"I'm a bit ashamed to admit that when a post about this pasta being based on a bug fix made by bethesta that spawned a creature that instapoped you and corrupted your save I actually believed it"
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| Nice cloak bro, "piece of the night sky" for sure |
PR: When
a extremely strange virus/mod for Morrowind comes to the forums, people are outraged at the extreme loading times and how it broke your saves. What they didn't know is that to play the game,
you needed to run it from a DOSBox, as in an emulator for DOS systems.
As for whether it's really practical or even possible for a PC game to be run in DOSBox, according to reddits of dubious credibility it's possible if you recreated the entire library into a DOS resources creating some sort of pseudo-Morrowing that has nothing to do with the original. So, no.
At the moment of reading the pasta I didn't know what a DOSBox even was, so I just skimmed through that part.
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| DOSBox, imagine running elders scrolls there. |
A friend of the narrator plays the mod, and everything is sun and shine until the end of the mod's main quest line that ends in
a room with a locked door. We're never told what's behind said door.
As all the NPCs have this weird sequence of going outside and repeating "watch the skies", friend figures that the door must open after a certain celestial event, which in my opinion was a rather random assumption. I have played a lot of games, none has time sequenced events where a locked door opens after waiting hours simply because you waited.
Strange things happen around the game, bleeding eye characters, weird movements, an "assasin" that's basically "the rake" but black, the screen darkening for no reason and the friend having visions or nightmares.
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| I jammed some "real night sky" but doesn't look much better |
As the game time scale is faster, and each "real sky" night is about two months, the friend decides to wait years to pass, waiting for this event that never seems to come, which given that The Rake is there always forcing him to motion means entire sleepless days running the game. What a waste of time!
The friend passes about a week playing the game, sending emails to narrator every now and then but messages stop after he claims having a dream where a game character tells him that "it will happen soon".
For a game mod creepypasta, this one was quite disturbing. Of course, the mod itself isn't much to talk about, given it just annoys the player by dimming the screen and having this unkillable enemy just nipping your HP if you stand still too long.
Rather, the disturbing part is the whole "friend that goes without sleep for an entire week in sick, addictive behevior, having hallucinations due this lack of self care, and eventually collapsing and cutting ties with the outside world" that unnerves the reader.
It's quite vexing that the mystery of the door remains unsolved, but like I said earlier the mod is almost a troll, so there probably wasn't anything behind it. 7/10
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