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HH
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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004
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Subj: I can't claim they're original, but I hope they're at least reworked.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 at 03:25:50 am EST
Reply Subj: Interesting ideas.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 at 07:22:05 pm EST (Viewed 479 times)


> As has been observed several times, the entire point of a proper haunted house story is the same as its biggest problem ("Why don't they just leave?"), and while you already came up with a decent contrivance to keep the non-ghosts in, the intriguing twist was how you gave the ghosts a way out, since that expands the scale and makes the haunted house everyone's problem, beyond that of the people trapped in it.

I wanted a sense of urgency to the story, and since two of the most prominent cast were other people's characters it was hard to get that urgency from "will they die?"

> And your villain would have terrified Ayn Rand, being a collective soul and all. \:\)

Next time we should have Ayn Rand in there.