"I must say, even that is far more than many can boast about." Absolutely the truth.
"As challenging as it can be, it becomes easier the more you allow yourself to enjoy it," he advises. "That part is more for those who work in the front besides. The exit crypt simply involves wishing guests farewell, and that we're always looking for new residents--my fellow haunts are there to enforce that at the same time. And it takes practice, naturally, as for any skill."
The Host settles back and higher, a little quieter again. "There are visual components to it--you aren't particularly intimidating, I'm unafraid." A terrible joke on multiple levels, enjoy. "Disheveled hair, some cosmetics to give the illusion of sunken eyes and an unhealthy pallor, a rather dark uniform--some find it easier to get into character once that's all made up."
Perhaps a feverish pallor would work better on Rute's skin instead of the usual pale-skinned grey. If this workds out.
Ah, one of these questions. "You see, Miss Fernandes, the living and the dead do not occupy the world in the same way. The term 'passing on' is an apt one; we find ourselves in a different layer of reality than your own, where oftentimes mortalkind cannot perceive us at all. Humans, mostly. A few animals seem to have a better time of it; we've found that for cats in particular." Hm-hm-hmm.
"I cannot explain the details precisely, as the rules of haunting are not perfectly consistent. As near as I can summarize, we ghosts are pieces of the past, like undead paintings or photographs (though we have plenty of those already). We cannot change much, and we exist even though another 'self' exists--as our bodies, or what may be left of them. The Mansion itself exists on a similar principle; there is the Mansion you can see, and the Mansion that exists as a piece of past that persists regardless! Most haunted locations in the world are incidentally this way. Houses, graveyards, sources of impressing experiences in the most literal sense; kept in a single form long enough that ghosts find it familiar enough to keep themselves there, even once the location may have mortal interference. Our Haunted Mansion is unique! Here, we keep it this way, instead of neglectful or mournful mortals." The abrupt chill that pulses through the room is more of a cool breeze, underscoring his words with gentle notes from the bells along the walls. (He carefully pins the paper down with a finger before it can skitter more than a few inches across the table.)
"With how many spirits haunt this place, we can briefly take mortals into this 'unliving photograph' if they are so willing to call us in return. We meet in a place...halfway, and that is a large part of the tour itself. If such an emergency occurs, then we can keep mortals inside for far longer than would be survivable if truly buried under wreckage."
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Date: 2018-12-31 10:17 am (UTC)"As challenging as it can be, it becomes easier the more you allow yourself to enjoy it," he advises. "That part is more for those who work in the front besides. The exit crypt simply involves wishing guests farewell, and that we're always looking for new residents--my fellow haunts are there to enforce that at the same time. And it takes practice, naturally, as for any skill."
The Host settles back and higher, a little quieter again. "There are visual components to it--you aren't particularly intimidating, I'm unafraid." A terrible joke on multiple levels, enjoy. "Disheveled hair, some cosmetics to give the illusion of sunken eyes and an unhealthy pallor, a rather dark uniform--some find it easier to get into character once that's all made up."
Perhaps a feverish pallor would work better on Rute's skin instead of the usual pale-skinned grey. If this workds out.
Ah, one of these questions. "You see, Miss Fernandes, the living and the dead do not occupy the world in the same way. The term 'passing on' is an apt one; we find ourselves in a different layer of reality than your own, where oftentimes mortalkind cannot perceive us at all. Humans, mostly. A few animals seem to have a better time of it; we've found that for cats in particular." Hm-hm-hmm.
"I cannot explain the details precisely, as the rules of haunting are not perfectly consistent. As near as I can summarize, we ghosts are pieces of the past, like undead paintings or photographs (though we have plenty of those already). We cannot change much, and we exist even though another 'self' exists--as our bodies, or what may be left of them. The Mansion itself exists on a similar principle; there is the Mansion you can see, and the Mansion that exists as a piece of past that persists regardless! Most haunted locations in the world are incidentally this way. Houses, graveyards, sources of impressing experiences in the most literal sense; kept in a single form long enough that ghosts find it familiar enough to keep themselves there, even once the location may have mortal interference. Our Haunted Mansion is unique! Here, we keep it this way, instead of neglectful or mournful mortals." The abrupt chill that pulses through the room is more of a cool breeze, underscoring his words with gentle notes from the bells along the walls. (He carefully pins the paper down with a finger before it can skitter more than a few inches across the table.)
"With how many spirits haunt this place, we can briefly take mortals into this 'unliving photograph' if they are so willing to call us in return. We meet in a place...halfway, and that is a large part of the tour itself. If such an emergency occurs, then we can keep mortals inside for far longer than would be survivable if truly buried under wreckage."