saw you walking into the saloon earlier when i was coming back from a trial i called to you but you didnt answer and after i got inside you werent anywhere to be found everything all right?
aint calling you a liar but i dont see how it couldve been anyone else she had the same long black hair as you wore a white dress
[ granted, not one he ever saw Rin wearing, and her hair hung down in tangles instead of floating as it usually does—but that didn't strike him as strange. He's long since gotten used to the Entity changing clothing and appearances according to some unknowable whim. What made him certain was— ]
and she moved the same way you do there one step and gone the next
[ how strange, she thinks. there's another ghost in the fog? one more like her than philip. long black hair, a white dress, the same way she phases in reality... what does this mean?
and why is it so familiar? ]
She could be new spirit, like me. One like me. But she seems lost to wander off into the west.
Is there anything else that seems strange with her?
[ a new killer... that would explain it. Even though it felt like only a short while ago that the bone orchard just beyond Glenvale came alive with the shrieking of crows as the one the survivors call "the Artist" settled in. Does that mean there's someone new at their campfire too?
Well, if there is, he'll meet them in a trial sooner or later. Better to keep an eye out for this spirit in case she decides to comes back. A minute goes by as he considers Rin's question. ]
i wasnt close enough to get a long look but she seems more ghostly than you didnt leave a single footprint anywhere
[ when Caleb emerged from the fog near the faded sign proclaiming the ghost town's name, he'd spotted her standing in the middle of the road before the saloon. A brief pause, apparently, because she immediately started moving again, shoulders jerking stiffly up and down, one after the other and never together, her form flickering with each purposeful stride.
Where did she come from? ]
and she was walking like she knew exactly where she was going not like she was lost at all
[ a ghost who doesn't leave a trace of herself in the physical world. a ghost who knows where she is going — is there no home for this new killer? it must be a new killer. ]
If she is truly like me, then she looks for revenge as well against one person. Whoever gets in her way will pay the same price.
Perhaps she looks for a new place to reside if she has none herself. Like the twins I've seen... but I don't wish for your place of rest to be cursed if she stays.
i wouldnt like that myself got enough dead people around already
[ Caleb looks out the saloon entrance. He was lucky this time; no corpses wearing the faces of his men hang from the gallows or sprawl in the rusty dirt of the streets. That might change when he returns from his next trial. Or it might not. Either way, he doesn't need some vengeful specter making herself at home in Glenvale. Rin is fine company when she does visit, but he has a feeling this one won't be nearly as friendly.
His gaze lands on the water tower. He scowls. A much longer delay comes before his next message. ]
theres a well that wasnt here before not much water left inside no bucket to haul it up with either
[ long black hair. a white dress. a well. an onryo like her — all accompanied of flashbacks from her childhood, tears in her eyes as she recalls an old movie that she watches with her mother. had her heart been alive and warm, it would be running right at this moment. ]
I know this one well, Mr. Quinn. Her name is Sadako, and she brings a curse to anyone who watches her videotape.
You mustn't get close to the well anymore, or close it. And you mustn't look into her eyes because it will lead to your death. Even then, she may simply wish it so and you may have a heart attack.
Normally when you can see her form, it means she hunts for whoever has watched the tape after seven days. Or if she's truly been summoned by the Entity like us... then she may be walking freely in the fog.
[ Caleb swears under his breath before stepping away from the well. He reads through Rin's reply again. Sadako—who can kill without a touch, by the sounds of it. A first among the killers already in the fog. Even the one who introduced himself as the Hell Priest, always empty-handed, needs to conjure up physical chains to wound. That alone is enough reason to keep his distance from her—and not gamble on whether or not the Redeemer can do anything to a ghost. ]
i will much obliged for the warning miss rin and for telling me all this about her if that thing did bring her here then i wouldnt be surprised if it made it easier for her to kill
[ impossible as it is to measure out what a day is in the fog, he knows a single trial doesn't last for seven of them. Not to mention that outside of trials, killers have no constraints on their strength or abilities. ]
I remember her from a film I once watched when I was younger. She has been unsettling then, and now that she's real it will certainly become worse. There's nothing holding her back now, and she will do whatever she pleases.
[ she should tell her grandfather this. yes. after this. ]
Normally she crawls through television screens, but she can also transport herself through anything reflective, like mirrors or water. That is how powerful she is.
[ mirrors. Immediately, he's thinking of the one upstairs in the saloon. Permanently shattered, but with enough intact fragments clinging to the frame to show a fractured reflection. Then there's the windows with their dust-scratched panes. He used to appreciate that they weren't boarded up or gone entirely like how they are in trials, but now... ]
reckon i know how she managed to vanish without me seeing her go now
[ and if she can use them to leave Glenvale, who's to say she can't use them to come in, too? He needs to tell Zarina about this. The absolute last thing they need is for Sadako to suddenly appear in the room while they're together. ]
and when you say shes real do you mean the film she was in was a thing of fiction? not a documentary or anything like that?
There are two ways: The first is to make a copy of the tape, and then show it to someone else. That person will have to make a copy of the tape and do the same if they wish to be released from the curse... they must spread it to others, like a chain.
The other way is death before she comes for you. At least it won't be by her hands.
as awful as that huh guess the survivors wont have a chance to get away then reckon shell be satisfied with killing in trials and not bother anyone else outside of them?
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need to have a word with you
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i called to you but you didnt answer
and after i got inside you werent anywhere to be found
everything all right?
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I haven't visited your realm for quite some time. It couldn't be me you saw. Are you sure about this?
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she had the same long black hair as you
wore a white dress
[ granted, not one he ever saw Rin wearing, and her hair hung down in tangles instead of floating as it usually does—but that didn't strike him as strange. He's long since gotten used to the Entity changing clothing and appearances according to some unknowable whim. What made him certain was— ]
and she moved the same way you do
there one step and gone the next
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and why is it so familiar? ]
She could be new spirit, like me. One like me. But she seems lost to wander off into the west.
Is there anything else that seems strange with her?
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Well, if there is, he'll meet them in a trial sooner or later. Better to keep an eye out for this spirit in case she decides to comes back. A minute goes by as he considers Rin's question. ]
i wasnt close enough to get a long look but she seems more ghostly than you
didnt leave a single footprint anywhere
[ when Caleb emerged from the fog near the faded sign proclaiming the ghost town's name, he'd spotted her standing in the middle of the road before the saloon. A brief pause, apparently, because she immediately started moving again, shoulders jerking stiffly up and down, one after the other and never together, her form flickering with each purposeful stride.
Where did she come from? ]
and she was walking like she knew exactly where she was going
not like she was lost at all
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If she is truly like me, then she looks for revenge as well against one person. Whoever gets in her way will pay the same price.
Perhaps she looks for a new place to reside if she has none herself. Like the twins I've seen... but I don't wish for your place of rest to be cursed if she stays.
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got enough dead people around already
[ Caleb looks out the saloon entrance. He was lucky this time; no corpses wearing the faces of his men hang from the gallows or sprawl in the rusty dirt of the streets. That might change when he returns from his next trial. Or it might not. Either way, he doesn't need some vengeful specter making herself at home in Glenvale. Rin is fine company when she does visit, but he has a feeling this one won't be nearly as friendly.
His gaze lands on the water tower. He scowls. A much longer delay comes before his next message. ]
theres a well that wasnt here before
not much water left inside
no bucket to haul it up with either
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I know this one well, Mr. Quinn. Her name is Sadako, and she brings a curse to anyone who watches her videotape.
You mustn't get close to the well anymore, or close it. And you mustn't look into her eyes because it will lead to your death. Even then, she may simply wish it so and you may have a heart attack.
Normally when you can see her form, it means she hunts for whoever has watched the tape after seven days. Or if she's truly been summoned by the Entity like us... then she may be walking freely in the fog.
Please be careful should you see her again.
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i will
much obliged for the warning miss rin
and for telling me all this about her
if that thing did bring her here then i wouldnt be surprised if it made it easier for her to kill
[ impossible as it is to measure out what a day is in the fog, he knows a single trial doesn't last for seven of them. Not to mention that outside of trials, killers have no constraints on their strength or abilities. ]
how do you know her?
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[ she should tell her grandfather this. yes. after this. ]
Normally she crawls through television screens, but she can also transport herself through anything reflective, like mirrors or water. That is how powerful she is.
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reckon i know how she managed to vanish without me seeing her go now
[ and if she can use them to leave Glenvale, who's to say she can't use them to come in, too? He needs to tell Zarina about this. The absolute last thing they need is for Sadako to suddenly appear in the room while they're together. ]
and when you say shes real
do you mean the film she was in was a thing of fiction?
not a documentary or anything like that?
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I do not know if she follows her own rules, but never watch her cursed videotape. That is all I can warn you of without witnessing her actions myself.
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a television would look a lot more out of place in glenvale than this well does
[ but he is wondering— ]
does the story talk about a way to break the curse?
or is it one of those that ends with everyone dead or wishing they were
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The other way is death before she comes for you. At least it won't be by her hands.
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guess the survivors wont have a chance to get away then
reckon shell be satisfied with killing in trials and not bother anyone else outside of them?
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i aint in the habit of messing around with strange things heedlessly
[ he knows someone who is, though. Maybe Zarina hasn't heard about Sadako yet. He'll talk to her after this. ]
thanks again for telling me
hope she doesnt cause you and your grandpa any trouble