Zach continued asking questions for about 30 minutes but didn't receive any responses so he moved on to another part of the house.
He grabbed his EMF and slowly made his way up the stairs.
Jack had decided to stay in front of the thermal camera for as much free experience as possible.
While he stood at the top of the staircase while Zach made his way up slowly due to the dark, Jack checked his status.
[
Name:Jack
Race: Ghost(Phantom)
Lvl: 4 (55%)
Energy:34/45
Regen: 6/h
Haunt location buff: none
]
'Not bad, hopefully, the thermal will randomly pick me up and I can get some free experience.'
'Maybe I'll spend a tiny bit more energy so Zach doesn't get bored.'
Jack probably shouldn't have spent so much energy right at the start but he couldn't help himself.
While Jack finished his thought he realized that Zach hasn't come up yet.
'What's taking him so long?' Jack thought as he closed his status panel.
Zach was just standing there frozen at the bottom so he decided to go down to see what he was doing but as he took a step, Zach took 2 steps backward.
Which also made Zach snap out of his shock and then point his Video camera to the thermal camera's screen and say,
"Check this out, I was about to walk up the stairs but then I saw this cold outline standing up there."
"I wasn't sure if it was a spirit or just some weirdness with the distance but then it moved down the stairs."
Jack realizing the thermal can see him immediately started waving to him.
"Look, it looks like its hand lifted and is doing something."
As Zach watched it a little the cold spot started becoming a blob from its human shape and then slowly got warmer.
"It vanished," Zach observed.
Jack who was still waving stopped when Zach said that and thought.
'Hmmm, it looks like I can randomly appear but there is a time limit.'
"Was that you Jack?"
"Can you do that again?"
Zach asked a series of questions again while pointing the thermal around but didn't receive any responses so he decided to go to the top of the staircase and try up there.
So Zach started going up and Jack backed up and gave him space while trying to stay given the thermal.
As Zach got to the top he started panning with the thermal to see if he could find what he just saw but didn't see anything.
"Where did you go?"
"Are you still here?"
"Can you do something so I know where you are?"
After another series of Questions with no responses and Jack not appearing on thermal again Zach moved on to the living room.
Unfortunately, Jack had decided not to use any more energy before he regenerated it so he spent an hour wandering the house and asking questions with no responses.
...
After Zack got no response anywhere, even when he went back to the basement, He realized his shift was halfway over so he went to get different gear for his ending half.
Zach walked out of the house and returned to the nerve center and saw Adam and a cameraman there watching the cameras.
"Why are you up so early?"
"You're supposed to be resting so you're 100% for your shift." Zach said to Adam as he walked in.
"I couldn't sleep, and I'm glad I didn't." Adam said excitedly.
"Check this out." Adam pointed to another monitor.
"When we woke up, we checked the forums and saw it going crazy."
"So we decided to check out what everyone was going on about and saw this."
Said Adam while he clicked play on the video on the monitor.
It showed Zach in the basement and the EMF floating off the ground.
"That's amazing."
" I've never seen anything like this." Adam was hyped about being able to catch this.
"Yeah, I was stuck frozen when that happened." Zach replied.
"Anyway, since you're up do you want to join me in there with some of the new equipment we got?" Zach asked Adam.
"Sure." Adam replied as he grabbed his new favorite SLS(Structured light sensor) camera.
Meanwhile, Zach grabbed a parabolic microphone and headset along with an ElectroMagnetic pump.
" It's been pretty quiet for the last while so I'm going to bring this EM pump."
"Hopefully this will help Jack manifest." Zach explained to Adam.
"I'm bringing this new toy." Adam said as he gestured with the SLS Camera and then picked up a regular infrared camera that he will be broadcasting on.
"Alright, Are you ready?" Zack asked.
"Yes sir." Adam mock saluted with the Camera.
"Let's get in there then." Zach said and lead the way to the entrance of the house.
Jack was waiting for them on the pathway and as they passed by him he yelled,
"Boo!"
Zach and Adam jumped at the sudden voice and looked around.
"Who's there?!?" Zack asked as he frantically looked around thinking someone who lived near saw the broadcast and decided to prank them.
"Don't play games!!" Zach warned but still didn't see anyone or get any response.
"It sounded like it came from right beside us but I didn't see anyone." Adam said as he looked at Zach.
"Do you think it was Jack?" Zach questioned.
"I don't know, it's possible." Adam replied.
"Come on, I wonder if the broadcast caught that voice." Zach then proceeded to the house as he thought out loud.
"If we heard it with our ears then probably."
" But it's hard to say it was a spirit because it could've been someone outside messing with us too."
"It's hard to prove it," Adam said while playing devil's advocate.
"Yeah, We should start getting security to prevent stuff like that."
Zach thought of a solution.
"It would have to be someone we trust because the guard could then easily contaminate our evidence." Adam said as they opened the front door and went in.
"Yeah..."
"Alright, let's focus, where should we go?" Zach asked.
" Let's go to the kitchen." Adam decided after some thought.
"Sure." Zach agreed and then they made their way.
Jack followed them to the kitchen before deciding to check his system for notifications due to the new equipment.