vanishingdusk: (Smile)
Yuuko Kanoe ([personal profile] vanishingdusk) wrote in [community profile] xavier_institute_logs2014-12-07 10:32 pm

A new club has appeared! | OPEN

WHO: Yuuko Kanoe, Aki Narukami, and anyone else who wants to drop by!
WHAT: Yuuko and Aki are recruiting members for their new club!
WHERE: An empty classroom
WHEN: Monday, 12/8
WARNING(S): none



Wandering the halls for the past week or so, students may have noticed a series of flyers posted in strategic locations around the school.

Join the Paranormal Investigation Club!

Do you like ghost stories, rumors of the weird and unnatural? Spooky things in general? The Paranormal Investigation Club is recruiting new members! Feel free to stop by and check us out!


The fliers are relatively plain, but they have the date, room number, and a lovely little doodle of Yuuko on them. Before getting to the room, you'll likely hear some almost cliche haunted house style sound effects playing. The room itself isn't decorated too much. There's a couple of couches, a table with refreshments set up, and there's a few decorations lying about, like a model skull, some Japanese talismans, and a few other things. There's also a sign-up sheet on the table too.

While Aki is visible, Yuuko...isn't. But if you keep an eye out, it's not hard to figure out where she is when she's moving things around. A club about ghosts has to have a ghostly president, right? Drop right in and say hello! Or take advantage of the refreshments.


((OOC: This is an open log for anyone interested in joining their club, or simply dropping by to see what's going on! Replies will come from either Aki or Yuuko.))
batteredbatter: (Nice to Meet You Everyone)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-10 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Aki!

[He's all smiles. They haven't seen each other as much since practice ended, so he's happy to talk with her again]

Haha, well, I'm not exactly, but I thought there might be some familiar faces here... I guess maybe I should have guessed you'd be one of them?
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[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-10 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sports get put away, just when it gets cold enough for ghosts stories to really feel creepy. Perfect timing, but she can't say she hasn't missed her baseball friends, either, so it's nice to see him right now.]

What, you think the Queen of Ghost Stories was going to pass up the chance to be involved in a club like this?

[She shakes her head, smiling widely back.]

Not on your life!
batteredbatter: (Long Time No See)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-11 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, my mistake for not figuring that one out beforehand!

So you and Yuuko got together to start this?
upatbat: Official game art, edited by me. (Led by a beating heart)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-11 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! We just started talking one day, and this all came together pretty fast.

[She shrugs, because that probably sounds lazier than it actually was, but whatever.]

Are you thinking of joining us?
batteredbatter: (I Knew It)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-12 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hah, I can imagine. It seems like you two have a lot of similarities.

Well, not really. I've only seen one of my friends' occult clubs but it didn't really seem like my sort of thing... I want a club where we can compete with some good, straightforward rules?
upatbat: Official game art. (You ran into the night)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-13 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She gives him a mock-offended look for that.]

Hey, ghost stories have rules, too! You just have to know them, but that's the same as every game, isn't it?

[No, fighting for your life against the supernatural is not the same as baseball, Aki....]
batteredbatter: (Can You Do Me A Favor?)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-14 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no one told me any of them - how do you win, anyway?
upatbat: Official game art. (You ran into the night from all you had)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-14 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[She tilts her head as she tries to think of an easy, famous game that Koshi might know.]

Have you ever played Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai? It's kinda old-fashioned, but it's still fun.
batteredbatter: (Casual)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-15 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right, I guess that's sort of a game! Do you really tell a hundred?
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[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-16 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
People usually chicken out before it gets that far...

[She looks a bit put out about this.]

But I'm sure we could come up with that many!
batteredbatter: (That doesn't sound right.)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-17 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Could you even tell that many in just one night?
upatbat: Official game art. (Five hundred yards down)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-18 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
If they were short and nobody stopped in the middle, I think so!
batteredbatter: (Upset)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-18 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
I feel like that would turn into a speed-talking contest and not be so scary... Uhh, let's see, let's say 10 hours divided by 100 stories... 10 an hour... isn't that like, 6 minutes a story, if you take no breaks at all?

...I have no idea if that's long or short. [Like, who times ghost stories?]
upatbat: Official novelization art, scanned and edited by me. (Your mouth is wine)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-20 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
You've got a point... Six minutes isn't that long to tell a good story. But creepypasta got popular for being short and still having good scares, so it's not hopeless.

[But she still looks pretty put out at that.]

Maybe it'd work better on a really long night, like the winter solstice or something?
batteredbatter: (Casual)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-20 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Pasta?

[You lost him]

Hmm, maybe. Isn't that coming up?
upatbat: Official game art. (You ran into the night from all you had)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-21 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Creepypasta. Those scary stories that get shared around on Facebook?

[Koshi, please...]

I think it's in December, so it's not too far off.
batteredbatter: (Nice to Meet You Everyone)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-22 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, like urban legends.

[THAT'S A BIZARRELY SPECIFIC ENGLISH NERD TERM OKAY]

Maybe you could have it as a club event then!
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[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-26 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Close enough.

[YEAH BUT AKI IS EXACTLY THAT KIND OF NERD-- I mean. Excuse u.]

That's not a bad idea, though. It'd be a good break from all that Christmas cheer!

[Coming to a country that practically smothers you in Holiday schmultz from a bunch that barely acknowledge it can be hard to adjust to, even for her.]
batteredbatter: (That doesn't sound right.)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it would give a break from the music at least.
upatbat: Official art, edited by me. (But this is your heart)

[personal profile] upatbat 2014-12-28 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the idea, Koshi. If I get it together, I'll send you an invite, okay?
batteredbatter: (Nice to Meet You Everyone)

[personal profile] batteredbatter 2014-12-28 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
All right! I'm looking forward to it a bit!