| GKL held a live Spades gathering on Halloween for all the Teams at the old "Fawn Estate" Mansion that rested upon a hill, the surroundings outside of the 348 room Mansion were like the depths of the woods, a path leading to an ancient grave yard that was located to the far side of the mansion was still visible, although broken trees were scattered along the pathway and little did anyone know, that on Halloween night you could hear the moans and the cries of those buried alive from 100+ years ago by the evil townsmen, the driveway was long , steep and curvy leading up to the mansion, shrubbery and Weeping Willow trees nestled along the driveway giving it and the Mansion the look of being isolated from the rest of the world. The evil townsmen who had once occupied the Mansion with their horrifying slays from years before, still haunted the Mansion with their evil spirits and claimed all who crossed their threshold..... Halloween Eve: By 7:pm all Admins except one, who would arrive later the next day, and all players had arrived at the Mansion where they would spend their Halloween weekend, everyone was very excited and happy to at last meet each other face to face, to everyone's amazement each team and all players of those teams were able to make it. The rest of the evening was spent with people talking about their teams and families, getting to know each other and the center of the conversation was about the grand night that awaited them, "to at last play team games in person..... Halloween Morning: After a huge breakfast everyone dressed in warm clothes to meet outside, the plan was to explore the grounds of the luxurious "Fawn Estate" which was remarkably the hugest estate by far in the town of Crimson. The players were enchanted by the surroundings of the property, later they stumbled onto the path which led them to the ancient grave yard, they noticed that all the graves where headed with a tombstone but strangely none of the tombstones had any engravings, no names or dates, just a plain white stone that had taken on the rustic grayish color with age and from the weather. Most of the players felt a distracting, eerie feeling of not being wanted there or a warning of some kind that they should leave, whatever the feeling was, it was surely not pleasant, but very disturbing.... Halloween Day: As everyone was preparing with setting up tables, chairs and food for their night of team games and fun, the door bell sounded all through the Mansion with an heavy chime, WildThunder went to the door and at his surprise, no one was there, he shivered from the cold wind that had been breezing since the morning, as he went to close the door he noticed a letter that laid on the old stone post beside the door that at one time many years before had been used by Doctors who were making house calls to tie their horses up to. Thunder read the letter and was astonished at what he read and didn't quite know what to make of it, could this be a Halloween prank? He returned to the main room and announced he needed to read a letter to everyone that he found out side the door. The letter read... Feel the curse of the dread and then you'll be dead The Mansion knows all too well about our spells and the power that we've held Yet you don't listen, so feel ashamed and take the blame Get out now and save yourselves if all stay and play your games GKL will go down in flames. Players will perish and names will be no more, I hold the last card and will say no more.... After everyone heard this letter be read, some laughed while others worried and thought back to the mornings eerie feeling they had felt while at the ancient grave yard, but eventually everyone thought it was a prank by someone in the group trying to scare them since it was Halloween, the preparations for the big night went on and the letter was pushed a side with no more thoughts in mind. Halloween Night: Everyone was having the time of their lives, team games were being played , chatter, laughter, oohs and aahs filled the air, hours later the clock strikes 11pm, the wind started blowing furiously outside, so hard that tree limbs were breaking and smashing into the windows of the old Mansion, bursting sounds of glass was everywhere, howling of the winds hurdled past them, everyone was watching in disbelief, then moans and cries of people not seen , but yet could be heard from outside that was now coming inside the mansion with the winds, the lights went out and all could only see by the light of the moon that was shining in through the windows and then everyone see's the glow of red outside that slowly seeps into the mansion, everyone was screaming by then, but no where to run, all they could do was watch and huddle together. The glowing of red was swimming around in the air, getting bigger and bigger, then all at once it goes to the ground, people are forming in this red glow right before their very eyes, some were just body's with no heads, some had knifes sticking out of them, some had eye balls hanging out of their sockets, it was horrible. The winds got worse , it grew darker, the sounds get louder, everyone is screaming some are so scared they cant scream as darkness surrounds them, and then this man steps up infront of the group, he appeared unharmed but his eyes were evil looking, they were glowing of red and in a deep voice he spoke to the GKL group.. I'AM THE MASTER OF THE DEAD... YOUR SOULS I WILL TAKE... HALLOWEEN IS MY NIGHT... THIS MANSION IS MY PALACE... YOUR WARNING WAS SENT... YOU OVER LOOKED.... NOW YOU MUST PERISH AND BE NO MORE... THE GAME YOU PLAYED... WAS THE LAST OF ALL... AND NOW YOU MUST DIE..... Then the walls started to bleed, the blood of all those who were killed there years before, were now pouring down the walls, circling their feet, and flames were coming up from the floor and screams and moans from the GKL group were piercing to ones ears..The winds were like nothing ever seen or heard before, lightning crashed down, thunder roared like an lion, rain beat down like an Ocean... Then all was quite....Not a sound could be heard.... The Mansion was empty of all GKL players and admins, not one of them could be seen, cards were all over the place, where games once had been played, where laughter had once filled the air, now was dead quite. No blood could be seen, was as if nothing had ever happened. The walking dead people who had glowed in red, were the only ones in the old Mansion, the door bell rings and the Master of the dead goes to the door, Hemi_Powered the admin who was late now appeared with a big smile and said "I made it" in a cheerful voice, the Master smiled and said "yes and welcome the party is only starting and by the way , I'am the new Captain of the team that just started "R.I.P.GKL" and we are dead "unranked" with a deep laugh the Master stepped aside as the door closed behind Hemi as he went into the Mansion and from that day on, no GKL Players or Admins have been seen since that Halloween night. They say the Ladder Site of GKL still remains up and is haunted with all the teams who once played there and you will also see the team named R.I.P.GKL appear under the "Unranked" categories till this very day........ Happy Halloween :) SeventhHeavens Oh, and by the way, you will find "Unranked teams" by clicking on "Standings" on the left side of the ladder page, there you will see "View Ranks" click on the drop box and high light "Unranked" and then click Display, then you will see all the unranked teams. Just incase you wanted to know. :) |
| This Halloween Tale was wrote and posted by our Former Admin Terri [SeventhHeavens] on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 She did a excellent job writing this for GKL and I thought this was the perfect place to post it so all new players can see it. And who knows, maybe it could happen one day? :) |
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