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Her Protection



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

In every major town and city, there is a house of which no official record exists, and whose windows have been boarded up for longer than anyone around can remember. The previous occupants, if there ever were any, are untraceable, and no organisation or individual will ever lay claim to the plot on which it stands.

Nevertheless, when you break in–always through a back, ground-floor window; you must never touch the outer doors–you will see amongst the dust the signs of inhabitants long gone. A flattened cardboard box, an overturned child’s cot, balding patches on the carpet where the pile has been worn away. Invariably there will be an orphaned double mattress in the master bedroom. What you will not see, however, are rats and cockroaches, or animal waste. Vermin know better than to come here.

These are Her sacred spaces.

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The first time you visit, bring only what you need to help you enter the house. Then locate the master bedroom, stand in the centre, and draw an unbroken circle in the dust around your feet. Make it about a metre in diameter to be safe.

Face the doorway and say aloud; “I wish to make a sacrifice. Will you welcome the offering?”

Then leave as quickly as possible. You must not return until night has next fallen.

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This time, bring nails, a hammer, an empty litre bottle, a sharp, sturdy knife, and a torch. Enter the same way you did last time. Remember the mattress in the master bedroom? Someone will be sleeping there. Don’t worry about waking them up; She has taken care of that for you. Turn the sleeper over onto their back and cut their jugular vein, making sure to collect as much blood as you can.

You will need to pour a little of the blood onto the floor of every room, including this one, but make sure you have some left at the end. When you’ve finished, leave by the same way you entered, and close up the boards again. (This is what the hammer and nails are for.) Walk home. Speak to nobody on your way. When you get there, tip some of the remaining blood into your right hand and smear it over your door handle before you enter. Then go to bed.

If there is any blood left, you must pour the rest of it onto any pavement in the city, but do not allow it to be poured down a drain. The knife you must never use again, and should bury. Do not trouble yourself with covering your tracks. When you next leave your house, the blood on your door will be gone, and the murder you have committed will have no repurcussions. From the moment you leave Her temple, DNA evidence will never again implicate you; law enforcement will creep around your footsteps without touching them. On cameras, your face will show up a blur.

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You are under Her protection now.

Just make sure you get the right house.

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149 thoughts on “Her Protection”

  1. I would never do this, having too many standards and believing in Karma and Judgement and whatnot (not a fundamentalist, but faithful), but I agree with some of the other readers that this is one of the best ritual stories, if not the best ritual story, that I have read so far on this website.

  2. I liked this. Most pastas are worded to make you terrified of upsetting your new ‘friend’, but here, it’s like you do one thing, and you never have to worry about getting in trouble for the rest of your life. Though, I would like a sequel, to tell us more about Her. I just hope I pick the right house.

  3. I like the simplicity of it…. though it does take a few days to complete. Though, what if you want to UNdo the effects? do you make your wish known, and She just uses you as Her next hobo-on-a-mattress in retaliation of your refusal of her ‘gift’? That would make a better addition to the story.

    Yeah?

  4. Yeah, the grammar and stuff started messing up the flow, but I liked the ritual itself. It was dark but it didn’t have 102 random requirements and side effects.

  5. This is one of the best pastas I’ve read. I love the last line, it adds that extra bit of creepy to it. Epic 10/10

  6. I do beleive the last line means, if you get the wrong house, you wont get \’Her\’ (i\’m guessing some goddess type entity) protection, only waste your time.

  7. I do beleive the last line means, if you get the wrong house, you wont get ‘Her’ (i’m guessing some goddess type entity) protection, only waste your time.

  8. I found a place like this the other day. I lit a dead cat (was already there) on fire in the basement and ended up burning my hand quite badly.

  9. So serve the Night Mother and get the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal? I think you’re getting your guild quests mixed up, OP.

  10. this was really good pasta. i liked it. it kinda creeped me out but i love good stories like this! keep up the great work. also email me on how to get stuff posted here. does this stuff have to be real?

  11. what if you do this and someone is already in house cutting jugular of sleeper? kill killer and thereby get double bonus? invisibility? all you can eat buffet? mary poppets carpet bag, to put hidden weapon? must investigate further….

  12. A good pasta, but I’ve never really been a fan of these Ritual/Instruction pastas.

    Still, 8/10.

    And people… there are no typos! They’re anglicised/anglicized spellings! Just like the word anglicised!

  13. very nice pasta. I liked the last sentence. made me laugh. knowing me i wouldn\’t be able to do any of that in the first place but if i could i would get the wrong house lol

  14. I normally dislike ritual pastas, but this was the best one I\’ve eaten in a while. It tastes like something that\’s not impossible to do, with satisfying results , rather than \’throw used toilet paper at the temple of stupidity, then when you go home you\’ll have infinite soda lolz\’. I hardly noticed the typos. 8/10

  15. Wait… It implies that the victim is impossible to wake up =/

    There is no way to fuck it up. You just need to attempt to wake up the person. If they wake, then you got the wrong house. If they don’t wake, even after, say, pissing on them, then you have the right house

    Great, the fridge logic ruined the creepiness D:

  16. This, I would probably try if there was no chance of getting caught going in/out of the house and if the wasn’t one of these houses on every street xD Most likely I’d get the wrong one

  17. Oh no Lolzer, these are true stories.

    I highly advise you find a building like this in your town, and callously slaughter some random person sleeping within it.

  18. To those who say this has ‘no negative consequences’ in this, isn’t the aftermath of killing someone a consequence? Unless you’re seriously messed up, that will play on your mind until the day you die. You don’t just kill someone and forget about it like nothing happened.

    I liked this.

  19. I think a lot of you people are missing the point. The way I see it is that this wasn’t supposed to be a creepy ritual, but more like a subtle parody on them, thus the last line. I liked it a lot. 9/10 (due to the continuity of the “smear blood, immediately go to bed, but wait pour the remaining blood out and bury the knife).

  20. Good pasta. The house I’d have to hit is my used-to-be-neighbor’s house, though. At least it’s convenient to break into. Derp.

  21. tylyngonaeatchu

    is it bad i could picture myself doing that?

    not that i would do that but like i saw it in my head and instead of a nameless girl doing the tasks i saw myself doing it,

    very tasty pasta.
    7/10

  22. I liked that it was just
    ‘Fuck it up, nothing happens. Too bad for you.’
    Instead of the usual
    ‘Fuck it up, you die.’

  23. Strange, there’s a place in my town like that… old and boarded up…
    I wish this were true, I’d love to be able to do this :D

  24. Hi, dont turn around

    xD yes commit a crime to fall of the grid, orginal but suckish
    still i ate your pasta

    light thinks itself the fastest, but wherever it goes, darkness gets their first – unknown author

  25. I like this ritual very much.

    A very original concept by my knowledge.

    My only gripes were the punctuational errors in the beginning that made it a bit difficult to read. Otherwise, it was quite a good read.

    –Char Mander

    —————————-

    Did you put “Charmander” on purpose?

  26. I agree with Internet Love Machine, whose ending idea I actually really liked. The story was decent, but not riveting.

  27. Yeah, Elmo’s ritual is actually more straight-forward than some of the others I’ve seen here. Also, I mean- who doesn’t like sandwiches?

    This story: 4/10. The only creepiness for me was the fact that this is seemingly a ritual for “wet behind the ears” serial killers. As long as they find the right house.

    Meh.

  28. not bad, had some interesting parts, and i like the fact that the result is not mone, or eternal beauty, but complete coverage for anything against the law you wish to do. And indeed, if you have the balls to slit the troath of someone to perform an unknown ritual and such, you’re ballsy enough to get a profit from your newly acquired criminal safety.
    Still, it is written in a way that is too similar to the holder series. 4/10 for me.

  29. Charlotte Mander

    I like this ritual very much.

    A very original concept by my knowledge.

    My only gripes were the punctuational errors in the beginning that made it a bit difficult to read. Otherwise, it was quite a good read.

    –Char Mander

  30. Lulz, I like the ritual pasta’s, they’re sickk .
    the last line of this was sick.
    7/10, Great pasta :) <3

  31. I liked this. True, it’s just ritual pasta, but it still entertained me. Left me wondering who “She” is. 8/10

  32. I liked this. It was eloquent and not overly ornate. The last line seemed a little weird because it strikes me as overwhelmingly likely that if you did pick the wrong house, then the next time you come back it’ll still be abandoned. What if instead, she indicated a second house for you to go to? That one might look normal, and then you really wouldn’t know whether you’d done it right, and were murdering her chosen sacrifice, or if you were just killing a random person.

  33. I liked this. It was eloquent and not overly ornate. The last line seemed a little weird because it strikes me as overwhelmingly likely that if you did pick the wrong house, then the next time you come back it’ll still be abandoned. What if instead, she indicated a second house for you to go to? That one might look normal, and then you really wouldn’t know whether you’d done it right, and were murdering her chosen sacrifice, or if you were just killing a random person.

  34. The “make sure you get the right house” made me laugh. I liked this one :) I would probably have drawn it out a bit more though.

  35. Some of your grammar is a little awkward and I kind of hoped for a little more creepiness. I was surprised the ritual ended when it did, and that there didn’t appear to be any negative consequences in exchange for your new abilities.

    It was solid, though, and the last line made me smile.

  36. Internet Love Machine

    I was honestly expecting better from the ending. I was hoping for something like having to sleep there the second time, and hope no one else is doing the ritual. Still lame, but much better than “omg dont fuck up or ur g2jail lolx”

  37. Get rid of second person, it’s annoying. Do something other than a ritual pasta. They are annoying.

    Last line was the only good part of this pasta. 3/10

    1. Think of it as a very detailed “to-do”list

      That once complete will grant you immunity from forensic investigations.

      So long as you do them in the “correct”place…

  38. I like this compared to other ‘ritual’ pastas. I have to admit that at first, I was worried it would be something from The Holders series. Glad it wasn’t.

  39. Ritual pasta, nothing new… I do like the last sentence, though. It has some good dose of unfortunate implication. Other than that, it’s the same old ritual “do this, precisely this, or else you’ll be doomed; DOOMED, I TELLS YA!”

  40. So if I get the wrong house I won’t have to commit murder in the first place and won’t need anything for some chick to protect me from?

    Sounds alright.

  41. Very interesting. I like ritual pastas. Though they can get old after a while. But the ending kept this one fresh. 7.5/10

  42. So either I’m not a murderer, in which case I have no interest in this, or I am a murderer, in which case a ritual involving killing somebody won’t bother me.

    Um. Yeah. Not so much creepy.

  43. This would’ve been better if the author had explored the implications of people who get it wrong, or at least made more than a passing reference to it. That’s the most interesting part of the story – people who may have fucked it up, but are so willing to get this “protection” that they try again.

    The weakest part of the story is obviously the second-person narrative. This is getting embarrassingly common, here, folks. Please stop doing it. The Holders are what, like, six years old or something? It feels like six million years old.

  44. I agree with This Is What, I liked Elmos version better. Also, if you do this and are suddenly under her protection, then they don’t have a record of you, so you can’t buy anything, don’t you guys see?! You’ll slowly starve to death if you do this Ritual! Also, who do you think She was? And if she is so powerful, why does she live in some old abandoned house? And there was a part that said that you stand in the middle of the room, and say “I’d like to make a sacrifice!” Then leave as soon as you say, that. Why do you need to leave? What is she gonna do abut it? Also a little message for Violent Harvest, VIOLENT HARVEST, I LEFT YOU A LITTLE MESSAGE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION FOR THE PASRA, “YOU’RE NOT SCARED, RIGHT? ” YOU MIGHT WANNA READ IT! ;)

  45. Sir Shoop Whoopington

    Well aimed shot. Only people who would be willing to repeat a murder would do something like this. Of course that is just me stating the obvious. An above average pasta, made better by impeccable aim.

  46. I like this one. This is one of the better pastas we’ve had lately.

    Yes, ritual pastas are getting a little old, but this one had a worthwhile reward that was creepy in itself.

    The typos and the overused, Holder-like beginning keep me from giving this 10/10.

  47. I don’t think I have ever enjoyed reading a ritual pasta. They always consist of a bunch of random, nonsensical steps and they never EVER seem worth going through. They are also obscenely easy to write. Observe:

    Murder your wife and children and we’ll give you a tasty sandwich! But not before entering an abandoned house at a precise time and date and talking to a hobo for precisely 5.86 minutes. Then knock on the sixth door to the left with your right shoe. If nothing happens, then GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE. If the door opens, then enter and take a fork off the table and eat the rat shit on the floor with it BUT DON’T EAT THE MOUSE SHIT. When you’re done, go home and kill your family. After that, when you wake up say, “I have awoken! Let the spirits bless me with their gift!” Your sandwich will be waiting for you in the dining room.

    Also, the sandwich will make all your fingers and tongue fall off if you eat it. But it sure is tasty. Wasn’t that a spoooky ritual?

  48. That and what’s the point of this other than just get away with murder?
    Oh make sure the one you really hate is in that bed, otherwise you’ll regret it..

  49. I’ve heard better ritual pastas than this.. I actually thought they’d be better but that’s a time long past. Still, decent noms nonetheless. And I must ask..

    WHO WAS HER?!

    :)

  50. For those who don’t get the last line:

    Make sure you get the right house, or you’ll end up killing a random hobo who snuck in through the hole you made, and end up in prison.

    That is how i see it at least…

  51. Make sure you get the right house…because if you do not…when you go back…no one will be sleeping in that bed and you can’t commit murder. Think about that while you’re trying to sleep tonight.

  52. I didn’t really find this creepy, but at least it was a little better written and more interesting than some of the other recent pastas.

  53. Liked it…wasn’t too creepy, but was a good read. But whats everyone excited about the last line for? I don’t get it….WHO WAS THE RIGHT HOUSE!!??

  54. i liked it, i also rofld at last sentence. and i cant do this ritual for 2 reasons
    1) i need ppl to see my face on tv
    2) there are about 30 million of those houses in DC :-P, id probly get the wrong house

    1. Actually . . . it’s completely grammatically correct. Its structure is unusual, but it is without error.

  55. It was okay pasta, but the ritual pastas are getting old. Really.

    “Go into this barn, wave your arm three times, blah blah blah”

  56. The only moment where I rolled my eyes was the capitalized “Her” sentences. It’s been done so many times that the point the author was trying to make with it doesn’t really do anything for me.

    Basically, a ritual pasta on how to become a serial killer and continually get away with murder. That in itself is creepy, but the whole ritual and what’s required to attain the rewards comes off as a little hokie to me. Just my two cents.

    7/10

      1. It was a random guy. Irrelevant. He was only there to die. Some squatter drawn in by the opening in the house. Some way random dude who just wanted to have a kip and chose the wrong house.

    1. I counted one…. and I’m a spelling/grammar nazi….

      If you’re talking about the “s” in “organization” and the “r” and “e” being reversed in a couple of words, thosr are actually quite acceptably spelled in accordance with other English-speaking cultures outside of America.

    2. I have seriously read way to many of these damn ritual pastas they all have the same writing style and sound as though they are written by the same person . I normally don’t leave negative comments but I hate these things and I wish the person responsible would just give up already

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