[Dictated]

[schrodingersghost]

 Right, so, recent events have gotten me to thinking.  How many people are left here with any experience in the supernatural side of things. Ghosts and monsters and so on.

[Danny chuckles awkwardly.]

I guess I just got to thinking about it, because dealing with that kind of thing was kind of my job back home. And if stuff like last month could happen here?  I kind of want to be more prepared. I mean, I can duplicate myself, but I can't be more than four places at once. You know?

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dictated;

[lord_wizard]

It generally helps to understand what you're dealing with in order to deal with it, and knowing why a ghost, or spirit, or phantom - however you wish to define it - exists could very well be the key.

Re: dictated;

[schrodingersghost]

I don't get it. Isn't it enough that ghosts exist without trying to figure out why?

[lord_wizard]

[Felix sighs, obviously collecting himself]

No. For example...[And dammit he hates talking about this, but it's relevant] I once had to lay a city full of ghosts who been unable to cross over because the conquering civilization who was to blame for their deaths also destroyed the ritual mazes which were connected to the their goddess. Laying them was a matter of recreating a maze for them to walk, but it took a knowledge of what had created them to reverse it. [Which is dancing wildly around the fact that he doesn't remember most of this because he was crazy at the time]

[schrodingersghost]

[Danny shrugs, a little confused by the story. ]

I've never met a ghost that wanted to move on.

[lord_wizard]

[He's not ready to give up yet]

And that would be a difference. Something about the ghosts of your world makes them happy to be as they are, I would assume.

[schrodingersghost]

There's the Ghost Zone, I guess.

[lord_wizard]

Which is?

[schrodingersghost]

The parallel dimension that ghosts live?

[lord_wizard]

And being half ghost, can you go there?

[schrodingersghost]

Oh, yeah. Easily. My parent have a portal in the basement. Even humans can go through.

[lord_wizard]

What is it like? [Genuinely curious now]

[schrodingersghost]

Um, creepy?

I mean, its kind of like an endless green void. With islands floating everywhere. But its kind of dangerous to explore, because every door and island leads to a different ghost's lair and most of them don't like company. And everything is constantly moving around.

Plus, humans aren't solid there. Its kind of like how ghosts are intangible in the human world. In the ghost zone humans are the ones who aren't solid.

[lord_wizard]

Fascinating. I wonder if my own world has something similar.

And ghosts just...live there?

[schrodingersghost]

Some of them do, yeah. Some of the realms have hundreds of ghosts living together.

But some of the others just spend all their time trying to break into the human world and cause trouble.

[lord_wizard]

Presumably because they hate humans for some reason, or is that just their nature?

[schrodingersghost]

Depends on the ghost, I guess. Some of them just don't like humans, and some of them can get power from humans.

And some of them just want to pick a fight with me.

[lord_wizard]

Do you inspire prejudice in them as well as humans?

[schrodingersghost]

Weirdly, not really. Some of them are just mad at me because I stopped them from attacking humans. Some of them just like fighting with me. Maybe they're bored. [He shrugs.]

And some of them just want to fight me because I'm different. Skulker's been trying to turn me into a hunting trophy for years. Though he keeps changing his mind whether he wants my pelt on his wall or his bed.

[lord_wizard]

Neither is any less disturbing.

[schrodingersghost]

Tell that to him. I've been trying to get that through his head for years.

[lord_wizard]

I doubt I could change his mind even if I had the change. Some people simply have proclivities that others would find abhorrent.