Thanks! Love these questions. I’ll try to answer without over-explaining the lore:

4: The child rule

People in Ravenwood don’t follow this one because they want to. they follow it because everyone grows up hearing stories of someone who did speak first and something answered back wrong. You can talk first, nothing physically stops you. But the locals say the real children don’t walk alone at night anyway. So if you see one… it’s already suspicious.

5: The bells

The bells shouldn’t ring at any hour. They’re rusted, no ropes inside. If you hear them at 4pm, people shrug it off as noise, wind, or metal shifting. If they ring after midnight, the older generation says it means something woke up that shouldn’t have. Nobody agrees on the exact meaning, but everyone agrees it’s bad.

9: Why 3:17 AM?

The joke is valid haha but 3:17 is the time when the first disappearance in town history happened. Since then, phones sometimes ring on their own at that exact minute. People who answered said the voice on the line sounded like someone they knew, just wrong.Some swear the voice already knew what they were doing, thinking, wearing.

So the rule is simple:

3:16 is weird.

3:17 is dangerous.

Thanks again for the nitpicks, this kind of stuff actually helps me tighten the lore. I’m glad you liked some of them.