Spirits, we're going to play hangman: BLUE OYSTER CULT

Let’s shake things up, shall we, spirits?

You see a nothing at a gallows, being prepared to face public execution–presumably for some crime. All of a sudden, fourteen underscores appear in the air, magically floating above the gallows. As if by instinct, you realise you must guess the letters of a phrase, to save that nothing from slowly turning into a man to be killed. Luckily, you’re a spirit, with other spirits about–conveniently capable of speaking a single letter at a time, and assembling many letters in unison. You can prevent this nothing from turning into a very executable man.

Importantly, for some reason, you also know that spaces are not recognised as letters. That the fourteen-letter phrase could be multiple words. This mysterious voice in your head may also be playing tricks. Who can say for sure…

You don’t understand how a nothing can turn into a man, or how a trial can be held for a nothing, or even how any of this amounts to any real-world logic whatsoever. However, you do recognise an opportunity–an opportunity to do something good. Probably.

With this in mind, what do you guess?

The nothing used to be a man–Gregory McFarlane was the name. If you save Greg, you get to know his crime (by writing history, if stuff wasn’t nonsensical enough already). However, if you fail, your day will be brighened up by having to create his headstone. Oh, and his middle name, too. He won’t be alive to care what it is.

Greg looked like this, before becoming nothing:

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Six strikes, you realise. A letter bank below. Letters only–no spaces, numbers, specials or the like. You feel the possibility of a hint after three strikes. You also sense you can guess the entire phrase at once, if you’re daring. A response is only heard after saying “Goodbye”. Good luck, spirits.

STRIKES: 5/6

BAD LETTERS: A H I N X

HINT: Music

THE [Imaginary] GALLOWS, AND GREG BEING ASSEMBLED, DESPITE ALL LAWS OF PHYSICS:

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What is this “Ouija” thing?

Ouija here is referring to the Ouija Board that used to communicate with spirits and it look something like this:

To play the Ouija board to communicate with spirits, one needs to place one’s fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words letter by letter, and then finally, “goodbye”. This is the part we refer as Ouija Style.

Technically saying, there is usually also “yes” and “no”, but including them in commenting makes it less fun to comment, so usually we don’t do that here.

This is generally how Ouija Style works. Hope you have fun commenting, spirits!

RULES

this is adopted rule from r/AskOuija; but due to the difference between Reddit and Lemmy (for example, there is no flair) many things are not doable here.

No shitposting. This includes posts that start with “if this gets X upvotes…”

Posts must ask a question (or be answerable in some way).

All comments must be a single character (including number and emoji, they too have to be single letter), except:

When the post title begin with [Meta].
Comments reminding people that they violate the rules.

If you feel that the Ouija has completed its answer, you may comment with “Goodbye” to end the thread. If you want a fancy Goodbye, it would be okay, but it need to have a clear indication of it is a “goodbye”.

You may add commentary as long as it’s a child comment of a “goodbye” (in reply to a “goodbye”, in reply to a comment that’s replying to a “goodbye”, etc).

You may not reply directly to your own letter comment (this includes replying to your own letter with a Goodbye) but you can still reply multiple times in a thread.

You may not help answer your own question. You can still reply to a Goodbye, but you cannot add letters or Goodbyes. You’ve done your job; let the spirits do theirs.

No bots.

These rules are a work-in-progress and subject to change. Feedback is welcome.