video; un: Constantine

[keepgodwaiting]

[ The camera fumbles and pans across the foyer of one of the supermarkets before focusing on Johanna Constantine's face. She's headed into the store, it appears, looking over the shelves for something specific. ]

Have you noticed there's no religion here? [ Her tone's conversational, like she's just FaceTiming a friend as she shops. ] No churches or temples or shrines. What do you suppose that means? --Ah, there we are.

[ The camera swings to point at the ceiling as she reaches to grab something. It looks like she's in the spice aisle. ]

Anyway, before you all start arguing about whether God's abandoned us, real point is: anyone here have it in them to consecrate some water and oil? Give us a ring, we can barter or something.

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[ ooc: Threadhopping is fine by me if characters do in fact start arguing religion. Just know Constantine is watching anything that's not marked private! ]

Comments

[coolerjunpei]

Oh, uh, it has these shadows in it...? Like someone's there, but you can never catch them. So... haunted.

[He shrugs, like, is it actually haunted by ghosts? Probably not. But if she's going to throw holy water at things, then... maybe?]

It's possible.

[keepgodwaiting]

Fuck me.

[ Dammit! She could've hazed the newbie with actual ghosts?

Also, there are maybe actual ghost? ]

Well, that's something new around here, at any rate. Might have to look into it. But why the bowling alley ... ?

[coolerjunpei]

[There are maybe ghosts!!]

You mean... why would the bowling alley be haunted? No idea. City Hall's probably haunted, too, judging from that crap party they threw. Maybe it's whoever lived here before, if they even existed, haunting us for moving into their apartments and using their stuff.

[keepgodwaiting]

Normally you'd see ghosts either where they used to live, or where they died. [ Musing, as she goes into the baking aisle: ] Maybe there was a terrible bowling accident.

[coolerjunpei]

Like they all walked into the pin machine...? I guess.

[The Awful Bowling Incident of whatever the hell year it's supposed to be--]

So, wait, are you a ghost hunter? The way they do it on TV?

[keepgodwaiting]

Rampage with a bowling ball? The Lane Ten Massacre?

[ She sounds pretty chipper about the prospect. ]

What, like with the little gadgets and bad photography? Not bloody likely.

[coolerjunpei]

The Night of the Living Pins. And yeah, like that. Don't tell me ghost hunting TV shows aren't real.

[Flatly, because... ha ha....]

So what do you do, then?

[keepgodwaiting]

What, are they real where you're from? Those shows? Every ghost hunter with an EMF reader I've ever met is a faker or trying way too hard.

[coolerjunpei]

If by "real" you mean "on TV and they get money," yeah... I've never seen a ghost, or anything. I was more of an aliens nerd kid than a ghost hunting kid.

[like these are normal kid types,]

[keepgodwaiting]

Ever find any?

[ Genuine question! ]

[coolerjunpei]

Aliens? Nah. But there's gotta be something out there, right? Somewhere.

[Like, has he seen some weird shit labeled "alien technology" without any further inquiry? Yes. But seeing an actual alien? Not yet.]

[keepgodwaiting]

Like, out in space? S'pose so. Seems like a waste otherwise.

[coolerjunpei]

A waste... of space? [audience groans] Yeah, though, I guess. Fermi was probably smart and all, but "oh no where is everybody aaah" is like, c'mon dude, maybe they just don't want to come talk to us.

[keepgodwaiting]

Earth does seem like the sort of neighborhood you'd try to drive around.

Maybe whoever built this is trying to gentrify.