Thread:Prof. Draco/@comment-5995342-20150312215712/@comment-4273152-20150313042115

Bleh, I guess I'm never going to finish that thing anyway. The trunk "stores" imagination. When in the presence of an active imagination, it it's unlocked, the trunk stores mental images and thoughts. When it bonds to a person, it follows them around for a while. Once it has followed a person for long enough and absorbed enough imagination, it can project the thoughts as hallucinatory images, allowing the owner to see a more of less physical representation of their ideas. My idea was that this was how Pratchett had such well developed characters, he'd imagine them, then the trrunk would manifest them and he could interact with them like they were real people. Kind of like the Author on Nim's Island, if anyone's seen that.

In my fanfic, Artie used it to scare Claudia. As she went through the Samhain Sector, she began imagining all sors of horrors, so the chest absorbed that. When she was alone in her room, it manifested some of them to scare her. Given suppose it's approprite to do this page now, given recent tragic news.