Halloween Game the Second
On October 31, 2001, a group of teenagers gathered
for
a party at the house of a guy named Rick, an NPC (non-player character,
meaning
they were controlled by the Game Master, who runs the whole
thing).
The game included several such NPCs and players: Chad, Bay, Paul
E,
Paul H, Will, and Scott. The DJ of the party had been playing
remixes
of the Monster Mash for about 2 hours and then finally decided to pop
in
a black cd he had gotten from a creepy old guy.
As the cd began to play, the room changed, and the
partygoers
found themselves on a deserted highway in the middle of a forest.
A
nearby road sign read Halloweentowne. With them were a few pieces
of
furniture and Chad’s precious ninja motorcycle (which he had brought
into
the party with him). The partygoers were immediately disoriented
and
began to bicker among themselves. At last they split up, the
players
and Rick going in one direction while everyone else went somewhere else.
Soon enough, Rick and the guys met up with a
crazy-looking
guy in his mid-forties named Greg driving a military-grade
hummer.
After a vain search for the others, they returned to Greg’s
house.
In a similar manner as the year before, Greg explains the horror of
this
dimension, etc, etc. (Note: He also made fun of the guys
who
came in 1999, saying they were losers whom he had to piece back
together.
The players who had participated in the first game were a little ticked
off
at the comment, but the game went on.)
As they loaded up on the essential heavy weapons,
Greg
showed them a journal he had found in a curio shop (which, by the way,
one
should never go to on an evil night like Halloween). It was
written
by someone who had come to Halloweentowne from the real world back in
the
early ‘20s. According to the journal, some of the monsters of the
Roaring
Twenties were especially bad and the people who died were lucky.
(For
more information about this type of super-horrifying monster, check out
some
stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Ooo, scary stuff.)
So the guys loaded up in the hummer (except for
Chad,
who drives his ninja) and headed out. Meanwhile, Greg took off on
his
motorcycle on his annual spree for free money. The guys had some
adventures
and fought some monsters, but I can’t remember much that
happened.
Rick got killed somewhere along the way, too.
Afterward, the guys take a shortcut through the
woods
back to Greg’s house to regroup. Suddenly, they come upon a part
of
the road that seems to be slithering in the shifting moonlight.
As
they drove over it, it turned out to be a huge pile of writhing
worms.
The hummer made it over the worms alright with only a little tire
damage.
Chad’s ninja, however, slipped on the worms and he fell into the mass.
The guys leapt out of the hummer to help and pulled
a
much-bitten Chad from the mass. Suddenly, an enormous worm-queen
approached
from the woods. The guys released an amazing amount of ammo in
the
resulting firefight, putting an end to the wormy menace with a nice
complement
of Molotov cocktails.
The guys then took Chad back into town to purge him
of
the worms. They came upon the house of a mystic lady whom Greg
recommended.
The lady got rid of Chad’s worms and gave the few potions to the
guys.
As the guys prepared to leave, they did something absolutely
horrible.
(You’d think I’d be used to it by now, but no. These guys are so
very,
very lethal.) They decided that they couldn’t have a mystic
sitting
around like this, so they braced the door and burned her house down
with
her inside. (I’m still appalled, but not as appalled as the
murder
of the poor princess in another game. These guys would slaughter
their
own grandmothers if they were NPCs.)
Some firefighters appeared, and the guys stole their
truck.
They would have gotten clean away if not for a guy with shaggy black
hair
and a black trench coat who silently walked up. Destruction beat
up
the stolen fire truck and took out the firefighters who didn’t
run.
He also destroyed Greg’s hummer, machine gun and all. In the
battle,
Scott and Paul H were both killed. At last the survivors finally
escaped.
Just so Scott and Paul H had something to do while
the
rest of the guys played the game, they took over control of some NPCs
who
knew about the monsters. Scott now played as an NSA agent with
military
connections, and Paul H became an Amazonian priestess who had traveled
to
the town to take out a monster from the Amazon. They helped out
the
guys till the end of the game. (An aside: These two characters
were
hitting on each other a lot. It was really, really gross.)
The guys gear up for the last battle with their
monster:
a giant spider who is destroying downtown. They duke it out with
the
spider and eventually kill it with some rockets. And so the
survivors
return to the real world, forever scarred by the terrors of
Halloweentowne.