twenty. text. backdated to monday.

[goryteller]

In the 1940s, rumor has it that a prisoner on the island of Alcatraz was killed by a ghost.

Back in those days (unlike these days), they had isolation chambers called hole cells where the prisoners were kept in near darkness for weeks on end. "Bang bang bang," one prisoner cried and pounded. "Someone's trying to murder me in here." But the guards thought he was hallucinating, as those being tortured with solitude tended to, and so they did nothing. When the prisoner stopped screaming, they were quite content until they opened the cell and found that he was dead. He had markings on his neck. Strangulation. No one else was in the cell.

Ghost stories have a sort of charm, don't they? Whether or not you believe them, I mean. I don't generally because we didn't have imports back then and because the living can be fucking horrible enough. I'm certain one of the guards killed him and thought they had a clever way of covering it up. Which they did.

I wonder what the prisoner's crime was. But I don't even have a name.

I know I would take death as a legacy if nothing else.

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[viced]

Do you think having your death leave a legacy is satisfactory enough?

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[goryteller]

I'd take it over nothing. But no, not really.

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[viced]

I don't know, I think living a completely mundane life, and a mundane death would be better than being the subject of a ghost story.

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[goryteller]

Are you afraid of them?

[hacktivist]

[He decides he kinda likes that story] An air of legend... of the mystical helps give you an edge.

But try to stave off death as long as you can. It's not always all it's cracked up to be.

[goryteller]

Do you know from experience?

[hacktivist]

You could say that.

But the stories help. I used to be able to close entire buildings with a single email. People are easier to command when they think you're a monster.

[goryteller]

I don't know about commanding people.

What was it you did with an email?

[hacktivist]

[He decides he kinda likes that story] An air of legend... of the mystical helps give you an edge.

But try to stave off death as long as you can. It's not always all it's cracked up to be.

[goryteller]

Do you know from experience?

[hacktivist]

You could say that.

But the stories help. I used to be able to close entire buildings with a single email. People are easier to command when they think you're a monster.

[goryteller]

I don't know about commanding people.

What was it you did with an email?

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[ridiculouseyes.livejournal.com]

Given the choice, I wouldn't settle for death.

And who knows, it might be a ghost. I've seen enough monsters in the dark to believe pretty much anything.

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[goryteller]

Given the choice, I wouldn't either.

I always assumed this world was more mundane, before us. Mine was more mundane.

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[ridiculouseyes.livejournal.com]

Mine was slightly more mundane than this, but pretty mundane.

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[goryteller]

Underground monsters?

Is that your "fiction?"

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[ridiculouseyes.livejournal.com]

Given the choice, I wouldn't settle for death.

And who knows, it might be a ghost. I've seen enough monsters in the dark to believe pretty much anything.

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[goryteller]

Given the choice, I wouldn't either.

I always assumed this world was more mundane, before us. Mine was more mundane.

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[ridiculouseyes.livejournal.com]

Mine was slightly more mundane than this, but pretty mundane.

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[incywincyhero]

Why would you even want that?

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[goryteller]

"If nothing else." I don't want it, necessarily.

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[incywincyhero]

I'm just not sure it'd be better to be remembered only for dying than not remembered at all.

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[incywincyhero]

Why would you even want that?

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[goryteller]

"If nothing else." I don't want it, necessarily.

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[incywincyhero]

I'm just not sure it'd be better to be remembered only for dying than not remembered at all.