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[ghostlocked]

[It's late when Harlan folds and decides to go to the network for a distraction. He would vastly prefer not to do this, but, well. That's why it's called folding.]

cant sleep.
tell me stories.

[ooc: feel free to threadjack and use this as a sort of storytelling free-for-all!]

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[toiletseat_girl]

What kinds of stories?
'Cause I have some doozies from my time as a Reaper.

[ghostlocked]

lol i bet u do.
idc. anything.
obvs not somethin boring tho.
ur free to submit multiple entries to the hh story contest.
wait dont tell me anything sad either. thats what were trying to avoid here.

[myrealname]

[time for a lie]

Once there was a girl named Alice.
She always wanted to go to London and see Windsor Palace.
She finally saved up enough money to go and it was even better than she'd imagined.

[ghostlocked]

whyd she want to go there?
idk what windsor palace is. sounds ritzy.

[64th]

True stories or made up stories?

[ghostlocked]

true stories are better but im not picky.

[unnature]

what, you get sleep stolen from you?

[ghostlocked]

i wish.

[Then, after a moment:]

thats not true.
i lost my magic.
its fuckin me up.

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[so_dark_a_road]

Would stories from childhood be all right?

My brother Tyelko and I once stole a god's magic hunting horn. Not gods as in Hadriel gods, but gods as in angelic powers who genuinely do try to take care of their responsibilities. They called themselves the Valar, which means Powers of the World. This one's name was Oromë, and he was the Vala of the Hunt. They each had a specialty.

The reason we wanted that horn was because we were going up into the mountains to hunt unicorn. Needless to say, we hadn't told our parents we were going. Unicorns are dangerous.

The bloody horn was a pain in the ass, if I may say so. We lifted it off the wall, and it started to scold and lecture us immediately, and we barely got out of the window we had climbed into in order to steal the horn from the Vala's study. "Shut your trap!" we said, and we stuffed it into a pllowcase and ran like hell.

Does this sound like the kind of story you'd be interested in?

[ghostlocked]

unicorns are dangerous where ur from? jfc hunting them where im from is the equivalent to first degree murder.
yd u want to hunt em? and ftr were talkin abt white horses w. a horn right? maybe there are diff kinds of unicorns. idfk.
and if ur gods are angelic powers wtf was he doin w. a study? do gods have houses n shit?
keep tellin ur story. just kno i have a lot of qs.

[magician_king]

I've been thinking a lot lately about stories where people travel from world to world. Fillory. Fairy circles. That kind of thing.

[ghostlocked]

y?
is that a real thing where ur from? apparently its not for some ppl here.

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[unheeled]

horror story time

a man and his daughter witness a zombie attack a family friend. the man runs to hide, but the daughter stays long enough to try and maybe save the friend's life

she's too late. she runs after her dad. he's at the door, watching everything. she trips and twists her ankle as the zombie gets up from the beating she managed to give it before she realized it was pointless. she scrambles to her feet and goes as fast as she can, the zombie closing in on her. she's almost to safety. all she needs is for her dad to hold the door open for her. just a second or two, then slam it shut. just another second

he shuts the door in her face

the end

[ghostlocked]

[Ah.]

whered u hear that one?

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[bespectacledsnake]

I am afraid most of my stories do not have such very happy endings. A lot of heads under concrete or bombs in cars.

[He says this as lightly as though he was discussing the fact that it would be lightly cloudy tomorrow]

[ghostlocked]

thats fine.
whered u get those stories?

[abbatis]

[Oh uh. Now he kind of wishes he could use voice option. He found just a perfect 'story' book for this and it's a shame that he won't be reading out loud.]

The cats nestle close to their kittens,

The lambs have laid down with the sheep.

You are cozy and warm in your bed, my dear.

Please

Go the fuck to sleep.

[ghostlocked]

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did u just fuckin samuel l jackson me?

[proselytise]

genre preferences?

[ghostlocked]

nonfiction.
tell me shit abt where ur from.
or dont. idc.
i like scifi.

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[evocation]

hey uh
are you okay?

private

[ghostlocked]

my magics gone.

text; un: Sunai cw: mentions of suicide and school shootings

[stealyoursoul]

Once upon a time, the world was such a bad place full of sinners who kept hurting each other that it got completely out of balance. Something cracked in it, and through the cracks, monsters appeared. There was three kinds. Ones that ripped you apart, ones that drank your blood, and ones that stole your soul. The third kind were the rarest, for there was only three in all existence.

The first came from a bomb set off by someone too selfish to spare those around them from a grisly fate, so her mind was scattered and strange. The second came when a cult decided to not only take their own lives, but their families as well, and he was, according to his siblings, self-righteous and cold. And the third came from a shooting where a student stopped his pain by killing others, and he was lost in his own head, longing to be human. Together, they tried to make their city a place safe for innocent souls. But it didn't always work out the way they planned.

...Want me to go on or is that enough of an ending?

[ghostlocked]

the fuck is this?
im not in the mood to parse allegories.

[aroundthecoroner]

[Michael was just going to let this go because he doesn't have any not-bad stories, but Harlan seems to have attracted mostly people talking about murder, war, and literal terrorism, so honestly, whatever he's got can't be that bad.

He knows Harlan needs it, so he'll try for some levity. Keyword try.]

Did I ever tell you about the time we accidentally set a body on fire?

[Perfect.]

[ghostlocked]

i love you.
but im breaking up w. u bc how the fuck have u not told me abt this before.
go.

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[redwinekindofgirl]

Once, I got abducted by a zombie.
That one sound good?

[ghostlocked]

man i feel like a ton of ppl have zombie stories tonight.
or maybe it was just the one. idk.
anyway yeah. go for it.

[voice] (/slides in ten thousand years late)

[northerndragon]

What kind of story? Don't think I'm very good at them.

yes good hello

[ghostlocked]

tbh ill take anything at this point.
what was the coolest thing u did back home before ending up here?