I'm sure we've all heard of the popular anime and games called Pokemon. No one really cared for the anime, but it was the games that drew us in. Getting some monsters to beat the shit out of each other and evolve to grow stronger-- What else is needed for a good time?
Personally, I love Pokemon. It was my second anime as a kid. Right after Sailor Moon of course. It was always a nice little game to sit down and play. You didn't even have to know much about the franchise to pick it up.
But, any true Pokemon Fanatic would know that this game has a large amount of hacked games. These are basically games that hackers edited and made into their own unofficial games for money. Usually they were only bought for the lolz or because someone didn't know any better and thought it was a real version of the game.
But-- Lets cut to the chase. Pokemon CreepyBlack from what I've seen actually started out as a story. It was actually a story that someone wrote, claiming that they had found this alleged hacked copy of a Pokemon game. It was never proven to exist.
I found out about it by mistake, I was using StumbleUpon one night...about a month ago.
So basically...The story of CreepyBlack goes like this...
A dude goes in to rent a Pokemon game. What he got was a hacked version. So, he started the game. Now, he had a choice between 3 regular Pokemon; and a hacked creature called Ghost.
My eyes went large.
Ghost?
Oh Shit.
For those of you who don't know, I have a very STRONG Ghost-Phobia. But- I figured 'Hey, Its only a cute lil Pixel Ghost from Pokemon right? How bad could it be?". So I forced myself to grow a spine and BE A MAN (Although I am a girl)
So, The guy picks the Ghost character just for fun. This Pokemon only had one move. 'Curse'.
So, he went and tested it out.
Whenever he used curse-- Something strange would happen. After he used it...The screen would go white and then the Pokemon would be missing. But their Poke-ball was also missing? Their fainting cry was heard, so we are to assume they were
killed.
Thats when I realized, Shit just got real.
I gulped and read on.
After you beat the trainer, and went back to the scene before you battled them. The trainer would also be Missing In Action. Upon leaving the Area and coming back, a grave-stone would now be in their place.
Once again, I started to freak out. But then I told myself Its only a Pokemon hack game and it
shouldn't get much worse than that.
I was so wrong.
Upon battling more, our Storyteller found that other normal Pokemon would never attack Ghost. With every attempt it would just say 'X is too Scared to move'.
The only people who were spared from the wrath of this- this..
THING was other Ghost-Type Pokemon and Trainers you had to later on (Such as your Rival).
No one else was spared, as long as you used Curse. Yo' Ass was cooked Son.
At this point I had started tearing up. I didn't even know why. I think It was because something I loved and something I was terrified of was coming together all at once.
At this point. I was trapped. There was no turning back. I had to keep reading, because If i didn't my overactive imagination would start spamming my head with questions. Like "What Happens Next?", "Who's planting all these Headstones?" "Is Ghost the Grudge's Husband?"
I had to know how it ended.
Thats just how I roll.
I reluctantly scrolled down.
We learn that the Storyteller decided to use Curse all through the game. This was fun right? Using the easy way out. The only thing that the Story-Teller found weird throughout the game was that...Ghost could not be removed from your possession. You see, Usually in a Pokemon game you could put extra Pokemon you had into a computer for storage. With Ghost, that was impossible. Even if you didn't choose him at the start of the game he would magically appear with your other Pokemon.
So, the Story-Teller beat the last four bosses of the game- The Elite Four. Then the screen went black. It says "Many Years later...", Then we see an old man. He was in a tower, surrounded by tombstones. Apparently, this was us- grown old.
At this point, I kinda breathed a sigh of relief. Had we reached the climax? Would we just have a neutral bitter sweet ending? Would everything be explained?
NO.
(Me: No??!! D:)
Several things had changed. We had no other Pokemon now, Not even Ghost. Everyone was missing from the world. The tombstones were all that remained.
Thats when I knew something was wrong.
It wasn't gonna get any better.
So, our Story-Teller explained that the only thing to keep our company during this eerie adventure as we explored this empty world was a song called 'Lavender Town' this theme played in a small town that had a Pokemon GraveYard. This song is infamous for being cursed and just plain scaring the shit out of people.
Here is the Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJJ-QkZ8cM
I don't know about you, but the very beginning and around 00:31 always made my skin crawl.
Anyway, Our Story-Teller ventures around the empty world looking for something...anything. Would they show this part of the game if it didn't have a point.
At this point I was at the end of my seat.
He found it.
A bush that is normally blocking the patch to a cave, was now missing. Which means we could return to our hometown. The starter town.
I let my guard down. Somewhere deep down in my soul, I hopped that our old-man character would now be able to return home! Maybe you would get there and find that it was a terrible dream!
And your unicorn mom would serve up fresh rainbow cookies and everything would be AWESOME.
BUT
NO.
So, the Old man we control follows the cave and goes home. Nothing strange here, cept that our 'Mom' character in the game is missing, obviously. Safe to assume she died wondering where the fuck her 10-year old jail-bait son went. But who cares about her.
What about-- OH SHIT.
OUT OF NO WHERE. The screen goes black again. We are shown a picture of a Pokemon, then another...another. We collect that these are the Pokemon that suffered the Wrath of Ghost...in the order that we killed them. Damn. We were more relentless that Sweeney Todd.
At this point I was crying like a baby.
BUT NO. THEY WEREN'T DONE RAPING MY CHILDHOOD YET.
Then they showed all the Trainers we killed along the way.
Then...You know its coming. Like a roller-coaster with an overly-obese 8 year old on it.
It
was
coming.
To make things much more worse, the Lavender Town music was now slowing in pace.
I clutched my Teddy bear and dared myself to scroll down even more.
Guess who's back.
And you wished it was Eminem.
Out of no where, Ghost challenged you to battle.
Since you had no Pokemon to cover your ass, you had to fight him yourself.
That Lavender Town theme was now just creepy deep-pitched beeps and moans now.
The option to flee the battle was useless. You couldn't escape. You was gonna get raped.
And since your just a flimsy cheap-ass human being. The only thing you could do was 'Struggle'. Which is a last resort move when you're Pokemon run out of Mana Points. Every time you struggled, Ghost would do nothing. Just kinda stare and wonder if that was a new dance or if you were having a seizure. He would only say "...".
That kinda stuck fear into my heart more than anything else.
Yeah, The fact that he was saying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, made my eyes spring a new fountain of tears again.
When this ridiculous struggling dance was on the verge of killing your own damn self. The fucker finally used Curse on you.
The screen cut to black. No matter which buttons you pressed, nothing would happen. The Story-Teller restarted the game. It went to the Start Screen. The only option was 'New Game'. The file we had been using was
GONE.
I was crying so much and I couldn't even collect why I was crying.
Then, I remembered. It was late at night. Maybe 11.
Oh.
Shit.
I clutched my bear and did the thing that I always do when I scare myself shitless with these kinds of things late at night. I pulled up all of my messengers and messaged some friends. Telling them I was TERRIFIED.
They didn't help at all.
They made it worse.
Among the friends being unaffected by the story, there were the ones that decided it would be a GREAT idea to tell me of yet ANOTHER unsettling Pokemon Hack game.
My friend
SAVANNAH STAPLES, told me that this hack wasn't as scary. She was right, but it was JUST as unsettling.
Here we find, Pokemon Lost Silver. Its also a story, that many people swear to be a real hack somewhere out there.
To be honest, I found the story kinda cheesy. But it was the end and apparently the Moral of the game that put Lost Silver right up there with CreepyBlack.
Ok so, This Story-Teller starts out the same. A guy rents a new Pokemon game and finds that its a hack.
Not only that, but whoever had the game last-- Didn't delete their save file. So it was still there.
So, Just to be AWESOME. He looked onto the file the last player had. To be SUPER AWESOME CREEPY, the Player's name was '...'. Just to prevent confusion, were going to call him 'Gold'.
Thats when things just got silly. When our Story-Teller checked the stats, The last guy had been playing the game for...999 hours??? Not only that but, this dude had 999999 dollars. All of the badges and all the Pokemon? The hell?
I kinda thought...Maybe he was a fanatic gone nuts?
Anyway, then this guy checked the Pokemon he had. He had several Unowns. An Unown is a Pokemon that are shaped like letters. So theres 26 kinds of Unowns, plus a ! and a ?
Plus a last Pokemon named 'Hurry'. So our Story-Teller then goes and looks at the Unowns. The Unowns spell out the word 'Leave'. So basically his spectacular team is called LEAVE HURRY.
To be honest I kinda of chucked at this
So, apparently our character, Gold here is in a tower. In a large room with only a Pillar in the middle of the room. There was no way out. Any kind of music or sound for that matter was missing. He found out that the exit was behind the Pillar. The next room was dark, So he had to use the Pokemon 'Hurry' which was a Cydaquil to light up the room. The room was a deep red color.
So, we just kinda pranced off to the next room. It was dark, so we tried to use Hurry to light up the room again. Then we get the message "Hurry has fainted!". Which is ridiculous considering we didn't fight anything.
Our Story-Teller checked his Pokemon Party to find that Hurry was no completely missing. Usually when a Pokemon faints, he/she just remains in your team unconscious.
And now thee Unown say "HESDEAD".
For a minute, I sat back and wondered. This character were playing as surely MUST be shitting bricks by now. Or maybe he's too busy trying to pretend that it's all cool and that this is completely normal.
Poor Gold.
And then Randomly the room lit up, even though our source of light was...well...ya know...DEAD.
We were in a small cubical room. There was nothing to do. So our Story-Teller opened up Gold's profile. His number of badges had now jumped to 24. Which is clearly dividing by zero.
Oh yeah. He was now missing his arms now too.
Our character was now pale, including his clothes.
To make it more cliche, he's now missing his legs too. He's bleeding from the eyes too. As if you didn't see that coming.
The Unown now spell out "DYING". And we have a Legendary Pokemon...if Edward Scissorhands had hugged it. Its sliced in half. It was a Celebi.
And then just as randomly, Gold teleported to a different room. We were back in the first room with the Pillar, but everything was deep red. I scoffed at this.
So, we made Gold walk north. We passed some dudes and chicks but they don't respond when you press A. How rude! Oh- They looked kinda pale too. Maybe their sick?
So, we walk some more and we find our rival. We walk up to him and the sucker just SUCKS us into battle before we can do anything.
So, Gold sends out our malformed Celebi and our Rival sends out Sadchu (Okay. So it was basically a Sad Pikachu. But I'll call it Sadchu because I can).
Oh and the Sadchu was lvl 255. That badass.
So the two Pokemon duked it out and they both killed each other. Instead of seeing 'Celebi/Pikachu has fainted'. It said 'Celebi/Pikachu has died'. Typical.
Our Rival was so verbal that all he could say was "......."
Probably because his head was now missing.
Yeah, our Rival apparently decided to just chop his own head off or something. Ya know, for fun.
So we...uh...won? I guess, and then we returned to our normal screen. Now Gold is kinda transparent.
Oh. And now he lost his entire body.
Good going Gold.
This headless wonder now somehow had 40 badges.
Our creepy Unown now say "NOMORE"
We dont know how, but Johnny-No Legs somehow was now back at his house, in his room. So, we go downstairs.
Maybe Happy Unicorn mom would be there?
WRONG.
So Gold, realizing nothing is interactive just kinda...Prances? Outside. The door didn't stop him, so he just kinda walked out into a voice of black surrounding the house.
Floating house. Cool.
So we just walk out into the void of...whatever. Then we see someone else, its Gold's normal character the way he should look. Ya know...with his legs and whatnot.....Cool...?
So we talk to it and he says
Then poofed....The hell?
'??? used Nightmare'
The hell is going on? o_O
So you just poof to that random small cubical room again. Except for this time our character is nowhere to be seen. Even walking causes no sounds of walking into a wall like an idiot.
So, we checked the profile and now everything has now jumped in reverse and we have zero badges. What happened to them? Did he eat them?
The rest of the description about what happened is a bunch of awkward sentences that I don't understand. Something about a grave on a grave with a grave and grave grave grave?
Whatever.
Then we get an explanation about why everything was an acid trip.
Apparently, Gold was like one of those creepy mom's who are obsessed with their kids being perfect lil Barbie dolls. He wanted to be AWESOOOOOOOOOOMMEEEEEEE.
So he kept training like some sort of wind-up doll. Tried to out-run death. Failed.
Then Gold realized that no matter how badass you are, your ass is cooked once they select 'New Game'.
Moral? Avon face cream can only save you for so long.
Original Lost Silver Story:
http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/071/386/original/creepypasta.png?1284287490
Original CreepyBlack Story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iYwMgG8dNs
Their both being made into real games by two separate groups of people wanting to rape your childhood.
Happy Halloween.
Last two pictures were edited with the help of Savannah Staples (www.Karkau.DeviantArt.com)
