The_Universe
First Post
I'm always the DM, and so I rarely have any idea what's really scary, and what's not...but I'm curious as to how many of us have been terrified by game events, or perhaps by game-related events (lighting strikes outside at a particularly important moment in the game...).
I started playing RPGs in an abandoned back room of a hair-salon, in a building one of my player's parents owned. There was a HUGE hole in the floor, which was always joking referred to as the gateway to Hell. One day after class, as 4-5 of us are joking about the "portal," a little kid seems to just appear in the doorway (still not sure how he got there without any of us noticing), staring at us, not blinking, and smiling just a little bit.
One of my friends, trying to figure out how he found our game spot, says something like "Hey, buddy! What's your name?"
"Satan." he says, his tiny smile and silent entrance suddenly VERY creepy.
"Excuse me?" my friend says, his jaw practically on the floor. "What did you say your name was?"
"Satan!" he repeats, perfectly cheerful.
For about 10 minutes, the group was overcome by a combination of bewilderment and terror. Coming fully into the room, he walks right over to the "portal" and starts looking around. We just sort of sat there and watched...unsure if this kid was old enough to be screwing with us, or what...and a little weirded out that we had just been talking about the portal to Hell.
Eventually, a woman comes back to where we are from the hair salon...it seems her sons name was JADEN, but, he can't really say J's, they come out as S's...turning Jaden into Saden, and to our ears, Satan!
I laugh about it now, but at the time, it was VERY serious. *shakes head* We're idiots.
I started playing RPGs in an abandoned back room of a hair-salon, in a building one of my player's parents owned. There was a HUGE hole in the floor, which was always joking referred to as the gateway to Hell. One day after class, as 4-5 of us are joking about the "portal," a little kid seems to just appear in the doorway (still not sure how he got there without any of us noticing), staring at us, not blinking, and smiling just a little bit.
One of my friends, trying to figure out how he found our game spot, says something like "Hey, buddy! What's your name?"
"Satan." he says, his tiny smile and silent entrance suddenly VERY creepy.
"Excuse me?" my friend says, his jaw practically on the floor. "What did you say your name was?"
"Satan!" he repeats, perfectly cheerful.
For about 10 minutes, the group was overcome by a combination of bewilderment and terror. Coming fully into the room, he walks right over to the "portal" and starts looking around. We just sort of sat there and watched...unsure if this kid was old enough to be screwing with us, or what...and a little weirded out that we had just been talking about the portal to Hell.
Eventually, a woman comes back to where we are from the hair salon...it seems her sons name was JADEN, but, he can't really say J's, they come out as S's...turning Jaden into Saden, and to our ears, Satan!
I laugh about it now, but at the time, it was VERY serious. *shakes head* We're idiots.
