mindcracklove | Prompt Swap #8: 3 Spoooky 5 Me

Propmt Swap again! Last one for the year :'(

I got Salt's set of prompts and chose: Spoooky ghost/omgchad stories are now Mindcrack related!

The most open ended prompt I have ever seen! But here goes!

Everyone knows that just before I joined, I did some pranks pretending to be a ghost. You know, because Halloween was right around the corner, and it was topical. They all don't know what really happened.

I was messing around with Guude and some others on the server. Quietly, of course, trying to figure out how to announce to the world that I was joining. I stopped by BTC’s chicken place to grab some food on our way out of town when I saw him. It wasn't another person, more of a set of disembodied hands, busily messing around with something of Blame’s. I stopped dead in my tracks. The hands continued what they were doing for a moment, then stopped, turned and started crawling toward me. I hastily backed out of the room and slammed the door hoping that would slow it down. Hearing the hands scrabble against the unyielding door reminded me of snippets of sound I had heard around town, just before we had found small pranks. Everyone had swore that it wasn't them. And it wasn't! It was this thing! And based on its tenacity for getting this door open, it probably wanted to kill me.

Thinking fast and praying that this would work, I leapt across the room, opening the door while getting as far away as I could from it. I came bursting in, as expected, crept forward a bit then stopped, seeing me crouched on a chest in the corner. It started toward me when I shouted, “Stop! I know that it’s you messing with things around here. I don’t want to hurt you, but-” I left off the sentence and unsheathed my sword, ready to fight if I had to. I jumped off the chest, walking slowly toward it. I still don't know what I was thinking, trying to talk to a thing without a head. "I need something to catch people's attention to let them know I'm here." The hands were still menacingly coming for me, so I spoke faster. "I'll give you the credit of course, just a couple of big shenanigans to draw attention."

That seemed to work. It backed off and let me out. I got my chicken and caught up with the group on the other side of the roofed forest. We ended up doing some stupid game involving anvils, pigs and Adlington’s left shoe, but I just couldn't get into it. All of my thoughts were about that creepy set of hands.

When the game was over, everyone headed home from there. I headed back to spawn on my own, back to my little dirt hole I was currently occupying. When I got to Town Square though, there was a very big ghost, sitting right on top of the fountain, with a note attached.

“You are the Ghost. Give me credit, or else”

So I that’s what I told people. The hands would tell me what it did, then I would tell the group. When it came time to reveal myself, I kept trying to find the right moment, but nothing came about, and the next thing I knew, everyone was heading home.

So that’s that. I have a malicious set of disembodied hands seeking my life, all for four pranks. How knows when they’ll reappear to claim its revenge.