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[warandpeace]

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Ahab's not here. Ocelot assumes he went home... hope so. Says DD couldn't find him.

But there's something else. I keep noticing things. [His voice is gruff, almost angry. Festering because it keeps happening and he can't do shit about it.] Have you seen someone else? Wide hat? Skin burned, grey? Makes him look a little like a skull. I've heard him, I'm pretty sure. This deep voice, sounds like a smooth talker.

But every time I hear it, I can't catch up with him.

Or- or fog, mist...? In some places? Or is that just for me? Someone else must have saw something.

[He can't be sure with all the things he's seeing. But they can't all just be in his head...] Just tell me if anyone sees anything unusual.

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[saveyourserpent]

So a stowaway isn't particularly likely, then. I don't know if that's more or less worrisome.

I've heard of animals being sensitive to ghosts and the like. I suppose potentially he could have come here that way, and she's noticing something off.

That still raises a lot of questions, though.

When did you start noticing him?

[warandpeace]

Not just him. There's been... mistakes, in the training sim room. But only when I'm in there. Thought I saw a Skull once, but figured it was a glitch. Hell of a glitch.

It was the night of my birthday, something odd happened.

But then again that might be because I actually drank. [He's both trying to justify his paranoia and invalidate it. He's angry at Cipher. Nothing like reliving bits and pieces of the things done to him. But also he doesn't want this. He wants to be away from them, from the things they did to him. To all of them.]

[It can't be real. But what if it is?]

[saveyourserpent]

Well, that'd do it, but if it's still going on after that I don't think drinking's going to have that much of an aftereffect. Unless you're still drunk right now for whatever reason.

[He's not exactly sure how to interpret any of this. Hallucinations seem likely, but if Mama's seeing things...

This isn't exactly his area of expertise. Even if he was technically a ghost before he came here, he hasn't done much in the way of haunting. Not in the traditional sense, anyway.]

Have you tried interacting with anything? Talking to him? Starting a fight?

[warandpeace]

I can't catch up to any of it. For speaking or otherwise.

Normally I wouldn't say a fight would be a good idea. But if it was actually Skull Face...

[Come to think of it, he wouldn't even kill him. He'd leave him alive, but battered. In pain. He would make him suffer.]

[saveyourserpent]

A fight's always a good idea.

[Liquid, no.]

So it's always just out of reach, then, whatever it is?

That kind of sounds like a good benchmark for hallucinations, but that doesn't explain Mama seeing things as well. Shared hallucinations? But who shares hallucinations with a dog?

[He's thinking, he's thinking.]

[warandpeace]

It's not just the voice, though. Whatever's making it... I don't turn and it's not there, I hear it move. Don't know how to describe it... But it's not as if I just turn a corner and there's nothing there. Someone runs.

[Or something.]

[saveyourserpent]

What, it's afraid of you actually discovering it? Disappointing. Perhaps, though, whatever it is is simply there to scare. A pointless sort of haunting, if you ask me. Why'd he only decide to make his presence known until now?

[If he was doing the haunting, he'd do it differently.]

Try talking to it. Or have someone with you.