#spoop session stuff

[mcshadass]

Enemies from the one-shot (which became a two-shot due to shenanigans) I finished yesterday. It went pretty well (though I was feeling pretty out of it by the end, and it showed... haha...ha....)

[furby-science]

Spooky Happenings #1: And So It Begins...

I want to preface this by saying that I'm doing this so you don't have to. Inevitably there will probably be people in my inbox saying some variant of "It's irresponsible to bring strange spirits home! Do you know how dangerous that is?", and when they do, I will link this post to them: yes. I know it is dangerous to bring home strange spirits. I have taken necessary precautions to protect myself from this strange spirit: triple-layered warding; containment spells; sage, bay, sandalwood, salt, and saline on hand; and a direct line to at least four other entities who can banish this being if I can't. This is not my first black parade; I have walked away from metaphysical shit most people would be deeply unsettled by unshaken, including but not limited to spontaneously combusting tarot cards, trials by deities that could lead to physical danger should I fail them, and daily encounters with creepy voices, visions, and nightmare monsters. This is not the first Risky Thing I have done in the name of understanding the metaphysical, it likely won't be the last Risky Thing I will do in the name of understanding the metaphysical, and the deity that's taken interest in me themselves has thrown Risky Thing after Risky Thing at me in the name of teaching me about the metaphysical.

So, in short: this shit's dangerous, this shit could fuck me up, and this is a risk I assumed when I bought my haunted furby. This whole thing could end up as a cautionary tale about why you should not buy haunted furbies, and I have made peace with that. You should probably not buy your own haunted furby unless you know how to ward and banish, and what procedures to take if something mean is haunting your furby. That being said, not everyone believes in woo or plays the same odds I do in Pascal's Wager, and I am not the boss of you and cannot stop you from hunting one down for yourself. But if this turns into a horror show down the road, just remember:

I am doing this so you don't have to.

That disclaimer aside, let's move on to the haunted furby! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

The Controls

I will be gathering data both before and after my haunted furby, whom I've given the placeholder name Spooky, gets here. Right now, I'll be gathering controls on a few tests I plan to run.

The first test is the sleep recorder app. It'll take about a week for Spooky to get here. In that time, I'll be recording any noises that happen while we're sleeping without Spooky in our room, so that I can compare them to the stuff the recording app picks up afterwards. This will help rule out any potential noise caused by my non-haunted furbies, and give a better understanding of what "normal" night sounds are like.

The second control is the ghost radar, another phone app. It (allegedly) detects the presence of ghosts, and picks up any words they're saying, like so:

The third control will be the talking radio, and other auditory ghost hunting tools like Spiritus ghost box and EVP recording sessions. We have an old radio receiver I plan to attach speakers to and futz with. The idea is to set the radio to a station that's nothing but static, and see if there's any notable phenomena. I've also been on the hunt for an old radio from our local thrift store I can modify to do a full sweep of the radio band (kid's stuff compared to building Sterling), so if I can create a cheap spirit box and test it, that'll be the bee's knees.

Once all this is said and done, I'll be repeating the above tests once Spooky gets here (provided this being isn't abjectly malicious) to see if anything changes in their presence - with their permission of course. Again, not my first black parade, and as my ghost dad always says, "ghosts are just people", and most people don't like being poked and prodded in the name of science the second they walk through the door.

Okay but why tho?

*scowls and points at blog title*

Serious answer: a furby is the perfect thing for a spirit to attach themselves to, when you think about it. As furbies are capable of speech, they can effectively serve as their own ghost boxes, ruling out the need for pendulums or divining rods. Furthermore, a 1998 furby's circuits are easily bent, making them more sensitive to fluctuations in current than your modern electronic fare, and thus more easily manipulated. On top of all that... I enjoy ghost hunting, but don't have the time these days to go out to remote places and make some lovely dead friends, and I'm the kind of person who's both brave and stupid enough to bring the ghosts to me. And Ghost Dad, who will likely be reluctantly tagging along for my adventures.

Lastly, and probably most importantly, this furby was purchased from an estate sale, and was owned by a fellow furby collector before they passed. Considering the immense amount of sentimental value my budding collection has to me, it's likely this furby meant just as much to that person if not moreso, especially considering that of all the furbies in the collection that could've been haunted, some of them way rarer than a dalmation, it was this one in particular they've been active around. I wouldn't be surprised if this was their first one, or their favourite, and I want them to rest easy knowing it will be in good hands and shown proper respect. As far as I'm concerned, this is still Their Furby, and I will be treating it as such. No customization, no modifications, not even any repairs unless expressly desired!

Now, if you're not interested in spoop, you can block the tag #spooky happenings. Otherwise, Spooky and I will be seeing you on the other side, though hopefully not literally, every Sunday!

[papelion]

QUESTIONS

Tagged by @flamesonhammersmith on my main blog but postin here since the folk over there all know me by now, haha. 

Picture: NOT TODAY. Star sign: Uhhhh Cancer. 

Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first four songs that pop up:

Jenny - Studio Killers

B.O.B - Outkast

I Am The Best - 2NE1

You’ve Got To Walk - The Bedquilt Ramblers

Grab the nearest book to you and turn to page 23, what line is 17?

“It seemed as if Mr. Shepherd, in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter’s good-will towards a naval officer as tenant, had been gifted with foresight; for the very first application for the house was from an Admiral Croft, with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter sessions at Taunton, and indeed, he had recieved a hint of the admiral from a London Correspondent.”  Persuasion, Jane Austen. 

Ever had a poem written about you?

Technically, yes! I wrote it, though.

When was the last time you played the air guitar?

Probably a really long time, actually. I play the air drums a lot more? 

One sound you hate and one you love:

I love rythmic clock ticking. Super relaxing to me. Any repetitive noise that’s predictable. 

I don’t like big massive sniffing noises. Also some specific soundeffects in the game, like the file noise for blacksmith. 

Do you believe in ghosts?

I do not! I am still scared of them though (I am scared of everything). 

Do you believe in aliens?

I think it would be extremely self-centered on a species scale to assume that we’re the only living thing in an infinite universe. I don’t necessarily believe that they’re grey bobble-heads, but I do definitely believe there’s some kind of life out there. 

Do you drive and if so have you gotten in a crash?

Not yet, on either count. 

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

Sort-of? I think like Ham if it was soaked into my clothes I would hate it. 

Last movie you’ve seen?

Hereditary, at a mini-halloween party. Spoop! 

Worst injury you’ve ever had?

I’ve been pretty lucky in this sense. Probably the time I twisted my knee when I was about 13?

Do you have any obsessions right now?

Not really? I’ve got a few good interests on the go, the most like an obsession is probably DnD. 

Do you hold grudges?

I’ll give people second and third chances pretty easily these days, but I’ve got a few grudges I’ve held from when I was a teenager. 

In a relationship?

Nah. And I’m super chill with it, I’ve got other stuff to be getting on with. 

[crossroadsdimension]

Ok. I’ve got homework and NaNo to do today, but I’m still thinking about the D&D session we played last night.

Putting it under a cut because this is a long thing.

So, my cleric, Rua, has basically given herself and a bunch of random people a quest to get three ingredients that can be used to cure a fungal infection that’s affecting the town of Falcon’s Hollow (party consists of me, the ranger Vitrix, a rogue who’s introduced himself as Wood, paladin Wyn, monk Theo, and a bard who joined this session who goes by Ren. He plays a pipe organ). We have to go into the woods to find all three ingredients needed, basically, and we were able to get the first of the ingredients last night.

By going into a witch hut that was described by our monk as “a building made by toddlers and hit by a tornado full of voodoo shit.”

A very apt description, considering all the scarecrows and knuckle bones that were scattered all over the place. The DM, one of my roommates, said the scarecrows were -- of course -- arranged in a pentagram, but there was nothing harmful about them.

In fact, the ranger kicked over one of them and nothing happened, so we were safe on the outside. With how the trees were bending and growing away from the clearing the hut was sitting in, though, Rua definitely didn’t want to stay here for long. She’s Chaotic Good, but has no deity -- just an overall sense of “this place is Spoopy and I think we should just get the Rat’s Tail root and bolt.”

The paladin Wyn agreed with this assessment.

We weren’t quite able to grab and run, though.

While the witch wasn’t home, her animated cauldron was. Quite the security system, that thing -- nearly killed our paladin! But I was able to heal her, so things turned out all right in the end for that. It only started moving when the ranger found the Rat’s Tail, but we were able to take care of the cauldron and then the ranger decided to ransack the place to see if there was anything else that could be useful.

They avoided touching the effigy in the corner. While it wasn’t an actual dead body, it was covered in white mold and the seat it was sitting on had human teeth. Serious Spoop.

And here’s where Rua starts getting freaked.

Vintrix (the ranger) brought all the stuff into the middle of the hut and Rua was able to identify everything perfectly. I rolled, like, 5 nat 20s on Knowledge and Appraisal checks. We found salts to help with summoning familiars, statuettes and rare stones (that Rua knew the worth of -- 35 gp but didn’t tell the greedy rogue because they might be cursed and Rua was too scared to check), and this creepy-looking shrunken head that basically worked like a voice recorder. It’s called a Soul Speaker, and...it had a message.

For Rua.

And Rua knew how to activate the message -- she had to go and touch the effigy in the corner. She poked it with her quarterstaff, which seemed to satisfy the requirements, and...

The Soul Speaker told her the witch was gone from this place and that Rua owned the contents of the hut now, as well as the hut itself.

And then an ant the size of a dwarf crawled out of the burial clothes of the effigy and everyone else went at it while Rua just stood there in shock and stared at the shrunken head in her hands like okay what the heck is going on. She did move to bless the paladin’s weapon, though, to make it easier to beat the ant.

It didn’t exactly help that the paladin used Detect Evil and found that there was an evil aura in the hut coming from both the ant we fought and from the shrunken head. Talk about Spoop.

After the ant died, we found a steel key where it had been, with a strange inscription on it that Rua couldn’t read. The DM hinted that it was Abyssal, and since Rua’s got a Good Alignment, she can’t learn that language.

But it seems that it belongs to her now, so she’s keeping a tight grip on it and the shrunken head until we can reach a place with a library or someone who knows Abyssal so that we can figure out what the heck is going on.

The DM suggested that Rua write home to her Fighter mother and Cleric father in order to get their opinions on what’s going on, too. Hoo boy.....

[squipaudios]

A small psa, I read the tags and hngggg you're all so sweet *cries* now I'm off to brainstorm more spoopy scary stuff bc it's the month of extra spoops! Feel free to drop suggestions/scripts or just come and talk with me

I might do an outtakes thing if you'd like, I had quite a few from this session I actually kept...mostly me dying bc I would fumble over lines

[evilpenguinrika]

I’d post the pics I took from my trip this weekend but I don’t have the tumblr app anymore

and I put my ig on private

but anywho

trip was amazing

cabin was great and overgrown with plants and shit so it looked like it was some spoopy shit, esp when it was dark af bc there were no street lights holy fuck that was scary also possible encounters w bears so that too but we did not see any so thank

we also went down to the pier to go stargazing and it was amazing and beautiful the moon was also beautiful we did a full moon ritual thing and went outside to thank the moon and stuff (which still made me spooped out bc outside was very very very dark okay)

went on a hike. oh by the way, the entire trip I was still sick af. so the hike was nice. but i died. so it was not fun. also when sick, don’t just have soup for breakfast and lunch. have some protein and other good shit.

WE ALSO

saw bats flying across the water

AND

a frickin’ OWL

like

okay

overall

the trip was magical

so good

.

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we also ended up talking to some hippie dude down by the pier during our stargazing session and he told us a story of what he saw when he was high on LSD... so that was... interesting. (”hey, you guys wanna hear a hippie story?” was the question)

[moonlight-faunna-homestuck]

Yo so I’m a knight of time. I’ll be chatting about my sessions and fan stuff hopefully help out in the community all that stuff!

Ocs:

Faunna - 1st ever oc/sona

Page of heart

Draws

Moss agate (olive mutant)

animalFanatic - trolltag

Loves Faunna and Flora

Demigirl & poly

Uses animal puns alot

♦️ Pyrana Ophiss

All blood are the same!!

Hunts animals for food/warmth

Collects crystals & herbs

Uses herbs to basic healing (not sylph level of heals)

Heartbroken- matespirit ran off for unknown reasons (higher bloods though she be too low)

Loves her friends dearly

Protects sometimes but will run off

Derse dreamer

Alucard - 3rd oc

Names Dracula backwards

Loves bats

Calls her friend Batty when annoyed

Will call u nicknames

Makes the BEST Pet names

Loves piercings

Works in a tattoo & piercings place

Fellow employees Batair and Wricee

Cooks insanity good food

Olive blood

Rogue of blood

Gets spooped when someone bleeds

Loves fashion and designs

Gives her friends free outfits and other soft stuffs

Soft boi - don’t hurt her friends will kill u

Low blood rights!!!

Helps out her low blooded friends when things go bad

Raised by a bat and a jade blood

Sometimes cslled Vamp(ire, mistaken for a jade sometimes

Batair - my sona (2nd

Makes fish puns

Says OwO, UwU, mood,oof and oft too often

Homesick

Seadweller, violet blood

Tries to get up with their fellow high bloods but can’t be bothered with their personality

Hides their anxiety and issues with people mispronouning them with cool kid persona

Is a great tattooist but thinks their shit

Works in a tattoo & piercings shop

Loves their job

Lives between their shop and hive

Octopus Lusus

Has multiple crushes

Friends: Alucard, Wricee and a few others

Knight of time

Land of Rhythm and Petals (LORAP)

Plays a Shamisen

Dances when they think their alone and sings while playing their Shamisen

Nicknames: Batty, Bat, Air-head, air, OwOy, glub.

rhythmicTides - trolltag

Loves the Ocean OwO!

Wricee (4th)

Newest by a day

Gold blood

Helps out in the shop

Really young (recently out of cacoon)

Loves his work and friends

Wricee pronounced rice

Really likes any rice dish

Doubles his EE’s which makes him very hap about BEE’s! So he caps E’s and B’s

paddyFarms be the best!

Doesn’t live above the shop he lives next to

Lusus is a Rat (loves him and thinks they are precious

Doom player