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[cranekin]

There aren't many spirits in this world. 👻🚫
🧐🧐🧐 Or maybe there are and they're just hard to sense❓

Still, this time of year would usually be when they're most active so it's a little disappointing. 🪦🥀

I know. I've heard telling stories 🗣📖 can invoke the gods and other spirits (~'o')~ So why don't we tell some stories? (◍ ´꒳` ◍)

If we can tell a hundred tales then maybe something surprising will happen. But a hundred would take a long time and the game isn't as much fun if it isn't in person... 👻🏮🏮🏮🏮🏮😔

Well, let's just tell as many as we can❗❗❗(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ )🌟
There are so many of us from other worlds so there should be something interesting to hear. 🔮

(Summer is spooky season in Japan! It's time to share ghost stories and other tales of the mysterious and unknown. Or just talk to Tsurumaru about spirit things. He's here to have a good time.)

Comments

[cranekin]

Like a gashadokuro?

[heir_conditioned]

Yes, I think that's a close comparison. They weren't skeletal, but I think it's close enough. They looked as their normal bodies, only eyeless, gaping mouths and eye sockets with pale skin. Sometimes it's very disturbing to think of.

Thankfully once the thing that changed them wore off, they were fine again. Until that point it wasn't great.

[cranekin]

If they were fine, do you mean they came back to life or they were laid to rest again?

[heir_conditioned]

They were not killed, I wouldn't have wanted to kill my friends. Once the method that turned them into a zombie had dissipated, they turned back. I'm not sure if they were dead in the sense of not fitting into the seven signs of life in biology books. I could give you an itemized summary if you want.

[cranekin]

Seven signs of life? I've heard of the eight sufferings but not the seven signs of life...

(Explain.)

[heir_conditioned]

I've never heard of eight sufferings, I'm interested to hear that, too.

Breathing, Growing, Active Digestive System, Reproduction, Metabolism, Movement and Response to the environment are all the signs of life. The zombies made by the accident were not breathing as much as making noise, no growth as far as I saw, their want to bite didn't mean they were trying to eat their victims, but they could reproduce through the bite. I think in this case it's not the same type of reproduction. They didn't eat the whole time so I don't think they had a metabolism as much as a timer, and they certainly responded to the environment even with sunken eyes.

That's a possible two to three things, some debatable.