Saturday, October 29, 2005

   Scaring Drunks for Charity
So last night was the first night of the haunted forest. I was a tour guide. I called my self Xzana and that I was the keeper of the forest. It was a lot of fun. I didn't take my own tour the first time though I followed behind someone. 7-8pm was the little kid run. So I was following behind a different tour guide and she did all the talking, but I had a lot of fun behing in the back. There was a little kid who kept turning around and waving at me. Aw, how cute!

Then at a scene with a tunnel what happens is you go inside it and it's so dark you don't see this trap door to the side. You walk to a dead end then the guide has to push their way though to find the real exit. In the end the people who were in the front of the group end up in the back. So now I had a new little kid behind me. He turned to me and said: "This forest is really scary!!" I kinda snickered and said back to him: "I know, I live here." That when I think he got a good look at the make-up on my face and clung to his mom. Aw, I scared a 5 year old.

After that one trip I always went out on my own tours. I was the first guide to get the college students. Which had the first jackass in it. While he was standing in line I heard him talk about how he was going to run into the forest and use a shock gun on everyone. So when he came in I changed my speal of the rules:

"In the Haunted forest we have only a couple rules. As long as you're with me and stay to the path, the creatures won't touch you, so don't touch them. There is to be NO RUNNING AWAY (about here the guy jumped and looked like he had been caught doing something bad) and all cell phones, cameras, glow sticks, flashlights are to be turned off. Also shock guns are to be left at the entrance (Again, that "I was bad look"). One last thing. Strobe lights are in effect. So if you can't view strobe lights don't enter the forest."

So I took the group though. He tried to rile me up a few times. And I actually had a few snappy comebacks that were good. I actually surprised myself with that.

At the end of the tour you're suppose to explain why you can't leave the forest, then take this 'secert' path back to the opening. I used: "I have finished my job. I can't leave this forest, but if you can't make the last 30feet on your own I have no pity for you." I thought after the first time I used that line it sounded corny, but people seemed to like it so I used it now and then.

I had a couple jummpy groups. Who when I asked if everyone had survied and they'd answer yes I'd say pity they would freak out because I didn't care if they lived or died. "You better not abandon us sister." This one group shouted at me and clung to me. Then I had another group that was mostly the chinese transfer group and one of the girls really got scared and looked like she started to hyper venalate. It's my job to stop and take them out of the forest if they're too scard to continue and to comfort them. I tried talking to her when one of her group said: "She dosen't speak English." Eep. I ended up having someone translate for me to tell her I can take her out if she was too scard, but after a few moments she said she'd be alright and she got through the whole thing.

I also had the first drunk group of the night. *sigh* They were annoying. They never listened and would try to run out in front of me. We had this one scene with a tractor that drove out at you and I'm suppose to "push" the group out of the way, but they kept trying to jump out.

I had another group that was just going ridiculusly slow though the whole thing, I had to practically drag them from the "drug hut" scene and the graveyard scene. They also didn't know how to get out of the tunnel after I showed them the real way out. I had to go back and get them, then they still didn't follow me. There was even a jumper in the tunnel telling to go out the exit. I came back again and finally they follwed me out.

We had a real good forest at first. The first scene we had a guy stumble out warrning us of a prison break and I'd let him join our group. Then another guy would jump out and 'kill him' then we had a patch of jumpers and screamers. Then there was the tractor that would run at us. Then there was the graveyard scene where people poped out of holes in the ground. Next was the drug hut where three people were torturing a man tied to a chair and killing him. Then there was a nice patch of jumpers and screamers. Then it was a chain gang. Two guys swinging chains. After that it was the tunnel and finally the swamp scene where people jumped out at you.

Then it got bad. People just started to leave without telling anymore. Nearly all the jumpers were gone. There was no more swamp scene. Everyone there jut vanished. And in the tunnel where after the group got 'lost' there was suppose to be banging on the tunnel, that never stopped happening. And the tractor left.

Tonight I'm signed up to be in the swamp scene. I WON'T LEAVE! There will be a swamp scene all night tonight!

I also hope I stay warm like I did last night. Because last night it only got to a high of 37f and I think tonight is suppose to be colder.

But first! I must shower and sign up to talk with my academic advisor.
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