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[thewarningafter]

Characters: Everyone listed here
Location: All around Norfinbury
Date: 395 (night)
Summary: A bunch of snobos try to replicate the success of the seance hosted by Will Graham on night 320.
Warnings: General Norfinhorror warnings/unknown. The previous seance event included descriptions of dissociative episodes and loss of bodily control.

[As per usual anymore, Stephen's face doesn't appear on the network, only his voice. It's a soothing voice, though, at least? If he's nervous, he's hiding it decently.]

Good evening everyone. This is Stephen Strange speaking. I've spoken with many of you over the last few days about tonight's planned effort to contact the ghosts of Norfinbury once again. Because so many of them have gone silent since we last spoke with them, since we found Andromeda's body, we don't know the current condition of the data collective we encountered the last time we attempted a seance at the direction of Mr. Graham. Our purpose tonight -- at least...my purpose...is not only to determine whether they have any additional information that can assist us, but also whether they have any final wishes we are able to carry out, possibly including some effort to lay them to their final rest.

Many of us who connected with the data collective last time experienced a dissociative state on first contact. You may go emotionally numb for a short period of time. It will pass. It's important that as you attempt contact you keep one or two of your most urgent questions forefront in your mind. Rehearse what you want to ask them in your mind over the next few minutes so you will remember your purpose for contacting them when it is time.

Thank you all for agreeing to help with this...and good luck.

[And with that he falls silent for a moment, leaving his tablet connected as a starting point for building the chain of connections between users.]

[OOC: Please use the form below to format your starting comment with information about your character and their location. Be especially sure to note if your character is using Shadownet to participate in the seance rather than a basic network connection!]

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Network Handle:</b> <b>Current Location:</b> <b>Network Connection Type:</b> [note whether your character is using the regular network or Shadownet, and note whether regular connections are voice, video, or text -- reminder, Shadownet is text only!] <b>Notes:</b> [indicate here whether your character is trying to contact a specific ghost; briefly note any particular methods your character is using or affinities they have with the ghost(s) they are trying to contact]

Comments

[jumpthegun]

[John's frowning severely at his dead tablet as he tries to reboot it, looking up at Sherlock and Mycroft.]

Have either of you reached out, yet? My tablet's gone dead. It had a message about a battery drain.

[holmesice]

[Mycroft taps at his aggressively, but it remains off. Not the reaction he was hoping for, and now he's just annoyed.]

I just did, and my tablet's dead, as well. It shut off with the same message soon after I tried.

[howdull]

I was about to begin, but it seems pointless if the outcome will just be to drain the battery of our last remaining tablet. It might be more useful to attempt to contact some of the others we knew to be participating and see if their tablets are offline too.

[jumpthegun]

Oh, god... [If everyone who was participating in this...] I really hope anyone who was doing this was part of a group. But what could cause a power drain like that?

[howdull]

The ghosts are somehow connected to the data, correct? Perhaps too many of them are trying to contact us at the same time, and their combined overload on the system is causing the power to drain?