Campfire Stories
Survs, you have spawned by the warmth, comfort, and safety of the campfire. The rest of crew is around you sharing stories of their most recent triumphs and defeats until it finally goes around the circle and comes around to you. Now it's your turn.
I want to hear some of your most unforgettable moments in Dead by Daylight. Whether it be a nail-biting escape, a surprising turn of events, a funny moment, or an epic display of teamwork, share a story that had your heart racing or left you in stitches.
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one time i got a bubba on dead dawg and it looked really grim cause he had us all nearly dead at 3 gens. but he got on me and he smashed the doors in the main and i just dunno what happened but i geared up and RAN rly hard and somehow i looped him for all three gens and the gates, and we all got out ok. :)
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Oh, I have one to tell!
It is a story I've shared with the Forums before. It is a tale from the Old DBD, but it will always remain fresh in my mind.
So there I was, playing survivor on Old Shelter Woods against an Insta-Saw Billy. Said Hillbilly was easily one of the best killer players I've ever seen: full P3 and extremely aggressive, barely gave us any time to do our objective.
But us survivors did not back down. Even as Solo Queue, we would prevail!
We hunted for the Ruin totem, we took chases, we fixed gens, we saved each other. We fought tooth and nail, really gave it our all. That trial was definitely a test of skill, for both sides.
In the end, only two of us escaped. That was the outcome of one of the best trials I've ever had in DBD.
And at the time it was a victory to be proud of! Now… well, now it is just a treasured memory from a better time... and a better game.
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Edit: Here's my Survivor story.
It was on Dead Dawg. Lol.
There was a Huntress. She was in a really bad mood after slugging everyone. She bled everyone out and I was the last one left. She walked all over my Survivor's body, threw hatchets at me on the floor, all of it.
I needed just one more pallet stun to finish a challenge. So I crawled over to a pallet and then back towards her. What happened? Another hatchet in the back. So I kept trying to make a breakthrough and idk what clicked but she finally understood!
She picked me up and let me wiggle free. The whole time I just kept getting this impression that she really had an urge to sacrifice my Survivor.
She let me get the stun but when it came time for hatch it was like a struggle for her to let me have it She would hit towards the hatch and look away. She couldn't even look at me going through it lol. Even right before I went through the hatch she decided it was time to injure my Survivor Imao
A Huntress that struggled against her worst instincts probably takes the cake for my favorite Survivor story.
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"There I was, Cincinnati, on May 28th in the year 2016 where it all started to go downhill…"
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Not a survivor story... but I like to think it is spoken about in hushed whispers around Survivor camp fires xD
I remember the first 2vs8 as Trapper that I actually got an 8k in.
I was paired with a Huntress, and we were on Thompson House. When we started she shook her head at me, I guess she wasn't too impressed I was playing Trapper... I didn't know that for sure, but that's what it seemed like, and it makes sense I suppose cause our powers don't really complement each other, but who wants to queue again?
At first she was kinda going hard while I was just doing my Trapper things, but I had a few really devious trap ideas that day, and fearing someone just going round disarming them if I did obvious stuff, I put them down in some really weird locations. Despite that, as I was roaming around, I had some very early success with chases, just nailed my mind games and was duping survivors and guessing right almost every time, so it wasn't bad going at all.
Despite that survivors werent goofing around and we lost 4 gens pretty fast… but the turning point was, as I was doing a quick trap grab off the tractor after I hooked a survivor, I saw Huntress in the distance at the side of main in the midst of her chases... a Nea was getting in her way and body blocked one of her hatchets, but immediately sprinted into one of my weird traps by the fence, the Feng she took the hit for took the chance to scatter but hit another one at the pallet drop between the hay bails. I guess a Nancy came through main to help one free from the trap cause as Huntress downed the Nea, another trap snapped at the bottom of the stairs in front of main as Nancy came through...
In that moment the Huntress looked at me as I wandered across from tractor with a mixture of disbelief and respect as we basically took 4 hooks in 20 seconds... from that point on she just chilled out, sat in main throwing hatchets down and leaving the chasing to me and my traps while she sniped from overhead. The pressure we created in that moment snowballed the game and it was just a formality closing it out as survivors started dying off.
To put the cherry on it, even when there was 2 left for hatch, both survivors wandered into more random traps 1 after another, and I genuinley laughed as a on high Huntress shot the first down while I took out the other at that same damn trap in front of main... xD
I have no idea why survivors had so much trouble with my traps that game, but I definitely felt I earned my stripes and the approving nod I got from Huntress at the end xD
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To give an actual Survivor story considering my brain went the wrong way on the first post...
After MFT got nerfed and everyone decided it was trash, I decided to see if I could get value out of it. I ran it with We're Gonna Live Forever, Botany Knowledge and Borrowed Time (just cause) on Ash. I was taking it instead of the FTP+BU combo, cause I'm not a dirtbag 😏😏😏
We were against an Oni on I think it was Wrecker's Yard and it was coming down to the wire. We had all 5 gens done, 4 alive and 7 hooks between us. We had the gate at 10 second done but all 4 of us were in the same place, and Oni had been in power a while and was now trying to nail the Claudette.
He managed to down her maybe 15m from our gate, and set about trying to slug us. I came off gate to hide and all 3 of us were huddled behind the same rock... you know when your brain says "that is really stupid... you need to move", but your hands don't quite get the message quick enough? Oni flew round the rock at the 3 of us and swung... somehow everyone dodged, despite the near mutual sandbag we just did... and it was that moment Oni fell out of power.
As we nuked, I started running to the Claudette, my WGLF charged and started healing. Oni gave a short chase to the others but that gave me the 3 seconds I needed. He ran over and slashed me to injure, but I continued the heal and managed to get Claudette up with WGLF. The gate opened in the distamce and Oni went for her as she bolted out of the gate... when he realised he couldn't catch her for body blocks, he slashed me, only to get stopped by my Made For This.
The non-scummy FTP Buckle Up build... achievement unlocked 😅
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Giving the Wraith the shock of his life 2v8. I always watch this to cheer me up when sad. It makes me laugh out loud. It's only 40 seconds, but a beautiful 40 seconds.
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Best SoloQ teamwork experience ever. I had Feng Mins back while Dwight had mine.
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Wow... those unsafe teabags out in the open to assert dominance xD
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It's a while ago by now, but I'll never forget it.
I found myself waking up in another place. At night, it was filled with arcade machines and a building that looked like a cinema. The darkness, in retrospect, probably helped us.
There were three others, as usual, and our tormentor was the masked beast with all the damned bear traps.
The others seemed more experienced than I am used to; quick on their feet, clever, agile, and acted as if they had been there before. They probably had. It got my hopes up for relief. My hope only grew stronger as our efforts proceeded.
We took some scrapes, but eventually we managed to power the blasted doors, I opened them with haste, but one of the others had managed to get caught.
This fellow and I, I never learned his name, looked at each other. We nodded and went to get her free. The monster. That… Sadist. He was simply staring at her on that meathook, drinking in her torment. How I loathe him.
My guy distracted him, while I ran up quickly and got her off. I was so excited, thrilled even, because freedom was within an arms length. We ran straight to the gate, the girl and guy both at my heels.
We did it! We ran out, and I nearly high-fived my fellow escapees, but as I looked back to see the face of the woman we saved, every ounce of joy left me immediately.
The last thing I see, before the fog enveloped my body and thoughts, were the woman being cut down, with the bloodied hand of the manbeast reaching for her, to drag her back to her personal hell.
I don't know why she stopped and looked back. I don't know why she didn't just run. But I only know this; I never saw her again.
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I once won a 2v1 in soloq against a Wesker with 3 gens remaining. That was pretty hype!
Otherwise, the most unforgettable match i ever had was my final attempt at Bubba´s adept challenge. As widely known, adepts used to work differently. You needed, and still need, to have a "perfect game" with merciless killer on the endscreen. This was much harder to obtain back then because merciless killer was bound to the emblem system and not to the amount of kills.
Bubba and Billy where notorious for being hard in achieving their adept due to their usual flow of gameplay. Bubba is a chase machine with no real map pressure. He relies on fast downs to slow the game down. This however is horrible for the emblem system because it includes a chaser emblem that rewards longer chases. Longer chases that Bubba cant effort. On top of this, his perks dont help either.
- Franklins : m1 perk, awful for a killer that relies on insta down.
- Knock out: m1 perk. Same as above
- BBQ: actually good, but doesnt help you with slowing the match down.
This results in a killer challenge, where you are iincentivized to use AND not use your power at the same time. You lose the points when you use your power, therefore failing the achievement and you lose the game if you play m1 for too long. The result where infuriating matches where the players tunneled people out asap to be able to m1 chase. Bubba´s adept is the only time, that I can remember, where I rage-quit a match. It was this horrible.
Back to the match though. My final attempt, the attempt, where I eventually got it was on Midwich. A pretty decent Bubba-, and kliller in general-, map due to its size.
After around 30ish attempts i started using heavier addons resulting in my loadout being purple chilli for duration and green beast marks for speed. Pretty much the best you could (and maybe still) bring on Bubba. Offerings where the remaining sac. wards I had on him.
Im gonna give a disclaimer, that this was a horrible match for everyone included. Nobody had a good time. I tunneled one survivor out asap to slow things down and sometimes slugged people with knock out. Really unfun stuff. The two people that got out fast had it better than the 3 of use left behind.
After the 2 survivors vanished, the game went on for about 40 minutes…
I was sure, that my emblems where not good enough, so I needed the 4k. The two survivors, 2 Dwights, wanted hatch though. This resulted in the longest cat and mouse game ever, where I carried and slugged both dwights for the absolute maximum of the bars duration. I ran the total of Midwich, with both Dwights on my shoulder about 20 times to find both in one spot and to not give them a chance for hatch. I sat there, telling myself: " You WILL give up before I do!"
And eventually, after a game that felt like an eternity, he did.
I broke the Dwight.
He just walked up to me and the other Dwight and pointed towards a hook.
On that day, I found out what true determination in DBD looks like.
The achievement in my game library on steam is my witness and medal to what atrocities happened that match.
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As my namesake, I always try to get my team out over myself.
Had a game on Midwich vs Wesker, and he was very solid. After a good chase with me, he decided to go after the others and quite literally ignore me. Well, I'm not having it.
Had a few plays where I took hits, but the one that stuck out was falling off the vault in the stairwell, and landing between Wes and a Claudette, taking the hit, saving her, and having a 20 second stare off with the Wesker, whom I can only imagine was in disbelief.
Good times.
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I can think of a few "campfire stories", but I'll spread them out.
The first one that comes to mind was a particular Plague player that I faced for three matches in a row. Has that ever happened to anyone?
The first match was average, we all lost. Near the end, everyone was slugged or hooked. I managed to wiggle out with Boil Over and Flip-Flop, but I still got downed again and hooked.
For the second match, I suspected the same Plague player, as she had the same cosmetic, same perks, and had brought a 5th anniversary cake offering. They tunneled me off the first hook, so I let go on the second. I spectated the rest of the match, and in the endgame chat, the Killer said they felt bad, that they were going to let me go after the second hook. I pointed out that I would've held on if I hadn't been tunneled off the first hook. So the Killer said if they see me again, they won't even hit me.
And then moving on to the next match. Another 5th anniversary cake is offered by the Killer, and I went, "Is it the Plague again??" Sure enough, the Killer PMed me on Steam, informing me that they were going to be my Killer again for the third time and promised to leave me alone. And they did, except for when I got hit by the stray vomit (but that was my fault for not moving my butt when she spit at us). But she left me to get picked up by the teammates. Afterwards, we finished the gens, and three of us escaped. I ended my session after that, because I really didn't want to run into the same Killer a fourth time, and I was suffering a headache anyway, leftover from a cold I was recovering from.
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This happened over the weekend:
Solo queue game. Load into RPD. Hear Nurse blink. Feng gets first chase and does remarkably well. Two gens pop, and then the wheels absolutely come off.
Feng gets unhooked, and the Nurse decides to tunnel. I'm halfway through bottom main lobby gen when Feng is placed on her 2nd hook in the basement by Nurse with 3 gens to go.
Ace and Bill get a little greedy on the top main lobby gen. Ace takes a hit and decides to 1 for 1 Feng in the basement. Nurse leaves Ace slugged and goes for the tunnel again on Feng again. Bill takes a hit for Feng and also gets slugged. Then Feng gets slugged.
So…it's only myself still standing. And have I mentioned I'm injured at this point? Feng is slugged on death hook. Ace and Bill are slugged. All on the same side of RPD against Nurse.
BUT, Nurse makes a mistake and doesn't immediately pick Feng. I sneak in and get the Ace up, then manage to dodge a blink attack and get Feng. Ace gets Bill and we're back on life support.
Feng manages to sneak away with Iron Will. To make a long story short, we manage to complete the remaining 3 gens and get 2 out of the gates. A wild game.
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The Huntress should have minded her own business! This was between me and The Wraith! I had so much fun that match, it was hilarious 😂
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This was a while ago now but I remember one time on Ormond (I was Dwight and the Killer was Spirit) I was the last Survivor left alive and the gates had been powered. She downs me by the gate but because all the hooks near the gate have been destroyed, I kept wriggling out of her grasp.
She could have just left me on the floor to bleed out but nope, she just HAS to get me on a hook. So I keep wriggling out, using Lithe to vault a window to gain enough distance to make a teeny tiny bit of progress on the gate each time. I think I might have repeated this 5 or 6 times before… Success! I finally get the gate opened! She downs me inside the gate and once again, I try to wriggle off her shoulders. I'm nearly out, except I make a fatal error and don't quite reach a vault to Lithe away to victory and she finally pops me on a hook.
I'm sure the experience was very frustrating for her, but I found the whole situation hilarious.
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Me and my friend were playing with two randoms, a Meg and a Nea. The killer was a Mikey. He hit tier 1 quickly because the Meg just sat there and fed him. The Nea seemed to be doing the same thing. I told my friend the Mikey's gonna have Tombstone and Tuft of Hair.
The other two were letting Mikey feed off them. When Mikey went to where my friend was, he still hadn't left tier 2 yet. My friend let go of the gen to play the lute. No matter how quick a person tries to be, the lute sometimes just takes too dang long to start playing. Mikey instantly hit tier 3 and Tombstoned my friend.
Well, Mikey let the other two run around in front of him endlessly and didn't touch them, but he Tombstoned my friend immediately, the moment he saw him, without any hello, how's the weather, how do you feel about getting stabbed. Since I didn't get to play the lute while my friend was Tombstoned and now he's not there to play the lute while I get Tombstoned, either, I decided I wasn't going to be Tombstoned. I held onto the gen and missed every skill check. Mikey stood there, watching me, as the gen got further and further away from being completed. He finally grabbed me off the gen and walked away from it, then dropped me on the ground.
The Nea fearlessly came over, and he stood a few feet away and watched as she picked me up, which I allowed to happen…
Mikey took a step towards me when I came up off the ground, surely happy to be standing well between me and the gen… and I Plot Twisted my ass right back down.
Mikey stared at me on the ground… and he stared… I'd occasionally let Nea pick me up if he'd backed far enough away and then I'd Plot Twist myself back down… at some point Meg became a bot and Mikey Tombstoned Nea. He stared at me some more. When I was a second away from bleeding out, he picked me up and put me on a hook. He hit the gen in front of us a couple times, gazed passionately into my eyes while telling me exactly where I fall on the Hot Crazy Matrix, then walked away to go search for the Meg bot.
(I'm curious if he would've Tombstoned me if I unhooked myself before he walked away. I don't know if he stood there a good bit longer than necessary to see if he could trick me or just to make absolutely sure I could unhook myself. I was on Switch, I couldn't ask him after the match. Any of you have an opinion on that?)
I popped the gen and got out through the exit gate. Mikey Tombstoned the bot.
Moral of the story: Injured Survivor with Plot Twist beats Tombstone. I hope Mikey cursed and laughed when I used Plot Twist that first time. It was meant as a cheeky little surprise.
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Drop them 2v8 stories below 👀👌
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Just had a funny game against a Blight and Huntress. Clearly they were not duo'ing, as the Huntress kept trying to help the Blight and double tap the survivor but Blight was NOT having it. At one point when he downed me and she'd been trying to help he started smacking her 🤣
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I'm playing with my SWF as Alucard, and we get Dracula. Already based. Now, I run a Dhampyr inspired build: Strength in Shadows, Lithe, Potential Energy, and Still Sight. I wanted to have superpowers because half-Vampire. I do not run anything else on Alucard. I do not run items on Alucard. I just wanna be a cool af Dhampyr.
So we're playing on Ormond, the Dracula is okay but we're more coordinated. I have 20 stacks of PE and middle gen isn't done, Drac is defending it aggressively as Wolf Form. So go to my SWF as we're in comms, I say, "Hey, If I get in there I think I can Potential Energy that gen and finish it." They don't believe me.
However, I am a stealthy sort, I am good at keeping unseen. Yes, even as Alucard. I am a Nea Main and Alucard's one of my secondaries; I play Nea as stealth-altruist, this is just how I play DBD. So, I sneak in somehow behind Drac's back, and he notices too late. He turns, stops mid chase, and goes to pounce me… and that's exactly when I shove all 20 charges on the gen and finish it right in front of him (sorry Drac, I know how rough that feels).
My one friend goes, "SidneysBane1996 you're insane." And I go "I know." And he says, "No I don't mean that you're good at the game, I mean you're LITERALLY insane."Dracula tunnelled me for it and I only barely got out as a 3 man.
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Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society, this is The Tale of the Lost Lab Key.
A haze lifted from me, like a fog receding from my mind. I found myself standing with three people I had never met before: a man wearing a sweater with a helicopter on it, an athletic girl with a pig mask, and a guy with glasses who looked like he manages an Office Max. The latter two were holding a first aid kit and some kind of tool box, and the guy with the sweater gripped a small key.
The four of us found ourselves in an abandoned DOE laboratory, lights flashing, weird growths on some of the walls. Something had gone horribly wrong here. We could all feel it. Something… else... was here with us.
We looked at each other a moment, and then it was as though we all knew what to do out of instinct. Each of us began rapidly crouching for a few seconds, saying nothing. Then, we all took off running. All except the guy with the glasses, who started walking away while crouched. I discovered a generator in poor condition, and thought to myself, "Someone would appreciate it if I tried to fix this." There in the dark lab, lights flashing, I started playing with the wires in the old generator. Someone must have gotten it out to bring the power back on after whatever happened here. A short time later, I could hear something in the distance. Several people were running. I stopped, concerned, and listened.
A moment later, a shrill scream filled the air and I ran to find out what was going on, only to find the athletic girl up on a meat hook. What the actual F? As I was helping her down, I saw that guy who runs Umbrella Corp running toward us. "Nope," I thought to myself, "This has to be a dream," and I took off running. He chased me for a time, and I managed to drop a piece of wood on him and get away. This went on for some time, screams, chases, generators. The athletic girl and the guy with the helicopter shirt were caught one too many times. They were gone. Then as I was working on yet another generator, I heard a locker open in the distance, and the store manager guy screaming again, for the last time. It was just me and that guy who wanted to literally eat Project Alice.
Then a siren sounded across the lab. Something had changed. A feeling of terror grew inside me, permeated the thick air in the laboratory halls, and I knew he was approaching. So I hid behind some old computers as he ran by. As he left, running to somewhere, I made my way to where he had come from. And that's when I saw it: the meat hook where he had hung the guy in the helicopter shirt, and that key the guy had been gripping tight now lay on the ground beneath the hook. He clearly thought that key was worth keeping, so I picked it up and made my way back into the dark, chaotic lab.
Deep inside, I found a small locked door on the ground next to where I was repairing a generator before. The little door wasn't there before. Trying to pull it open got me nowhere, and I was growing desperate. Wesker could return at any moment. I needed to get out of that nightmare. That's when I thought of using the key. Sliding the silvery key down to the old cast-iron looking hatch door, I found it fit perfectly into the lock, and 2.5 seconds later, I found myself unable to control my own body. Without even thinking, I opened the hatch and jumped in, enveloped once again by a cold dark fog. And when it faded, I found myself here at the camp fire, clamoring for warmth.
But for real, I stole Bill's key and opened the hatch after Wesker closed it. I saw where he was running from and just went there to find it :)
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That's funny! Blight sounds like they were acting like a bratty kid in this like "Gosh mom I don't need your help, I am grown and can do this all by myself, see?" 😤
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- my sable adept with random teammates, against a really good blight. Obviously I did the invocation at the beginning of the game, so I was always injuried. when I saw my teammates falling quickly I immediately regretted my invocation 🤣 but despite everything we managed to finish off all the generators and I escaped through the doors (no hatch). It was an unforgettable match... because I complicated the match myself for no reason and without having "support perks" (like DH). obviously I achieved this result helped by my teammates who were truly fantastic
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”I couldn’t forget it if I wanted to, it happened roughly 2 years ago, Me, Kate, Dwight, and some new girl…Haddie I think her name was, never did catch it, we got dumped in this new place I had never seen before, it looked almost idillic, a small area with one big estate house in the centre. That house felt…off, I’m not really sure how else to describe it, it just felt strange, I went in alone after the other 3 split up, it had everything a normal home for 4 would have, a small living room, dining room, kitchen close to the dining room, and some empty and bare bedrooms, it had some things I recognised as well, a generator in a empty room upstairs, and lockers…the lockers had something attached to them, a lock, something I hadn’t seen up to that point, I didn’t think much of it, so I just ignored it and worked on the generator. As I was doing so, I felt increasingly uneasy, I looked outside the window by the generator and realised why the place felt so off, random objects floated in the air for no reason at all, and the edges of the place weren’t so much a wall, but rather a barrier of concrete, dirt, and brick, as if it had been ripped out of the ground and dumped in this place, looking past the barrier was…nothing, nothing at all, no further parts of the place that were just out of reach, just a empty void…I hadn’t seen anything quite like it in all my time in these realms.”
“My daydreaming was interrupted by the sound of a scream, Dwight had been hooked, by what or who I wasn’t sure, but I knew he needed help, I got off the generator and ran over to him, getting him off the hook, while I was tending to his injuries I asked him what attacked him, the poor guy just mumbled “Monster” over and over again, classic Dwight but decidedly unhelpful.”
“After I patched him up he refused to leave my side, I knew the man was a coward but I had never seen him so shaken before, I was mildly annoyed having to babysit him but it had to be done, we met up with Kate soon after and finished another generator. As soon as the generator activated I felt a loud ringing race across my body, not heard, felt, and before I had time to really process what that was…the sky went black, pitch black, darker then anything I had ever seen, I lost Dwight and Kate in the gloom, and couldn’t find them or hear them even as I shouted for a sign of them, my cries were answered though…not by Dwight, or Kate, or even the other girl, but by that…thing.”
“I don’t know how to describe what I saw, but I will do my best, it wasn’t human, not even humanoid, just a towering pile of skin, gristle, and bones that lurched and writhed through the darkness, human skulls littered its back like a macabre hermit crab, that abomination’s face, if I could even call it that, had a wide open mouth that dominated its centre, and a single piercing eye that stared deep into my soul, what really got to em though was how it sounded…the darkness itself was screaming and crying, a endless cacophony of pained wails filled my ears, as if a entire community of people were being slowly murdered. I wasn’t just terrified, I was completely frozen, I fell to the ground as my legs turned to jelly as the creature approached me, raising a disgusting sickle made of human flesh and bone, I tried to get out of the way of the swing, but it hit me square in the back, pinning me down as human arms stretched out from the mass, hitting me with kitchen knives, screwdrivers, anything and everything that was sharp and pointy, I screamed in pain, my calls stopped by a meaty swing to the back of the head, I laid there, barely conscious as a pair of insect appendages pierced my back and begin dragging me inside the darkness…I could only let out a final scream as the dark overtook me.”
“I woke up by the campfire, as I always did…I don’t know what I saw, what that thing that killed me was…but I can still hear the screams, I can still hear the wails, I can still feel the cold grip of that abomination’s arms embracing me and dragging me into the dark…I never want to see that thing ever again, give me the undead and psychos that stalk these Realms over another second facing that monster any day of the week…”
-A story of how my first match against Dredge went
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