If our characters seem weirdly cool with this, keep in mind that they're about 25 and have been doing this since high school. They also live out in the boonies, bored as all hell. They needed this stuff to be real, yet barely hoped that it actually might *be*. All this spookiness is basically validating their life choices.
So, the whistle... checking my notes...
Basically Sean blew it then fell to the ground, argued with himself for a while, threw the whistle, then
Sean stood back up and acted like everything was fine.
Mmmm-hm. We obviously knew something was up but decided to keep an eye (and the camera) on him.
Also the whistle turned brass or something and had a strange alchemical symbol on it, and the Ouija board kept repeating "husk".
Mm-hmmmm. Great footage, team! We were still honestly just excited that magic was real, and figured
Sean was just high on thaum or something. It's not like we abandoned him! In fact we studied him with intense interest.
We decided to spend the night because why not, free house, and the lady expected us to. OOC because the rest of us expected to get our powers too somehow
I expected to get mine from the cats, but just got scratches ):
Sean drove off in the night (after kicking our Scrappy-do Chad out of the van) which was weird. And I think we had a prophetic dream... might have been later... not sure.
The next morning Chad shoved my character awake (this became a trend) and called
Sean. Fortunately he seemed back to normal, though he didn't remember anything after blowing the whistle. Just woke up parked on the side of the road about 20 miles away. How mysterious! He drove back.
... And then we reminded the GM that the van is literally riddles with cameras (which we did establish before!) so we got to see footage of
Sean perched on top of the van, naked, howling at the moon and beating his chest. As before, we were surprisingly okay with this (especially
Sean), particularly since
Sean seemed mostly back to his own self instead of obviously possessed.
That was basically that. We told the woman about the cats and that her husband loved her very much, and then spent a couple days just editing the footage for our BIG BREAK! And sure enough, when it hit Youtube, we got like 40 subscribers! Plus a lot of recognition from the paranormal community. Many wanted to know how we faked everything, but a lot of people seemed to really believe and want to know more. It was the recognition we'd always wanted.
In fact, we got noticed by something greater than we could ever have imagined...
I mean, of course, the Ghost Hunters of the SciFi channel!!! (2006, so no SyFy nonsense).
And they wanted our... help...