Case #26: Video

[19centconstable]

[George is stood in his room. If it seems more well lit than usual...it is. Because ghosts can't haunt you in the light; too see-through.]

I think the obvious solution is to hold one to several seances. Whom on board is the most sensitive?

We might also try to catch one of the spirits mid-haunt and try to communicate with it there, but that would require everybody turning out their lights and being quite quiet, luckily, rather late at night. Would anybody else be interested in taking part in such an investigation? ...because I wouldn't like to undertake one alone.

Comments

Video:

[acid_rayne]

Let us know if you contact the Admiral or, y'know, open the gates of hell or whatever...

Seriously, you think doing something like that's a good idea here?

Video:

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't it be?

because Naoto's canon is essentially Scooby-Doo

[nicebluehat.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly intrigued. [Even if this sounds ridiculous, what has she done in the past six months that doesn't?]

Jinkies!

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I suspect these ghosts are trying to tell us something, but they aren't very good at it, so it's up to us to discover their message.

private

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

Please, George, don't do that. Please don't hold a seance.

Re: private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh, I couldn't hold it myself, doctor. I'm not sensitive.

[what_ho_jeeves]

It sounds like a corking idea to me, Georgie!

Er...how does one communicate with spirits anyway? Is it just a standard "what ho" and then the spirit says "what ho" back or is there something more complicated involved?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

It's a bit more complicated: you've got to have candles, and a round table, and everybody sitting around it has got to hold hands. Then the Spiritualist asks if there are any spirits there, and they either speak, or knock on tables, or fiddle with the lighting. Sometimes the Spiritualist vomits, but I don't think that will happen here, because only the very best mediums can manage that.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

I can see ghosts. I mean, I haven't seen any of the ones here, but back home I saw ghosts sometimes.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I knew there had to be someone here.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

What's a seance?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

It's a way to speak to ghosts.

Private.

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

You're going to run a seance.

Haunted mansion Madame Leota crystal ball holding hands seances?

Private.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

The crystal ball is for fortune tellers.

[some-kinda-hero.livejournal.com]

Um, yeeeaah, I'm not too ready to start chatting it up with them, sorry, George.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Why not? They might be trying to tell us something important.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

I'll do a seance with you.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been to one?

[failedcreator.livejournal.com]

You must be careful, sir. You may summon powerful spirits.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Quite a few people have this concern, but how else can we communicate with them? They may continue to haunt us forever otherwise.

[doctor-scarf.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as ghosts, George.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that, Doctor.

[puzzleprince.livejournal.com]

Be wary of calling out a poltergeist.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh, we will, certainly.

[thefuckening.livejournal.com]

So you're saying... you need someone with magic?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Do you know the Vodou?

[darknessb4me]

Seance.

[This might set a new world record for largest amount of "i can't believe you actually think this is a good idea" compressed into a single word.]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

And investigation. I think we'd best do both.