Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27785593-20170904230920/@comment-28396600-20180221000404

I discovered a weird creepypasta-esque piece of media a while back. The bit of creepy media in question was centered around one of my all time favorite RPG video games, keep in mind that the game is pretty obscure so if you aren't familiar with what I'm talking about, don't feel bad about it as I'm sure most people who aren't serious video game nerds aren't even aware of this game's existence. The game is a 2005 game called Fate that was a Diablo-inspired adventure game. On day out of boredom, I booted up the game and at first, everything looked normal except the iconic treasure chest monster on the game's title screen was replaced with that freaky image of the girl from The Exorcist that's often used in jump scare videos. Due to how moddable the game is and the popularity of that Exorcist image in that prank community, I assumed it was just some prankster's mod and thought nothing of it. But then I got into the game itself and when I entered the first level, The Town of Grove all of the NPCs were dead. The music was distorted and played backwards and everything in the entire town as inverted almost like the creepy Mickey character from Abandoned By Disney. But when I entered the dungeon, I quickly realized something wasn't right with this version of the game. All of the monsters that would normally be alive and ready to kick my ass were already dead when I entered the level. The dungeon music was also distorted and all of the decorations had been changed around as well. While they weren't neccesirally creepy per say, the dungeon's decorations were noticeably random with artwork of various .jpg images that have nothing to do with each other featured on the dungeon walls. Some of these pictures included the Ali Gator card from Garbage Pail Kids, a picture of Beaker from The Muppets, a troll face, Stewie from Family Guy flipping the middle finger (which was oddly inappropriate as Fate is a family game), random dog and cat images, and weird poorly made borderline uncanny valley Photoshop pics such as celebrity heads on animal bodies and pictures of famous cartoon characters edited to make them appear as zombies. But then the weirdest shit in the entire dream came along:As I searched around looking for a monster to fight, being bombarded by nothing but dead bodies of monsters and almost turning off the game in disappointment I stumbled upon the only monster in the entire level that was still alive.........a cow. The cow was glitched up really bad and would make awful sounds reminiscent of that horrid dial up noise that computers made back in the 90s. It was completely impossible to interact with this cow character and every time I hovered my mouse over him (or most likely her because it had udders) it would change colors. All of this insanity caused me to get weirded out and annoyed at the same time, so naturally I turned off the game. But right when I turned it off a freaky message appeared on my screen. It said,

"WARNING! This version of FATE features controversial, inappropriate, and horrifying things. If you let your kids play this game you are a terrible parent or guardian. Shame on you!". The message was accompanied by creepy circus music (also distorted) with the sounds of lady screaming

"DON'T EAT MY BABY!" being feintly heard in the background. I tried as hard as I could to turn the game off but the fucking thing wouldn't budge. As I sat on my chair, getting more and more impatient by the minute the black screen finally faded away and a cutscene popped up. The cutscene oddly enough had nothing to do with Fate whatsoever. It was a short cartoon about a kid at school who was daydreaming in class about slaying a dragon. It then zooms out to reveal that the kid had actually stabbed his teacher to death. The kid is then shown in a principal's office waiting for his mom to arrive. When she finally shows up, she screams

"OH NO, THE IMAGINATION OF A CHILD IS TERRIFYING!" and two doctors show up to take him to an insane asylum. He then imagines the doctors as rhinos charging towards him and graphically stabs them both. He then imagines his mom as an evil Medusa-like monster and stabs her too. An image then appeared on the screen that read, "Imagination:The most dangerous thing a child could do,". I was already traumatized by that disgusting cartoon but unfortunately for me, the haunting imagery wasn't over. A ridiculously long period of static then popped up on my screen. Tired of staring at static for an hour, I decided to go down to Dairy Queen for a late lunch to get my mind off of what I had just seen. The static was so long that when I got home from lunch, there was STILL nothing but static on my screen. I then shook my computer out of absolute annoyance and something finally popped up on the screen. It was this awful fake commercial for "Causer's Aspirin" that was nothing but a bunch of flashing lights and loud noises accompanied by a man screaming,

"DO YOU GET BAD MIGRAINE HEADACHES. THEN GET CAUSER'S ASPIRIN TODAY YOU DUMB ASSHOLE!". I was honestly a bit offended by that "commercial" because it was very insentitive to people who get seizures and could easily put some innocent gamers in the hospital. A bunch of images then flashing onto my screen. Although I couldn't quite make out what all of them were due to low budget almost VHS-like quality of them, I did notice a select few. Some of the more grotesque ones included a real chicken getting it's head cut off, a picture of a real person vomiting blood, a Photoshopped image of a humongous snake, and a cartoon of Lassie pushing someone down a well. My screen then glitched up in the most awful way possible and a cartoon newflash popped up on my screen. The newsflash was hosted by two familiar characters, Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons from Family Guy. Tom Tucker said,

"Breaking news! YOU HAVE BEEN PRANKED, MOTHERFUCKER! IN YO FACE! YEEAAAAAHHHH!" I already began to feel my blood boiling but then another message popped up reading "Hi it's me Johnny Knoxville from Jackass. I hacked into your computer and installed this fake version of Fate instead of the real one. Your game isn't cursed you dumbass, there's no such thing a possessed video games you fucking retard! I just modded the game and made it absolutely scary just to see how many gamers I could fuck with. Considering Fate has a small fan base (about as small as your dick), I'm sure very few people actually got scarred by this piece of shit I just showed you. Now that I think about it what I did may have been illegal due to copyright laws and the possibility that I had just hospitalized some people by traumatizing the shit out of them so........see you in court I guess!? And oh yeah, Ashton Kutcher was originally going to do with this prank but he was too much of a pussy to go through with it. WHO'S THE KING OF PRANKS NOW, BEEYATCH!?"

That story was obviously something I just made up btw. I actually consider both Ashton Kutcher and Johnny Knoxville to be hilarious people. It was just a fictional creepypasta and I'm saying this to make sure nobody thinks less of Johnny Knoxville because of this story. Being the fan of Jackass I am, it should go without saying that I would never want to hurt the man's career in any way, shape, or form.