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.
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.
text; un: pc.grant
Does it count as a ghost story if you've met one?
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I would think it would could as even more of one, really.
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You might, but they're usually pretty boring. Most times just repeating whatever they were doing right before they died.
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Residual energy hauntings, right?
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text; @maverick
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swapping to voice;
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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Kinda sounds like a sex thing.
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audio; un: Reaper
[ A brief pause. ]
Personally I was distinctly anti-ghost until a collection of them were instrumental in saving the world.
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[At least with one person, anyway.]
How did they help save the world.
[Can't tell a reporter that part of the story without telling her the rest!]
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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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[ 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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video; un:sage
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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Ghosts seem to be real on a lot of people's worlds. Maybe on mine too, but it can't be scientifically proven. At least not yet.
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Can I ask what you're doing?
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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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Sounds like you know Dr. Strand. [Even if it was a complete impossibility given how he was doing magic.]
Have you gone to the magical academy? There's all sort of different magical people there.
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[ 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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Video: UN: Ms.E. Bennet
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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So they're fans of gothic horror then? I see.
Can I ask what's going on back home?
*flails* sorry, thought this was video
[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?
No worries!
And yeah, I'm Alex. Alex Reagan.
Re: No worries!
Elizabeth Bennet. Do you usually set message posts this late in the evening?
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