Glorious Escapism Roleplay

Toutaku · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:45 am Post subject:

In practice, they're not alike. At least not on this plain.
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LenLenWearsBlue · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1059 Location: Under your bed.

I'm not too adept at seeing traditional auras myself, but I've been told by a couple of sources that mine is often turquoise-y and I think pale/mint green? Seems legit either way, since I think one of those colours is linked to healing and the other is linked to instability. My energy-seeing skills are also inept, but I can channel energies, and somewhat project them from time to time.

I do have a weird ability where I can see non-traditional auras of things, based on their properties. It's really hard to explain, but red indicates malevolance/danger, purple represents something I desire, and I can kind of "see" sound waves as translucent-y blue. It's not a constant thing, but it's hard to "turn it off" so to speak.

There's allegedly a released panther near where my Mother lives, affectionately nicknamed The Beast Of Barnet. The major news reports were all at least 9 years ago now though, so it's either been laying low for a while or something's happened to it, despite a few recent alleged sightings. The reptile shop near my home also managed to house a fully grown alligator or crocodile until a year or two ago, when authorities discovered the animal and towed it away to a zoo. I'll have to find the news article, it was rather amusing. I think it's safe to say that overall England is an awful country when it comes to slightly illegal pets.

Living near Central London, there's a lot of supposed ghost stories and urban legends and such. They even do ghost tours. As for my actual town, there's been nothing too out of place. A sighting of a Loveland frogman-esque creature became popular talk on the playground of my school a few years back, not particularly unfeasible since the Thames essentially splits my town in half, and there's several large lakes nearby, but I don't know how much truth there was to that tale. I've noticed some strange things.
I'm very jealous of you, Toutaku. Black Shuck was always a favourite cryptid of mine when I was smaller.

I used to have issues with visions of a grotesque, humanoid creature with antlers. Toutaku already knows about this, but I'd be glad to share the story, although it has some uncomfortable links to my family.

Rabukurafuto · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:15 pm Post subject:

Please tell more about the antler people. It might be a good inspiration.
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LenLenWearsBlue · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1059 Location: Under your bed.

Wow haha reading this back over it seems like a horror story or something. . .
But ok, here goes.

Ever since I was very small, I used to spend time at my Aunt and Uncle's house. My Uncle was really fond of the occult, and he used to mess with Ouija boards a lot. Some scary stuff happened once in a while, the planchette would go back and forth like "53535353" crazily once in a while - my Mother was born in 1953. Once in a while I would see a shape in the corner of the room whilst I was sleeping on the sofa bed, but it wasn't scary after a while.

When I was 9ish, my Mother and Aunt had an argument and stopped talking, so I didn't get to see my Uncle for a while, who my Mother had accused of being creepy and touchy with me (I can't comment on this, I oddly enough don't remember any of the times I was supposedly left in the house alone with my uncle). This is probably what sparked the argument, but either way, he was out of my life and it was when I was 10 or 11 that I started seeing "the man on the chair".

This was around the time my parents divorced, so my Mother thought he was an imaginary friend of some sort to replace the caring male figure in my life when my Father left, so she played along. The Man On The Chair, as he was known, sat - as his name would imply - on the yellow chair in our dining room. He had green eyes and dark hair and he would talk to me when I was lonely. Sometimes he'd stand in my room and I wouldn't have nightmares (I used to frequently have nightmares about people and things standing with their mouths open, not making noise, just staring, along with other misc nightmares I'd be happy to explain). There was an argument about furniture custody between my parents, my Dad got the chair and eventually I stopped seeing the man.

Until I moved in with my Dad, anyway. He'd put the chair in my room, and once in a while, I saw the man again. He wasn't so friendly this time, he would just stare at me. These occurrences happened when I was 14 and were what lead me to sleeping in my Dad's bedroom. This didn't make much difference - if anything, it was worse, since when I woke up in the night sometimes I'd be too afraid to do anything but lay and stare at the ceiling, since an entire wall in my Dad's room consists of cupboards with mirrors on the front - I would often see him watching me in those, even if he wasn't in the room with me.

Ultimately, he became more threatening over time, and his form became less natural. He became emaciated looking and his eyes seemed to glow, despite being completely lifeless. His hair became dishevelled and his nails grew, as did a pair of antlers. He'd come and go at random points in my life over the next few years - he only physically interacted with me once, but his presence made me uneasy, he made everything feel like it was dying and rotting when he was around. I'd tell you about the physical encounter, but it's uncomfortable. It made me move back into my own room though.

These... Visions? Hauntings? I don't know what they were really, carried on sporadically until I met Toutaku, who learnt about my problem and encouraged me to get in touch with my guardians. Since then things aren't usually so bad, he's seemed to become less malicious over time.

The thing is, I have no idea what the fuck he is. I've asked several people, both spiritual and scientific, and I've had an array of answers. I've heard that he's a psychological manifestation resulting from some childhood trauma and the self-loathing attached to it, an incubus, a malicious poltergeist, and even a theory that the Man On The Chair and the entity I simply grew to know as "Him" are two separate things all together, regardless of their origin(s).

I'd like to say the whole saga is over, but I asked my Mother about it recently and learnt some new information that I guess just didn't seem important enough to remember, hence the detailed account now. It should also be worth noting that my Uncle died in early December 2010, which is when the "hauntings" got worse in early '11. I'm not sure if there's a link there. Hell, I can't even be sure he's not just the manifestation of some repressed personal trauma. All I know is that I hope his recent placid patch is permanent.

Rabukurafuto · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject:

That is very interesting. It sounds very much like those Christian novels I have been reading, except much scarier. The author of those would probably give you a lecture on how using a Ouija Board summomed a demon, and that your Guardians are demons too. I should really write a story about these things. Or you should. It would be marvelous.
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LenLenWearsBlue · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1059 Location: Under your bed.

I don't doubt that most of the contact that stems from the use of a Ouija Board is with some malicious entities, I don't know many - if any - people who've had a positive experience with one.

It would be interesting to see someone else write a story, but my experiences with this certain whatever-he-is is are too personal for me to comfortably adapt into something like that. If you ever take inspiration from this I would love to see the finished results, though.

Toutaku · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:45 pm Post subject:

As would I. A Rabu-chin story about the paranormal would be interesting!
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Rabukurafuto · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:47 pm Post subject:

All right, I understand how it would be too personal, especially if you are repressing a traumatic experience.

This is the first time I heard bad things about a Ouija Board from someone who wasn't a fundamentalist Christian. Very interesting. I have heard about them so much that I wanted to have a board in a story where it's a tool for good, as opposed to books like The Society where they are tools of evil to trick pagans.
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LenLenWearsBlue · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1059 Location: Under your bed.

Think of using a Ouiji Board like using one of those online anonymous chat sites, e.g. Omegle. Someone can claim to be anyone they want to, but they have no physical proof - and for some more naive people, that makes them believable.
Much the same, an unfriendly entity can manipulate the living person they are talking to by claiming to be a deceased loved one.

I've heard all kinds of odd tales, including one where a teenage girl was using it with her boyfriend, and she removed her clothing at the command of whatever was using the board as a vessel, as she believed her boyfriend was the one moving the plachette. Some like that are just mischevious, but more often than not they can be dangerous.

There are tips for reducing the probability of contacting a "bad" spirit, such as opening a window or lighting incense. There are also supposed "hints" that you're talking to something unfriendly, such as the planchette moving in figure 8 motions. How effective these are, however, is ultimately debatable, but it's generally agreed that if the spirit tries to recite the alphabet, you should end the session immediately, as that means it is trying to break free from the board.

It would be interesting to see a positive portrayal of one, though.

Rabukurafuto · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject:

Oh, that makes sense. I should remember that. Thank you. I suppose "neutral" would be more believable than "good" and "evil". You get all kinds of spirits of varying moralities.
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Toutaku · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:00 pm Post subject:

A very important thing is that you have to send the spirit back. People don't bother and they end up dragging a spirit from its home and leaving it in this realm.
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LenLenWearsBlue · Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1059 Location: Under your bed.

You're very welcome.
It's perfectly feasible that there are some out there who are just wishing to share their tale; although I'm yet to encounter one. I'm yet to use a Ouija Board myself personally at all, in fact. It would be interesting, but after my Uncle's experiences I'm a tad disheartened.

Rabukurafuto · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject:

I see. I haven't heard about that before.
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Toutaku · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:11 pm Post subject:

I'd never touch the damned things, myself.
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Rabukurafuto · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:29 am Post subject:

I should buy one just to make you uneasy.
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