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[Dark Phantom]

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/

We were discussing a haunting story from this site in the funny pictures thread that some members clamored an entire new thread for. The "creepypasta" site is for stories about supernatural occurences.

For all you Zelda fans, the latest story is about a college student who received a copy of Majora's Mask from an old man at a garage sale who called the buyer Ben. Turns out that last saved file is entitled Ben. What's referred to as the "Elegy of Emptiness statue" follows Link throughout the entire game, trying to send a message of how "Ben drowned". What makes it even more creepy are the videos as evidence. However, we can just assume it's all a hoax.

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html

...but dammit it's fun to play along

 

[Victarion]

The Slenderchildren would really be SlenderRakes, if we make Crimrag canon.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

The Slenderchildren would really be SlenderRakes, if we make Crimrag canon.

Then let's make it hap'n, Cap'n.

 

[Piper Maru]

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/

We were discussing a haunting story from this site in the funny pictures thread that some members clamored an entire new thread for. The "creepypasta" site is for stories about supernatural occurences.

For all you Zelda fans, the latest story is about a college student who received a copy of Majora's Mask from an old man at a garage sale who called the buyer Ben. Turns out that last saved file is entitled Ben. What's referred to as the "Elegy of Emptiness statue" follows Link throughout the entire game, trying to send a message of how "Ben drowned". What makes it even more creepy are the videos as evidence. However, we can just assume it's all a hoax.

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html

...but dammit it's fun to play along

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Victarion]

 

[Majik1387]

So apparently the Slender game has two more maps: Sanatorium and Hospice. Both look pretty creepy, I think Hospice is the creepiest one though.

 

[Victarion]

Is there a storyline to the game?

 

[Majik1387]

Not as far as I can tell, only page collecting. The atmosphere is perfect though.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

Is the picture above a jumpscare?

 

[Victarion]

Is the picture above a jumpscare?

Mine? No, its just pasta.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

I don't like stuff like that, I got fooled before.

 

[Mike_D202]

That whole story didn't creep me out until the end when they mentioned the Fillipino sound effects.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

So apparently the Slender game has two more maps: Sanatorium and Hospice. Both look pretty creepy, I think Hospice is the creepiest one though.

Got a link? All I can find is updates regarding glowsticks and lanterns. Sure you aren't thinking of the Half-Life 2 mod, Slender: Source coming out?

 

[Majik1387]

Got a link? All I can find is updates regarding glowsticks and lanterns. Sure you aren't thinking of the Half-Life 2 mod, Slender: Source coming out?

Youtube Slender Sanatorium, Slender Hospice, and now the new Slender Elementary

 

[Cunning Stunts]

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/

We were discussing a haunting story from this site in the funny pictures thread that some members clamored an entire new thread for. The "creepypasta" site is for stories about supernatural occurences.

For all you Zelda fans, the latest story is about a college student who received a copy of Majora's Mask from an old man at a garage sale who called the buyer Ben. Turns out that last saved file is entitled Ben. What's referred to as the "Elegy of Emptiness statue" follows Link throughout the entire game, trying to send a message of how "Ben drowned". What makes it even more creepy are the videos as evidence. However, we can just assume it's all a hoax.

http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html

...but dammit it's fun to play along

The Majora's Mask creepypasta is one of the older ones, and arguably the most popular video game creepypasta out there.

It was a hoax, but a decent one. It was somewhat entertaining, but I do think the creepiness was cliche and overblown.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Dunno if this has been posted here yet, but it was right on the front page of the inucreepypasta's new website. It's an oldie, but it was one of the more interesting ones to me.

The Theater
Have you ever heard of an old PC game called, “The Theater”? I don’t think so, because many people say it doesn’t exist. You see, The Theater is an old computer game released around the same time as Doom. Today, if you ever find it, it’s only available on crappy bootleg CD-ROMs, which – more often than not – don’t actually contain the game. The actual legitimate copies that they say were released back in the day feature a blank cover with nothing but the sprite of what has since been named the “Ticket-Taker.”

He is simply a poorly drawn, pixelated, bald Caucasian man with large red lips while wearing a red vest over a white shirt and black pants. He is completely emotionless, though some say that if you smash the disc his face has an angry expression the next time you look at the cover. This is just dismissed as an urban myth. What is peculiar about The Theater, though is that there is no developer named on the jewel case, nor a game description on the back. It is simply the Ticket-Taker on a white backdrop on both sides.

The game was initially known for its inability to install correctly. The installation process immediately locks up the computer when the user reaches the licensing agreement. Also strange about the licensing agreement for The Theater is that whenever the development studio is supposed to be named, there is no text. Most people who have claimed to own one of the original CDs say that they figured out how to install the game by simply rebooting their computer on the licensing agreement. With the disc still inside, and they are prompted to press “I AGREE” on start up and the installation continues.

The game starts up without any introduction besides a main menu that is simply the sprite of a movie theater’s exterior on an empty city street. The title fades in and then the three menu buttons – “NEW GAME,” “LOAD GAME,” and “OPTIONS.” Selecting OPTIONS immediately crashes the game to the desktop. LOAD is said not to function at all. Even if you do have a saved game, nothing happens when you click on it. Thus, NEW GAME is the only working menu option.

Once it is selected, you are in first-person view. You are standing in an empty movie theater lobby, with the exception of the Ticket-Taker standing in front of a dark hallway, which one can only assume leads to the theaters themselves. There’s nothing to do but look at the poorly drawn, mostly illegible movie posters or approach the Ticket-Taker. Once the player moves towards the Ticket-Taker, a very low-quality sound clip plays, saying “THANK YOU, PLEASE ENJOY THE MOVIE” along with a speech box saying the same thing. You then walk into the hallway and the screen fades to black and you’re back in the empty lobby and you do the exact same thing again and again.

While this may seem like a really horrible game, a number of peculiar things occur as you continue to play it. The number of times you have to continue to the hall after giving your ticket to the Ticket-Taker before the strange events happen is unknown. Most state that it’s completely random and could take anywhere from the first play-through to the four-hundredth. What happens, though, has deeply disturbed some players.

The first occurrence is when the player fades back in after walking into the hallway. This time they will notice the Ticket-Taker is completely absent. The player then, without any other options, decides to walk into the dark hallway. The sound clip and text box mentioned previously still play in the absence of the Ticket-Taker, but when the player walks into the hallways the screen doesn’t fade out. It goes pitch-black as they walk deeper into the hall, but the player’s footstep sound clip is still playing as they continue to push the up button on their keyboard. Those claiming to have played the original game reported to feel extremely uncomfortable walking down the hallway; they were anticipating the whole way that something horrible was to happen.

Eventually, the player is unable to move forward. There is nothing for a few moments before a strange sprite that is described as “The Ticket-Taker but with a swirl for a face” appears and stands before the player. The original players of the game say their bodies immediately froze up and their stomachs churned when they saw this sprite (it’s been appropriately named the “Swirly Head Man&#8221. Nothing happens as the Swirly Head Man stands before them. Then, suddenly, a piercing screech plays as the game glitches out. This lasts for a few minutes, with the screeching being continuous. Then the player is abruptly returned to the lobby with all the sounds and graphics being as they should be.

The game continues normally for the next couple ‘cycles’ of entering the hallway, with a couple of the original players claiming the Swirly Head Man would briefly appear and disappear in the corners of the screen as a brisk ‘yelp’ sound effect plays. Then, at some point after meeting the Swirly Head Man, the player sees the Ticket-Taker pacing back and forth (though there is no walking animation. The sprite’s limbs are completely static, but he just hops slightly up and down as a substitute). With his eyes being wide and his mouth open to emulate a worried facial expression. Some players noted that the movie posters had been replaced with images of the Swirly Head Man, which caused them to immediately turn their character’s head away from the posters and approach the Ticket-Taker. Then another different low quality sound clip plays, but the speech box contains nothing but corrupted characters that cause whatever text that would have been in the box to be completely illegible.

Due to the extremely low quality of the sound, it is debated by players what exactly the Ticket-Taker says at this point, though it is widely agreed that he says “NEVER REACH THE OTHER LEVELS.” The screen fades out once again and returns the player back to their starting point in the lobby, but the Ticket-Taker is gone and the hallways is blocked off by a large brick wall sprite. Touching the brick wall will immediately crash the game. All the original copies of The Theater have either been lost or destroyed…

But the creepiest part is the fact that all the original players of the game claim to occasionally see a brief glimpse of the Swirly Head man out of the corner of their eyes.

The thing creepypasta writers gotta remember is to stop adding that last ****ing line to their creepypastas to get that final jolt. In just about every single creepypasta I've read, it kills the effectiveness of the storytelling almost completely.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Heh. I skip the last line or so in Creepypastas out of habit anyway.

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

That was pretty creepy.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

at least this on managed to maintain the past tense, a lot of those creepy pasta writers can't write for sh** and it get's distracting.

 

[Piper Maru]

So has anyone on the hype written their own creepy pasta?

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

I'm not that creative. My favorite ones are Suicide Mickey, the Spongebob one, and the Simpsons one. I like Licked Hand too, but I think that's more of an urban legend.

 

[Victarion]

So has anyone on the hype written their own creepy pasta?

I'm drafting a pasta for Crimrag. I'm worried its too prosy though. I'll post the rough here when its finished.

 

[Piper Maru]

That's cool, I'll have to check it out! I've been outlining a story about a washed up private investigator who is looking into the disappearance of his niece due to the Slenderman. But I've been in a funk for the last few months, so I doubt it'll ever see the day of light.

 

[Mike_D202]

Dunno if this has been posted here yet, but it was right on the front page of the inucreepypasta's new website. It's an oldie, but it was one of the more interesting ones to me.



The thing creepypasta writers gotta remember is to stop adding that last ****ing line to their creepypastas to get that final jolt. In just about every single creepypasta I've read, it kills the effectiveness of the storytelling almost completely.

I dunno, I thought the Zelda one was better. At least that one had video LOL.