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Title: What scares you?
Post by: Kyle VOltti on March 02, 2006, 08:47:32 PM
ok... What scares you? What scared the hell out of you?  For me, the scariest thing I can remember was when I was young was waking up one night with my door closed to my bedroom.  Pitch black… I couldn’t find the door.. When I did finally find the door I couldn’t find the door knob… I pounded on the door… It seemed like forever before my mother came and opened up the door….

Take what scared you… really scared you and make your players feel that too
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Reefer Madness on March 02, 2006, 10:39:07 PM
Zombies, zombies scare the hell out of me....so bad that my mental health doctor said I should stop everything with zombies because it can give me Post tramatic stress...
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kryyst on March 03, 2006, 08:09:35 AM
Public speaking infront of a room of strangers.  

Walking up to the podium, feeling every foot step becoming heavier then the last.  The feeling of all eyes in the room singling on you.  Slight murmur in the back, followed by a supressed chuckle.  You feel that little bead of swet on your brow as another one runs down from your arm pit.  As you reach the podium and face the crowd all noises stop, except you hear that damn cricket chirp.  

You unfold your notes and clear your throat.  The sound reverberating off of the walls.  You know what you've written, you've practiced it a hundred times, but in this instance the entire thing has lept from your brain.  Even worse, you know everyone in the room knows you've completely forgotten also.  So you take to your notes but the words look to be in some foreign language and you have to decipher every single one.  You struggle finding the way to form sounds as if some infant learning to speak.

You then get into that tunnel vision mode where the only thing that exists is you and your notes.  All else is irrelivant.  You pour through your notes.  You then have some flash back to high school and a teacher saying "Remember to make eye contact".  So like some robot you look up and scan the audiance, then it's right back to your notes.  Periods, comas, all those things you probably thought were funny when you practiced in front of your mirror - meaningless.  

You rattle off what was supposed to be a 5 minute speach in about 1 1/2 minutes.  You look up and see the blank stairs, knowing they are expecting more.  The awkward pause lasts an eternity, as you expectantly wait for the applause you deserve.  Then it dawns on you.  They have no idea your done.  So you say thank you, pause and head out of the room.  All you can do now is leave the room and hope to god no one notices the waterfall of sweat that's been poaring down your back.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Xavier Lang on March 03, 2006, 10:12:55 AM
Waking up to something crawling on me.  A spider in the chest hair is never a happy way to wake up.

What kryyst said about speaches.  I didn't even like reading that.

Feeling like I'm being followed or watched.  A light, or a paintings eyes that seem to follow you across the room.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: eCK0 on March 03, 2006, 10:16:58 AM
When I was a kid I once got lost inside a haunted house.  I got stuck in a dark corner where I could actually see my parents talking outside.  I stood there for what felt like hours just pounding, crying, and screaming for they're help.  I was facing the wrong bloody way.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: obryn on March 03, 2006, 11:13:27 AM
For some reason, the thought of aliens coming into my house while I'm in bed scares the piss out of me.

It all started back when I read Contact back in middle school.  What a mistake!

To this day, if I see a special on aliens on TV, I have trouble sleeping that night.  I don't believe they exist - that doesn't stop them from creeping me out, though.

-O
Title: What scares you?
Post by: cranberry on March 03, 2006, 02:28:53 PM
The dark. And closets, unless the door is shut. Ajar closet doors in a dark room are the worst. :o
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Dr_Avalanche on March 03, 2006, 08:46:44 PM
Hospital environments. Needles and scalpels.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Gunhilda on March 03, 2006, 09:44:55 PM
We used to be afraid of the dark when we were young.  But we figured out the best way to fight this fear: become scarier than anything that would dare lurk in the darkness.  :)
Title: What scares you?
Post by: cranberry on March 03, 2006, 09:49:05 PM
Quote from: Redcap
We used to be afraid of the dark when we were young.  But we figured out the best way to fight this fear: become scarier than anything that would dare lurk in the darkness.  :)


The smiley face kind of nullifies the scariness. ;)
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Gunhilda on March 03, 2006, 09:54:11 PM
Quote from: cranberry
The smiley face kind of nullifies the scariness. ;)


We find smiley faces can bring terror.  Especially certain large ones (if you click on them).

Terror usually hides behind a bland and smiling face, ready to gut you when you turn your back.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: theblackknight13 on March 04, 2006, 02:27:43 AM
Immobilization, comes from when I got 3rd degree burns just after my first birthday(oddly still not afraid of fire). Because of the danger of infection I got bundled up so badly I could barely move.

My worst nightmare is being trapped under a mountian and only able to barely move my head.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Megamieuwsel on March 04, 2006, 04:14:06 AM
I'm (slightly) claustrophobic.
For the rest : nah...
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Aelfinn on March 06, 2006, 03:40:35 AM
For actual scaredy terror, that gut-wrenching fear that makes a person so irrational that they are virtually worthless for anything other than screaming?

It's always personal, and it's always all about violence towards me and my family. Monsters, Aliens, and Serial Killers are things I generally only find terrifying when it comes to my daughter.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Kyle VOltti on March 06, 2006, 03:29:40 PM
Quote from: Aelfinn
For actual scaredy terror, that gut-wrenching fear that makes a person so irrational that they are virtually worthless for anything other than screaming?

It's always personal, and it's always all about violence towards me and my family. Monsters, Aliens, and Serial Killers are things I generally only find terrifying when it comes to my daughter.

So that moment in the Shops when you  notice your daughter has wandered off and you can't see her imediatly...... yeah.... that'd scare me
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Aelfinn on March 06, 2006, 03:47:10 PM
Quote from: Kyle VOltti
So that moment in the Shops when you  notice your daughter has wandered off and you can't see her imediatly...... yeah.... that'd scare me


Definetly, though since my wife and I are careful we never really have that moment. My daughter is still young, so keeping an eye on her is quite a bit easier.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Cyclotron on March 06, 2006, 05:02:11 PM
there are very, very few things that truly scar me...

Except, perhaps, for the boogeyman hiding in the hall...
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kanegrundar on March 22, 2006, 12:44:43 PM
Spiders.  They scare the hell out of me.  I hate being in dark, enclosed spaces not because of the dark, but becuase of the possibility of spiders dropping down on me.  

Any time I have nightmares they usually involve Zombies.  Not really sure why.  I guess it has something to do with being persued to the point of having no escape and then being tore apart....
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Zachary The First on March 22, 2006, 01:16:28 PM
Clowns.  Clowns still creep me out.  I think I'd rather meet an unbalanced junkie alone in a dark alley than a clown who just stood there and grinned at me.

I also have this disturbing fear of needles puncturing my eyes.  I guess a syringe-wielding clown in a dark alley is pretty close to my idea of hell on earth.
Title: Call it Paranoia... or being scared, but
Post by: ConspiracyAngel on March 24, 2006, 12:10:44 AM
Well, it's not really paranoia, it is just my most favorite hobby... but what scares me is this:

Do you know that each of you are logging into a site, where every little word that you post is accessible by anyone in the world.  And does it ever make you wonder who is watching the words that you alone say... they may follow your posts across the net... they may access your profile for other identifiable pieces of information about you.  If they come up with enough coincidental "matches" of information (that don't even have to be true) they can find other pieces of your information like your family's name... the location where you live... and, obviously they can find a list of things that scare you the most.  The can learn the way you think, what things or people in your life you hold dear.

Then, using all of this information can track down your favorite hang out or game store.  They can then follow you home.  Track your daily travel pattern.  They'll follow you to work and check your work schedule.  Then, one day, when you aren't there it all begins... the pieces all fall into place.  

They watch you. They watch you get ready for work through your window.  Then, they hide... or wait in their car until you leave, as your wife waves you goodbye or as your daughter kisses your cheek as you walk out the door.  You'll leave just like every other day.  Without any inhibitions, they will enter your home.  With force.  Perform unspeakable acts to your wife, daughter, your son, or whomever may also be there.  They may thieve all of your worldly possessions.  They may steal your passport, money, or other pieces of identity.  Then... as they continue, they may chose to leave behind no witnesses of this account.  

Then, after the coroner's report is funeral.  Then come the tourtureous nightmares.  Then suddenly driving one day, you are pulled over.  There is a warrant out for "your" arrest.  And, the bail bond agents won't lend you bail because you are suddenly over 10,000 in debt.  Then it is made clear to you by the investigator, that innocence is no longer actually presumed... you must prove to everyone that you are indeed not that person that murded a 7-11 clerk for the $50 in the till and a case of bud light.

All because you left a trail of what you are afraid of on some message board.

But... don't let that scare you.  I'm just standing up to my name.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kryyst on March 24, 2006, 08:24:11 AM
Quote from: ConspiracyAngel
Well, it's not really paranoia, it is just my most favorite hobby... but what scares me is this:


Nope that doesn't concern or even worry me at all.  Anonymity is a lie that I've learned to accept and work with long ago.  We've lost our identities a long time ago and this whole new level of identity theft is just the newest form of forgery.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: CleanCutRogue on March 24, 2006, 10:38:01 AM
What scares me is getting old... and losing my mind.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kanegrundar on March 24, 2006, 10:40:52 AM
Quote from: CleanCutRogue
What scares me is getting old... and losing my mind.
I just figure I'll get crazy enough to never realize that I've lost my mind! :D
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kryyst on March 24, 2006, 11:16:44 AM
I've never been afraid of losing my mind.  It's not something I look forward to but if it happens from dementia or whatever I'll be too far gone to know or care.

There is one disease though that I do fear and it's that one where all your joints solidify and you can't move at all.  Thats some scary shit being trapped in your own body and being fully aware of everything.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Zachary The First on March 24, 2006, 01:11:03 PM
Quote from: CleanCutRogue
What scares me is getting old... and losing my mind.

I don't mind it happening to me so much as I do a loved one.  How horrible to have someone you love cease to recognize you.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kanegrundar on March 24, 2006, 02:04:10 PM
Quote from: Zachary The First
I don't mind it happening to me so much as I do a loved one.  How horrible to have someone you love cease to recognize you.
I give you that.  There are few things in this world more heartbreaking than that.
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Silverlion on March 24, 2006, 05:50:16 PM
Quote from: Kyle VOltti
Take what scared you… really scared you and make your players feel that too


That's doesn't work. *L* Fortunatly I can use their fears by talking to them, but my own fears are less useful. (Funny enough I think its the screwed up nature of my own brain chemistry, I don't have nominal fears of things.) But I can imagine others fears of say being eaten by Driver Ants as scary...just not particularly to me.


As for losing ones mind, what if you never had it found to begin with :D
Title: What scares you?
Post by: Vermicious Knid on March 26, 2006, 08:21:42 PM
This thread is like a future avatar checklist. :D
Title: What scares you?
Post by: kanegrundar on March 26, 2006, 10:44:24 PM
Quote from: Vermicious Knid
This thread is like a future avatar checklist. :D
I just had that Ackbar alt from ENW pop in my head posting "It's a trap!"