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

[11calls]

[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.

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text; un: pc.grant

[thestarling]

[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?

text; @maverick

[deploy]

I've always been partial to the eyes in the rearview mirror.

audio; un: Reaper

[rapsheet]

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.

video; un:sage

[muskeg]

[ 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. ]

Video: UN: Ms.E. Bennet

[wit_and_sword]

[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.