"Mainly, the stone path from the gate to the front doors, the foyer, and the hall out of the exit crypt--anywhere that has a chance of sun. It's to be kept clean of litter, handprints, forgotten items." Keeping track of their own things and keeping their hands to themselves, are not skills that many of the youngest seem to have mastered as much as the older. (Though teenagers are sometimes even more rambunctious.) And everyone makes mistakes. The age range goes far beyond what the Host had prepared for, so long it's been since he himself lived--so many children. The Haunted Mansion has few that died young as residents, and the majority of those passed within the walls themselves.
"The touring area through the Mansion itself is kept dark, and all that space will be dealt with by myself and a few fellow haunts instead. The one area of ghostly importance surviving staff interacts with often would be the stretching room, and the job is merely to keep your fellow living beings from touching the walls as they move. New blood are not stationed there, and some never work there at all." The startle of his own hanging corpse never gets old to the Host, and single touring mortals find it darkly humorous or no worse than anything else. Mortal cast members, however, can find themselves breaking down at once, or after repeated performances. It's important to keep an eye on effects.
The Host taps a finger on the table. "The exact number varies. We open our doors mid-morning, and our last tour is conducted around midnight, with the guests increasing throughout the day." He gives her a few examples. "We've been open for nearly a year now, though there was an attempt earlier in the decade. The tours were...troublesome. Incidents were avoided, but we found it difficult to keep mortals on track when they were determined to wander off. We shut it down and installed real tracks, and now the Mansion has little chairs to ride on and to keep mortals together."
He'll be just a little louder, slightly leaning his form over the table. "Now, a question for yourself. You speak multiple languages? Which, and how fluent are you? It's slow going, but as infamous premise is spread around, we're already finding visitors from near and far. Mortal and ghostly. In fact, we're still gathering residents. Any translation experience is greatly desirable."
The Host pauses as he considers. Challenges. "...The 'guiding' component--of the maids' jobs and my own--entails certain ways of acting. Affecting an unsettling aura and phrasing hauntingly is a large part of our presentation. I've had over a century of practice, long before the thought of tours were conceived; others have difficulty keeping the haunting mystique when guests react unexpectedly, or simply out of habit."
He's somewhat pleased. Many mortals don't ask anything at all until much later on, and this bodes better than most. And she's rather safety-minded as well.
Unfortunately, Rute will have to dig a little harder for ideas of supernatural threats. "It's unlikely that a fire will ever light here despite all the dust, though we've been sure there are many ways out for mortal safety. If an earthquake strikes, many parts of the Mansion aren't quite in your side of the veil." He chuckles lowly. "The inside past the Gallery will stay standing no matter how terribly the outside is destroyed, and we can 'evacuate' staff and mortals until outside rescue teams can dig through the rubble. Not to worry, the Mansion has yet to take much damage from even the worst of such, beyond a mudslide or two around the backyard graveyard."
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"The touring area through the Mansion itself is kept dark, and all that space will be dealt with by myself and a few fellow haunts instead. The one area of ghostly importance surviving staff interacts with often would be the stretching room, and the job is merely to keep your fellow living beings from touching the walls as they move. New blood are not stationed there, and some never work there at all." The startle of his own hanging corpse never gets old to the Host, and single touring mortals find it darkly humorous or no worse than anything else. Mortal cast members, however, can find themselves breaking down at once, or after repeated performances. It's important to keep an eye on effects.
The Host taps a finger on the table. "The exact number varies. We open our doors mid-morning, and our last tour is conducted around midnight, with the guests increasing throughout the day." He gives her a few examples. "We've been open for nearly a year now, though there was an attempt earlier in the decade. The tours were...troublesome. Incidents were avoided, but we found it difficult to keep mortals on track when they were determined to wander off. We shut it down and installed real tracks, and now the Mansion has little chairs to ride on and to keep mortals together."
He'll be just a little louder, slightly leaning his form over the table. "Now, a question for yourself. You speak multiple languages? Which, and how fluent are you? It's slow going, but as infamous premise is spread around, we're already finding visitors from near and far. Mortal and ghostly. In fact, we're still gathering residents. Any translation experience is greatly desirable."
The Host pauses as he considers. Challenges. "...The 'guiding' component--of the maids' jobs and my own--entails certain ways of acting. Affecting an unsettling aura and phrasing hauntingly is a large part of our presentation. I've had over a century of practice, long before the thought of tours were conceived; others have difficulty keeping the haunting mystique when guests react unexpectedly, or simply out of habit."
He's somewhat pleased. Many mortals don't ask anything at all until much later on, and this bodes better than most. And she's rather safety-minded as well.
Unfortunately, Rute will have to dig a little harder for ideas of supernatural threats. "It's unlikely that a fire will ever light here despite all the dust, though we've been sure there are many ways out for mortal safety. If an earthquake strikes, many parts of the Mansion aren't quite in your side of the veil." He chuckles lowly. "The inside past the Gallery will stay standing no matter how terribly the outside is destroyed, and we can 'evacuate' staff and mortals until outside rescue teams can dig through the rubble. Not to worry, the Mansion has yet to take much damage from even the worst of such, beyond a mudslide or two around the backyard graveyard."