The week of July 9th to July 15th is warm, starting with highs in the high 80s at the start of the week, climbing steadily to peak at 100 on Sunday. While the lows for the rest of the area are in the mid 50s to low 60s, thermometers record temperatures dropping to the low 40's in the dead of night. No rain is in sight, light breezes and good visibility.
Starting Wednesday morning, due to an event (check the threading community!), the death spirits are going to become more powerful and active. The dead are gone, but these spirits are able to prey off the memories of the living. For now they are not terribly powerful, so they need an already strong emotional attachment in the living in order to have an impact. They need a victim who is very emotional towards someone who is deceased. This can include a recent death which the victim is still mourning, someone with a strong emotional attachment to the date, such as an anniversary, birthday, etc, or a strong emotional reaction to an object or place. Finding a sweater which still smells like the departed, returning to a place where a violent death was witnessed, etc can all trigger the heightened emotional state necessary for the death spirits to manipulate their dreams/memories.
For the characters who would fall into the above group, they are free to have vivid dreams of talking to someone deceased, the dead individual will behave very much like how your character perceived them when they were alive. These can be extended to 'waking dreams' late at night where they see a 'ghost.' Death spirits will usually manipulate memories to encourage fear and mistrust, and you are free to write out these encounters.
Those without a recent death or a strong emotional trigger: Fear not, you are not left out! The death spirits are looking to extend their control, and are reaching out to others, seeking possible susceptible souls. Vivid dreams reliving a memory of a lost loved one, swearing they heard their voice whispering their name in the dead of night, thinking they saw someone dead in the mirror for just a moment are all open for you to taunt your characters with.
Keep in mind that these spirits are most active at night and that the temperature tends to drop rapidly when they are around and active. Their powers are restricted to the dead, they cannot manipulate the likeness of the living.
WEEK 2:
Monday July 9th | Tuesday July 10th | Wednesday July 11th | Thursday July 12th | Friday July 13th | Saturday July 14th | Sunday July 15th |
Week three will begin on January 21st, and the first activity check will officially happen on the 21st as well.