02nd beat; written > voice

[coffeejunkie]

House 40 Rules
Version 2
[Some of you might remember a certain set of house rules going up prior to Yuri's disappearance. Otonashi isn't exactly second-in-command, but Hinata is emotionally out of commission, Naoi had already taken the burden of announcing her departure, and Noda is MIA.

Oh, and Yotsuba is too young to be making rules.. even though the potential for comedy is there.]

1. No loud music, shouting, or being loud after 11pm. There’s a little girl trying to sleep! It doesn’t matter if you stay up late, but keep the noise down.

2. Keep your eroge and other 18+ fare safely put away! If it’s left out in the living room, I’ll confiscate it. Yotsuba shouldn’t have to see that and neither should any visitors!

3. Everyone follows the rules. Even you, Noda..!

4. Please?

5. Try to keep your rooms clean.

6. Clean up after yourself in the kitchen.

7. Don’t leave your underwear in the bathroom… Keep that clean too.

8. The house is everyone’s responsibility, not just one person’s! Especially not just mine.

9. DON’T KILL EACH OTHER. I don’t care that it “didn’t matter” in the afterlife, it always matters!

10. Don’t make medieval traps! This includes BUT ISN'T LIMITED TO hammer traps, falling ceilings, collapsing floors, and spike pits! If you saw it in a JRPG dungeon, you can't make it in the house! (We can play an RPG instead.)

11. Don’t train in the living room! Keep it to your own room if you insist on doing it in the house…

12. Yotsuba: Make sure you go to school and do well. If you do, I’ll make sure to pick you up a gift at the end of each week. Oh, and find an adult that isn’t Noda if someone is bothering you!

13. Continue respecting Hayate.

14. If you want to set up an in-house visit, mark it either on the white board that Yuri set up or somewhere we can see it. It's better to let everyone know.

15. Don’t measure yourselves in the living room… Why is this even a problem..?! I won’t tell you that you can’t do it privately, because I know that’ll make you just want to do it more.
Noda, this means you… I've heard about your "competitions" and I'm telling now, I don't care..!

16. House meetings are still held on Sunday.

17. RESPECT EVERYONE'S PRIVACY. Knock before entering rooms unless it is an emergency! If I see you barging in, I'll... yell at you!

18. No throwing furniture, halberds, weapons, people, or… goldfish…

19. Why is there a goldfish named after me again..?

20. Okay! Please follow the rules. They aren’t even that hard to follow, you guys…

21. Don't discount me because I'm not Yuri! I don't think I should have to put on a bow and thigh-highs to enforce a rule around here...

-- voice;

[Well, there is a distinct lack of Yuri-specific rules. Like it or not, Yuri Nakamura is no longer in Luceti. He's in no rush to replace her, but the acceptance and healing process has to start somewhere. So, he might as well be the one to take initiative.]

I think that should do for now, unless I missed something... Any, uh... suggestions? [No punishment games though! Otonashi isn't much of a disciplinarian.]

Comments

voice;

[precipitous]

[ ..............Wow. She only read about half of those, and she's still cringing. ]

I'm glad I don't live at your house.

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

[Yeaaaah, those rules...]

For rule number eleven, I'd suggest telling people to do their training outside of the house. Less indoor accidents, even if they're careful.

Action

[frequent_flyer]

[New... new rules. And not in Yuri's handwriting either.]

[He stood in the middle of the kitchen, staring at the list, tired bags under his eyes. The glass of water he'd left his room to get was making his fingers cold, prompting him to take a small sip of it.]

[He'd been following Naoi's example and locking himself in his room for days on end, slinking out for food, the bathroom, and little else. In fact, staring at this list was the longest he'd been out of his bedroom in almost a week.]

[Voice]

[savedtheworld]

You're taking care of Yotsuba now?

voice;

[entreats]

... You guys sure are fond of rules, aren't you?

[ She mostly remembers the ones Yuri put up last time, though. At least he seems pretty reasonable, judging from those rules. ]

action;

[hatesguns]

[Noda had been gone for about a month. Perhaps more, he didn't have a precise date of when he had left the house to do some training.

And then he was lost in the woods for who knew how long.

So he did not hear of Yuri leaving the place, Hinata being concerned with Yuri being gone, Naoi's journal post announcing about it... None at all. So when he finally made his way back to the house to see these new set of rules, he had to stop and stare at the rules for the longest time.]

[Voice]

[godbent]

[It's the Maid Hater...]

When Yuri made this list it sounded legitimate, from you it just looks sad.

[voice]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

This seems like a great list! Are your roommates really making death traps inside your house?

[written]

[nothisbrother]

Yuri named the goldfish after you. [It really wasn't him okay]

Though most of the rules don't apply to God [Because he isn't an idiot like the other two--more specifically Noda.] I'll keep everything in mind, Otonashi.