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[quodpotted]

predicted something's going to happen today. hard to put exactly what into words. it's like the past is going to be here. someone's going to find the past? a door to the past?

[Known Cicada Wielders]

so I talked to Dr. Huang about the shit. I showed him the way the pieces move when I use the cicada rock thing when I throw bones. good news is he could see the pattern too and didn't think I was nuts. he said it doesn't look like a prediction so much as it's pointing to something. like a treasure map.

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[magsmillion]

Come on, you are supposed to be the mystery type. Maybe it's someone dead!

[freyanorris]

I guess ghosts ARE a door to the past!!

[magsmillion]

If the "past is going to be here" that just screams ghost to me.

[freyanorris]

And it's the right time of year for it, with ghost stories being a Christmas tradition!

How FAR in the past is this ghost going to be from, do you think??

[magsmillion]

Are they a Christmas tradition?

Okay, I say anything more recent than 100 years is just boring.

[freyanorris]

Yes!! You've heard of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, right? The Victorians made it popular but it goes back even earlier than that. The long dark nights and cold weather made it the ideal time to tell spooky stories... and I guess it didn't hurt that in the past more people died in winter. (Cold weather = literally a killer!)

But if they're recently deceased and they were murdered then their killer might still be alive!!

[magsmillion]

I knew about A Christmas Carol but I didn't think it was a thing beyond that. Makes sense, though. Do you think we can set up a ghost-story session before school lets out? Since we are talking tradition here.

This town is too small for murder. Or is it?

[freyanorris]

We definitely should!! The fewer people that make it a thing, the more likely a tradition is to die out, and we can't have that!

No town is EVER too small for murder!!

[magsmillion]

We could even do a retelling of A Christmas Carol and if so, I call Ghost of Christmas Future. And we need to figure out where to do the ghost stories. It has to be suitably creepy. Ideas?

I'm all for facing down a psychopath, but what are the chances?

[freyanorris]

You'd rock that role!! Hmm, well, my first thought was the library because a) it has ATMOSPHERE, and b) it seems appropriate to read out stories whilst surrounded by books!

WELL I think the murder rate in this country is about 5 in 100,000. But obviously that's just an average and other factors like income inequality and SECRET GRUDGES will affect the chances of this PARTICULAR small town!