The owner was some old man who didn't seem to notice me at all. But he was doing some creepy research on ghosts. Real tryhard, secret-lab-in-the-basement stuff.
[ as a fellow eccentric researcher, like, she gets it? but she also feels like the most qualified person in the universe to judge this guy's secret lab aesthetics. ]
And I found a portal there, to some messed-up place called the "ghost zone."
[ my ass like "i cannot believe rita, who is scared of ghosts, was sent to the ghost zone." ]
Right, the ghost zone. The zone for ghosts. And...I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess you were the only one who could enter it at first? [ a pause. ] I might've just to get away from that weird guy.
[ thank you, nico, for acknowledging how ridiculous it is. ]
Yeah. It was... like a void with scattered islands that I could float between. And there were other people... and a lot of monsters... and they were all ghosts.
Sounds like home. [ okay which yes it's ridiculous but he does say that unironically because that really does kind of sound like the underworld in a lot of ways. ] Did you have to fight? What kind of people...?
[ okay well sorry to rita but the blank look disappears because it does make some amount of sense. ]
Right. Something to create a paradox to go back and change your fate. Not that it's always as simple as that, and not that fate can always be changed. But if there was a ghost with that power...[ he shakes his head. ] If you were in the ghost zone by yourself, were you able to see what Ryuki and Hanako were doing at all?
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Date: 2023-10-14 06:57 am (UTC)[ as a fellow eccentric researcher, like, she gets it? but she also feels like the most qualified person in the universe to judge this guy's secret lab aesthetics. ]
And I found a portal there, to some messed-up place called the "ghost zone."
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Date: 2023-10-14 10:23 am (UTC)Right, the ghost zone. The zone for ghosts. And...I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess you were the only one who could enter it at first? [ a pause. ] I might've just to get away from that weird guy.
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Date: 2023-10-14 12:18 pm (UTC)Yeah. It was... like a void with scattered islands that I could float between. And there were other people... and a lot of monsters... and they were all ghosts.
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Date: 2023-10-14 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-15 04:59 pm (UTC)[ and there is just a vaguely distressed look as she thinks... ]
There was this huge... wolf-man.
[ shuddering like. he was scary. but. ]
... but he kind of... just gave me directions.
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Date: 2023-10-16 03:41 am (UTC)Like a werewolf? [ let's focus on that for a second. ] Where'd he end up steering you?
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Date: 2023-10-16 04:37 am (UTC)To find a "time ghost." So we could go back in time and fix things.
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Date: 2023-10-16 06:11 pm (UTC)Right. Something to create a paradox to go back and change your fate. Not that it's always as simple as that, and not that fate can always be changed. But if there was a ghost with that power...[ he shakes his head. ] If you were in the ghost zone by yourself, were you able to see what Ryuki and Hanako were doing at all?