#(then in turn how local avatars act might influence what a culture finds scary. if you got a local monster who wanders about

[lighthausen]

i reslistened to Mag22, Colony and Martin's description of his first sight of Prentiss makes it seem like... like she was putting on an act? Revealing stuff in a certain manner to be as creepy as possible? And I think it's really funny like ok look:

"Then, I heard movement. From the other side of the basement. It was faint, just a rustling, really... It appeared to be a woman. She was facing away from me, apparently staring at the corner of the wall... In her right hand she held a stained, green handkerchief. She stood there, totally still...Then, with a quick, jerky movement she brought the handkerchief to her face and coughed... I saw [a worm] drop from the handkerchief onto the floor... I screamed. Her head snapped towards me and she locked eyes with me... she slowly reached up and let the overcoat fall to the floor."

Jane was just chilling out when she heard him come in, she quickly threw on her coat, wedged herself into the corner, got her handkerchief ready, ooh he's here, let the tension build a little before dropping a single worm, yes, he screamed, now quick turn around, give him a smile, wait for it, wait for it, aaaand...

worm time

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

#the magnus archives#like. ok there's probably supernatural stuff at play that allows avatars to find victims and scare them in the best manner possible#but it is Really funny to imagine them just lurking about . waiting for a victim to show up#then it's like 'ooh places places' get in the spookiest position possible -nice and now let's start the show#...... and ok ok. this... almost certainly goes against canon.#but i think it would be really really funny if the rise of cinema influenced how avatars behaved#like. they see the horror beats in films and whatnot when they were human#and once they became avatars they naturally took those horror beats and incorporated them into their methods of scaring people#simon: back in my day we didn't do any of this fancy drama stuff. 'setting a scene' mike called it. pah.#us avatars just jumped out at people and let them freak out a bit before usually killing them. or maybe torturing them.#the more scary-looking avatars used to be able to just roam around in fields and forests and cities and whoever saw them saw them#that practice has fallen out of fashion. it's sad really. a lost artform.#...hm come to think of it any horror elements in a culture (y'know books or artwork or tales passed on by word of mouth)#would influence how their local avatars act#(then in turn how local avatars act might influence what a culture finds scary. if you got a local monster who wanders about#the people there will be more likely to fear it and its traits! people tell stories of seeing it!)#horror evolves over time!!! a lot of avatars were regular humans once!!!#those churches with scary depictions of hell on the tympanum!! horrifying to people at the time!#they'd find modern monsters scary too but those aren't on their minds! they aren't primed for them!#oh oh this is making me think lots of things... ah. talking in the tags...#i've. lost the point of my original post... i should probably just post it#ok bye lol

I had to include this excellent meta from the tags.

i reslistened to Mag22, Colony and Martin's description of his first sight of Prentiss makes it seem like... like she was putting on an act? Revealing stuff in a certain manner to be as creepy as possible? And I think it's really funny like ok look:

"Then, I heard movement. From the other side of the basement. It was faint, just a rustling, really... It appeared to be a woman. She was facing away from me, apparently staring at the corner of the wall... In her right hand she held a stained, green handkerchief. She stood there, totally still...Then, with a quick, jerky movement she brought the handkerchief to her face and coughed... I saw [a worm] drop from the handkerchief onto the floor... I screamed. Her head snapped towards me and she locked eyes with me... she slowly reached up and let the overcoat fall to the floor."

Jane was just chilling out when she heard him come in, she quickly threw on her coat, wedged herself into the corner, got her handkerchief ready, ooh he's here, let the tension build a little before dropping a single worm, yes, he screamed, now quick turn around, give him a smile, wait for it, wait for it, aaaand...

worm time