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[perfect_butt]

OI! Someone tell me where the hell I am! This ain't the DenLiner, it don't even smell right... What's this red tape for!?

Hey, is anyone out there?! Answer me already! Nnngraaagh! I was gonna have a bath later!!

[ooc: First post... Please let me know if I'm doing it wrong. xD Anything before this post in this journal is to be ignored.]

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[metalicvirus]

[His voice drifts over the phone, mildly amused.]

Welcome to the apartment building from hell. It's haunted, the ghosts around here aren't all that friendly, and I'd suggest you start using that tape on your windows before they break in.

[He pauses.]

And I wouldn't try a bath around here. One of the more malevolent ghosts REALLY likes almost any amount of still water. Unless you really feel like almost drowning, its a plain old shower from now on.

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[perfect_butt]

... GHOSTS?! Heheeh, I've been wantin' somethin' ta fight for a while now! This place isn't lookin' half ba--

........

I CAN'T TAKE A BATH!? Graaaaaaaaah!!

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[metalicvirus]

[Oh, this is oh-so-entertaining. Hayden's grin can be heard, even if it can't be seen.]

Well, I suppose you could take one if you don't mind an agressive female ghost trying to drown you the entire time...

And fighting the ghosts here is somewhat pointless. they're dead, they'll show back up or get back up. And sometimes they mob you. Use the tape, it'll keep you from waking up dead.

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[perfect_butt]

... Female ghost? The hell? Tch.

........ BUT I WANNA FIGHT!

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[metalicvirus]

And people in hell want ice water. Around here, anything strong enough to actually give one a challenge is either one of your neighbors, or an 'oh shit' moment that the place has thrown at you.

[Hayden sighs.]

That, and you'll have your hands full soon enough. The grocery store is haunted, the hospital's haunted, almost any place of use is haunted. And the neighbor's come armed to the teeth from their own respective universes, so you might bite off more then you can handle.

[Sense of a smirk.]

If you don't believe me on the ghost, just try filling your sink or tub. Just remember to keep a hand on the drain or plug, though...

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[perfect_butt]

...... Tch, useless.

... Universes? The hell is that? You mean different timelines?

.......... I ain't afraid of ghosts.

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[metalicvirus]

[A snort.]

Stupid. And no, I mean universes. Unless you have a goddess oriented land of elf look alikes, a virus overrun country called Lasria, and a whole bunch of soul powered machines called Akuma running around in your world. And that's just the few I've met so far myself and where I'm from.

Not that some of us aren't from differing times as well. The ninja girl says it was 1870 something when she woke here, and it was the late 1990's for me. It think Road might come from the end of the 19th century.

[A chuckle.]

And to quote Yoda from Star Wars... you will be.

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[perfect_butt]

'Kay, don't got those. They sound fun to fight, though.

Early 2008 for me. Keh. Then again, that was the last timeline I was in. I don't got a ticket for anywhere else.

... Who the hell is Yoda?

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[metalicvirus]

[One can almost hear the raised eyebrow.]

Clearly they either don't have the classics where you're from, or you don't watch many movies.

[Heavily implied is 'uncultured barbarian'.]

The explanation would take far too long, and involve things I doubt you'd care much about. Suffice it to say... [A brief thud, tear, slap and the sounds of something staggering off at a rapid pace] it's the truth around here.

Stupid thing. Is it still trying to get revenge for the first time? [More to himself then to Momotaros.]

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[perfect_butt]

I don't watch lots of movies, no. I get more excitement out of experience. Watchin' movies about fightin' ain't as fun as gettin' ta fight yerself!

............... the hell was that. [He's getting fidgety.]

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[metalicvirus]

[In response, the screen flickers to life, showing the back end of a departing apartment ghost, waving a rather badly burned hand and trying to peel a piece of red tape off with the less badly burnt fingers of its other hand. It also appears highly annoyed. The screen is then turned so that Hayden is partly visible, mainly his face and part of his right shoulder. At first, one might mistake the metal there for some kind of armor or strange clothing, until one somehow sees that it isn't armor, but rather the skin and flesh itself has somehow been remade. There is a cold distance in Hayden's eyes.]

That was a ghost that doesn't know enough to let bygones be bygones. It seems to think it owes me for evicting it out of my apartment by slapping the warding tape on it the first time.

[A pause.]

It does seem to be unusually stupid even by the average local ghost's IQ level.

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[perfect_butt]

.... [Thinks this looks pretty awesome... He's already getting excited, wanting to fight these things... It's been a while since he's had a good workout... but he looks at the red tape.]

Tch... So I gotta put this all over my door? How the hell would I get outta my room then?

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[metalicvirus]

[The screen flickers off again. Hayden sounds amused.]

Peel part of the tape off when you leave, then stick a piece across the outside. That's what I've been doing. Mind you, some of the more patient ones will eventually pick the tape off if they really want in, and eventually you'll have to replace it when it loses its stickiness. And one a couple of hours ago bashed its way into an empty apartment I taped up as an experiment by just slamming against the door until it gave.

[He pauses, thinking.]

Might not be the best idea to use the tape directly on 'em, though. I've heard it can be hard to get more, and it really doesn't kill 'em or anything. Just distracts them and sends the weaker ones staggering off for awhile. Then they come back annoyed.

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[perfect_butt]

[A looong pause.] The tape sounds kinda useless, then, if the ghosts can still bash through.

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[metalicvirus]

[Sense of a shrug in Hayden's tones.]

That's only the ones that really seem to have no sense of self preservation. In general, it works to cut them down to an easier to deal with level, and frightens off the ones too weak to deal with it. That, and they seem to heavily resemble ghosts from one of my ancestor's corners of my universe line, so they react in that the red warns them off, given that it's supposed to be lucky and demon banishing. That's about all I remember from my bits and pieces of ghost lore.

Basically, it's a method to keep yourself from waking up to two or three dozen of them in your apartment staring down at you or trying to drag you out the door. [Forgot to retape his door the first night and had that experience.]

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[perfect_butt]

But why red tape? Wouldn't like... I dunno, yellow tape work? Does it gotta be red?

... ah.