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Willow had as usual her bag with all her equipment toting it around. It was sitting on the table beside her. She'd heard about the group meet up through a flyer on the store she frequented for crystals and tarot decks.

There was a stretch as she grinned. She was always down for a good paranormal club, some seemed to last longer than others and she hoped this one lasted a bit.

She was sitting on a table, with one leg crossed over the other. Looking fairly comfortable as she'd been there waiting for a little while. Note book in one hand jotting down notes or ideas. When someone poked their head in and asked if this was the unsolved mysteries meeting. Her attention turned to them from what was already going on in the room. "Why yes it is, come on in~!"

She leaned one one arm looking at the new comer, "Looking for the thrill of solving unsolved mysteries that might be decades old? Or do you have a mystery that needs to be solved?"

Willow was a big buff of horror, occult and the paranormal. Even having her own channel on the topic. Her excitement over the topics was probably evident in the way she asked the questions.

"Bonus points for any paranormal activity too. My viewers love the content."

Addy glanced down at the photo of the flyer she had taken on her phone, checking the location for the umpteenth time. Part of her felt like maybe it was a trap of some sort or another trick like with the dice. If she went, would she find herself on some ghost filled board once again, doomed to play haunted parcheesi for the amusement of some unseen force?

What were the odds of that happening three times in one month?

Suddenly, she found herself hoping whatever entity was causing all these strange things to happen had never seen Squid Games.

Arriving at the door, Addy listened for a moment, hand hovering over the door knob. This was probably just some gimmick for the season put on by the library...but what did she have to lose besides an afternoon? She was always able to leave if it turned out to be fake and if it was legit, maybe she could find a lead on her aunt's passing.

The door slid open easily and she scanned the room for a moment with a genuine smile and a wave of her hand before she reached up to tuck a lock of hair behind her ear. Dangling on a short chain from each lobe was a di made of fossilized wood that seemed to glow slightly as it swung back and forth with every step. The dice from the cursed game board.

Despite her best instincts, she couldn't make herself throw them into the fire. They were rather pretty, and besides, what if anyone here had played it? They might recognize the object of their torture and come to her with information or a story of their own. It could very well help weed the people with real experiences from the people that were here to talk about orbs (dust) in photos and how they think aliens were stealing their semen to create a super weapon.

Addy scooted over to the other side of the room and sat down near a man with long, black hair.

"Hey everyone! I'm Addy. This is the spooky mystery meeting, right? Not trying to invade a book club or something," she introduced herself with an easy laugh.

Riku knew there was magic in Destiny City. It was hard not to know, when one's sibling and favorite cousin told one that it existed and that because of it, they would have to become brand new people.

This knowledge was...complicated, ultimately. Riku didn't love knowing all this and not being able to do anything about it. And in reality, it hadn't at all diminished his eternal interest in all kinds of Generalized Spooky s**t. Magical girls being real did not imply anything one way or the other about the existence of regular

So here he was, at the library in a cute cardigan with a black cat sitting by a pumpkin on it (and an equally adorable black tee with an autumnal ghost chorus underneath, should it be warm enough to take off the cardigan), a black-and-orange plaid skirt over black leggings, and his cutest combat boots to see what exactly the fuss was with a meeting about people interested in similar.

At least he definitely wasn't alone. There were already a few people there, and he slid into the room with a smile and a little wave.

"Hi. Hope I'm not too late?"

Ronan managed to keep a neutral face as somebody sat near him and felt a degree of pride in that fact. Raising his eyes he scanned the room, staring intently at the images on the whiteboard. He didn’t see anything that looked like what he’d seen, nothing like the thing that had tried to eat him. OK, maybe he wasn’t entirely sure that it wanted to eat him, but it definitely wanted to kill him. Downright rude, if you asked him.

He scowled slightly at the memory. Even if someone had come along to remove the thing, it had spent longer than he would have liked asphyxiating him. Still, he should probably introduce himself.

“Ronan.” He offered another slightly awkward wave before returning his gaze to the whiteboard.

DM practically lit up when Willow explained what she was doing, "That is a fantastic idea! I mean, they say that in order to prove that ghosts are real you need to make sure there is no way its something like a breeze or psychosomatic or anything else that could be scientifically explained. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' after all. The same could be said for ghosts or aliens but we all know they are real! We just haven't proved it yet. I mean even the government researched it, project blue book might have ended in like 1970 or so but that doesn't mean they actually stopped researching." He was a fan of all things cryptozoological but aliens were definitely his special interest. He could have continued to talk about it all even as Addy made her way over to the white board to see what was already posted.

The young man was going to ask if anyone had seen any unidentified flying objects lately so he could cross refrecne what he had found on the web when the room door was pushed open by someone backing into the room.

The person was muttering to themselves even as they turned around and looked at the small crowd with a rather surprised look on their face. "Oh.... I honestly wasn't expecting anyone to show up again. Welcome!" The woman with messy hair and a rumpled sweater greeted everyone before dumping her arm full of pictures on the nearest flat surface. "I'm Nancy P. Carter and yes I have heard all the jokes so please save your humor for another day. Since we have such a crowd tonight you all can help me chase down a new mystery in this lovely city of ours. Typically I work in here alone or with one rando who wanders in occasionally but since I have such a robust group," DM wasn't really sure that six people including himself counted as 'robust' but what did he know, "Tonight we shall," Nancy continued.

She stepped up to the board and said, 'Excuse me dear,' to Addy before slapping a large picture on the board of a grainy photo, "Explore this mystery!". A duck.... with pants? except the proportions were all wrong. The duck looked huge compared to the background. "Is this duck a case of the infamous Nessy photo that they were able to prove was a fake or is it real? And if its real how???? And who gave the duck those pants? Why? Could it be an alien duck? Do aliens eat duck? Are aliens ducks and not humanoid like it has always been reported? Have any of you seen this duck?" Nancy, don't call her NPC, queried the room.


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Willow was watching the video that was being showed and looked curiously at it. "Yeah no that's a relatively new species of duck if anything."

Though Willow was wondering if it was youma. Which wasn't paranormal at all, just annoying. "I'm sure the zoo I volunteer at would be interested in this sort of species though."

She looked at Nancy -- "Are we going for Cryptiods too or Spectral type of paranormal?" It was curious since Nancy was curious about the duck, "I mean I suppose it could be a cryptids duck instead of like some sort of new variation of an Irish giant duck."