“Come on, I found a way in,” David said to his three fellow pledges–Dan, Bob, and Ken–and together, the four of them made their way around to the back of the house, where one of the windows was broken. Dan used a rock to clear out the rest of the broken glass, and the four climbed their way in one after the other, falling into a large room of the manor.
This was their task–spend a night in Greywall Manor–the infamously haunted house which the town was known for. It was a well known tourist attraction, but no one was allowed inside, after it was revealed that a number of tours had simply gone missing. No one really thought it was haunted–the reports were generally regarded as publicity stunts, but this year, the frat had decided to put it’s pledges to the test. They were to get in, and take pictures of themselves every hour in different parts of the house to prove they stayed the whole time.
The rumors as to what was haunting the house were numerous. The old owners were rumored to be a family of powerful wizards and warlocks, but that was only one aspect of the legend. There were also rumored to be ghosts roaming the halls, and even strange monsters had been sighted on occasion in the manor’s windows. Still, they were all just rumors, but that didn’t mean the four pledges weren’t scared.
Well, at least one of them wasn’t scared. David, an up and coming star of the football program knew that all the rumors were bullshit. Still, if he needed to spend a night in a “haunted” house to make the damn frat happy, he would do it. When he saw Dan shaking a bit, he snickered–of course the thin fag from the swim team would be scared. Actually, Dan wasn’t gay–but he was certainly the metrosexual response to David’s more brutish figure. Bob was tall and quite thin, a member of the basketball team, and Ken was the biggest of the group, a linebacker on the football team with David.
“Alright, so I guess we should take a picture, eh?” he said, pulling out his phone and snapping a picture of the other three, and uploading it to facebook. “One down, seven more to go. So, we have an hour–how about we split up, explore a bit, and meet up back here in a little for another picture?
“Sounds good to me,” Ken said.
“Well, we probably shouldn’t go alone,” Dan said, “You know, for safety’s sake.”
David rolled his eyes, “Well fine–I’ll go with Ken here, since he’s not a pussy, and you two fags can go off on your merry way.”
David grabbed Ken by the arm and hauled him away, the two of them banging up the stairs to explore the upper floors, leaving Bob and Dan alone. “Come on, let’s look around a bit,” Bob said, and Dan, not wanting to seem like a total chicken, followed after him, to take a look around the ground floor.
Who should we follow for the moment, and where should they explore?
1) David and Ken exploring the upper floors (bedrooms, studies and bathrooms)
2) Dan and Bob on the ground floor (kitchen, library, and the basement)
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