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Y'know, going up in space, visiting other worlds is supposed to blow your damn mind. The idea's that you're exposed to stuff so unreal, so beyond believin' that it's alien to you.

So why exactly are we celebratin' Christmas in space? Feels kinda weird, to be honest. But I guess capitalism and commercialism is a universal concept.

Still, though. Kinda gets me thinkin'. How do you celebrate your holidays where you're from? Don't tell me about Christmas though. We all know about Christmas.

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Why's that?

Usually when they're involved, people end up dead.

Or worse.

Right.

So who are "they"?

Entities that exist outside reality. They are manifestations of fear and that's what they feed on.

And the monsters they create in the world.

Edited 2019-12-20 16:35 (UTC)

How does something exist out of reality? If you know they exist, don't that make 'em real already?

They're real, just not capable of existing in reality as we experience it.

...honestly, it probably involves the sort of high level maths that about 3 people in the world understand and I'm not one of them. I just know they exist, and I've seen their effects.

So it's just a different reality.

[ mildly interesting, he supposes. ]

What effects?

I don't think they come from a different reality but... maybe?

They feed on fear. They're formed by fear. They manifest parts of themselves in reality, as monsters, or artefacts, or books. They cause terror and feed themselves with it. Make someone with a fear of heights fall forever, or bury someone alive and make sure that they can never die.

[ that doesn't sound crazy at all. but well, erik's here. dead man walking. ]

So they're animals.

No. They're not...

Imagine you're an ant, and your ant hill is attacked. You see a boot. You run away and see an eye peering in. Out of nowhere, a finger pushes into the ant hill.

Would an ant ever be able to comprehend what had attacked them? Be able to process that?

Well, we're the ants, and the entities are the boot and the eye and the finger.

Sure, but we're not ants.

I get your analogy, but human thinking is pretty broad. It's faster than light. The fact that you can even put it to analogy means it's not beyond all scope.

It's not a perfect analogy, but it gets across the idea of something entirely alien and inhuman.

And hostile.

And you think they're here?

I know they are.

I don't think they stop being anywhere as long as there is something to feel fear.

Fear, huh?

[ shame erik doesn't have any anymore. ]

This isn't really the season for fear.

People don't stop being afraid of things just because there's pretty lights and decorations.

...And historically ghost stories have been a major feature of Christmas and winter generally.

Sure, but I assume you would need a massive outpouring of fear to tear through one reality into another.

It'd be weird if it was just a pinprick. Also, historically? Besides Dickens, you mean?

To fully bring any of the entities into reality would take a ritual. That would rewrite reality to make it more... appropriate for them to exist in. But they can still push bits of themselves through to manifest as monsters or certain artefacts or books.

What else are you going to do sitting around a fire in the middle of winter when the cold and snow might well kill you an the wind is howling?

Uh-huh.

You've never been to any parties or anything resembling social activity have you.

Of course I have.

It was awful.

That's what I thought.

Doesn't invalidate anything I've said.

You sure?

Because it definitely adds a layer to it all.

It's literally my job to research and record this sort of thing.

That doesn't mean anything though. Not here. You got data? Then sure I'd like to see it but you also said it was beyond reality so not sure how data works here.

C'mon man. You've probably heard all of this before.

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