12696/Ghost

Ghost
Date of Scene:	06 September 2022
Location:	Manhattan Subway
Synopsis:	Hellboy and Detective Chimp go into the subway expecting a ghost. Mercy Thompson helps them dispatch said ghost. Hellboy may or may not have taken some bricks to the face.
Cast of Characters:	Hellboy, Detective Chimp, Mercy Thompson

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Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy grumbles something under his breath. He's got an unlit cigar in his mouth as he walks down the subway stairs. He usually works with a fairly set team, but he is also usually working from somewhere in Gotham, not out of the Triskelion. He pulls a flashlight from one of the pockets of his huge, nebulous coat and turns it on. "Geez, we couldn't have gotten them to keep the lights on?" he asks, rhetorically. He ducks under the police tape after the station was closed. He stands fully upright on the other side and looks this way and that, shining his flashlight around.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp has his cigar in his teeth, but his is lit. He walks along beside the larger being. He is seldom called in this day, but after the whole incident on the helicarrier recently, they must have him on the radar again. So he agreed to come look into this. He just has to stoop a bit and is under the tape. "Less lights, less chance average folk are going to come snooping about. Still might see some, but the whole aversion to the dark will keep some away.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy's life is always "interesting" in that sometimes cursed sort of way. She picked some spark plugs from a salvage yard on a Jetta she's working on. Only to have her bag tear open and them go spilling down a grate over a subway tunnel. She debated for ten minutes before she figured she'd go down and see about getting them. It's less about the money and a how much a pain it is to get that stuff.
    The lithe woman is walking down a tunnel fated to join with the way that Red and Chimp are headed down. Her steps are soft but not silent as she moves through the tunnel. She's tense, because she feels SOMETHING is down here. The hairs on her neck are standing up. Then there's that faint smell. Smells like... ape and cigar? Also something... else. She has no light, seeming to not have problems in the dark. So as she hears the footsteps echoing in the halls she tries to lean toward a wall and goes silent. Waiting to see who, or what, shows up.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy is no tracker, but one thing he does do is shine his light down the subway tunnel. He shines it first away from Mercy, then towards her. There's not much else it could possibly be, so he calls out to the chimpanzee with him. "Hey, Dick," he says. "Somebody in the tunnel." He turns and looks at the other agent with him. "You think it's the spook?"

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp takes a moment to sniffs the air and even past his cigar, it is someone he knows. "Na, it's a girl, I know, don't know what she is doing down here, but I doubt she has anything to do with the ghost." He tells the other. Not telling how he knows the girl at least not yet.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    The light hits her face and Mercy winces to look away, her hand down near her concealed gun. "Watch the light," she says to the voices. "Is that you Detective Chimp? Nobody else smells like ape and smoke." She steps a bit from the wall blinking, "Who's with you? I got a bit blinded by the light. What are you talking about a ghost? I'm down here looking for some spark plugs I dropped." She more slides instead of walks to avoid tripping as she gets toward the pair of men.

Hellboy has posed:
    "Get off the tracks, girl!" Hellboy calls out at her. "Just because the city closed this track doesn't mean there won't be glitch in the system." He drops down onto the tracks and rushes at the girl. With his Right Hand of Doom, he grabs her and tosses her over his shoulder in a fireman carry before rushing back toward the platform.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over and says "Mercy met Red, Red this is my friend Mercy." He will watch the two, he is a bit more confident in Mercy not hitting the third rail, but he nods softly as HEllboy gets her off the tracks.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    "I can hear a train coming from a mile away," Mercy starts to say as Red goes to pick her up. His hand touches her skin as he effortlessly picks up Mercy and she shivers suddenly and gives an intense sneeze. "What the?!" Sneezing again as she is laid over his shoulder and squirming a bit eyes starting to readjust to the darkness as she sees how high up off the ground she is. "Is that a tail?" Since she's able mostly Red's backside. She tries to rub at her nose and says, "appreciate the help big guy, but put me down." It isn't because of who Hellboy is, and more for the fact Mercy can be twitchy about people protecting her.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy jumps up the meter or more to the platform without clamboring up. He puts Mercy down as requested, then says, "There. You should probably run along, though. We're on a secret mission."

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over to Hellboy, and says "She is trust worthy, and if she is determined to find those Sparkplugs, she will stay around, so might just want to let her come along with us, she aint going to go all eekkk a gggghhhhoooosssstttt." He tells the other. "Besides, she may come in handy, if we end up coming across any of the mechanical stuff with the subway we gotta get past."

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy rubs at her nose and then looks at who picked her up. Then looks UP at the tall red man. "Well that's not something I see everyday." She rubs at her nose again and says, "both cigar men I see." She smooths her clothes out and shakes her head, "Not so secret. I heard something about a ghost." She's staring less at HB's horns and more at his right hand. Cuz DAYUM that's a big red right hand.
    Chimp is given a grin, "Do you know how hard it can be to get some original plugs for a '82 Jetta?" She can't help but smirk at Chimp going Eeek. "I've been dealing with ghosts probably longer then either of you," glancing over at Red, "maybe." Revising her boast on the fly. Smooth move. She motions to herself. "Mercedes Thompson, VW and classic German car mechanic. Just call me Mercy ummm... Red?" She glances over to DC, "How do you prefer to be addressed anyway?"

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy shakes his head. "Red's fine," he says. He's about to address DC when there's a sound that sounds like the squeeling of train brakes. "Shhh," he informs the other two. He shines his flashlight back and forth along the tracks, but there's nothing. "Hey," he says to the detective, "is there anything on the thing?"
    'The Thing' is not the superhero, in this case, but a spectral analyzer doohicky afforded them by the WAND quartermaster. Having two human-sized (roughly) hands makes it easier to use. However, it's basically 'best guess' Ghostbuster wannabe equipment made by nerds who don't go out into the field and actually have to use this stuff, so whether it works or not is a crapshoot.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp pulls the thing out and the antenna rise, and spread apart. He looks at it and says "Says, well might help more if it was not trying to pick us all up as well." He turns some knobs and slides the sliders. "I think something is down the tunnel." He says pointing to where the noise came from. "I will be so glad when I get that sword." He admits.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy looks toward the light where Red points it as she tries to peer into it. She looks to see what Chimp has and says, "I won't mess that thing up. Will I?" She rubs at her arms and frowns. "Thought I passed a guy down that way earlier in my search." She hates to admit, "Wouldn't be the first time I mistook a ghost for a person." She glances toward the big guy and asks, "Red will a holy symbol bother you if I have one?"

Hellboy has posed:
    "Hasn't so far," Hellboy says. He pauses, then looks at the chimp. "What sword?" There's a cold breeze that comes suddenly from the direction DC indicated. Hellboy doesn't seem chilled by it. In fact, he doesn't seem to notice much at all. "They're not giving you Excalibur, are they?"

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp shakes his head, and says "Na, a friend of ours" He thumbs towards Mercy "Is making me one, so I don't have to bite the face off of nasty tasting things." HE explains. He looks to Mercy "Aint going to mess it up any more than the two of us." He motions towards the Big Red and himself. At the Breeze, he will from and exhale seeing if his breath is visible "We got a cold pet coming in." He says to the others

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy's skin pricks to gooseflesh right away, she frowns subtly. "Someone's not happy." She rubs at her arms some to get the warmth back in. She peers to the darkness and starts to try and sniff. "I think I smell death, but it's a bit hard." Mercy tries to not look at Chimp's cigar but fails to not at least glance over.
    "Nothing worse then biting something foul. "Once a ghost starts affecting temp it means they're getting power. Just being near me can get them a bit more potent as well. I wouldn't be surprised if," and as if on cue an old half broken brick goes whipping toward the trio. Mercy is trying to duck out of the way. "Throwing stuff," she finishes. "I don't think this one likes women so much. Just a hunch."

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy sighs as a few bricks hit him in the back. He winces as one smacks him right in the face. He grimaces a bit and spits brick dust. "Really?" he says, angling his head up at the unseen ghost.
    In the next moment, Mercy's body lifts from the ground, looking like footage of women on the ISS. It'd be quite serine if it wasn't for the fact that this was a murderous ghost! It begins to move her over to the tracks to drop her. Hellboy tosses his flashlight from his left hand to his right and reaches up to grab Mercy's ankle. "No you don't," he says. Another brick hits him in the face. He spits again. "Come on!" he barks out, frustrated with the telekinetic assault to his money maker.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp will frown, but he sees Hellboy has Mercy well in hand. He will take a big puff from his cigar blowing the smoke at the ghost, seeing it it will expose the look of the thing to see if Chimp may get any clues to who it is or when it is from at least. He is dodging any bricks his way, it pays to be small sometimes.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Times like this it is great when you can command ghosts. That's harder to do when you're being choked out of the blue and fighting for air. She's become the rope in a supernatural tug of war and works to not kick her feet and hit Red. Keeping her lower body stiff while hands claw at ghosts to get free. Her instinct is to shift, but she's not sure who would win that tug.
    Mercy's eyes are better able to track the ghost as it is touching her and she lets go with one hand to point. Pointing emphatically toward where the 'head' of the ghost is. "Le.." is all she can get out before the ghost's hands clamp on her throat again.

Hellboy has posed:
    "Let go of her, you ugly--" Another brick smashes Hellboy in the face. Having had enough of this, he launches himself up as he tugs on Mercy's leg. He punches at the ghost, going for reach, but landing both he and Mercy on the tracks. He's got her with his left arm around her waist, holding her like one would hold a toddler. He looks and realizes where they've landed. "Aw, crap," he grumbles.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp gets a look at the outline of the ghost a bit but nothing to distinctive. Ghosts are often attached to places or sometimes parts of their remains. If this guy got hit by a train, there could be bits and pieces of him most anywhere. Chimp looks to the two on the tracks, and then he is looking for the breaker box, moving towards, it and pulling a carabiner, and puts it through the lock on the box to make sure it can not open said box.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    There's a woof of air from Mercy as she gets grabbed by Hellboy and they start to fall. There's a not quite human growl coming from her as she struggles. But the fight seems to get her some air. She's coughing and not fighting Hellboy's hold. Her voice takes on a strong quality, "Reveal yourself!" She normally hates to boss the dead around but this one tried to kill her. She would try to say more but is mostly laying on Red coughing. She taps her necklace and pulls out a chain with.... a little lamb on it?! At least her power should force the ghost to show himself and stay visible.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy hears a train whistle. Why? No idea. He looks and sees a light of an oncoming subway train...or maybe a steam locomotive, it's hard to tell. "Aw, crap," he says. He tosses Mercy up and onto the platform with both hands. He just manages to get her up and out of the way. She might bruise, but it's not bad. He hops to his feet and braces for impact. The spectral train rushes past with a gust of wind, but fades without much impact other than that. Hellboy didn't expect to die, so there's no psychosomatic death to be had. He pats himself down to check. He stands proudly and upnods toward Mercy. "Hey," he says. He's then hit in the face by a brick, wiping the smug expression off of it. He sighs. "Damn it," he sighs out.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over to get a look on the ghost, and then he will start to say a chant, something akin to an exorcism, but more for ghosts than demons. It does pay off, to be someone who can read most anything. He does notice HB, and gets a flash of Winston from Ghost busters.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy goes sailing in the air with a yelp! One moment she's in the air and then she lands and rolls to the platform. A ghost train is definitely new for her. She is rubbing her neck looking mad as hell at the ghost reaching for her little lamb to walk toward the ghost trying to touch it to the ghost and lend her strength to Chimp's efforts. "Be at peace," putting that same authority in her voice. Time for THIS jerk to move on. Hopefully.

Hellboy has posed:
    Mercy can see the manifested ghost even after it stops manifesting. It folds its arms as if it's being laid in a grave, then fades from sight, eyes closed. Everything calms down, but it's still there. Temporary fix, it seems.
    Hellboy, meanwhile, thinks all is well and hops up onto the platform. "Hey, great work, kid!" he says. "You got a real gift!"

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over and says "See told you she could be handy." He tells the big guy. "Don't think he is gone, will need to see if we can figure out what has him locked to here. I got an ok look at him, if he died here and it made the papers we should be able to find it."

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    "I don't like telling the dead what to do. Feels wrong in a way. But that guy needs to not be here. It clearly didn't work." Nodding to the sort of inert thing here. Her voice is a bit rough as she rubs it more. "Something is keeping him here. Maybe an item sort of working as a tether?" The question is aimed mostly at Chimp.
    Mercy grins and is glad to prove she can do more then go 'eeek ghost' when trouble shows up. Mercy says, "I think I got his scent. If you guys don't mind holding my clothes. I could shift and track him maybe."

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy looks Mercy over, then shrugs. "Yeah, okay," he says. He thumps Chimp on his shoulder with the back of his left hand. Leaning down, he says, "Don't be a jerk, face away." He turns and looks away from Mercy, assuming she's going to have to get naked.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over to Hellboy, "Already saw it, when we did not have time for modesty, besides, she aint got enough hair for me, well not yet, and even when she has the hair, she aint a chimp." He does turn around and holds his hand up and back a bit to receive the clothes.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy just smiles and before Red can turn around, she changes. There's a coyote who wiggles out of her clothes and gives herself a small shake. Picking up her clothes in her mouth to hold up to them to hold for it. She isn't too shy about a brief bit of nudity. Once her clothes are taken care off, she goes to sniff at the inert ghost and then casts about to see what she can find that shares his scent.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy blinks a couple times, then turns back. "Wow," he says. He shakes his head a bit, trying to drink that in. He pulls himself together and says, "Yeah. See that all the time." He clears his throat, but lets Detective Chimp take the clothes. "I guess...onward, faithful hound."

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp nods, and says "And remember I can still understand you." He tells Mercy, since he realized recently some of his friends did not realize he could talk to animals as well as people. "So, a talking chimp, and a shape shifting Coyote just a normal Tuesday." He jokes

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy did NOT know that, and the head tilt and ear lift anyone could understand as, "Really?!" Even if they didn't have Chimp's abilities. Still this will make it easier. She cast about moving through the tunnels to see what she can find. The fact that SOMEHOW along the way she finds one of the spark plugs is JUST a coincidence. She paws and noses at that asking if Chimp will pick it up for her. Before saying, "This way."

Hellboy has posed:
    Red does it, picking the spark plug up and pocketing it. He follows without needing DC to translate. "Speak for yourself, Dick," he says. "I'm an extraordinary Friday if ever there was one."

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy continues to follow the scent, and finding her spark plugs somehow. She uses her mouth to hand those over. She looks like any other thirty five pounds animal. She hops over the tracks at one point and sneezes as her nose finds something not so nice. But the trail leads them to hole in a wall that isn't so big. She ducks her head into it and sees an old abandoned tunnel. She claws at it and well tell Chimp if Red can help make the hole bigger for them to get into. Seems to be they have arrived near where this scum crawled into to die.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over and says "Well can you make the hole here Extraordinary wide, seems we are getting close, should be either on the other side or not to far after it."

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy looks at her, then at the chimp, then at the coyote again. Shrugging, he gets a little room, then rushes the wall, shouldering through into the abandoned tunnel beyond. He is now COVERED with bricks, more falling onto his head. He looks back at DC. "I hope that's what she wanted," he says.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Once they are through Mercy lets her side bump playfully upon Red's leg and into the room. She gets through the abandoned tunnel up to the point. She will dig a bit and tell Chimp that they found the body. She will go back to the pair and shift back to human form just as fast as she was a coyote. "This is it. He's all over the area here. Pretty sure the scent is strongest there." She reaches to take her clothes and Mercy sees about getting dressed. "So now what?"

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp will hand over the clothes, and sniffs a bit he does have a pretty good sniffer himself. "We find the body, burn it, maybe do a cleansing of the area to make a bit extra certain. If we have a priest handy would say we could bless the ground... I wonder if It would work if I had one of those internet certificates.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy's eyes briefly gaze over Mercy's nudity, and he turns and hides his eyes. "Oh, geez!" he says. "Warn a guy!" He looks around. "Burning it should work. I can do some things, but I admit, I'm not ordained." He smirks and looks at DC. "Would you believe the catholic church won't let me join up?"

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    "Well I know a direct descendant of Jesus," if you believe the woman. Mercy seems to. "I'm faithful but not a priest. That's why I keep my little lamb with me." She will nod to where the body should be, just a bit under some yuck. "It's just skin Red. Sorry if you grow up around werewolves you get used to a little skin." She at least knows how to dress fast. "Catholics can be a bit narrow minded. I got a small good parish that I visit."

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over to Hellboy, and says "Those bastards." He says of the church "If it makes ya feel any better most of the government won't recognize me as a full fledge person, what bit I got is from SHIELD pulling a few strings for me helping out." He admits. He does walk over to start uncovering the body, and once he has it uncovered, he will pull his flask out, opens it and takes a sip, before with a sigh pouring it over the body.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy takes out a cross and a rosery and a little bible. He begins reciting latin. Of course, DC will recognize it as a prayer. He may not be ordained, but he knows the words to say, at least.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy will let the two work, and keeps an eye out for any Ghost hijinx. She is not wanting to interrupt either of them. She has done what she can. So far.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp pulls his lighter out and lights the body on fire. "Might want to start carrying some lighter fluid if we are going to be doing this more often. That and maybe talk to Rein about making my sword so it can effect ghosts.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy manages the weakest of shrugs. There's a wail from down the tunnel. The poultergeist is rushing ever closer! Hellboy pauses between sentences of latin to point his Red Right Hand toward Mercy. "Do it again! Do that thing you did before!" He crosses himself with that hand and goes back to praying while the flames spread over the body.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    "Salt," offers Mercy. "Salt can help a lot in these sort of things as well. Helps block fae and ghosts. Sometimes magic too." She hears the wail and moves to guard the mens' backs as she holds up the lamp and waits for the guy to appear. Waiting for the ghost to get close to feel the full force of her voice. "STOP! Be at rest!" Trying to push all the power she can into her voice, and hoping she only affects this ghost and not any others that may be near by to the area.

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp nods, and will check his pockets, and did not bring his pouch so not as prepped as he should be. He will start moving rocks around the body so the flames stay there and also looks a little like a grave

Hellboy has posed:
    The poultergeist slows until it finally comes to a stop just in front of Mercy. Looking into her eyes, it reaches out, not quite touching her face. It's visage is expressionless, mostly looking tired. Closing its eyes, it finally fades.
    Meanwhile, Hellboy is going through his pockets. Now that the ghost has gone, he pulls out a salt shaker. "Got it!" he says. He carefully pinches the glass container with the fingers of his Right Hand of Doom and starts unscrewing the top with his left hand.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    Mercy doesn't blink. She can stare down an alpha werewolf she can stare down a ghost as she sends it to whatever is next for it. She holds that look and lets out a breath she didn't realize she was holding as it fades. With a slow inhale she shakes her shoulders. "I think he's gone. It feels.... still around here."

Detective Chimp has posed:
Detective Chimp looks over to Hellboy, and says "Not it for paperwork." Yup he waited till the mission was complete, but as soon as it was, he was getting out of the dreaded paperwork asap.

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy stops preparing to salt everything and screws the lid back on. Pocketing it, he looks at Mercy, not even registering the comment about paperwork except that it means they did it. "We did it?" he asks. He looks at Detective Chimp. "We did it," he says, slightly surprised. He then realizes what DC said about paperwork and his shoulders slump, expression shifting to that apathetic, belabored expression. "Aw, crap," he concludes.

Mercy Thompson has posed:
    She turns to face the pair and has to laugh as Red's reaction to paperwork. "Oh I know that pain, big guy. I /hate/ doing my own paperwork. Umm... any odds you can keep me out of the official report?" Mercy gets into her things and pulls out two cards. "Ways to get in touch with me," as the simple cards says 'Mercy's Garage' on them. "I got a Jetta to fix."