#Raylene Compton (OC)

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Gensokyo Festival day 6: Scary

Today, I am proud to present a creepypasta. A silly one.

~Is The Pasta Scary?~

My name is Raylene Compton. I'd wanted to try one of the early Touhou games since I got into the series, but I refuse to pirate video games after my father was murdered by a torrent client, so I stuck to the games I could buy on Steam until one fateful day.

It was a warm Tuesday in April. I was thrilled when I found an old Embodiment of Scarlet Devil CD-rom in the charity shop, even more thrilled it was just two Australian Dollars and fifty Australian Cents. I ran home, eager to try it, but little did I know what an experience I was in for...

It took me most of the afternoon to find my external CD drive, sit on my external CD drive, buy a new external CD drive, install several Japanese fonts and old versions of DirectX and finally download the English patch, but the game ran just fine. I was greeted by the familiar tones of "A Dream More Scarlet than Red" and a lovely picture of Reimu sitting down, her legs outspread and tears on her cheeks.

I'm a Marisa main to the core, so I was going to be her for my first run, but when I went to choose my character Marisa was greyed out. Instead I found a third playable character, none other than Rin Satsuki. I was stunned, but I reasoned whoever gave the disc to charity must've modded her in. Thus, I played as Rin.

I'd watched a few let's plays of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, so the first stage was pretty familiar. Rin's shots were some kind of magic fire; we ploughed through the early waves of fairies with ease. There was no Rumia, though. I didn't notice the Rumia-shaped hole in my life until the stage ended, sans Rumia, and stage two started.

Rin and I fought through Misty Lake; during a tight spot with a couple of whirly things I discovered her focused bomb, a giant cross. It felt great to use; perhaps this Rin was some kind of vampire hunter?

Cirno showed up on schedule, but her scene was weird. She was bleeding from some wounds on her neck, talking very woozily, and she only had one spell-card after which she ran home for a nap. This was weird, but I assumed whoever added Rin had changed the story as well.

Stage 3 was where things went off the rails. The fairies at the start were tricky, but there weren't that many of them. Then dead, bloodied fairies started showing up in the background, among the flower beds or lying on the path. That was morbid, but fair enough, it was a mansion owned by vampires. I kept going and got to the end of the stage, but instead of Meiling, the boss was Flandre!

Flandre's sprite was different; smears of hyperrealistic blood on her cheeks, hands and everywhere else. She told me- not Rin, me, the player- that she'd killed Marisa, eaten Remilia and taken her rightful place as queen of the vampires! Furthermore, if I couldn't beat her, she was going to consume my blood and turn me into her thrall!

To my amazement, two bloodied white fangs emerged from the top of my computer mouse! However, because my hand wasn't on the mouse at the time, I was fine! I just Alt-F4ed out of the game, took out the CD and stomped on it a few times.

I was fuming. If Flan and I had enjoyed a friendly chat before she dropped the bombshell that I, not being from Gensokyo, was fair game for eating, that would've been great! Quirky, lore-friendly, and more importantly respectful. But no, it was Vicious Maniac Flandre. I just can't stand it when evil modders go for stupid cliches! Don't they have any shame?!