un: absterge

[downswing]

Instructions to appease the dead were requested. For monks.

Do not greet them bloodied. Treat them as elders. Children. Capable of base emotion: fear, wrath, lust, fierce love.

Spare kindness. Respect. Sandalwood and joss sticks. Patience.

Forgive their pettiness. Their cruelty.

Allow them dignity. Listen, then perform their required appeasement.

Should this fail: binding. Execution.

( ooc: this has been Exorcism 101 and the only topic on which Lan Wangji will speak at length, Spider-walk taught during your next class. )

Comments

text; un: owllady

[traaaaaash]

if one of them makes me lug around large statues again i'm jumping straight to execution

1/3

[downswing]

( What did we just say, we just said. )

[downswing]

( Maybe owls can't read. )

[downswing]

Attempt again.

un: average sighren, text

[lanclan]

If you feel the ghost of a beard, let me know.

[downswing]

( Why, you need to be 'just martial brothers' times two again, bro???? )

[downswing]

None sighted.

[vestments]

How do you treat them as both elders and children?

[downswing]

Sensitivities of elders. Appetites of children.

text | un: wooden sword

[vdovy]

Binding with what?

[downswing]

Perhaps first learn appeasement.

un: headless ragdoll | text

[matermali]

Have you witnessed any of our own being unkind toward them?

[ Does someone in the group need a spanking? ]

[downswing]

Born of mere ignorance. Impatience.

un: abwhorent / audio

[wifedup]

What if all they want me to listen to is cooking instruction?

( Still not over it. )

[downswing]

It does not dishonour or wound to abide.

un: wei wuxian

[weifinder]

Should any and all of that fail, speak directly at them, argue if they're looking for arguments, walk away if they're being unwilling to cooperate, make them laugh, give them nothing of yourself which you will miss, and if they throw a fuss, fuss right back at them.

They don't usually want reminders that they're dead. Treating them something akin to still being living can settle a surprising number of their ills, depending. So many ghosts here remember too much of who they were when living! They're more complex than dealing with the energies who only remember the resentments at their moment of death.

[downswing]

Do not 'fuss' at them.

[traaaaaash]

i like your version better

[recklessenough]

I find salt bombs and silver tipped iron to be a nice conversational gambit.

[ Lucy might be ready to champion the rights of Visitors; Lockwood was still of the exterminate first, have a polite conversation after, point of view. ]

[downswing]

As distraction?




( No one tell him. )

un: qishan

[silverneedles]

Thank you for the remedial lessons.

[downswing]

Qishan taught likewise?

un: pillar of the heavens

[inkfire]

Are all your classes taught so straightforward?

[downswing]

You prefer time wasted?

un: anzhi

[balancedwire]

How many have you dealt with here? And I am to assume this is something you dealt with back home as well?

[ It sounded like his not-twin dealt with quite a bit of this. ]

[downswing]

Sufficient to know the counsel fair.

text; un: rushman

[redhourglass]

went from 0-60 a little bit at the end there, didn't we?

[downswing]

Practicalities cannot be denied.

[reparo]

[At last! Instructions she can follow.]

Thank you, it's nice to have some guidance in this.

[downswing]

No hardship.

un: witchful thinking ☾ text

[nochnaya]

You have experience in these matters.

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[downswing]

( WHAT GAVE HIM AWAY. )