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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johndaw16" data-source="post: 2212866" data-attributes="member: 12033">Here's one of the creepiest things I've done as a GM in my Horror game according to one of my players.  In the game she plays Jessica, a single mother, with a 5 year old girl named Amber.  Now this happened shortly after Jessica and Amber had moved into a rather old and odd mansion that the party had inherited.  The whole party had decided to take up residence in the mansion for one reason or another.  So after maybe a week or two in the house Jessica realizes one night that Amber had disappeared.  After a frantic search of the upstairs she found a fanciful fairytale door in the back of her bedroom closet.  The door had never been there before.  Amber's favorite doll sat just outside the partially open door.  Being the good mother that she is the player opened the door and went looking for Amber.  The hallway began as a narrow unfinished attic hall, all bare plywood and exposed nails.  Around a few turns though the whole charater of the place changed, tucked away into a small alcove lit under naked lightbulb was a pamphlet for an opera.  She then went through a second door, this one much more elaborate and fanciful than the rest of the hall.  This led her to a hallway that dead-ended with only a small cabinet sized door as an exit.  By this time the player was pretty creeped out and kept figuring that the **** was about to hit the fan.  Regardless she plowed onward into a pitchblack open space.  After stumbling about a bit she figured out she was backstage in some sort of theater.  Once she got in front of the curtain she saw her daughter perched at the top of a rickety wooden set of bleacher seating playing on a large pile of pillows.  Jessica ran to the top and grabbed her daughter ready to leave immediately.  But that was when the music started.  A simple melodic tune coming from a plain music box perched on top of a pillow.  I pause for a few seconds and then described what the opera performers she saw descend onto the stage from the catwalks.  One lady and a young girl sat a wide swing dressed in garish dresses, with pale white faces and clashing overdone makeup.  An older man was on another swing hanging below the woman and just to the side dressed and made up in a similar manner, he was singing full tilt to the same song the music box was playing.  As the man sang and Jessica watched the women on the swing began to slowly swing in a wide orbit above the man as they took up a harmony with him.  By the end of it the player was totally creeped out and thought I was insane.  I described everything slightly menacingly but I think part of it was the player just kept expecting something horrible to happen.  And you should have seen the player's face when she realized that the hallways and the forty foot high ceiling of the theater existed inside the halls of a mansion that only stood 2 stories high.</blockquote>

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