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#1 I ACCIDENTALLY A WHOLE BRIBE (FOR COOPER / early june)
Ghoul is not usually the type to take an interest in playing legislative games, but after this recent shitshow of an election, he's decided to shake things up. The entire Council is apparently corrupt or crazy or selfish or unpredictable in one way or another- and you know what? That's fine. If the Council members are so quick to take bribes, then he'll find a motherfucker to take a bribe.

That's where Cooper comes in. Not because Ghoul thinks he's the most corrupt, but because he's the only one he's ever met at all. Cooper seems pretty okay for a vampire, and Ghoul figures it's easier to start on familiar ground.

Which is how Cooper ends up with a determined looking Ghoul starting off their meeting with, "I wanna get a law changed."

#2 THE SLOWEST SUFFERING (FOR LILLIAN / early june)
The talk with Cooper had gone all right, but this wasn't where he expected the conversation to lead him. He'd assumed the bribery thing would be a one-and-done deal, but no. Now he has to write up some sort of bullshit formal proposal, and it feels like every word he manages to jot down sucks a little bit of the life force out of him.

It's awful. There are even books (fucking books!) spread out on the table in front of him, because he thought a quiet, cozy picnic area in a park would be a nice place to think.

It's not helping much, actually. After a while, he abandons the small notebook he'd been scribbling in and directs all of his attention to his phone screen. The shit he's scrolling through has nothing to do with his project, but hey. It's fine. He deserves a break.

#3 FULL MOON: DURING/AFTER (OPEN TO EAST END PACK / june 9th/10th)
And all too quickly, that time of the month has come around again. This time, he's prepared. He remains in the den for the duration, spending the night in the basement with some of the others. Keeping an eye on things with the newer members, being a nuisance towards older ones- the usual, really.

Once morning rolls around, he drags himself upstairs to recover. Face-down on a squishy sofa in one of the common areas is where he stays for most of the day, sore and half asleep.

#4 HILLINGDON HOUSE CALL (OPEN TO HILLINGDON & HILLINGDON ALLIES - feel free to reply as though he's made it inside the building and is wandering around, as well! / mid june)
Ghoul has a ghost to check in with.

He ends up finding Hillingdon House without much trouble. The place isn't as big as he'd imagined it to be (that's what he gets for looking at it from the front), and it seems pretty normal. Still, he ends up stuck outside of it, staring with a pensive look on his face. What the hell does he do with it? Knock on the door like some kind of jackass? Just waltz on in there? Where a bunch of hunters are?

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Ghoul is very well behaved at the moment, thank you. He's only knocked over one thing so far, and it didn't even break. And he put it back where it came from. Or close to it. He doesn't have a photographic memory, fuck, what does the world want from him?

Aside from that, he hasn't touched anything else.

Except for a door. A door that he has carefully cracked open, sticking his head inside. It's almost certainly a room that he has no business being in, but it's okay. Rorschach's voice has him yanking his head back out and pulling the door shut, like he hadn't just been caught red-handed.

But he plays it off with a cheeky smile. "Playin' hide and seek with your dead ass. Ain't really fuckin' fair when you're invisible, though."

Rorschach folds his arms and cocks his head. He is not amused. Well, he's never amused by anything, but especially not by young hooligans wandering around his house where they're clearly not supposed to be.

He points in the other direction. "Get back down that hall. Now," He barks out. In another life, Walter Kovacs would have made a good drill instructor. In this life after death, he just does his best by bossing around werewolf puppies.

Ghoul slumps and makes one of those drawn-out, aggravating groaning noises that typically come from bratty teenagers who are being forced to do shit they don't want to do. In this case, the shit in question is turning and trudging down the hall in the direction Rorschach has pointed.

He glances back to make sure Rorschach is following him. He may be doing as ordered, but that doesn't mean he has to like, agree, or not-argue with it. "Why? What's in there?"

You know, it is for reasons like this that Rorschach doesn't think that Ghoul is any older than sixteen or seventeen. Maybe if he acted like his age, the ghost wouldn't have to treat him like a child.

"Nothing for you." In truth, the house was old enough to have a few cursed objects and magical ones lying about the rooms. He didn't want to think about what might possibly happen if Ghoul got his hands on one of those. It was better to keep him corralled in areas where he could keep an eye on the dumb puppy.

"Everything's for me. It just don't know it yet." How he manages to say this with a completely straight face is a mystery. Surely it can't be because he believes it.

Surely not...

Since his spooky babysitter is a supreme fun-ruiner, Ghoul resigns himself to the fact that he'll have to explore later. He came here for Rorschach in the first place anyhow. After all it's taken to actually find him, he's for sure not going to chase him off again. "Where do you go when you're not around the rest of us? Y'need like, a ghost-doorbell. I've been lookin' for you for nine fucking years."

See this face Rorschach has? Or rather, see this mask? It is the most unamused face Ghoul has probably seen in the past week. This really is like dealing with a child.

"You touch anything you're not supposed to, I'll make sure you never get another night's sleep again," he warns. Rorschach couldn't do much in the way of ghostly powers, but he did make an excellent poltergeist when the mood struck him.

Rorschach just shoves his hands in his pockets and gives Ghoul a withering stare that seems to transcend even the moving fabric. "Manifesting takes energy." He says this like it's a fairly obvious fact. Rorschach only comes into existence when he has to. It's a draining process, even if it is slow, and he prefers to conserve his energy as much as possible.