[audio; locked to the Sleepers]

[antecedent]

George Kardos has opened communication!

All right, I need you to sound off so I know who you are and if you're not a ghost. Getting annoying mixing the two up after this long.

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[ audio, eternally; ]

[deshabille]

Milena Tichý has opened communication!

[ Things she is not even going to question include this, although she does sound amused. ]

I wasn't last time I checked.

[antecedent]

Good. One with the cafe, right? Saw the post. Thinking about heading over there, but not sure what to barter with.

[deshabille]

Oh, is that what people are going to know me for? Could be worse.

Information? Company? I'd ask for nice shells if we were by the sea.

[antecedent]

Better than what I'll be known as. Either the ghost guy or one half of that drag club duo.

Don't know about information, but company I can do.

[tactical_alert]

Gavin Stark has opened communication!

A ghost? Do ghosts have solid forms now? I'd always assumed they were translucent and walked through walls and the like.

[antecedent]

Ghosts always have, most people are just too blind or ignorant to see them. Normally can't touch them unless they want you to while they have the energy to pull it off. In this place, I can touch them like they're alive. It's different.

[tactical_alert]

You...hail from a very strange place, then. Would you only take our word, then, that we aren't ghosts?

[antecedent]

Grew up in a circus. [This really explains everything.] Might hit you with my cane first to see if you come after me or not. If you do, not a ghost.

[ also with the audio ]

[tartanisstylish]

John Gates has opened communication!

[ On, then off, then on again. ] . . . John. And fairly sure I'm not a ghost.

[antecedent]

[Oh it's you. Prepare for the verbal linefacing.]

You will be if you drag Liam into trouble again.

[tartanisstylish]

[ His voice is flat. ] Mm. I. Have no plans to.

[perpend]

Dillon Hays has opened communication!

I'm alive and well as far as I know, baby.

[antecedent]

Thanks for letting me know. If I ever run into you, I won't accidentally ignore you.

[perpend]

Hey, no problem!

[delightme]

Alexander Wilton has opened communication!

You're gifted with Sight? That must be a headache and a half.

[antecedent]

..the Sight? Wouldn't be so bad if I could tell the difference between living and dead.

[delightme]

You know, seeing the supernatural and all of that. Is it just ghosts that appear to you?

[myfedorarocks]

Allen Grant has opened communication!

you can't tell the difference? that would scare me.

i am alive.

[antecedent]

It's not scary, just confusing.

[myfedorarocks]

that's a good thing, then.

[throwoutthebook]

I don't even wanna know what the hell yer talkin' 'bout. Not a ghost here, that's fer sure.

Really. Ghosts. On top a' everythin' else...

[antecedent]

Looks like it's only something I'm dealing with. They aren't the type to be actively malicious.

...as far as I know.

[trickntreats]

Sylvester Wilton has opened communication!

[Gabriel considers not answering at all, listening to the conversations he can hear, just because it hurts that this man can see the way he ought to be able to see, and he's blind twice over. But, finally, he does say something ... and yet doesn't even manage a degree of levity.]

Checking in.

[antecedent]

Thanks. [short pause] Something wrong?

[trickntreats]

Just damned peachy, thanks for asking.