that is, and some Hunter he said was following him for pretty much the entire time - and, honestly, knowing ghost bounty hunters, was probably the murderer.
That's, uh. That's all I got.
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No idea on his employer, might just be the innkeeper if he's local. But I think I might have an idea who the Hunter is - this guy called Shadwell hanging around, he's got a little ghost girl following him.
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[He sounds mildly surprised.]
Huh.
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It isn't that unusual. The last time we visited a world that had ghosts, most living people weren't even aware until things started going very, very wrong.
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Yeah, the little girl seems pretty much completely harmless, at least. Shadwell I'm wondering about, though, if he has a ghost following him, he can see her.
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[She sounds a little sad. Poor man. Poor child.]
If he really is hunting supernatural creatures - or even if he might be - we should be careful not to draw too much of his attention. We're probably on the same side, but I doubt he'd see it that way if he knew even a fraction of what we all are.
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Let me come up there and get a sniff around. I should be able to work out who the hunter person is if anything matches anyone I've talked to so far.
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But I'm better with my sense of smell.
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But I believe this being identifies me as being something... like it. It is very wrong, of course, but I believe it tried to feed off me and found me... unpalatable. If this creature is free, and seeking another host, I may be able to offer myself as a shield against it. I don't believe it can harm me.
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Yeah, that's gonna be the fun part, huh. [This time he sounds less pleased.]
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[Minako admittedly had been concentrating more on the Sift than the actual murder site, because that was A Lot and she is not Min or Aisha, neither of whom would have blinked an eye at that.]
Something tells me they're probably not going to show up on a Control Panel. Not that it's a good idea to be using one of those where anyone can see them in a place like this anyway, but still.
[She's not sure they'd show up in her Eagle Vision, either, although given how vulnerable that makes her when she's using it, it might not be a good idea for her to use it anyway.]
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[They're probably not that lucky though, are they?]
Magic doesn't pick them up at all?
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[Between the lot of them, they've got to have something that works... don't they?]
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[without being caught out as being too out of place]
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[There's a short pause.]
Of course, there's also the possibility of one of us ending up as a host.
[Honestly, she'll be stunned if that doesn't end up happening at some point.]
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[Although if they figure out how to use their host's skills - especially their network skills - that might not be all that foolproof.]
Hopefully there's a way to get them out of their host before they do something like what they did to Tobi.
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So, what is the best plan, then? We find the hunter and... beat him up for his secrets? Pay for his help?
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Especially since we've seen what it can do when it gets desperate.