Last year I went HARD into Halloween. I started on July 5th and ended on November 24th.
I played Halloween and adjacent songs and mashups at work, went to multiple haunted houses, visited Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights for the first time, and did as many Ghostbusters costume events as I could manage.
I just wanted to see what it would feel like. I didn't start getting fatigued until the last 2 weeks.
Kinda wild how that ended up helping me weather what 2020 would bring.
Always be skeptical of "security camera" footage where a totally wild and unpredictable thing happens in the dead center of frame. More likely than not, it's staged.
It always seemed like the streetlight in front of my house would come on at different times when I came home. It was a little weird.
Some streetlights have light sensors, not timers.
But it's odd as it's pitch black out the light fades quickly to black as I walk up and as I walk away it flares back to life {the light that would do this only did it for a couple of months}
As it would get really dark out when the light would go off after the darkness moved on it went down the street between a house and a fence {the gap was about a foot or so} Then further down the street into the chute for a flood control area {I call it the cistern} Then it hopped down the street into a bike path and another flood control channel where it is today
One of the homes near this the security lights flick rapidly off and on like at a rave
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Three or four nights ago I started having nightmares involving a generic demon-nun archetype, but, my vivid dreamstate comes in cycles, and I'm on the downturn, so I actually had some agency in the dream, and was able to call this generic bullshit on it's face. Woke up, fluffed my fluffy pillow, fixed my sheets, snuggled back in for the night. Queue, maybe half an hour later-
-DEAMON NUN TRYING TO COME ATCHA HARD OOOH SPOOKY And nope, just got up out of bed, walked down the hallway with no lights, got some water, used the facilities, looked at the darkness, told it nope, went back to the bedroom, realized my sliding closet door was wide open, and my mind was trying to make sense of the shapes of my clothes in the darkness, so I shut that door, got back in bed, and by the time my alarm for work went off I was dreaming that I was doing preflight checks on a starfighter. Swear, soon as our team got cleared for flight, my alarm went off.
I almost went real hard last Halloween, I was planning out a Masque of the Red Death sort of thing and walking around downtown spooking people
I ended up getting lazy and running out of time, but I'm over here tugging my collar about almost going out as a plague ghost a couple months before a global pandemic reared its head
I almost went real hard last Halloween, I was planning out a Masque of the Red Death sort of thing and walking around downtown spooking people
I ended up getting lazy and running out of time, but I'm over here tugging my collar about almost going out as a plague ghost a couple months before a global pandemic reared its head
You could have warned them, GG. You could have saved them!
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I don't know if it's haunted, but I slept in the horrible cheap motel where Selena got shot the night before running the Beach to Bay Relay Marathon in Corpus Christi. It was really spooky, because it felt like the kind of place where someone would get arbitrarily shot to death while sleeping there!
I thought that was going to be about ladies with donkey legs. Those have been a thing along and south of the border since pre-colonial times. Mainly they attract lustful men and take them off into the wilderness to either disappear or get scared shitless when they lift their dress and show off their hooves. Sometimes they're out there doing revenge murders. Fun stuff.
DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
edited August 2020
are they ghosts or like, lady satyrs or what?
edit: also maybe I'm just extra lustful, but if I'm in a situation where I'm gonna follow a strange lady into the woods to bang, it'd probably take more than weird legs to dissuade me
I thought that was going to be about ladies with donkey legs. Those have been a thing along and south of the border since pre-colonial times. Mainly they attract lustful men and take them off into the wilderness to either disappear or get scared shitless when they lift their dress and show off their hooves. Sometimes they're out there doing revenge murders. Fun stuff.
huh
I think this is a new one on me
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
I thought that was going to be about ladies with donkey legs. Those have been a thing along and south of the border since pre-colonial times. Mainly they attract lustful men and take them off into the wilderness to either disappear or get scared shitless when they lift their dress and show off their hooves. Sometimes they're out there doing revenge murders. Fun stuff.
Hey, I know about that! I know about that from a Monster of the Week actual-play podcast called "All My Hexes", set in the (presumably fictional?) weird-ass town of Hext, Texas!
In case anyone's not familiar, Monster of the Week is a Powered By The Apocalypse RPG about hunting monsters. The PBTA engine is a tabletop RPG ruleset that heavily leans towards the narrative (meaning, it's designed to create dramatic stories, rather than a robust tactical framework, or a 1:1 simulation of real life, etc). If a game like D&D tries to create the experience of living in a fantasy world and doing some dungeon-crawly adventures to get cool loot and bash cool monsters, PBTA games try to create the experience of living in a piece of genre fiction. Like, D&D roughly simulates laws of physics (or, well, tells itself that its trying to), while PBTA simulates genre tropes and conventions. Monster of the Week is a game is about real folks living in our dang ol' boring world, except that your urban myths and conspiracy theory monsters are real, and the players gotta hunt 'em. Very obvious inspirations are Buffy, X-Files, and Supernatural.
Anyway, "All My Hexes" is really good! I highly recommend it!
edit: also maybe I'm just extra lustful, but if I'm in a situation where I'm gonna follow a strange lady into the woods to bang, it'd probably take more than weird legs to dissuade me
They're either spirits of the dead, or nature spirits, or cryptids of some form. The stories morph from place-to-place due to oral tradition. Sometimes they're tricksters looking to fuck with some mortals, sometimes they're vengeful entities looking to punish cheaters and rapists, sometimes it's just a spooky twist to a campfire tale. All evidence suggests it's a story told from back in the indigenous days and back then just the concept of a person or animal with the parts mixed up/combined was enough to make it interesting/terrifying. The moral tales likely came later.
I thought that was going to be about ladies with donkey legs. Those have been a thing along and south of the border since pre-colonial times. Mainly they attract lustful men and take them off into the wilderness to either disappear or get scared shitless when they lift their dress and show off their hooves. Sometimes they're out there doing revenge murders. Fun stuff.
Hey, I know about that! I know about that from a Monster of the Week actual-play podcast called "All My Hexes", set in the (presumably fictional?) weird-ass town of Hext, Texas!
In case anyone's not familiar, Monster of the Week is a Powered By The Apocalypse RPG about hunting monsters. The PBTA engine is a tabletop RPG ruleset that heavily leans towards the narrative (meaning, it's designed to create dramatic stories, rather than a robust tactical framework, or a 1:1 simulation of real life, etc). If a game like D&D tries to create the experience of living in a fantasy world and doing some dungeon-crawly adventures to get cool loot and bash cool monsters, PBTA games try to create the experience of living in a piece of genre fiction. Like, D&D roughly simulates laws of physics (or, well, tells itself that its trying to), while PBTA simulates genre tropes and conventions. Monster of the Week is a game is about real folks living in our dang ol' boring world, except that your urban myths and conspiracy theory monsters are real, and the players gotta hunt 'em. Very obvious inspirations are Buffy, X-Files, and Supernatural.
Anyway, "All My Hexes" is really good! I highly recommend it!
I thought that was going to be about ladies with donkey legs. Those have been a thing along and south of the border since pre-colonial times. Mainly they attract lustful men and take them off into the wilderness to either disappear or get scared shitless when they lift their dress and show off their hooves. Sometimes they're out there doing revenge murders. Fun stuff.
Interesting, I'm much more familiar with the Illinois variant of this legend where it's not donkey legs, but deer.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
I thought that was going to be about ladies with donkey legs. Those have been a thing along and south of the border since pre-colonial times. Mainly they attract lustful men and take them off into the wilderness to either disappear or get scared shitless when they lift their dress and show off their hooves. Sometimes they're out there doing revenge murders. Fun stuff.
Interesting, I'm much more familiar with the Illinois variant of this legend where it's not donkey legs, but deer.
Staying The Night ALONE In The SCARIEST Abandoned House - Sleeping In Little Girls Room ! Ep. 331:45 https://youtu.be/E9ZiTVMBiW8 Today I venture out alone on a solo journey to revisit the creepiest abandoned house I have ever explored. Sitting abandoned since 2002 along the backroads of Ontario, Canada, this house hides a dark past. The plan is to explore the abandoned house, setup camp somewhere inside, and sleep overnight during a storm. When the sun sets, things start to get strange inside the house, and with no way of leaving I have to deal with a night I will never forget.
I love PT but that doesn't mean I would actually find a place like that game and spend a rainy night in it
With all the conspiracy theories in the world, why aren't there theories out there that this squid is secretly a species of alien monitoring us to harvest our organs or something?
With all the conspiracy theories in the world, why aren't there theories out there that this squid is secretly a species of alien monitoring us to harvest our organs or something?
because it's actually a well known species of squid monster. it only eats eyes and only if you aren't using them
hey so here's a weird thing: why are none of the mirrors in this building broken? superstitious trespassers and vandals willing to spray paint and break windows, but not to pitch a rock through one of those big ass mirrors? that seems hard to believe.
that's fuckin odd, i'm telling you.
edit: this is from the same channel as @Peas video up the thread there
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I played Halloween and adjacent songs and mashups at work, went to multiple haunted houses, visited Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights for the first time, and did as many Ghostbusters costume events as I could manage.
I just wanted to see what it would feel like. I didn't start getting fatigued until the last 2 weeks.
Kinda wild how that ended up helping me weather what 2020 would bring.
Spooks here from Forlorn Foundry that also makes SCP stuff, apparently.
Probably by ghosts or demonic entities.
Better than seeing Christmas shit (which is most likely already on its way)
But it's odd as it's pitch black out the light fades quickly to black as I walk up and as I walk away it flares back to life {the light that would do this only did it for a couple of months}
As it would get really dark out when the light would go off after the darkness moved on it went down the street between a house and a fence {the gap was about a foot or so} Then further down the street into the chute for a flood control area {I call it the cistern} Then it hopped down the street into a bike path and another flood control channel where it is today
One of the homes near this the security lights flick rapidly off and on like at a rave
-DEAMON NUN TRYING TO COME ATCHA HARD OOOH SPOOKY And nope, just got up out of bed, walked down the hallway with no lights, got some water, used the facilities, looked at the darkness, told it nope, went back to the bedroom, realized my sliding closet door was wide open, and my mind was trying to make sense of the shapes of my clothes in the darkness, so I shut that door, got back in bed, and by the time my alarm for work went off I was dreaming that I was doing preflight checks on a starfighter. Swear, soon as our team got cleared for flight, my alarm went off.
I ended up getting lazy and running out of time, but I'm over here tugging my collar about almost going out as a plague ghost a couple months before a global pandemic reared its head
You could have warned them, GG. You could have saved them!
edit: also maybe I'm just extra lustful, but if I'm in a situation where I'm gonna follow a strange lady into the woods to bang, it'd probably take more than weird legs to dissuade me
huh
I think this is a new one on me
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
In case anyone's not familiar, Monster of the Week is a Powered By The Apocalypse RPG about hunting monsters. The PBTA engine is a tabletop RPG ruleset that heavily leans towards the narrative (meaning, it's designed to create dramatic stories, rather than a robust tactical framework, or a 1:1 simulation of real life, etc). If a game like D&D tries to create the experience of living in a fantasy world and doing some dungeon-crawly adventures to get cool loot and bash cool monsters, PBTA games try to create the experience of living in a piece of genre fiction. Like, D&D roughly simulates laws of physics (or, well, tells itself that its trying to), while PBTA simulates genre tropes and conventions. Monster of the Week is a game is about real folks living in our dang ol' boring world, except that your urban myths and conspiracy theory monsters are real, and the players gotta hunt 'em. Very obvious inspirations are Buffy, X-Files, and Supernatural.
Anyway, "All My Hexes" is really good! I highly recommend it!
They're either spirits of the dead, or nature spirits, or cryptids of some form. The stories morph from place-to-place due to oral tradition. Sometimes they're tricksters looking to fuck with some mortals, sometimes they're vengeful entities looking to punish cheaters and rapists, sometimes it's just a spooky twist to a campfire tale. All evidence suggests it's a story told from back in the indigenous days and back then just the concept of a person or animal with the parts mixed up/combined was enough to make it interesting/terrifying. The moral tales likely came later.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Society largely fails to, so it seems natural that folks would generate lore about it to feel like there’s some justice in the world
Mid-first episode now. It's a good one!
Also the whole "women are evil temptresses who use sex to feed on men" thing :sad:
Don't threaten me with a good time.
The comments are funny on this video. People complaining about the messy house.
Interesting, I'm much more familiar with the Illinois variant of this legend where it's not donkey legs, but deer.
I've heard that one as well.
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Just a spider really, they're terrifying.
Today I venture out alone on a solo journey to revisit the creepiest abandoned house I have ever explored. Sitting abandoned since 2002 along the backroads of Ontario, Canada, this house hides a dark past. The plan is to explore the abandoned house, setup camp somewhere inside, and sleep overnight during a storm. When the sun sets, things start to get strange inside the house, and with no way of leaving I have to deal with a night I will never forget.
I love PT but that doesn't mean I would actually find a place like that game and spend a rainy night in it
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
With all the conspiracy theories in the world, why aren't there theories out there that this squid is secretly a species of alien monitoring us to harvest our organs or something?
because it's actually a well known species of squid monster. it only eats eyes and only if you aren't using them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid
hey so here's a weird thing: why are none of the mirrors in this building broken? superstitious trespassers and vandals willing to spray paint and break windows, but not to pitch a rock through one of those big ass mirrors? that seems hard to believe.
that's fuckin odd, i'm telling you.
edit: this is from the same channel as @Peas video up the thread there