>>1131697
SPOOK EM

Spooks first, to assert you’re a ghost! But then hospitality, to assert you mean no harm and just wanna ask some questions~

Pretend to be a beach blanket and blend in with the surroundings to get closer and hear what is happening.

Inspect the HANDSOME HUNK POSTER near you.

>>1131697

Are you still 'invisible' inside of someone's mind, or can they now actually see and properly interact with you? Might want to go incognito (act like a beach enjoyer, tourist, beach prop or one of those people who serve fancy drinks to rich people at beaches).

>>1131701
>>1131712

If we spook/scare them too much, they'll be startled awake and we'll get ejected! We also don't know if they can manually eject us via lucid dreaming or such.

Looks like they're having a dream about being royal, rich or otherwise luxuriously pampered instead of working a day job (relatable). We can work with this if we play along!

Pretend to be a personal butler/servant, someone who needs their password/code authorization, or the code signed on a document so they can finalize an order for something ridiculously luxurious, expensive or enjoyable. Getting them 'drunk' might also help.

"Monsieur, we have ordered the champagnie fountain, super-yacht, solid gold statue and Japanese-style hot spring full of 'amorous masseurs' as per yesterdays request. We just need your five-digit code to finalize the purchase and they will arrive within ze hour."

If the manager starts to suspect you're not supposed to be here, you could lie that you were supposed to be a nightmare where all the data on their computer gets deleted, but that it's your first day on the job and couldn't get past their genius password. Maybe they'll pity you.

Potential disguise: Ghost Writer, seeking to write a biography of this no doubt interesting person.

If they do figure out that you are trespassing perform a drop kick on the angry individual.

(1/6) OMNI 2026/09/19(Sat)01:23 No. 1132116 ID: 13a5d1
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>Inspect the HANDSOME HUNK POSTER near you.

Hmmm... Such chiseled muscles with angular lines and blurry face...

You suppose the hunk in the poster is handsome! Well inspected, Boo.

(2/6) OMNI 2026/09/19(Sat)01:25 No. 1132117 ID: 13a5d1
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>its a dream you should be able to summon whatever right?
>Disguise
>SPOOK

You can dress and be anything in a dream. While an everyday beach goer or a beach blanket sounds appealing, you want to really get this guy good and get all the info! You don a fancy bowtie and summon a serving platter to sell the look of a faithful servant.

As you approach, you take on a fancy accent. "Monsieur, we have ordered the champagnie fountain, super-yacht, super-gold hot spring of malaise as per yesterdays request. We just need your five-digit code to finalize the purchase and they will arrive within ze hour."

The apartment manager gazes at you with a lazy smile, clearly falling for your disguise.

"The code? It's 24344. What did you bring me?"

(3/6) OMNI 2026/09/19(Sat)01:26 No. 1132118 ID: 13a5d1
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"I have also brought you a fine specizemen."

You dramatically wave your arm before grasping the lid of the silver platter.

All eyes are on you.

"It's the...."

(4/6) OMNI 2026/09/19(Sat)01:26 No. 1132119 ID: 13a5d1
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"BooOooOooOo speciaAaAl!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHhhh!"

(5/6) OMNI 2026/09/19(Sat)01:27 No. 1132120 ID: 13a5d1
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PLOMP!

Hohoho! You really got him good. +1 for Boo!

(6/6) OMNI 2026/09/19(Sat)01:29 No. 1132122 ID: 13a5d1
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After spitting out sand, he grumbles and calls his hunky servant to his side to help him up.

"Master Dean, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Beck... Ugh."

You relish in your boo-victory.

"Oh, you're one of those ghosts.. Egh... What are you doing in my head?"

"I come in peeaacee. I just have a few questions."

"..... Fine. What is it?"

>>1132122
Ask about the tenant. Basically, anything he can tell us is good.

Who is Bookieburns on binsta?

Ask this person if they are a lucid dreamer.

Introduce yourself as the dream demon and call him a bitch. As for the question ask him, who's your daddy?

Ask what the apartment policy is on leasing to hard-to-scare people

Ask him if he knows Mapa! And about the contract with the tennant, since you are assigned to them and need them alive/not evicted until you are done.

A thought occurs - if your job is to get the tennant to be spooked enough to leave (is it that specific or is your goal more vague?), then he might end up breaking his contract doing so and forefeit his life.

That would mean his contract is scaring him into staying / you and the manager have conflicting goals. Manager either wants tennants to stay for cash, or he wants tennants to die or other bad stuff by voiding their contract.

So what would you haunting someone away do for his tennant contract? Is our successfull haunting gonna kill someone indirectly?

(1/6) OMNI 2026/10/07(Wed)07:32 No. 1132694 ID: d120f4
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"Who's Bookieburn's on binsta?"

"Bookie-borns? I don't know that person."

Drat!

"Just look it up on the computer."

Will do!

"Are you a lucid dreamer?"

"Yeah.. I guess you could call it that."

Hmmm. So Apartment Manager Dean is fully aware of all the stuff going on right now! Meaning, all his info should be 100% correct.

(2/6) OMNI 2026/10/07(Wed)07:36 No. 1132695 ID: d120f4
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"What's the apartment policy on leasing to tough-to-scare people?"

"Anyone willing to pay rent on time is a welcome lessee. It's not my problem if you can't scare them off the property before they die."

Wow, rude. But wait...

"Before they die?"

"Either of old age or other unforeseen circumstances." He recites, "In exchange for providing housing at reasonable rates per income and circumstance, with no regard for background or credit checks, all utilities covered, alongside tuition reimbursement and enrollment into other renter-specific perks including our holiday raffles, we are required beneficiaries of all tenant life insurance policies. Of course, we go through thorough third party auditing processes to prove we aren't murdering our tenants just because we feel like it. Nothing is hidden and all terms are spelled out before they sign. Tenants may file to break or void their leases at any time at no consequence, so long as they can pay up to two months' worth of rent."

This guy sure sounds smart. No wonder he's the Apartment Manager.

Your eyes narrow. "So, if you want them to stay, but I have to scare them to leave, are we enemies, Apartment Manager?"

"In a way, yes. I was not here when the contract was made with the closet entity, so even though I find it dumb, I'm not allowed to interfere in your... Paranormal activities."

"Wait, so do you know Mapa?"

"Mapa... Yes, the closet entity."

Wait. Wait. Wait. Hold the phone! That means... This guy knew about you all this whole time! He ignored you and all the other ghosts on purpose! >:|.

As peeved as you are, you've got to focus on the main goal.

"Who's Johan Jones? Can you tell me all you know?"

Dean squints distastefully. "The new tenant? Ah, that makes sense now. He's your target. Welll, I'm not allowed to interfere."

You give him your biggest wettest most beautiful eyes.

He sighs. "Fine. He's a weird guy, that's for sure. Applied the moment we had that unit open and paid down the deposit and two months worth of rent in one go. Quit his day job and everything, but has plenty of savings. As long as they can pay the rent on time, who cares?"

You don't know which parts of this are important just yet, but you're taking down excellent mental notes.

"What about his fears? His feelings?"

"Ah, ah, that's too easy. Buuut, I can tell you one thing, I could smell the sheer intent off of him. He reeks of jealousy."

(3/6) OMNI 2026/10/07(Wed)07:37 No. 1132696 ID: d120f4
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"Jealousy? Who's he jealous of?"

The Apartment Manager grins at you.

"Someone that lives here."

Well, that doesn't sound good. You feel some dots in your mind start to connect.

"Can they talk it out?"

"I hope they do." He snickers to himself.

"What's so funny?"

"We'll find out soon enough. Any other questions?"

"Who's your daddy?"

"No more questions." He glares and proceeds to smush his face into his attendant's ample chest. "Get out of my head and you better be gone when I wake up."

Awwww. Well, he did answer you and you got a good scare, so you'll respect his rude demand. It's only fair!

(4/6) OMNI 2026/10/07(Wed)07:38 No. 1132697 ID: d120f4
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You exit his dreaming mind and enter the real world, seating yourself back in the Manager chair with a clear mind.

>24344

(Boo Voice) I'm in!

(5/6) OMNI 2026/10/07(Wed)07:38 No. 1132698 ID: d120f4
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A desktop with a pleasant woodsy scenery opens up before you.

How soothing. How pleasant.

(6/6) OMNI 2026/10/07(Wed)07:52 No. 1132700 ID: d120f4
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Before you explore the desktop, you open up EarthyFox and look up Bookieburns binsta.

bookieburns
301 posts
15 followers
277 following
photographer | 25 | business 🎓 #coffee
status: seeing some1
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PRIVATE ACCOUNT

Eegads! The rest of bookieburns is locked up in the internet vault.

Do you have enough info? Should you retreat? The Apartment Manager could wake up any second now... So you'll need to be fast.

Scary fast!

What's the number one thing you should check?

>jealousy
So... either there's another tenant here who's dating the person he's stalking, or it's the stalk-target themself.
How much can you screw around with objects? Can you do any permanent alterations?

>>1132700
Ah, so, bookieburns is the stalk-target. Well, we'd like to know who bookieburns is dating, because they are potentially in danger, and so is bookieburns. Seems likely bookieburns lives here since they were just seen across the street. Seems MOST likely that Jason doesn't know who bookieburns is dating, since the profile is private... check "how to get around being blocked on bista" search results to see if it's possible Jason got around the problem. Knowing what he knows is useful.

After that, we probably need to go find bookieburns's apartment and warn them, or whoever's the resident ghost there. Or if neither are present we can go talk to Mapa again about this, since we now know it's serious. Honestly if we can just get bookieburns protected somehow we can get back to trying to scare Jason.

Change the desktop picture into something scary like a biblically accurate depiction of pineapples on pizza.

Check the list of followers, then try and log in as them! Or try logging in as Bookie? Followers can still see private accounts! Odds are at least one of them set their password to password and also doesn’t have 2fa?

There is a strange conspiracy happening in this building. So let's give all the conspirators a big scare by getting to the bottom of this secret and revealing it to the world.

>>1132717
YEAH PUT ON YOUR SLEUTHING CAP

Some1, who could that be? their identity could blow this case wide open

>>1132724

Don't forget to create a little magnifying glass out of your spectral powers and use it to look for clues.

(1\3) OMNI 2026/10/09(Fri)01:28 No. 1132755 ID: 13a5d1
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>How much can you screw around with objects? Can you do any permanent alterations?

About as much as you can do with ghostly telekenesis and a weight limit of a big book. You can also squish soda cans if they're empty, but applying that kind of pressure on something bigger can be hard.

>There is a strange conspiracy happening in this building. So let's give all the conspirators a big scare by getting to the bottom of this secret and revealing it to the world.
>YEAH PUT ON YOUR SLEUTHING CAP
>Don't forget to create a little magnifying glass

Yeah. Yeah! There is some secret conspiracy afoot and who better to investigate than Boo! You don an approprite sleuth cap and take a magnifying glass out of the desk drawer.

The Boo-tective is on the case!

>Well, we'd like to know who bookieburns is dating, because they are potentially in danger, and so is bookieburns.
>Some1, who could that be? their identity could blow this case wide open

An astute observation, my dear mind. You still do not want anyone to get hurt, so uncovering the identities of these individuals and their whereabouts may aid in your journey in unraveling this case and scaring Johan away once and for all.

>protect bookieburns

You don't know how to do this yet, but it's going on the list!

[Task List May Be Opened Any Time]

(2/3) OMNI 2026/10/09(Fri)01:29 No. 1132756 ID: 13a5d1
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>Change the desktop picture into something scary

You look up scary pineapples on pizza and change the wallpaper accordingly.

Heheheh. That'll teach 'em.

(3/3) OMNI 2026/10/09(Fri)01:39 No. 1132758 ID: 13a5d1
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>check "how to get around being blocked on binsta"

You open up the search tab and do some dastardly boogling. It looks like the only way to get around a block would be to make a new account. Something anyone can do for free!

If Johan managed to create a new account, he'd have to be one of the followers in order to see through Bookie's private account....

>Check the list of followers, then try and log in as them! Or try logging in as Bookie? Followers can still see private accounts! Odds are at least one of them set their password to password and also doesn’t have 2fa?

Good idea! You go through each person in the following list, spamming password per password in a hail mary bid to get through!

No luck with Bookie...

Logged In: Leemon5

COWA-BOO-GA! You are the smartest ghost ever.

Alright, time to look for clues...

Seems bookie has a history with Jason. We can scroll till we find image posts with the two of them together! Try and piece together more of what was going on between them, and maybe even why they separated?

>>1132762
Ohhhhh this is a good one!

food photos can tell a lot about where someone's been by background details

>>1132758
See if you can find any pictures of bookie with someone other than Jason.

Any photo taken would either be taken by the account owner without them in it, would be a selfie, or would likely have been taken by another person (i.e. the potential romance that our target is jealous of) to take a picture of the account owner in non-selfie format.

We also know the tenant had a view of a specific set of buildings from his apartment. Those could be used to find a matching location between the account picture and what the tenant could see (e.g. a food item and the view of place that would serve that item).

Was Latte Lots or a similar dining place visible from the perspective of the tenants window (specifically the room with all the photos), or the food served in a neaeby establishment?

Notable is that Bookie is a photographer, so their pictures would be a lot better looking than that of someone else taking photos.

Check if there are any old notifications regarding relationship status (breaking up, 'its complicated', and such), or block lists.

If we want to make the managers work inconvenienced, we could change his password(s) to something new, that only we know (or nobody knows), locking them out of the computer temporarily.

They also seem to have a Dis-cord equivalent social media account (the app with ears and tail). Wonder if they have Mapa/tenants in their socials, or use it for work. Good opportunity to spread some boos to his chat group either way.

Don't forget to delete his my pc icon and then delete the recycle bin.

(1/2) OMNI 2026/10/11(Sun)02:10 No. 1132864 ID: 13a5d1
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>Scroll through

The most recent post was posted just yesterday!

bookieburns: Latte from my fave cafe down the street. Going on date #4 with wishbone. Feeling really good about this one.
tggf3: u got this!
beardespair: face reveal soon 👀?

>Was Latte Lots or a similar dining place visible from the perspective of the tenants window (specifically the room with all the photos), or the food served in a neaeby establishment?

Hmmm.. You'd have to recheck the angle geometry from the window or take a peek outside, but Latte Lots does sound familiar! You've seen a few tenants with the memorable double L logo on their cups.

>food photos can tell a lot about where someone's been by background details

bookieburns: Japanese today! The udon was too soggy for me, but the company was nice ☺️.
m1m1: omg dm me
[b]toastyboy: how big was it after?
bookieburns: @toastyboy Wouldn't you like to know.

It's a bit hard to discern, but in the third most recent post from two weeks ago, it looks like Bookie is enjoying a nice noodle meal with another person across from them. Meaty hands are visible in the photo, but no other discernible features....

That could be anyone!

(2/2) OMNI 2026/10/11(Sun)02:11 No. 1132865 ID: 13a5d1
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>Check if there are any old notifications regarding relationship status

Leemon5's has a few notifications from Bookie. Two months ago, it was "it's complicated." 8 months ago, it was "i'm over it."

>Change passwords/delete PC

Heheh.. You change the Apartment Manager's computer password to 80000. You also don't know how to delete things!

>Search for history with target/relationship status

As you quickly scroll, you do not find any photos with Jason, even when you get to the very last one! There's a significant gap of posts from a year ago to 4 years ago, with the last post dating back to 6 years ago.

How suspicious!

>See if you can find any pictures of bookie with someone other than Jason.

3 posts stand out the most to you with other people in it.

>2 months ago
bookieburns: Thanks for the surprise bday party everyone! If I knew I would've cancelled it bc of what happened last bday lol. #traumabonding. Also lost my keys and had to crash at wishbone's XP

>5 months
bookieburns: @leemon5 come pick up your idiots. Also thanks for helping me move, I was going to spiral from stress again.

>1 year ago
bookieburns: Is it messy of me to repost this cropped? Yes. But I still like this photo of Danny (even though he ghosted me after).

Hmmm, this last one looks familiar...

Piecing it all together, your target.... must be afraid of being alone!

What do now?

>>1132865
Locking the Manager out of his computer seems like a good way to lose him as a source of information, or worse. Better change it back.
Put some text files on the desktop though. B.txt O.txt O.doc, perhaps? Fill them with your boos.

Also send a message to Leemon5 (yes, from his own account) telling him to change his password to something more secure. A good deed, and spooky one too!

...check the Manager's browsing history before you log out. I bet he's been looking at hunky dudes.

With all this new evidence, you should go to the fortune teller lady if she is still in her apartment and ask her what she thinks about it.

That... is a horrible password and some hacker will screw you both over quickly.

Find a random book, use telekinesis on a marker to highlight a random string of words, then use that as your password. Easy to remember hard to brute-force. You can bribe the Manager by holding the book hostage.

Does anyone know where we recognize Danny from???? He “ghosted” Bookie, does that mean… HE BECAME A GHOST???

>>1132871
Horrible password? Nonsense, it would take at least 80000 attempts to figure it out by brute force.

>>1132865
'Come pick up your dudes' and a photo of a person moving boxes, and our Tenant looks like the 'manual labor' type... Is our tenant associated with a moving company maybe?

The third photo claims it was cropped, and in its corner we can see someone whos hair is shaggy looking, like the Tenant does.

Clearly, Bookie had a bad fallout with our Tenant (enough to crop them out of a larger picture) and liked Danny. But Danny (the person our Tenant seems obsessed with) then ghosted (as in, ignored them / cut off contact) them afterwards.

Danny is in our Tenants sights either because they want to hurt them (for breaking up / emotionally harming Bookie, maybe?), or because they have a 'creepy-bad' stalker romance for them, and might hurt Bookie instead or anyone currently romantically associated with Danny. Or hurt Danny/himself in some self-destructive act of love.

>>1132869
Agreed on this. She likely knows more about how living peoples relationships work, as well as can use her magic (or social deduction skills) to learn more, if not help act before a tragedy occurs.

Make a mental snapshot of the pictures so you can, uh, ghost-project them to the lady later? Shape yourself into them? Is that something you can do?

(1/4) OMNI 2026/10/12(Mon)23:10 No. 1132920 ID: 13a5d1
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>Passwords

You don't see where you went wrong with your password idea, but you acknowledge that trying to crack it might be too much for the Apartment Manager to handle against your amazing boo-mind. Instead, you create a few text files spelling out your boo-grievances and hide the real password inside. He'll never guess that the highlighted numbers inside formed the REAL password all along!

If he can't figure that out either, you also write the password down on a stickynote and stick it to the monitor. Now that will really confuse him!

As a bonus, you confidently send these password pointers via DM to Leemon5, thanking them for their account access while suggesting a few new and improved passwords. Like passboo.

>check the Manager's browsing history before you log out

You check the browsing history and see many results for "baras", which sounds like a kind of animal! Out of curiosity, you click the first result, which opens up to "Oiled Up Baras 24/7 Livestream"...

You watch a couple shiny guys walk around onscreen for a few minutes. Wait. There's no capybaras here!

You exit the tab and shake your head at the false advertising.

>Danny

Now that you think about it.... There's a phantom around that goes by that name.

(2/4) OMNI 2026/10/12(Mon)23:11 No. 1132921 ID: 13a5d1
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>Check in w/ Pyschic

Right-o! Miss Syven surely knows more about how living people relationships work and would have good insight.

>Make a mental snapshot of the pictures so you can, uh, ghost-project them to the lady later? Shape yourself into them? Is that something you can do?

Why of course, recreating images is a ghostly staple.

As you exit the Leasing Office, you say your goodbyes to Jet the Plant and cross through your target's apartmet, just to see how that guy's doing.

As you look around, you don't feel his presence at all... Must have gone out for groceries.

He better be back in time for your plan!

(3/4) OMNI 2026/10/12(Mon)23:12 No. 1132922 ID: 13a5d1
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As you phase through to Syven's apartment, you find her eating cereal and watching a funny video. Mister Depressed is also there, looking freshly groomed with a bow and everything. How cute! Your ghostly heart warms at the sight of your friends.

(4/4) OMNI 2026/10/12(Mon)23:13 No. 1132923 ID: 13a5d1
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"Miss Syven! I come with much news!"

"Morning Boo, what's up?"

Compliment Mister Depressed on how good he looks with the brushing and the bow! Positive reinforcement will work wonders!

We gotta get inside Jason’s head. Recreate the pictures and see if she can get any readings from Danny’s or Bookie’s auras, even if it’s third-hand!

Dramatically present all the evidence (including the hunk poster and the bara livestream) and go into a Sherlock/Watson discussion on the case with the Psychic (she can be Sherlock).

Mr. Depressed can act as the 'unbiased third party with common sense', Occams Razor, or 'innocent child who doesn't know much but makes a very good point' to stop things going off the rails.

Ask if Mr. Depressed has/prefers a new name, as they're hopefully no longer depressed and could use a nicer sounding one.

Boo don't be rude! Apologize for interrupting her feast and then show everything that you gathered.

First, have a short conversation with Miss Syven. Ask how things are for her, how she is getting along with her new friend, and then present all your evidence.

Ask what flavor of cereal she is eating.

Also, inspect funny video.

(1/3) OMNI 2026/10/16(Fri)21:21 No. 1133100 ID: 79fc83
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>Boo don't be rude! Apologize for interrupting her feast and then show everything that you gathered.
>First, have a short conversation with Miss Syven.

Oh ghost! Where are your manners? Surely, if you're a boo-tective that will lay awake at night drawing red yarn between photos of slightly acquianted people and scribbling things like HE DID IT and LEAD DEAD, you must not forget the importance of common courtesy.

"Miss Syven, I must apologize for my interruption. I understand you're having a nice morning feast while being provided live entertainment." You clear your non-existent throat. "What are you eating? And watching?"

Syven giggles. "It's all good, Booster. Just havin' cinnamon crunchies and milk with an old classic."

You lean over to inspect the funny video. What you may describe as two fantastical figures have a very serious and important discussion about dinner. So important, that the screen cuts and repeats certain clips followed by random sound effects.

You nod along as if you understand. "Fascinating."

"Indeed."

"How did your date go, Miss Syven?"

Syven pauses the video. "It was good! She showed me her gunpla collection and we had a nice talk about it after." She giggles a bit to herself. "I don't know if she's polycule dating material just yet, maybe after another talk."

"It's good to talk and get to know one another." You nod seriously. "What's a gun play?"

"That's a different thing, but they're figurines."

How cool!

(2/3) OMNI 2026/10/16(Fri)21:24 No. 1133101 ID: 79fc83
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>Compliment Mister Depressed on how good he looks with the brushing and the bow! Positive reinforcement will work wonders!

"You're looking real spiffy with your new groom and bow, Mister Depressed! Or whatever you want to be now?"

"Oh, um..." Mister Depressed looks shy at the sudden attention. "Actually, I think I'm a girl rat now..."

You gasp. "Does this mean you're a new rat?"

"Yeah.... I think.. I think I'm content now..." She shuffles on her paws, looking down. "For the longest time, I felt like there was something really wrong with me. And that.. That maybe when I got older, it would start to go away.. But that never happened. It just stayed with me and grew so much.. Until everyone could see it, even if they never said anything... So I just got used to being a lone sewer rat, hiding in the dark so no one ever had to see me."

"That sounds really sad." You give her your biggest sympathetic eyes.

"Yeah, I was really sad... We don't really have genders either, so I didn't know I could be something else." She shrugs. "Then the other rodents introduced me to HRAT."

"That sounds great!"

You are flooding with happiness for Miss Content! And all in a day's work too.

(3/3) OMNI 2026/10/16(Fri)21:26 No. 1133102 ID: 79fc83
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>Present Evidence

Time to get into the meat!

"Ehem! Upon further investigation into my target, now known as Jason, I have gathered a strapping amount of evidence, circumstantial and not, that are either connected to or mean things!"

Syven nods attentively as you dive into your findings for today:

Your Target
>Has no job
>Has money
>Is weird
>Moved in quickly
>Has an ex friend?/lover?
>Very jealous of someone living here
>Not home yet (gone this morning?)

The Ex Friend/Lover (Bookie)
>Moved here or nearby months ago
>Deleted all evidence of their relationship w/ Jason for unknown reasons
>Seeing someone that lives here
>Frequents Latte Lots
>Got ghosted
>Photographer

Apartment Manager
>Likes them hunky
>Your sworn enemy
>Contract smart

Danny
>Phantom

Mapa
>Mapa

Once finished, you narrow your eyes and gesture dramatically, "But what could it all mean?!"

"Maybe Jason just wants to win Bookie back in some human way we can't understand? It sounds like they were together for a long time." Miss Content says. "Now he's here to size up his competition while getting close to Bookie physically."

"A plausible hypothesis!"

"You found Bookie on binsta, right? What was the handle again?" Syven takes out her phone and proceeds to look up Bookie. She finds the profile, reads it, then taps request follow.

"Woah! I didn't know you had a binsta, Miss Syven." You admire her resourcefulness. "What can your psychic third eye glean from the suspect?"

"I use it to advertise." she chuckles then closes her eyes. "Anyway, going off of your account and his profile here... I'm getting blues and browns, lots of anxiety, uncertainty, but also bursting with a need for stability. He's someone trying really hard to be his own person, while trying to capture everything around him."

Woah! What an awe inspiring reading!

"So what does that mean? How does he feel about Jason?"

Syven opens her eyes. "He's like a little baby deer running away from his past. I'm getting small town. Whatever he had with Jason, it's over."

"Ohhh. What about Danny?"

"Can't fully say, even based on your ghost image, all I get is static." She shrugs.

Oh well!

Syven eventually leans back, "Based upon the evidence you've presented to me Boo... There's only one thing I can think of that all of this leads to.."

You lean on the edge of your desk.

"Jason's not here for Bookie, Jason's here for this mystery third person. Maybe it's to get back at Bookie, maybe it's for some other reason that we don't know yet. But definitely.... He's here as a love rival. Mister Steal Your Man."

You gasp.

"I don't think that's...." Miss Content starts to speak.

"I don't know about you, Boo, but I haven't seen Bookie around here. If he's been here, he was visiting when I wasn't present. If he was a resident, trust, I would've met him by now. So that could only mean that this Wishbone guy is our real true suspect."

Second gasp!

"So Jason's here to steal Wishbone away from Bookie? To announce himself as a love rival after Bookie broke his heart?"

"Yup. Draaamaa." Syven does a set of jazz hands. "Dude's here to commit to some mad seduction."

Woah, just like in the TV shows!

"Then why have all the photos... " Miss Content trails off.

"To remind himself of who he's fighting against!" It all makes sense!

"Though, I guess I'll know more once I meet the guy." Syven says as she mulls thoughtfully. "Maybe I should stop by Latte Lots across the street first."

>Continue Hypothesizing?
>Proceed w/ Syven Distraction Plan?
>_____

>>1133102
So I guess her psychic ability doesn't work on someone who died. Maybe you should talk to Danny?

>distraction plan?
Well, it wouldn't hurt for Syven to get a read on Jason, even if the distraction itself isn't useful.

I am so happy for you little rat. As for our target he is still a creepy individual. Yes he has a lot of photos but the way how he displays them is the scarry part. He gives me stalker vibes. Do not let the our human alley near him.

> He's someone trying really hard to be his own person, while trying to capture everything around him.

Well, capturimg everything around him sounds pretty accurate for a photographer.

Though it does bring to mind another ostensibly ghost-related thing - spectral photography. Can ghosts be 'caught' on camera, or can magical cameras be used to trap spirits/souls/creatures in the images?

It seems bad to get this guy's attention on her

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>Can ghosts be 'caught' on camera, or can magical cameras be used to trap spirits/souls/creatures in the images?

Ah, yes. The weakness of all spectral beings... The camera. It only works for instant cameras, but if you're not careful, you could get trapped in a photo forever!

>Talk to Danny

You'll have to find the guy in this big complex! Maybe Mapa would know?

>Keep Syven Away from Jason

Whaaat. But... The plan! Who knows what juicy morsels of information Jason might be hiding in his noggin, just waiting for Syven to pluck....

However, you are a good ghost that plays by the rules of manners and will consider every possibility presented to your ghostly noggin!

"Hmm.. Miss Syven, I'm getting some psychic signals here! It might not be a good idea for you to meet Jason anymore. He's kinda a creepy weirdo."

Syven chuckles. "Boo, not every person that's creepy is a bad person. Trust me, I've read a lot of gothic literature."

Can't argue with an expert!

"Oh okay. Yay!"

Syven moves towards the window after setting down her now empty bowl. "Now that I think about it, I should be able to see that place from my window too."

She pulls the curtain, revealing the titular Latte Lots down the street. The location of interest confirmed!

"Hmmm, neighbor guy should be able to see it. Guy's gotta' crane his neck more."

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You notice off to the side, another figure standing on the lawn bordering their apartment to the next.

"It's Jason!" You gasp.

Syven turns her attention to the side. "Woah... Lot going on here..."

"What do you see with your psychic vision, Miss Syven?"

"That's....."

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Syven seems at a loss.

"He's staring at the other neighbor's window." Miss Content says cryptically.

"The gym bro?" You ask.

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Syven quickly pulls the curtain closed as Jason glances your way.

"Boo." Syven has taken on the same tone Mapa uses when they're about to deliver bad news. "I don't know about this guy... I don't... They're not someone you have to worry about but..."

Syven keeps trailing off, seeming more nervous by the second. It's an odd sight. You've never seen Syven so nervous before! Not even around the other poltergeists.

The ghosts that have been hanging around silently start to move things, responding to Syven's agitation.

"I don't understand, Miss Syven. What did you see?"

Syven pauses and takes a deep breath. Her tone is gentle once again. "... A lot of red and pink and yellow. Passion. Very clear passion. Obsession. A lurker in the undergrowth that's been--"

"He's looking this way now." Miss Content says as she peers out the the window.

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"He's looking here? Ooo can he see me?" You quickly look outside as Syven does the same.

You notice now the tray of drinks in his hand and the giant duffle bag over his shoulders. He stares up at you all, having walked onto Syven's lawn, his gaze unchangingly passive.

"Fuck. This guy is something else." Syven says under her breath.

Jason smiles then waves. Syven stiffly waves back then closes the curtain again. You find yourself puzzled at her behavior.

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"Is he a bad guy?" You ask.

"I'm not the best person to decide that kind of thing, Booster." Syven gently picks up Miss Content, who rubs her head against Syven's thumb comfortingly. "What I know is that the other ghosts won't tolerate if I get hurt, so I should be fine... I just... Don't know how much you'll be able to scare that kind of person."

"Whaaat! I won't back down from my first!" You puff out your ghostly chest in confidence. "There isn't anything else you could see?"

"I'd have to--"

Ding, dong.

The chime of the doorbell rings in the space.

"No way.." Syven trails off as she heads downstairs.

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There's silence as she peers at the front door from the stairs.

"You guys heard that too right?"

"The ding dong? Yeah!"

Ding, dong. It chimes again.

Syven stares at the door.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Okay...."

Advise Syven via Boo:
>A) Answer the Door
>B) Ignore
>C) Call Out
>D) ______

>>1133256
D, check the peephole.

Boo peep: what's the guy's expression?

>>1133258
Boo check the peephole!

He’s gonna be really passive but we gotta know if it’s curious passive or indignant passive!

Before checking the door, go through the window to see if he is still outside looking at your window.

If your ghost rules allow for it, float through the wall (or poke only your head/eyes through, if you can) and just look who's behind the door.

Let Sylven call / open if they're acting normal, but have pepper spray ready in case they get hostile. Or you can prepare some ghost telekinesis (e.g. a blanket over his head) to chase him away with if he's clearly getting hostile.

They might be interested in getting a psychic reading or to genuinely meet his new neighbors - after all, she does advertise as one.

The other possibility is they noticed the follow on binsta and are suspicious of it.

If it is Jason, we could have Miss Sylven play out her psychic cards flat out to unnerve him. Knowing his name in advance and some of his details, pretending she was expecting him, to show off she's the real deal. And then ask if he wants a psychic reading/romantic advice, or is just there to introduce himself as a new neighbor.

For yourself, it might be wise to hide in/as an object - maybe he's able to actually see you. Or you could be brazen about it and see if he is distracted by your presence while talking to miss Sylven.

Side question: If the tenant leaves the apartment indirectly due to your activities (e.g. gets reported by another tenant for criminal activities and gets arrested/evicted) or abandons the apartment for reasons unrelated to haunting, is that a failure for you or a success by technicality?

Hmm, a potential way to scare Jason comes to mind. If they're a creepy, stalky type of person, make it seem like the target of his obsession is hunted (or protected) by something much worse/more powerful than him.

E.g. a haunting that makes it seem like a demonic entity already has claim to them (and don't want a mortal taking their prey), or a biblically accurate angel is actively protecting and watching them.

So you could, say replace all their photos on their photo wall with a cryptic 'They are mine' message. Or put a bunch of eye drawings in their place.

Another possibilty to scare them could be faking a message from the manager that their rent is overdue/the payment did not process, making them panic and flee the apartment due to thinking they voided their contract.

Since you are paper thin, you can technically apply yourself like wallpaper to the outer wall of the apartment without leaving the apartment complex. That might let you look outside.

>>1133272
What every human is scared of is guns. So you can just imitate the sound of shots being fired to scare him off or to see if he is not afraid of dying.

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>>1133271

So long as they're scared when they leave, that's a win for you! All other reasons that they leave that are unrelated to your haunting means that you aren't graded. Which would be soooo anticlimatic.

>Before checking the door, go through the window to see if he is still outside looking at your window.
>Since you are paper thin, you can technically apply yourself like wallpaper to the outer wall of the apartment without leaving the apartment complex.

Oh, right! How creative. You phase yourself through the window, basically possessing it as you take up its space. It looks like it's Jason outside Syven's door, the drink tray in hand and that big bag over his shoulders. Looks heavy!

>Imitate gunshots

Like the guns on the TV shows? Yeah, you can imitate that!

"Pew! Pew-pew! Bang!" You do your best impression of gunshots from the window. Real freaky stuff.

.... No reaction. Of course!

>Fake Rent bouncing

"OoooOoo your rent didn't go through today ooOooOoo."

"......"

Jason moves to check his phone... Another ungrateful reaction to your choice scare tactic!

>Check expression

"How's it looking, Boo?"

"It's Jason! He looks passive, ungrateful, and friendly." You call from the window. "Maybe he's here for a psychic reading? Or to introduce himself? It would be the first polite thing he's done."

"Pfft. Okay.. Well, I guess I can improvise. What's he doing?"

"It looks like he's just standing there!" You call out.

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>Check peephole

"Okay, let me check the peephole then."

Syven's brows furrow as she stares out of it. "Huh..."

You wait for Syven to take a step back before peering through it too. Jason's voice comes out muffled past the door, but you easily imitate what he's saying out loud to Syven.

"Hey, Neighbor, sorry if you're busy! I wanted to get to know who was living nearby, so I got a few drinks from the cafe down the street. You want some hot coco or coffee?"

Is he moving in? what's with the camping pack?

>>1133311
Oh actually... that makes sense. He was looking through the windows to see if anyone was approachable. He probably thinks women are safer to approach, or more easily manipulated.

Well, it's probably no immediate danger to let him in, but later on when things don't work out for him, he might be looking for someone to blame... Of course, refusing to let him in has its own implications that he might use to blame Syven later too! So there's no winning move!

Just let him in, at least we can get info that way.

Hmm… I feel like we might be freaking out a little. He might be a creep. He might even be a weirdo. But I don’t think he’s a bad guy bad guy. He seems pretty innocuous, just, troubled. We should probably still be watching him in case he tries something. But I don’t think he’s like, a threat.

Well, the big concerns here are whether the drinks are spiked (common creep/predator tactic), and why he's wearing a camping backpack that could fit a whole persons body in it.

He's also... Concealing his face with the drinks from the peephole, as if he doesn't want the psychic to see his face.

He's also likely aware that a ghost is haunting/pranking him but careful but not too worried about it.

No harm in opening/greeting him, though question his choice of baggage (is he going hiking?), and accept but don't drink the offered drinks (claim 'you just ate' if need be) until he has left. Or accept them and you as a ghost can spill them as a 'scare' to make it seem like you're haunting the psychic too, if he's creepy about insisting on tje drinks.

I don't like his smile, the one which he is hiding with the drinks from the front view.

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>Answer/Greet

After a beat, Syven steels herself then opens the door to greet your target. He lowers the drink tray, shooting her that dastardly smile. What could he be hiding in that dastardly smile?!

"Hey there, I can go for a drink. Maybe the hot coco?" Syven smiles back politely.

He nods and goes to hand her the drink at the front while Syven adjusts Miss Content, who's now sitting on her shoulder.

Syven takes the drink and looks it over, searching for something. His eyes track her movements sharply.

"I'm Jay. Cool rat, by the way."

"Thanks, just got her." Syven holds the offered drink to her chest, but does not partake. "I go by Syven."

"Syven! Cool. Um... Know it can be kinda weird to accept stuff from strangers, I just didn't want to come by empty handed." He rubs his neck sheepishly. "Drink it, throw it away, whatever you want. I have some mini powdered donuts too."

"Oh, you didn't have to--"

Jay takes a baggie out of a dufflebag pocket, the Latte Lots logo emblazoned on it. Before Syven can react, he holds it out in front of her.

"Thanks..." Syven takes the donuts. Both her hands are full now.

"Ask about the bag." You whisper to her.

"Did you just move in, Jay? You've got a pretty big bag on."

"Yeah! Moved in yesterday. Still had some stuff at the old place, so I got them this mornin'." He pats the bag. "Being a hiker has its perks."

>Offer to Let Him In

"Should we invite him inside? Get some info?" You whisper.

"Makes sense." Syven cocks her head. "You wanna' come in or something? Have a nice neighborly chat?"

Jay quickly shakes his head. "Still busy unpacking, but I'll be free in about an hour or two. We could grab lunch? You want my number?"

"Oh, I'm..."

Options:
>Syven Is Busy
>Syven Is Not Busy

meeting in a public place is safe enough. yes to lunch

Discerning his aura/mood right now might help weigh the decision. Is he being genuinely shy/bashful or is there some bad mojo on him?

Also worth breaking the ice and asking if this is a date-date (in case she has to let him down softly due to incompatible sexualities) or a friendly neighbor meet.

Busy now, but not busy later. We must prepare to go TO EAR to defend her if necessary! We could get GHOST ARMOR

He looks less creepy, but still, all of this can be a mask that he is wearing to trick you. Just tell him that you have friends and that they will look for you if you disappear.

Let's give him a chance. Time to see how he interacts with other people.