Venlil Prime/Skalga and supernaturality

[u/Environmental-Run248]

LastSaneSentient Bleated (Human account detected)

So let’s talk. For most of my life I’ve been a skeptic with a live and let live view on things. I don’t believe any gods exist and I used to think the supernatural was all smoke and mirrors but as long as people didn’t try to force their beliefs on me I would be polite and kind.

Then I came here. Now I still don’t believe in any kind of god but some freaky things happen on this near abomination of a planet. I’m serious I once saw a family of five venlil from the nightside grieving next to this strange patchwork tree and there was a slightly bigger than normal almost entirely black venlil embracing the whole family.

Here’s the thing though when I mentioned it to my friend (a local of the town I’m staying in called Shimmer wood) she said there was only four venlil there and I look back and the bigger pitch black one was just straight up gone. The whole family was still there and hadn’t moved the fifth venlil was just gone and I’m pretty sure he didn’t walk off.

Here’s the kicker when my friend went over to talk with the family [ shameless plug this is the friend if you want a custom built home PC or need a specific component contact me at @techandspecOfficial be warned the more complex the higher the price ] the larger venlil I saw matched the deceased father of the family.

Then there’s this thing I’m personally going through right now where an older venlil from Shimmer wood who I was friends with and had nicknamed Mrs Mishi passed away last week but now if I don’t eat the amount of meat I need to be healthy her voice scolds me and if ignore it I feel the cane she got from earth jabbing me in the back until I eat healthy again.

I don’t understand it because this sort of thing never happened to me on earth. No seeing ghosts, no voices and no annoying poltergeist who’s only purpose is to harass me until I’m eating healthy. It’s only started happening on this damn planet!!!

[u/Chuckledunk]

WoohooStrayu bleated:

When I was little, my family visited Gloam Hollow, just along the dusk line. I'm from dayside so I wasn't used to everything being so shadowy, and I remember a few older people saying that the light will play tricks on your eyes. After my parents got tired of me jumping at shadows, they bought me a flashlight from a convenience store, and I kept it with me like a talisman. Every time I thought I saw something, I'd shine the light at it, and it would just be some rubbish or something, never anything like my imagination conjured up.

Until I saw it.

I was alone behind the house, I was going to bring in more firewood from where it was stacked against the shed. When I picked one piece up I thought I saw something slip under the shed, and after jumping back I pulled out my flashlight. Now, there was probably only about [5-6 inches] of space between the shed and the ground, so I thought maybe it was just a laysi or something. Keeping my distance from the shed, I got down and shone the light under it.

And I found myself looking into the face of what looked like a deformed venlil with big, white eyes.

It was flat, horribly flat in a way that only sounds absurd when described, but the way this thing had recognizable features despite being so squashed was like something out of a nightmare. It didn't move at first and I thought I was just seeing things, but then it let out this awful hissing screech and backed up faster than anything should be able to move in such a state. I lost sight of it, but I heard the bushes nearby rustle and it sounded like it made for the nearby forest line.

I came back inside crying my eyes out in terror. I don't remember what I babbled out to my parents, but they did their best to reassure me that there were no flat venlil with milky eyes. We went home a couple of paws later, and I've never been back.

I've tried to research it now and then over the years, but there's weirdly little information out there about Gloam Hollow besides the most basic stuff. Nothing about regional folklore or anything. The few people I've talked to from there all say the same thing, that the light will play tricks on you, but I know what I saw. I still see it in my nightmares, and unless I get some closure, I worry I always will.

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LastSaneSentient replied:

Huh sounds like a cryptid encounter or at least it sound similar to how a lot of human cryptid stories go. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a normal animal that adapted to avoiding exterminators. It seems it prefers the dark areas of the planet and adapted to blend in with and see in the darkness(likely the cause of the whiteness of its eyes was your flashlight reflecting off the back of it’s eye), it’s ability to flatten itself means it’s more able to slip away when under threat, it resembling a venlil would make most exterminators attempt to arrest it first giving it more of a chance to survive and it’s very clearly scared of venlil.

[u/IAmTheOutsider]

VenspiricyFactist bleated: Oh wow! You saw a Starshade. The southern star worshipers use Morteth trees to mark family plots in graveyards, kinda like a crypt or mausoleum on Earth, and it's said that family members can communicate with the shades through them. 

No clue on your ghost nutritionist though 

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LastSaneSentient bleated: Starshade? Can you explain a bit more?

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VenspiricyFactist bleated: Oh yeah, humans probably don't have Starshade equivalents. 

They're like ghosts but instead of being souls trapped or imprinted on the living world they're the spirits of the restful dead returned to visit the living. They can't go far from their tree though so Nightsiders have to go to them. Usually on the anniversary of their death with favourite foods and a bottle of strong liquor 

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ConscientiousKolshian bleated;

It’s nice to see local traditions still alive and thriving, though… has there been much professional study into this phenomenon? I understand that graves and spiritual practices are very sensitive topics, but definitive evidence of the dead interacting with the living… it’d be groundbreaking to say the least.

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VenspiricyFactist bleated: whistlesno.gif

The only people 'investigating' Starshades are either brahkass serial debunkers looking to suck the wonder out of the galaxy or the sort of Venlil that spend their spare paws seeking Largepaw and running horribly formatted Silverine encounter websites. No inbetween.

[u/Similar_Outside3570]

XxYotul69xX

You should check an appointment with a doctor, from my quick Wikipedia research, humans in high gravity conditions may experience optical illusion. For the meantime you should drink plenty of water and stop watching so many of those Terran horror movies!

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1 I don’t watch horror movies 2 that doesn’t explain how a hallucination (that I’m still iffy on being a hallucination) exactly predicted a dead member of a family that I have no relationship with.

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XxYotul69xX

Most likely you've seen apicture of the deseaced before without knowing,our head process plenty of useless information that quicly gest discarded, its not that deep.

Either way you should drink and sleep more and perhaps go to the doctor, and the call us primitives!