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Jump 050: Creepypasta

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  1. Jump 050: Creepypasta
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  3. Identity: Cryptid
  4. Drawbacks: [+600] Monster, Weirdness Magnet, Men In Black, End Of The World
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  6. [Free] Monstrous Body
  7. [Free] Feel No Pain
  8. [Free] Hyper-Realistic
  9. [Free] Image Distortion
  10. [100/1600] Spook
  11. [200/1600] Demograph
  12. [300/1600] Mark
  13. [400/1600] Myth
  14. [600/1600] Ritualist
  15. [800/1600] Avatar
  16. [1000/1600] Memetic
  17. [1200/1600] Pocket Realm
  18. [1600/1600] Stranger
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  20. It's funny, how things work sometimes, isn't it?
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  22. You see, there's this silly game that came out a while ago that was called Crux. Some no-name studio put out this game for smartphones. It was sort of like an RPG, and you could tell whoever made it was from Japan or something because every so often there would be something in it that didn't translate QUITE right. It was sort of an anti-pokemon, where instead of the player having a lot of critters to boss around and fight with, the creature was the protagonist, with the players levelling up and giving it more power. The creature was the common element in here, the crux of it all, but it didn't have a name. Everyone just called it Crux, after the game. Funny thing was, it was procedurally generated, or so they said - the monster looked different on everyone's device, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Sometimes it was a dragon, sometimes it was a man, sometimes it was a bird, sometimes something even more inhuman.
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  24. And what did it do? Fought with the player against other monsters. Things that go bump in the night. The Darkness, as the game put it. It came out at just the right time to ride the wave of the neo-horror genre that the internet made popular, and the game itself was free so a lot of people were playing it. Of course sequels inevitably came out, and it branched out into different genres. Puzzle Crux. Crux Pirates. Crux Cart. Heartful Crux (and why was everyone a bird?). They had a mechanic that tracked the number of downloads for each, so the more people that played, the more and varied abilities Crux would have to work with the player and beat back the Darkness.
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  26. The latest game came out, Crux Go!, where it relied on players going out to do 'battle' in the real world, rewarding players when they would meet up and do it together. For a good month and a half, it was the hottest thing. And then suddenly the plug got pulled, the apps were all taken from the store, news stories went on about people who were playing the game and not paying attention and getting hit by cars or what have you. But other rumors persisted, because it doesn't just uninstall the existing games. Rumors about people actually going out, having Crux manifest with them. Having it fight with them against crazy things, bizarre things. Shadows and zombies and monsters and things with too many angles.
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  28. Rumors went around that the government was trying to cover it up, trying to capture it when they could, as if that would work. Because anyone who ever played the games would know that wouldn't work. But after that... rumors started circulating on the internet. Things that would get users banned and their posts deleted surprisingly quickly a lot of the time, but rumors saying that if you actually did the things that were common elements of the games, Crux would actually show up. One persistent post went on about it actually explaining to a mother and her kid what it was and why it was doing what it was doing, that there really were some crazy things out there and that it fought them, but that the real monsters in the world don't hide in the dark and it was her job to raise her kid to protect them. You know, implying that politicians were sleazes, that some people are assholes for the sake of being assholes and not because they're Cthulhu cultists or whatever (and no, there's no such thing as Cthulhu). Another person said that they tried to summon Crux and instead Crux summoned THEM, and got them out of an abusive household (and kept them for a couple weeks) before putting them on the doorstep of relatives on the opposite coast a week later. Their aunt and uncle thought they were telling tall tales, but they claimed the feds interrogated them and threatened them to clam up.
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  30. Some things crazier for a while after that. Some dude from the NSA leaked a bunch of stuff and went on the run, about the FBI having some weird anti-monster task force that was primarily hunting Crux, that they'd tried to track down the people who made the games and it turns out that the place that supposedly released the game didn't exist and was an empty field where a sanitarium used to be or some nonsense like that, that they were running into other things that go bump in the night now that they were looking. Which everyone laughed about. Until the deputy director of the FBI was brought to task in Congress - because, come on, total load of crap right? - and they said stone-cold that they absolutely were doing all of this and that they had been in contact with creatures not known to science and that they had enlisted the help of biologists and cryptozoologists and so on.
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  32. I think this was around the same time that somebody got a jackalope put in some zoo in Texas - you remember that, people saying it was a hoax for months? Crazy shit.
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  34. I mean, it was a weird time. Fads pass, even if trying to hide the whole Crux thing only made people want to know more about it for a few years, but now it's just stale and most people don't think about it. These days, anyone who tries any of the stuff that's out there isn't getting anywhere, the FBI shut down its wannabe X-Files division after they got laughed out of Congress for trying to classify the North American Wood Ape as Bigfoot... I mean, they're practically extinct anyway... and, yeah. Weird stuff, right?
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  36. Think I'm gonna try to summon Crux, though. Just for the hell of it. I mean, there's too many people who said it worked before, so I guess there's two possibilities, right? Either it's all a hoax, or the people who summon him don't talk about it for some reason - I mean, who'd believe them these days? Might as well say you're chilling with Slenderman, if you're not some psycho 14 year old people are going to chuck you into a psych ward.
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  38. Well yeah I guess maybe he kills the people who summon him, but if you're gonna go THAT angle, you may as well just call Bloody Mary. Why the hell would it work with people and then kill them? Nah, man, if he's a thing, then he'd legit.
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  40. What do you mean, why? Shit, I just thought it would be cool. And if it's really been doing what it was doing in the game, then hell, maybe I want to say thanks for keeping away the things that go bump in the night, yeah?
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  42. (You want to spread a ritual but need to go undetected? Hide the ritual in plain sight... get cultists to make a game series.)
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