Entry 8
(Breaking the fourth wall slightly. Sorry. So the rooms I describe are not exactly the same as what's listened on the Silver Queen hotel website, but I needed to change some stuff for the plot I guess this story has now. Pretend the hotel was renovated slightly, or Maka paid more (with Kid's money) to have some stuff changed.)
INTR: A large van. The inside is a adhoc tech center and there's wires hanging all over the place. The camera swings to the back and we see CRONA behind the passenger seat, PATTI behind the driver. In the third row is SOUL and KID. MAKA turns the camera on herself.
MAKA: Hello! We're on the road to the Silver Queen Hotel. This is van one with myself, She waves Liz, She swings it to the driver's side. Liz is wearing sunglasses, a cowboy hat and a grumpy expression who is being ever so pleasant in her role as the driver. In the back we have Crona She turns it to Crona, who is staring absently out the window. Crona startles and smiles sheepishly at Maka.
CRONA: Hi.
MAKA: Hi! Next to Crona is Patti, Patti is facing away from the camera, messing with Kid who is sitting behind her. Soul is next to him, behind Crona and has his earbuds in, staring out the window. Kid and Soul are in back.
LIZ: Pat stop messing with Kid, or I swear I'll turn this convoy around.
MAKA: No you won't!
LIZ: Muttering. Damn.
MAKA: Anyway, we're about an hour out from Virginia City. Tsubaki and Black Star are in the van behind us, if Black Star hasn't gotten distracted by a squirrel or something. The plan is that we'll get to the hotel, check in and then do a video about the equipment we're using. We'll leave camera's running in the rooms and go to dinner to see what we pick up. Then tonight starting at midnight till 4 am, we'll be up and walking around the hotel. We're leaving tomorrow at noon and footage will be looked at by myself, Tsubaki, and Crona. Uploads should be later this week of whatever we find. Maka smiles cheerfully and waves. We'll see you at the hotel!
CUT TO BLACK
EXTR: The camera is aimed at the ground. It's concrete and We see a pair of black boots zip up boots and here Maka's voice as she directs the equipment wrangling. Car doors are opening and shutting and footsteps shuffle over the sidewalk.
MAKA: I'm just going to get a panning shot over the hotel, and I'll have Soul remove the audio later.
SOUL: I- Maka that's not how-
MAKA: Great. The camera swings up and we see it zoom slightly, then it pans slowly upwards, remarkably steady for being a handy cam. After the frame reaches the top of the old blue and white building, the words 'The Silver Queen' stamped across it the camera zooms back out and shuts off.
CUT TO BLACK
INTR: It's very old fashioned hotel room. Staccato all over the brick walls and high ceilings. The camera is facing two twin bags, one with a duffle bag already on it and the other covered in camera equipment, recorders, EMF meters, laser grids, temperature guns and flashlights. There's also a printed out floor map of the hotel and three camera tripods. We can hear Maka off camera, talking to Crona.
MAKA: So I'm just going to explain the devices and then we'll set up one in our room, one in the third floor hallway and one in the saloon. I guess Black Star and Tsubaki want to keep one in their room too.
She appears in front of the camera, flipping her hair over her shoulder. Crona sits on the edge of bed gently moving a EMF meter. Maka sits heavily and everything bounces slightly.
MAKA: Hello! So here we are in the Silver Queen! She gestures to the room. Crona and I are in room 11, supposedly the most haunted room in the hotel, where a woman named Rosie might have committed suicide. There's plenty of eye witness accounts of seeing orbs, and hearing a woman's laughter or footsteps. Next door Soul and Kid are in room 13, which also seems like a hotspot for activity. Both rooms are set up similarly, with two twin beds, a bathroom with a bathtub, no showers, and room 13 is over the saloon, where people hear piano playing even in the dead of night. Everyone else is staying on the third floor. Black Star and Tsubaki are in room 26, which looks out on to the road, and Liz and Patti are at the other end of the hallway, in room 16, which has bunk beds.
CRONA: Quietly. I bet Liz loves that.
MAKA Giggling. She was thrilled. Anyway, according to the hotel staff there's only one other couple in the bridal suit tonight and that otherwise we're alone in the hotel. We're going out to dinner in a few minutes after I upload this, but first Crona and I wanted to explain some of the equipment we'll be using tonight, in case you aren't familiar. She holds up a temp gun. We'll be tracking cold and hot spots around the rooms. Right now we don't have a thermal camera so this will do for now. Crona passes her a EMF meter. I'm sure most of you have seen this, it's an EMF meter, and it measures electromagnetic fields. Crona and I have already gone around our room to see if there's any wiring in the floors or walls. None of the rooms have tv's or any big electronics so all of the measurements are very low. Wordlessly Crona holds up a notebook of numbers. It has the records for the EMF with the room numbers.
MAKA: We're trying to take a pretty serious slant at the records. I know I've had a lot of comments about being amateur, but the paranormal has been my passion for a long time, okay? I know what I'm doing. Anyway, we also have voice recorders and a laser grid that we're gonna set up on the second floor at one end of the hallway to see if we can get any shadows or masses passing through.
There's a knock on the connecting door. Maka calls out to let the come in. It's Soul, who glances at the camera and then down at his watch.
SOUL: Kid say's the reservation is at five. He wants you to wrap it up.
Maka rolls her eyes but turns back to the camera.
MAKA: Lord Kid calls and I obey. Anyway, I'm upload this now and I'm going to leave the camera on the EMF to see if we catch anything while the hotel is quiet. The next entries are going to be the investigation, in separate parts. So subscribe and like for more and we'll see you in a little while. Thanks!
Comments
.1992: Well at least now you have data we can look at.
Kilikonthedrums: This is actually really cool. Nice job Maka.
angerJAKE: awww, I wanted to see more of the cute blondes. Or the cute asian. ;(
Avery: I want to see the numbers, I still don't believe you aren't making shit up. Also how exactly is a laser grid suppose to work with a ghost.
: So wait, how long are you guys going to be up tonight? How much time do your cameras have?
marblehornets: your medium shouldn't be in room 11.
(There is five days between the upload of Entry 8 and Entry 9 and Entry 10.)
