11calls: When did I start working for you, exactly?! (Researching)
Alex Reagan ([personal profile] 11calls) wrote in [community profile] riverview2018-03-26 01:13 pm

3rd (lack of) sleep note. Audio at three am but left on the network as always.

[Alex doesn't sleep. It's a problem. So, when she doesn't sleep, she reads the network. That's probably a problem too. But for now, she's focusing on one thing. It's a thing that she probably shouldn't focus on, and that Strand would shake his head at, and it's three in the morning but Alex's chipper, canadian ready for radio voice comes out anyway.]

You know what I love? Ghost stories. It's so weird how there's ghost stories that seem almost universal. Well, [You can hear the smile in her voice here.] Earth-versal I guess? But things like the hitchhiker in the dress that you pick up and then drop off somewhere or she disappears and it turns out that she'd been dead for years and it couldn't have happened. Or the ghosts of children who move cars from where they were tragically killed.

Or dark ladies or monks or banshees that warn of impending doom. Or ghost battles that happen hundreds of years after blood was first spilled on the soil.

[A beat.]

And let's not forget about vengeful ghosts who are going to get you for something you've done wrong in life. There's too many of those to even talk about.

But what I want to know what ghost stories are like in your worlds. You can even tell me your favorite fictional ghost story. Mine is Hamlet. It used to be "A Turn of the Screw" but a friend ruined that by calling it "the best case for apophenia in fiction." So it's not fun anymore.

[And then she laughs.]

Don't worry, I promise not to call anything you've experienced here apophenia. We've all seen way too much for that.

And just in case you don't know, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
thestarling: (profile)

text; un: pc.grant

[personal profile] thestarling 2018-03-27 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Peter can't sleep. Which isn't that unusual, but given the lack of paperwork to do or a range to go practice in, he's feeling a little more at loose ends. The message, when he hears it, is at least a distraction of sorts, which is likely why he fires off an answer without thinking.]

Does it count as a ghost story if you've met one?
thestarling: (community policing)

audio

[personal profile] thestarling 2018-03-27 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Voice does seem easier, so Peter switches over. It also gives the full brunt of Peter's East London accent, so enjoy.]

You might, but they're usually pretty boring. Most times just repeating whatever they were doing right before they died.
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[personal profile] thestarling 2018-03-28 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know about that. The majority are sort of like a...recording, or an imprint on the location.

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text; @maverick

[personal profile] deploy 2018-03-27 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I've always been partial to the eyes in the rearview mirror.
deploy: (john62)

swapping to voice;

[personal profile] deploy 2018-03-30 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. The point is that no one's in the backseat.

You're just checking your rearview, probably going around a bend, and then there's the eyes. So you almost lose control and drive off a cliff, or something.
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[personal profile] deploy 2018-04-01 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, what the hell does apophenia mean?

Kinda sounds like a sex thing.

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[personal profile] rapsheet 2018-03-27 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ghosts are a simple fact, where I come from. They exist. They shouldn't, but they do.

[ A brief pause. ]

Personally I was distinctly anti-ghost until a collection of them were instrumental in saving the world.
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[personal profile] rapsheet 2018-04-02 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
To make a long story short, the thing that was planning on eating my world was fully planning on making their part of it a side dish. Normally the ones who aren't content to stay dead get a one way ticket to the Eternal Stockade... call it ghost Alcatraz... and it's my responsibility to make sure they stay there.

[ A beat. ]

In exchange for an agreement to use their ability to combine into a giant golem of spirit energy on something more productive than trying to throw me around, I... gave them some time off for good behavior.
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[personal profile] rapsheet 2018-04-03 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's a job.

[ Though the sigh, such is life air of the words betrays the fact that he's fully aware it's more work than that. He's been doing it a good thousand or so years, after all. ]

What are they like in your stories?

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muskeg: (watching from the distance)

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[personal profile] muskeg 2018-03-27 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sleep is for the weak. or the sane or... whatever. Sage is not one for normal hours of sleep either. right now, he is cross-legged on the floor of someone's room (his own? the common area? who knows) with a bunch of bits and pieces of plants and rocks around him, complete with sigils and vials. someone is experimenting.

but he stops because this is... interesting. because as far as he knows most ghosts are real, but the way she is phrasing it makes it seem like there is no truth to the things experienced. it makes the witch wonder if there are Earth's where ghosts aren't real things, where banshee's don't lurk in forests and spirits can't curse you for turning down the wrong path in the woods.

leaning in with a furrow of his brow, the witch rests his chin in his hands.]
I dunno about Hamlet's dad because history and all, but where I'm from ghosts are real. Banshee's too. Though I guess there are more than a few tales where the truth has been greatly exaggerated over time, like the priestess of the swamp's army of cursed ghosts that is pretty popular. Or the one with the creepy handing dolls...

[ he's from a swamp, okay. this is his jam. ]
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[personal profile] muskeg 2018-03-29 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if Sage cares about her peering at his half assed work that is more guesswork and theory than actual magic at this point, he clearly doesn't show it. he snorts at her explanation though, looking more than a little amused.]

There are people who will say that ghosts are not real even when faced with one I have found, people want to believe what they will. No matter what proof might be facing them.

[ magic is well known in his world, is something that everyone knows about, but still-- there are those that argue against it all the time. ]

Mmm? I am working on some new potions and spells. Trying to get used to the magic of this place. It's-- new.
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[personal profile] muskeg 2018-04-03 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, no. Don't know any doctors, except mention of the Strange guy...

[ and that was only in passing, mentions of magic and Sage was still pretty sure someone was pulling his leg. ]

Uh, the Greysomething or other place? [ he should know its name, he should, because:] I work there, potions. It's what I am best at.
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[personal profile] wit_and_sword 2018-03-28 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[The only reason Elizabeth is up is because of her shift, or atleast it would if she wasn't on break.] Those are more books my sisters would enjoy. They absolutely eat up any sort of horror story-more the sort with dark castles or abandoned abbies, brooding figures with dark secrets.

I do enjoy Hamlet or Macbeth, but there is enough horror in my world. The last thing I would enjoy is reading a romance concerning it.
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*flails* sorry, thought this was video

[personal profile] wit_and_sword 2018-03-29 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She certainly looks more comfortable than Elizabeth, who's still in patrol gear.] I think that is the genre, yes. And you may. There has been a zombie plague going on for near fifty or so years.

[If she seems nonchalent about it, it's because she is. The risk and fighting off zombies has just become an every day thing for her.] May I ask your name?
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Re: No worries!

[personal profile] wit_and_sword 2018-03-30 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed. [She saw little point in arguing or explaining. I had a cousin who used to create clothes for funerals, but he left for the church because many thought that to dress their dead in nice clothing was a waste.

Elizabeth Bennet. Do you usually set message posts this late in the evening?

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