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Loklorien s'Ilancy
Oct 20th, 2006, 09:04:28 AM
Some of you may remember a very old thread I started (I think I did anyway), about rules for haunting me. Well, I've decided to update them!
Old rules:



Basic House Rules and Conduct

- First and foremost, you’re going to help me get a job. If you want a place to stay, then help me out in affording it.

- None of that breaking dishes garbage. I expect you to help keep the kitchen clean and throw out food if it’s spoiled.

- No turning the lights on and off. Light is money, and if I’m not in the room, don’t even think of turning the lights on unless you want to pay the electricity bill. I’m not a money tree.

- No hiding things. It’s hard enough remembering where I put stuff without your little childish jokes. If I set something down, I expect it to stay there. Failure to adhere to this will result in a temporary banishment to the crazy lady’s apartment across the hall. Trust me. You don’t want that.

- Excessive noise, ie: stomping around, hitting walls, etc etc, will absolutely not be tolerated. I live right above the super, so unless you’d like to go out apartment hunting for me, by all means keep it up.

- DO NOT write on the walls. If you want to write and draw that bad, I’ll buy you a notepad and a pack of bic pens. Conversely, if I find one scribble or sentence in any of my sketchbooks, you’re out. No questions asked.

- If I find anything in my fridge such as Smirnoff Ice or Guiness, we WILL be having words.

- If I find any chocolate, any donuts, or any cheese in my apartment, we WILL be having words.

- My clothes stay in my dresser. Don’t throw them around unless you want to pick them up.

- I don't have cable. If you want cable, you can go out, find a job, and purchase it yourself. I already pay for the dsl as it is.


Behavioral conduct

- Don’t stand over me and watch me while I sleep. It’s rude and voyeuristic, and people don’t appreciate it, least of all me. If you need something to do, go play playstation 2 or watch a movie. Hop online and surf the net – I don’t care.

- If you feel the need to scratch and bruise something, I’ll buy a scratching post and a punching bag so you can take out your aggressions on them.

- No coldspots. The temperature in my apartment fluctuates enough as it is without your help.

- If you need to talk to me, speak clearly and coherently. No whispering or mumbling in other tongues. I have little patience for crap like that, so if you have something to say, say it. Now - that doesn’t mean yell or shout or scream. Talk like a civilized person.

- As far as possession goes, not once are you to take control of my body in any sense. I've got enough problems without you messing with my head. However, if you find the need to possess something overwhelming you, go take over the neighbors cat for a day.

- DON’T FLUSH MY SMOKES DOWN THE TOILET.



New Rules:


I work nights, so while I'm not at home during your peak hours, please do your best to tire out the cats so that they don't run amock while I'm trying to go to sleep in the morning.
Again, no breaking dishes. In fact, it would be peachy if you would wash them for me!
As for the lights, same thing. No turning them off and on, since I'm pretty much relegated to being in one room of the house at a time, and don't want to have to go through turning lights off all the time if they're not needed.
Only I am able to touch the AC unit.
Don't stomp around cause it shakes the house something fierce. Charley's little restless leg syndrome is quite enough, thank you.
Don't hide my stuff. I know I have alot of fun little trinkets and doo-dads, but please to be leaving them where they are.
No writing on anything, including walls, ceilings, in sketchbooks, etc.
Don't de-alphabetize the DVD's just to "give me something to do".



Alot of the old rules still apply, so I'll probably add more when I think of them :)

Feel free to make your own lists if you want. I know it helps me whenever I scare myself silly reading SA ghost story threads and any other ghost story site I come across :)

Samantha Koortyn
Oct 23rd, 2006, 01:33:44 PM
Well that takes all the fun out of haunting really...

Loklorien s'Ilancy
Oct 23rd, 2006, 04:22:15 PM
I like to think that the reason nothing weird happens to me is because it's too much of a pain to follow these rules.

Sansa
Oct 23rd, 2006, 06:29:53 PM
Yeah if I were a ghost, and I'm not, but if I were... I'd just say 'frack it' and move next door after trying to read through your rules. ;)

Loklorien s'Ilancy
Oct 23rd, 2006, 06:44:51 PM
Well, here's the weird thing. My apartment back in Dallas was great, except that I never slept in the bedroom. For some reason that room just scared the crap out of me. So, I always slept on the futon in the living room. I mean, I would get sleep paralysis and night terrors regularly - even during the day - if I fell asleep in there, so you can understand why I avoided it; heck, I even kept the door closed all the time.

Some people actually see things during SP, but not me. I hear things and feel things like presences. I know it's my own imagination taking advantage of me, but hot dog if it isn't scary as all get out when it happens.

After a particularly bad paralysis/terror episode, I finally got fed up with the stupid room and wrote up these rules.

Haven't had a problem since.

I still get sleep paralysis, but they happen few and far between these days; mostly because I stay off my back when I fall asleep.

Pierce Tondry
Oct 23rd, 2006, 06:57:04 PM
If I were a ghost, your rules list would so be set on fire.

I mean it. I'd replace all that text with a .jpg of a piece of paper on fire.

But seriously, I lol'd at this thread. You are ossum Christin.

Lion El' Jonson
Oct 23rd, 2006, 09:01:44 PM
Coincidentally enough, I just had a psychology test that included dreaming, sleep paralysis, night terrors, sleep apea, and narcolepsy.

Thanks for the good vibes, s'Il! ^_^;

Mandy with an I
Oct 23rd, 2006, 09:38:38 PM
This thread just reminds me of one night while I was babysitting and my aunt was messing around in the back room. I thought it was the blinds blowing in the wind untill my cousin told me the windows were closed. She also visited my mums' house where she turned a few lights off and made the slot machines go off by themselves. :uhoh

Lilaena De'Ville
Oct 23rd, 2006, 09:53:15 PM
Ahhh its not ghost story time is it? :eek :cry

I had a friend in jr. high who was at a Christian summer camp that was attacked one night by shadowy figures. I do still completely believe her story 100%, and it gives me the willies when I think about it.

Park Kraken
Oct 24th, 2006, 05:13:43 AM
We have ghosts that occasionally visit our house and produce strange noises. Like the dryer running even if it actually isn't, doors slamming if your the only person home, random things falling off. They need to learn some manners.