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Are You Afraid of the Dark? [Worm AU fanfic]

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FaerieKnight79 said:
I keep a crossbow and loose bolts by my computer. I practice with a crossbow. The few times someone has burst into my apartment looking for a little armed robbery, they had been usually been armed with a knife. By the time they'd get the door open, I'd have a loaded crossbow in hand and pointed at them. You might be surprised how quickly that gets someone to change their mind. One of the times, I was rearranging my livingroom and had the door open due to the AC not working. Guy burst in through the door with a knife, I grabbed a sword that's almost as big as I am, and the would-be thief decided that discretion is the better part of valor. The one time I actually attacked a would-be thief, it was someone who had a pistol in hand as he was coming in. So I put a metal crossbow bolt through his hand as I called the police. Then took a picture of him with my tablet before the man could leave.
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My goodness, where do you live that you have so many home invasions?
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Six times in the last 20 years isn't that many, but still more then I'd like. Only had to get violent once though.
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Well, it's 6 more than I've had in the past 20 years, and I'm sure many people here are in the same boat. I'd certainly consider it to be 'that many'.

An interesting statistic: in the USA (according to the FBI Semiannual Uniform Crime Report), an average of 2 millions homes are broken into each year, but around 3.8 million household burglaries occur. This means that 'repeat victims' are more common than one-offs. Also, in 65% of cases, the thief is 'known to' the victim.

(Added a couple of details, and updated wording to more accurately reflect the source and reduce potential confusion)
 
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Chronocidal said:
Well, it's 6 more than I've had in the past 20 years, and I'm sure many people here are in the same boat. I'd certainly consider it to be 'that many'.

An interesting statistic: in the US, an average of 2 millions homes are broken into each year, but around 3.8 million break-ins occur. This means that 'repeat victims' are more common than one-offs.
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Depends. "Break-ins" can cover more than just homes, after all. Such as breaking into a bank, or a commercial building. Your source would have to specify that they meant "home break-ins".
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Yes, I am actually sure it's not just typos. I do proof read. If I post and then later notice a mistake such as missing words, bad spelling, or leftover artifacts from editing a post, I fix those via an edit. When I actually type one thing, it says that when I proof read, then somewhere between hitting "post" and the post appearing what I actually wrote changes? Or when I write one word, yet an entirely different one ends up in the post? That's not a typo. And as I mentioned, it only happens on this forum.

If I was using my tablet that would be one thing. I know it has auto-correct enabled, and I have yet to figure out how to disable it. If it was happening in other forums as well as when I use word processing programs, that would be a sign it's likely typos. But for some reason this specific forum keeps actually changing what I wrote. Not all the time, but it's been happening. Which leads me to think it's something specific to this forum.
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I can think of exactly one reason for words to become something different that's relevant to forum software, and that's "made a typo, corrected a typo, but then refreshed before autosave noticed".
 
Raxner said:
Six more than I've had.
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Yeah, it'd be really nice if criminals would just leave me alone. Hell, one guy decided to rob me as I was leaving the bank in my bank's entrance. My bank, which is half a block away from the police station and just across the street from the court house. I'd just deposited all my money into the bank, and don't carry anything like credit cards on me. Nor do I keep my ID or other important things in my nearly empty wallet. The idiot was still standing there staring at the wallet containing around 27 cents worth of change (I think) in confusion when the police arrived.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
The idiot was still standing there staring at the wallet containing around 27 cents worth of change (I think) in confusion when the police arrived.
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"Where's the money?"
"In there." points at the bank
"Ok." Enters the bank. "Hey, can you gimme all that guy's money? I was gonna mug him, but he don't have any of it on him."
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Yeah, it'd be really nice if criminals would just leave me alone. Hell, one guy decided to rob me as I was leaving the bank in my bank's entrance. My bank, which is half a block away from the police station and just across the street from the court house. I'd just deposited all my money into the bank, and don't carry anything like credit cards on me. Nor do I keep my ID or other important things in my nearly empty wallet. The idiot was still standing there staring at the wallet containing around 27 cents worth of change (I think) in confusion when the police arrived.
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I profoundly hope that you're just pulling my leg.
 
Raxner said:
I profoundly hope that you're just pulling my leg.
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I profoundly wish I was. It doesn't happen often, but it's been too damn often for my liking. In the last 19 years I've had nine people try to mug me at knife point. The first time was when I was making a late night run to an all night gas station for some doughnuts. I was really craving doughnuts that night. Only thing I had on me at the time was a broken multi-tool knife. The blade was too dull to cut toilet paper, and the blade's locking mechanism was broken. That guy, I convinced I could disarm him then gut him like a fish. Then again, he was holding a cerimonial dagger with a VERY round pummel... by the pummel. I own that model of dagger, and while the blade it's self is good the way he was holding it ensured he had no control, and wouldn't be able to keep hold of the weapon if anything hit it.

One guy tried mugging me just after I got fired for voting for President Obama. I was furious, and going for a long walk to try calming down. Guy pulled a knife and started threatening me. Then he looked in my eyes, crossed the street, and begged the cop sitting there on break to arrest him. Twice someone tried robbing a fast food restaurant I was in. The first of those times, someone pulled a gun and tried robbing McDonalds when there was a uniformed officer standing right next to the idiot. The second time, the casheer at Hardee's jumped across the counter and beat the criminal into submission after he pulled a gun and demanded all the money in the register. Twice in this last year alone someone has left the local Dollar General in a huff over being told to wear a face mask, and returned with a shotgun. Shit like that keeps happening to and around me. And I wish it wouldn't.

Thankfully most of the time said criminals are inept, cowards, or both. And the REALLY violent ones, I wasn't the focus. So I just stayed out of sight and let the police on the scene deal with it. I realize I live in the slums, and know that it's the dangerous part of town. But come on!
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
I profoundly wish I was. It doesn't happen often, but it's been too damn often for my liking. In the last 19 years I've had nine people try to mug me at knife point. The first time was when I was making a late night run to an all night gas station for some doughnuts. I was really craving doughnuts that night. Only thing I had on me at the time was a broken multi-tool knife. The blade was too dull to cut toilet paper, and the blade's locking mechanism was broken. That guy, I convinced I could disarm him then gut him like a fish. Then again, he was holding a cerimonial dagger with a VERY round pummel... by the pummel. I own that model of dagger, and while the blade it's self is good the way he was holding it ensured he had no control, and wouldn't be able to keep hold of the weapon if anything hit it.

One guy tried mugging me just after I got fired for voting for President Obama. I was furious, and going for a long walk to try calming down. Guy pulled a knife and started threatening me. Then he looked in my eyes, crossed the street, and begged the cop sitting there on break to arrest him. Twice someone tried robbing a fast food restaurant I was in. The first of those times, someone pulled a gun and tried robbing McDonalds when there was a uniformed officer standing right next to the idiot. The second time, the casheer at Hardee's jumped across the counter and beat the criminal into submission after he pulled a gun and demanded all the money in the register. Twice in this last year alone someone has left the local Dollar General in a huff over being told to wear a face mask, and returned with a shotgun. Shit like that keeps happening to and around me. And I wish it wouldn't.

Thankfully most of the time said criminals are inept, cowards, or both. And the REALLY violent ones, I wasn't the focus. So I just stayed out of sight and let the police on the scene deal with it. I realize I live in the slums, and know that it's the dangerous part of town. But come on!
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Most of that honestly sounds made up to me. But then again... I've seen plenty of strange things happen that were too strange to be truly believed online when retold over and over. Things that some people honestly didn't believe when I told them the events I witnessed. one of those things "It's so crazy you couldn't make it up on the spot if you tried" things.

And I've heard of the real-life events behind some movies that Hollywood based things on, and it'd turn out that Hollywood had to tone down some things or remove things entirely because to Hollywood it sounded far too implausible despite it being true. talk about irony.
 
Can anyone recommend a well-written fanfic where Taylor joins the Slaughterhouse Nine?
 
The first one that comes to mind is "Dominion," by Materia-Blade, over on SpaceBattles. I don't think it's cross-posted here.

Be warned, though, this for me is the Saikano of Worm fanfics. Don't expect a happy ending.
 
I think we're starting to derail way too much, this has started to have nothing to do with this fic.
 
Keep in mind that each state in the US is its own culture, in some ways its own nation. What the community accepts will vary, and vary wildly.

(I'll say this for neighborhoods. Don't look for perfectly-kept lawns or other signs of wealth. Look for toys left out on front lawns: They're a strong sign that no one within jogging distance is of the mindset to carry off what they can.)
 
No joke, I've had one clown steal my bicycle a dozen times now... then return it the next day because my bike is a POS. Last month I got home from a visit with my dad, and found a note on it from the bike thief. The note actually ordered me to go buy a "real" bike for him to steal, or he'd sue me. I assume it's a male, anyway. To be honest, I've been leaving my bike outside and not locked up in the vague hope someone walks off with it. So the same person repeatedly stealing then returning the bike is weirdly frustrating. It's also amusing, of course.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
No joke, I've had one clown steal my bicycle a dozen times now... then return it the next day because my bike is a POS. Last month I got home from a visit with my dad, and found a note on it from the bike thief. The note actually ordered me to go buy a "real" bike for him to steal, or he'd sue me. I assume it's a male, anyway. To be honest, I've been leaving my bike outside and not locked up in the vague hope someone walks off with it. So the same person repeatedly stealing then returning the bike is weirdly frustrating. It's also amusing, of course.
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Your life sounds like a frikkin' comedy. o,o No offense, but you could write this up and sell it to a TV studio. It'd be more interesting than the vast majority of the dreck on TV nowadays.
 
Vyrexuviel said:
Your life sounds like a frikkin' comedy. o,o No offense, but you could write this up and sell it to a TV studio. It'd be more interesting than the vast majority of the dreck on TV nowadays.
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More long stretches of tedium punctuated by the rare brief bursts of pants wetting terror and very rarely something amusing happening. Said amusement often comes in the form of scammers trying to trick me into giving them my (non-existant) login details for some account and personal info. The silliest ones (supposedly) came from my own email address. Or are (supposidly) from a "hot and horny woman" from a (probably) non-existent hookup site that I've never heard of that's responding to my profile on said site. Or it claims to be responding to a message I sent them. Even better, they all either address me as Red Knight (my former screen name) or Faerie Knight (my current screen name), thinking that's my real name.

Or this one scammer with a fake Indian accent (as in from India, not native american) who would call in person rather then making robo calls. He claimed to work for the Windows Corporation, and that he was calling because they had detected a "problem on your computer." I got him to stop calling by convincing him that not only do I not own a computer, but I'm so tech illiterate that I think a Mead 5 star spiral bound notebook is the same as a laptop computer.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
He claimed to work for the Windows Corporation, and that he was calling because they had detected a "problem on your computer." I got him to stop calling by convincing him that not only do I not own a computer, but I'm so tech illiterate that I think a Mead 5 star spiral bound notebook is the same as a laptop computer.
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Oh hey, I know that guy. I used to play so illiterate I could run him in circles for ages.
 
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