Brian shrugges at Louis. “Well, it’s something to go on anyway”
Brian head up shortly after Kris, slowly as to not spoil his sneak attempt.
Lute, really? Only 2 buttons? Seems rather limiting!
Agreed.
Kristopher races out of Don’s apartment, lifting his Ecto-Visor so he can see, and bolts up the stairs at incredible speed.
As he passes the second-floor apartment, he hears a loud voice shouting something he can’t quite make out, from behind the closed door. Lights flash through the crack under the door, and a rhythmic thumping sound continues to reverberate. Focusing on his mission, he ignores it and continues up one more flight.
When he reaches the Pogoni’s apartment, he can hear the opening theme to “Scarecrow and Mrs. King” ending and a commercial for Carefree Gum beginning.
He enters the apartment to find the entire Pogoni family gathered in front of the TV in the boys’ room, watching and eating (recently un-)frozen TV dinners.
They turn to look at him as he enters and looks around, then the children point up into the ceiling. Kristopher dons his Ecto-Visor just in time to see the last of the glow disappearing into the ceiling above.
After a moment, Brian appears and heads to the girls’ room to check on his videocamera. This television, too, is tuned to the same channel.
Liz and Lou remain in Don’s apartment.
The time is now 8:01 pm.
Brian collects the video camera, takes it downstairs to Don’s apartment and sets it up pointing at the old TV (Whichever TV hd the ghost in it) and switches it on.
He asks Lou or Liz to join him and heads back up to join Kris.
“Lets go visit the top floor again.”
Liz quickly follows Brian and Kris, but become curious upon hearing the thumping from LaCoque’s apartment.
“Do you think she has anything to do with this? She was acting very odd when I questioned her about the ghost’s description.”
Lou describes the spirit to Don and asks if it reminds him of anyone.
Assuming Kris can hear this where he is at, he yells back down to them, “Yeah, we need to figure out if that lady is up to something…well, something other than what it seems.”
And when the arrive, he continues, “But first, we have to get in this top floor apartment. Certainly, there must be a way in. Any suggestions?”
Kris wonders what would happen if they blasted at it with a proton pack.
Kris rolled a 18(no ghost) for equipment expert for his knowledge of how a proton pack would affect a door like this, or even the boards on the windows.
“Hmm…” ponders Don, thinking. “Yeah, that sounds like Dr. Panama to me. Skinny white guy, always wearin’ sunglasses even if it’s dark out; could be him. Hard to say for sure, I didn’t see anything in the dark!”
You will have a private message shortly.
PS: Brian, Liz, and Kris are in the Pogonis’ apartment; did Lou stay with Don?
Lou is with Don in case the spirit returns.
Kris is staring at the door still, rubbing his chin.
“Yes, I think that we could get in if one of us blasts at this door long enough. It’s either that, or we could go up on the roof and blast away the boards covering the windows. One brief proton pack blast would annihilate those boards. I’m willing to be the one to blast, but do you all think I should blast through this door or should we try to go through the windows from the roof?”
From your description of the roof earlier, the windows don’t seem like such an idea. Mind you, neither does blasting the door. Soe one could get hurt, including us! The owner could have a boobytrap, a gun or any other deadly reaction to his door being blasted.
Brian joins Kris up to the top floor. Brian knocks loudly, says “Doctor, we need to talk to you!”, then listens carefully at the door.
Listen check24 no ghost
This is true; Kristopher certainly does not have the skills required to climb off the roof (or up the wall) to the windows. Perhaps someone who has practiced climbing, or someone with the proper equipment, or both, may have better luck, however.
Brian, you will have a private message shortly.
The rest of you wait patiently while Brian listens at the door… except Lou, who remains downstairs with Don.
Louis, please give me an observation roll of some type; absent any other skill, MOVES or BRAINS will suffice.
The time is now 8:03 pm
Kris waits to see if Brian hears anything, but he is planning to blast the door until they get through. However, for now, he is willing to see if Brian hears anything.
Brian says urgently to the rest of the group: “He’s got a rifle!”
To the man inside he says “Sir, stand down, we are with the police and are here to help you!”
Orate 21 no ghost
I forgot to respond to CenterStage’s last post. Sorry! PLease assume Brian was so focussed on the camera at the time, that he didn’t hear her
MOVES: 21, no ghost.
“What did you hear?” Kris asks Brian.
Forgive me if it is clear, but I can’t quite seem to figure out what made Brian think someone is in there.
This:
Through the thick steel of the door, you hear several things:
Loudest is the sound of CBS television’s “Scarecrow and Mrs. King.” It appears as if the sound is coming from more than one source.
Second-loudest is the voice of a male, gruff and annoyed, ranting angrily at the intrusion. “Hooligans pounding at my door, this time of day, their mothers should have left them in the hospital at their birth, prob’ly gonna grow up to be communist nazis or worse, capitalists!”
Third-loudest is the sound of footsteps approaching the door.
Fourth, the sound of a shotgun being loaded and cocked.
Finally, the sound of someone doing something to the other side of the door. You figure, whoever this angry man is, you’ve got about three seconds to decide how to deal with him!
That’s why I said he’s got a rifle. Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough
Kris lowers his proton pack and yells through the door, “We are here to help you!! Please open the door so we can explain. Your life is in danger!!”
Brian’s character was the only one who had the information, so he’s the only one I messaged about it. This is an attempt to increase player communication which may have had the opposite effect. My bad.
Suddenly a small hatch, previously invisible from this side of the door, opens. The twin barrels of an old, but fully functional, shotgun pokes through it, pointed directly at your chest. In the cold blue of television light, you can just make out a pair of wild-looking eyes staring out at you from behind a pair of gold-rimmed Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses.
“You pigs can’t come in here!” exclaims the man wearing them, from behind his door. “I know my rights! This kind of Gestapo assault may work in communist Russia but this is America, god-dammit! It’s your life that’s in danger, busting in on a law-abiding citizen like myself without a warrant or a writ or something! Get your asses outta here before I blast you!”
Brian suddenly realizes that he may have said *exactly *the wrong thing when he claimed to be with the police!
Meanwhile…
Down in Don’s apartment, an eerie blue light begins to fill the electronics ‘lab’. Louis watches as a spectral lounge chair, and its inhabitant, floats down from the ceiling above and into the room, approaching the disassembled television from Ms. LeCoque’s apartment.
It hasn’t spotted Lou. Yet.
In real life, I would now give each player about 5-10 seconds to declare what they’re gonna do, to increase tension and simulate the adrenaline rush of danger. Unfortunately for me, you each get an entire day. Plan carefully! :D;)