Ghosting

There are a few things that are difficult to process. One of them is the will of the gods, they are completely insane in most ways at all times (even the fire god seemingly does things for no reason whatsoever), the second is the afterlife. Like I've been to the afterlife (well the bad/good place you go if you worship the fire god, or are killed by someone who does, you know never really thought about that very hard, not going to start), but I still don't understand what happens when you die other than you stop being alive. So trying to figure out why half an entire town is populated by ghosts still doing their thing was beyond me.

I observed them, talked with them, and tried to ask them why they were still here. The saddest part was all of them claimed they weren't dead and I was being ridiculous even when I could literally put my hand through them, they wondered what magic trick I was using. The people I talked to were partially terrified. One of them even admitted he'd actually killed his brother and it was more than a little strange that not only was his brother still around, but completely not aware that he had in fact killed him.

My first thought was to try a couple rituals I had kicking around in my head (thanks to years of necromancing horrible people I have a lot of really awful knowledge on things I wish I didn't), but most of them were untested, dangerous and probably wouldn't even work (though I had one that involved the sacrifice of a goat and a virgin male at the same time I was pretty sure would cure erectile problems, obviously nothing about ghosts and I don't need it at all, but there are times I'm really tempted to try it... FOR SCIENCE!). I didn't through a strength of will and basically because I thought they wouldn't shit except make things worse (another day blood rituals of dubious value!) Instead I returned to my book reading roots and tried to learn everything I could about the town, I hit up their archives, library, news paper office, even went to other towns in the area to check things out. And I found absolutely nothing.

I mean I found a lot about boring completely stupid things sure. But never before in the history of the town was there some ghost reawakening. So I was left with a problem I didn't know how it started and ghosts who didn't know they were a problem to begin with. To say I was upset at this turn of events was to ignore everything that makes me up as a person. Thankfully a ghost finally let me in on what had happened, unthankfully it only made everything a million times worse.