Moonlight Dwelling

Bed Monsters

A bed monster belongs under the bed.

Only children and the credulous can see them.

Normal adults don't believe in them.

Their specialty is grabbing childrens ankles.

Even a bed monster can want romance.

They have no other purpose than to grab at children's ankles and hide from parents. Grundy

No bed monster shares territory. Snortimer

A bed monster looking for another bed monster needs to find someone that isn't yet committed to a bed.

A bed monster can't come out until night.

Light would destroy a bed monster instantly.

We're confined to the deepest shadows. Snortimer

It is against the rules to go up on top of the bed to grab at ankles when the lights are out.

There has to be some limitation, or all the bed monsters would take over the uppersides and put the children underneath. We can't bother anything we can't grab when the light's on. Snortimer.

A bed monster can come out from under the bed at night as long as he doesn't bother anyone.

A bed monster wouldn't go out looking for romance for fear of getting trapped by a sudden light before making it back under the bed.

A bed monster caught away from his bed faces extinction.

Since people become more childlike as they get older there could come a time when they believe in bed monsters again.

A bed monster can make an excellent steed for a golem.

A bed monster can only travel by night.

Bed monsters aren't just fantasies they're real.

It is unusual for bed monsters to stray far from their beds.

A bed monster can retrace his route anytime.

Moonlight isn't deadly to bed monsters but they distrust it on principle.

A bed monster is mostly made up of arms and hands.

Bed monsters feed on the dust under their bed.

Bed monsters evolve from dust which is what they turn back into dust when the kid stops believing.

The tragedy of all bed monsters is when people stop believing in them leaving nothing but dust behind.

A bed monster can climb just about anything except an Ivory Tower.

A bed monster is a figure of terror for most young folk.

A pun-pal's bed is perfectly safe for a bed monster.

In an emergency a bed monster will risk the moonlight when a friend is in danger.

When a bed monster dies all that's left is dust.

Most children think it's grown-up not to believe in bed monsters, so when they grow up they don't. Rapunzel

Bed monsters don't breed the way other creatures do. They don't reproduce. They form spontaneously from the dust under a child's bed, and they dissolve back into dust when the child stops being a child. Rapunzel

To help a bed monster recover dangle your ankles and scream to get him up and going again.

A bed monster can go out in the daytime with reverse wood.

A bed monster with reverse wood becomes afraid of the dark so tossing it restores him to normal.

A bed monster can understand human-talk but can't speak it.