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[fridgeflower]

I was going to make a post asking about whether people were from worlds where fate/destiny/whatever is provable and/or a foundation of the way things are run, because every once in a while I get stuck on whether anything out of our control drives the way we're allowed to function. I know that's so layered and variable and probably boring, though...

So, never mind! Happy Halloween Week!

What's the spookiest thing that's ever happened to you? Was it ever explained?

(If you'd like to talk about the first point, that's fine too.)

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[tenofswords]

Spooky things happened to those around me all the time in my world
I was just witness to most of it or heard about it after the fact

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[fridgeflower]

I suppose you could estimate the spookiest thing that ever happened to those around you, then, if you are mercifully un-spooked.

[tenofswords]

My son figure has encountered Latin speaking trees, and my daughter figure's aunt was killed after standing in between two mirrors

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[storyseeker]

Slimy zombie-like beings descended from the settlers of a lost colony in Panama chased me around the labyrinthine underbelly of the island once.

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[fridgeflower]

I think that may bypass spooky and go straight to horrifically terrifying.

You escaped, I hope? Outside of potential teleportation to another world, I mean.

[dragony]

First point: yes and no. Fate exists, but even an observed future can be changed.

As for the second, I don't know what's really the spookiest. I suppose getting stranded on a graveyard ship with a bunch of ravenous diseased cannibals is up there. Which a sea-snake then attacked, and spat up a troupe of murderous ghosts who tried possessing or killing everyone on the ship who wasn't already, you know, dead.

That trip sucked.

[fridgeflower]

Sounds like it.

That is a LOT of stuff happening in rapid sequence. What caused it? (If it wasn't the result of a real haunting or whatever.)

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[kanyounot]

I got possessed by the spirit of an ancient dark force user once. Not fun.

As for "fate", or "destiny" - that's pretty complicated, I think. In my galaxy, it would depend on who you asked, for starters. I can have visions of the future, sometimes, but I also believe that we can act to change things. "The future is always in motion" is the saying I was taught as a child.

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[fridgeflower]

That's probably a good philosophy for most folks. Changing the future always seemed par the course for precogs where I'm from, at least.

I'm assuming the spirit of an ancient force user is probably different from your standard ghost?

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[ghoulking]

I think my whole life is pretty spooky.

What's is your spooky story?

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[fridgeflower]

I should say.

If we're going mostly-harmless, good-ol'-fashioned spooky... We thought my school was haunted, once. I mean, it kinda really WAS haunted, but it ultimately ended better than most horror movings. Still pretty creepy while it was happening, though.

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[governorkang]

Spooky by this world's standards or my own?

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[fridgeflower]

I guess it depends.

I tend of think of spooky as ultimately harmless, but scary. If spooky in your world is legitimately horrifying and depressing... Maybe not that.

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[choosetruth]

I don't believe in fate, and when your brother annoys zombies on camera for a living, "spooky" loses all meaning pretty quick.

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[fridgeflower]

You know, everybody who bumps into zombies seems at least a little keen on filming them. This is the second bout of potential zombie filmography I've bumped into.

Do the zombies count as the spookiest thing? Or are you now immune to spookiness?

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[bragnificent]

well yeah, obviously
not fate but however or wherever ur raised TOTALLY affects the way u get to function
or idk are "allowed" to. whatever

[ However or wherever one is raised may not be "fate," but it can feel like growing into some predetermined future at times, depending. He's a small town boy at heart though, so. Naturally he'd feel like that still counts. ]

define spooky
u mean like seeing ghosts n crap like that

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[fridgeflower]

Yep. Crap like that.

Preferably nothing outright morbid. I'm going for Halloween fun, not an inevitable anxiety meltdown about how awful the world is.

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[am_i_a_monster]

Dying and then being portered here was the spookiest.

It's been explained as much as the porters and nanites can be explained.

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[fridgeflower]

I figure that might have done it for me if I remembered anything about my death.

It's not the first time I've been grateful that it was instantaneous. I'm sorry that it likely wasn't the case for you.

[onlydoubts]

Fate is kind of complicated, but I don't think anything is ever set in stone. That we make our own destiny.

I wouldn't even know where to start with "spookiest thing" to happen to me. Maybe it was that Haunted House that happened, last year.

[fridgeflower]

Refresh my memory on that one?

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[batburgers]

Depends on what you call spooky.

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[fridgeflower]

I'm aiming for scary in the moment, but ultimately harmless. Or at least survivable.

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[lesterzeppelin]

For the record, that top paragraph is pretty spooky in its own right. I can just imagine someone assigning it as a Philosophy paper.

Outside of that, how're we defining spooky? Creatures that go bump in the night or that aforementioned paper?

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[fridgeflower]

Well, papers are a little boring, so I'm rolling with the former.

I'm sure you must have some great firsthand accounts, all things considered.