>Have we ever had contact with a corporeal ghost? Or a ghost in general, for that matter?
>You believe you once saw a corporeal ghost from some distance away, or at least you suspected this is what she was, given the wispy trail of white where her legs ought to have been. Such ghosts are considerably less common than youkai, but not unheard of. Or, at least, they're less common
here. Meijima is supposedly full of them, but Braston doesn't get much traffic from the isolated island. You've never actually spoken with one before now. You'd heard that at least some part of them is often insubstancial enough to make their nature obvious, but this clearly isn't universal.
>As for the other type of ghost, you've seen your share of scattered wispy phantoms some nights in Easthaven and more rarely in Braston - they seem to be less common here, for whatever reason. You recall in particular a field expedition into the wilderness in your early days as an apprentice. Your group encountered a swarm of them gathered around a peat bog that you'd stumbled into because the team leader had read the map wrong - as you'd been unsuccessfully trying to point out to him for nearly an hour.
>While the phantoms are generally harmless, large groups of them can sometimes have strange effects on a person's psyche. There was something... gloomy to the air there, like a weight upon your soul that grew heavier with each passing moment. It was a difficult sensation to describe, but nearly everyone reported feeling much the same thing - many of them even worse than you. One young girl had to be physically pulled away from the bog after becoming nearly catatonic. Needless to say, the lot of you quickly backtracked. Still, the sight of the phantoms rising as a cloud above the bog was strangely enthralling and that image has stuck with you for years. You also keenly remember spending the rest of the day with wet mud in your boots...
>Have we ever been a part of, or instigated by ourselves, any ruse involving ghosts to get Marisa's goat?
>Does Braston have any famous ghosts?
>What kinda ghosts hung around Easthaven, especially the orphanage?
>To our knowledge, how many ghosts has Rinnosuke busted?
>You have not. Even if you'd been of a mindset for pulling pranks, it was well known that Marisa always made a point of giving
better than she got. Woe betide someone who actually managed to make her jump.
>None famous enough for you to regard them as such, anyway.
>Wispy phantoms could be seen at night from time to time, perhaps most commonly by the graveyard but certainly not restricted to there. You don't know that many of them hung out anywhere for a prolonged length of time; you understand that they don't usually last very long before dissipating. However, you do remember one that showed up near the swing on the big tree behind the orphanage for nearly a week in a row. Ichirin spent some hours in silent meditation with it on the second evening, and then asked that no one torment it while it remained there. You didn't really spend much time around it, but if you had to describe it, you would say it seemed somewhat 'cheerful', if that's a word that can be properly applied to a featureless ball of ectoplasm. Then after a few more days, it was gone. Whether it dissipated or simply moved elsewhere, you have no idea; you could easily have seen it somewhere else and not recognized it. They do, after all, look virtually identical to each other.
>You have no idea if he's 'busted' any at all, though it wouldn't altogether surprise you if he had. He rarely speaks of his exploits in more than generalities.
