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Staying Safe at Night
Nights out with your friends are the best but not everyone who is out at night is looking for a good time. Follow these few tips to get you home safe:
1 - let friends know where you are.
Text, call, or share your location. Never wander off alone!
2 - Stay with a group.
See a few people headed your way? Tag along behind! Walking with others is safer than going it alone.
3 - Avoid the shadows.
Has a mysterious figure in the darkness offered you eternal life or three wishes? Persuade them to come out into the moonlight where their true form will be revealed. Alternatively, throw millet seeds onto the ground. If the entity is a vampire they will be compelled to pick them up, giving you a chance to make an escape.
So stay safe, have fun and never enter a flatshare where you are contractually obligated to sign in blood.
Placating the fair folk
Loud music, all night parties, replacing your first born with changelings, the Fae make terrible neighbours. Unfortunately, unless you're happy dodging curses and elfshot or just plain moving out, negotiating with the Fae over work night feasting is rarely a good idea. Gifts can help moderate their behaviour, however, and might even lead to reciprocation - though a Fae's idea of a good gift might not always match your own.
When making an offering think shiny, colourful delicious, or all three. Silver and gold are highly prized (though avoid iron at all costs), or even jewels if you have the budget. Decorating sacred trees with bright cloth (always go natural), or 'clooties', is a good move. If you're looking for a suitable tree Ash or Hawthorn trees are good candidates. Gifts of wild meat like venison or fowl, fresh water fish like trout and whisky or wine are also appreciated. For a smaller offering wild flowers might be suitable though avoid Ladies Smock or Verbena.
Above all remember that the Fae are intrinsically unpredictable. What works for one Heim might not work for another and a period of trial and error will be required. Good luck!
Bereft of a hollow tree, the boggart makes a telephone box its home. It trips and hexes unwary passersby and grants good luck to the drunk who unwittingly leaves an offering of half a can of cider.