#I didn't plan for this to be daily so I let the timer run a lot

[thedailyvio]

Day 171

Connell belongs to Egglygreg

[ficklepenguin]

my roommate and i have been doing the halloween event in phasmo, even though we had never played on nightmare before (too scared)

we had a plan: go in, keep our sanity high enough that the ghost can't hunt us (hoping we didn't run into any demons), gather the candy, light the lanterns, then sit in the dark with a smudge stick and a camera and wait for the ghost to do something.

we have been struggling SO MUCH, but not for the reasons we expected. ghosts just aren't hunting us!! the other day, we had a yokai and we were NOT being quiet, but it barely did anything besides throw some stuff at us. we had to use the voodoo doll to trigger a hunt to get the photo, which we died for since my roommate accidentally lit the smudge sticks early and since the yokai couldn't hear us talking it took ages to get to us and we didn't have back up smudges, but we got it.

on another map, we had a moroi who just refused to hunt us. we were in there for 30 minutes!! we had found the candies and the pumpkins pretty quick so most of that was just waiting around for a hunt. we tried to gather evidence honestly just to pass the time, since we originally were just like "we're only taking what we need to keep sanity high and evade the ghost and cameras" but it wasn't giving us anything. i don't think we collected a single piece of evidence. we had a summoning circle, so eventually we just went down there with a candle and lit it up, then smudged it and ran away (after snapping a photo, obviously). i couldn't really hear the footsteps, so i guessed myling, but it was a moroi. i guess it never got close enough to us.

then we had a deo on camp woodwind (my favorite map, by the way, LOVE it) that gave us.... NO EVIDENCE! again! stubborn ghosts!! we finally got lucky, though, and it manifested in an event directly in front of my roommate, who had the camera (while I was running around with an emf reader just trying to find any sign that this place was even haunted!!!), so we just left after that. I was literally like, why were we so afraid of nightmare again? the only time we died was to the yokai, because he accidentally set the smudges off early.

after that, we decided to do a quick amateur just to get the daily "identify the ghost" challenge, since we hadn't gotten ANY EVIDENCE FROM THE OTHER GHOSTS.

it was a demon. it hunted us as soon as the setup timer ended, we were near the front door and it shut with no sign of the ghost. we were like "wtf is this a hunt?" and ran and hid. after it ended, i went to turn the breaker back on, my roommate went out to the truck for a photo cam.

it did a ghost event that startled me while I was headed towards the breaker and my roommate asked "is it hunting again?" (he saw activity was at a 10) and I said "no it was just a stupid ghost event" and then the front door slammed as my roommate approached, and he was like "now it's definitely hunting".

I ran and hid again, we had only had one evidence so far (fingerprints), and I didn't know what my sanity was at. when the hunt ended, I just walked out like "it's a fucking demon I don't even care let's get out of here" and my roommate was like "yeah I took sanity pills while I was in the truck so the average sanity was 85 when it started that hunt" and wow guess what, you'll never believe it, it was a demon.

i love this game, honestly. "it won't be that hard to get a ghost photo on nightmare, even if we have to die for it, it'll still count for the challenge so whatever!" that turned out to be a lie, the ghosts are all so shy and passive, i thought they were shades. "let's do a quick amateur for a safe, easy identify." gets hunted twice in one minute. demons 🙄