[baby it's cold outside]

[sevenhorrorsmods]

Who: everyone!
When: the weekend of September 5
Where: around
What:
Warnings:

[The "staffing issues" from last weekend have seemingly resolved themselves; the food at the cafeteria is back to normal levels of mediocrity! Which is good, because something else seems to be stalking the school hallways today]

[You hear it before you see it. Footsteps that echo behind yours, perfectly in sync with every step you take. Turn around and there is no one there. . . but you do see a set of bloody footprints trailing after you. They aren't your footprints (they belong to someone's bared feet, while you're presumably wearing shoes), and they slowly vanish the longer you stare at them. Creepy! Weird!! Unsettling!!]

[But maybe not as creepy as the ghost of a hand you feel brushing against your shoulder. It's a light touch. It's a cold touch, ice flowing through your veins as it chills you from the inside out, sending your teeth chattering and your body trembling. No matter what you do, for the next 24 hours, you cannot seem to warm yourself up. Blankets don't work. Physical activity doesn't work. Hell, even a steaming hot shower back at the dorms doesn't seem to thaw you out. You're not quite hypothermic, you may be close!!]

[What does work to dispel the cold, however, is. . . . . . . . . . . body heat. Snuggling up with someone else and/or sharing a blanket will warm characters up in a pinch. Maybe it's pillow fort and/or sleepover time?? Go find a partner and take care of yourself]

[The footprint ghost will linger throughout the weekend before disappearing on Monday morning]

[ALSO PLEASE USE THIS POST FOR ANY AND ALL MINGLE THINGS EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT RELATED TO FOOTPRINT GHOST. I'M NOT THE BOSS OF YOU]

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

Mine only attack if I tell them to?

[inexorableiron]

And that! Ghosts don't have bones anymore though.

[bowtiedbones]

I mean, I guess, yeah!

[inexorableiron]

That's just the real fast way to figure it.

[bowtiedbones]

But you can’t have a haunted skeleton without a ghost somewhere.

[inexorableiron]

I mean, some wizards and necromancers can make bones move...

[bowtiedbones]

Oh, I can do that! But that's just puppetry.

[inexorableiron]

Not my specialty... I just know I've seen 'em doing like fuckin' gardening.

[bowtiedbones]

I would so get arrested if I tried to make a human skeleton garden.

[inexorableiron]

Might be why the old doc did it outside of town...

[bowtiedbones]

That would be wisest, yeah. Were they good at gardening?

[inexorableiron]

I guess so. I dunno much about gardening, but there were plenty of fuckin' plants growing.

[bowtiedbones]

I wonder how much autonomy they had… Or if they were on a preprogrammed route? Tilling would be easy, but they need something for identifying what’s ripe…

[she’s found a nerd rabbit hole. how would SHE make a gardening skeleton…]

[inexorableiron]

No autonomy, the doc just told 'em what to do and they fuckin' hup-to'd. He'd have to be out there to give them orders and shit, but they did what he needed. Lot of diggin', I dunno how much pickin'.

[bowtiedbones]

Still! Pretty cool! Super illegal, but cool.

[inexorableiron]

Is it illegal if you're in a lawless country that failed at colonization?

[bowtiedbones]

If it's lawless, I guess technically not! Can't be illegal if there's no legal.

[inexorableiron]

All that said, the town he was livin' near might've flipped the fuck out. Sensibilities and all.

[bowtiedbones]

And people are so sensitive about people bones. Even if you don't attach a soul to it.

[inexorableiron]

They're just bones nobody wanted, even.