Apparently! And then they feel normal to touch. But also that does seem to pull on the same "tiring" thing from earlier.

Interesting.

Okay, next test: can he fly?

Hmmmmmmmm kind of? He can hover, and making his legs partially invisible/nonexistent makes that easier, and if he makes himself interact less with the world that becomes easier and easier, but he can't properly fly until he's completely invisible and interacting so little with the world that he's basically just a disembodied awareness with no senses beyond sight. He can move pretty quickly while hovering, though, if he so chooses.

Becoming a disembodied awareness with no senses beyond sight: cool, but also feels really weird and a bit scary. It feels almost like he can take the next step and lose his awareness altogether, which is maybe him being paranoid about the possibility of things completely killing him or turning him into an automaton, but on the other hand maybe "the great beyond" is actually just people deciding to stop existing like that.

Peter does not like that possibility, at all.

More exploration of his powers does not reveal anything obvious, except that it feels a bit like it's possible to become "more powerful" and able to do "more things". Unclear how to do that, though.

He probably needs to level up.

Anyway, verdict: being a ghost has its pros and its cons, and Peter would appreciate being able to turn into a ghost and then back at will but just being one forever (or for however long it'll last after swimming in the magic bog) is substantially less appealing.

But also, he wonders what ghost sex will feel like.

"Hey, Peter. You look kind of different, did you do something to your hair?"

"...are you, like, messing with me or do you genuinely not know?" Oh, freaky, his voice echoes.

"...was I meant to know?"

What had he even been expecting. "I'm a ghost!" he says, and he can't keep the exasperation entirely out of his voice. Like, come on. Just. Come on. Come on. Just. Come on.

Really?

"—you are! How'd you die?"

Unbefuckinglievable. "I didn't," he sighs. "It's temporary."

"Oh. Cool!"

"Hey Doyoon, I have an idea. Do you want to have ghost sex." Might as well just cut to the chase, with him.

"Sounds hot, I'm in."

"Do you wanna do it in the hot tub on the roof so that there's a risk someone will walk in on us?" Since he seemed to like the idea of doing it in public yesterday.

"Yeah!"

Alright cool does Peter have condoms yes he does in his wallet he's very thankful the intelligence that instantiated him two days ago was that thoughtful and—

—he has an idea, actually. If he grabs Doyoon's hand, can Peter temporarily enghost him...?

Yup!

Awesome. "Hang tight," he says, then he enghosts Doyoon and turns both of them into disembodied awarenesses so that he can fly straight to the rooftop while leaving their clothes behind and wow that used up a lot of his ghost mana didn't it Doyoon can be embodied again.

"Wiiiiiickeeeeeeed oh we're naked."

"We sure are." They can start making out before they're even in the tub, right, that's a thing they can do?

Yes, they can.

It... definitely feels less intense, with the dimmed sense of touch.