I was playing Spore yesterday and I was playing the creature stage. I was playing as an herbivore (much easier than playing as a carnivore), and my creature was some sort of duck with flowers all over it. I had just befriended this cat-looking thing when I saw something. In the distance. I could just barely make it out. A few feet farther and it would too far away for the game to render. It was a tall, thin, black creature with long legs and arms. It was just standing there motionless. Staring at me. It was big enough that the game rendered its eyes. White eyes with no pupils. There are NO EYES ON SPORE THAT LOOK LIKE THAT. I thought it was a hacked creature someone had made, since my theme of my game was other people's inventions. It didn't move at all. I clicked on it and added it to my Sporepedia.
Suddenly, a small, baby creature (of the cat species I had befriended) wandered far away from the nest (which is weird, because baby creatures are programmed to NEVER go far from the nest). It walked over to the strange "thing" and tried to socialize with it. The "thing" didn't move. I could see it was no longer staring at me. It was staring straight down, directly at the baby cat creature. Suddenly, other baby creatures of various species walked over and started socializing with it (or trying to) SIMULTANEOUSLY. The "thing" started swaying back and forth, almost as if caught in the wind, its tentacle-like, abnormally long arms moving back and forth. Suddenly a sound file started that I KNEW WAS NOT IN THE GAME. It was like crying, like if you gave your creature the Sad emotion/animation in the Creature Creator Test Mode. Suddenly the screen blacked out. My monitor was still on, as the light was still green.
When my screen came back on, the "thing" was gone. I opened up my Sporepedia and looked it up. Its name was "Slenderman", and its description was "yourenext.......................................". Needless to say, I was kind of freaked out. I exited my Sporepedia and wandered over to where the "Slenderman" was. It was gone, as I stated before. However, the ground near where it was was littered with the dead corpses of all the baby animals that had wandered over to it. Here's where it gets even freakier! The corpses were sitting in huge puddles of blood, which doesn't usually happen in Spore. (Ok, not at all) I decided to run away. I wandered away from my nest, migrating (even though a new nest hadn't opened yet). But it seemed that every creature on the planet, including the friendly Cat creatures, now had a Red, angry face for their emoticon. I could still socialize with them, strangely, and they never attacked me. But even if I befriended the required amount to ally with them, they would always have an angry face when I moused over them, even when my minimap labeled their nest as ALLY and they were my ally ingame.
I kept moving until I saw it. A huge hole in the ground. (giant bottomless pits do NOT exist in Spore) I looked into it. I couldn't a bottom. Just empty blackness. Suddenly, I heard a roar. I turned around and there was an Epic right behind me. The only way I could go was into the hole. So I jumped. My creature landed in some sort of cave. (Which also do NOT exist in Spore) I was freaking out even more! Holes and caves do NOT exist in Spore. Had I stumbled onto some deleted Beta files that never made it into the final game? Was the "Slenderman" a rejected creature? I had heard of the cryptid Slenderman, so knew what this "thing" was based on. But why would the creators even put a Slenderman in a kids game? I had to get out of this cave. I wandered through the cave, which was completely empty. Then in the pitch blackness, I saw two white lights. With no pupils. I'd found him. Now was my chance to kill him for good. I used the Spit command, and his health dropped two. He didn't fight back. I walked up and used the "Strike" and "Bite" command repeatedly. No comeback. I kept attacking until he was dead. Right when he fell into a heap on the ground, my whole computer froze. I exited the game, rebooted the computer, and logged back onto Spore. The background on the main menu of the galaxy was replaced with a CLOSE-UP (understatement) of the Slenderman. I could now get a good look at his face.
I could my creature's screaming face in his white eyes, almost like my creature was casting a reflection in his eyes. (If that makes any sense) Another sound file started.
"Yourenext......................................"
You have just entered..........The Goop Zone! Prepare, for what you're about to read may cause your head to explode out of sheer terror.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
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Test Score
Disclaimer: This story is 100% true. I just got my results my Science Core 40, and this was my test score:
Test Score: 666
Test Score: 666
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