Fallout 3 - Pint Sized Slasher

Once, with my bad karma, I wanted to kill some residents in a town...like some kind of serial killer. I really love that shit. Well, I bombed Megaton down, so I decided to go to Arefu. That's where it starts to get creepy. I walked up the bridge, with one of the vamps from the Arefu-Quest standing there with his hands as fists instead of a gun. Well, in my serial killer attempt, I simply shot him. Suddenly, my character started to walk alone. I thought this was just some kind of glitch or something. I still could use my gun and when the old guard or sheriff or whatever of Arefu opened fire on me, I returned it. He died from a single headshot and I felt pleasure as he dropped on the floor, his head rolling down the bridge. Well, my char moved on and I couln't control him, when suddenly the two corpses started to glow in a red light.

Moments later, I fell down the bridge into my death. I closed the game after that without saving or anything. When I started over a couple days later, all my savegames where gone...except of one. It was an autosave, most likely after my fast travel to Arefu. I loaded it, but I didn't spawn down the bridge, but at the spot where I died. I almost pissed my pants, as I noticed the head of the old man lying next to me. Well, I could get back my reason and decided to go up to Arefu. When I came there, much more corpses with red glow where lying all over the place. And in the middle of this, there was one person: The pint sized slasher you used to be in the Tranquility Lane, when you were playing the evil path. I almost pissed my pants again at this spot, but I decided to go towards him. I pressed the key to interact with him. There only was a speechbox without any sound, saying "You're next!". Then I saw the face of my ingame-father, twisted with pain. The game loaded and I suddenly spawned in Tranquility Lane, with all people slaughtered and glowing in red, including the chinese commandos from the failsafe, although the rest had this classical black and white style from the level. Then my Pip-Boy came up without it's ussual layout, but with this text:

What American child alive hasn't heard the story of the Pint-Sized Slasher, that diminutive demon in a clown mask who stalks and slashes the innocent residents of supposedly safe suburbia? It's just one of the many folk stories parents use to scare their youngsters into behaving themselves. Or is it?

According to Germantown police chief Joseph Field, the Pint-Sized Slasher may be more real than many people would like to admit. "After reviewing the autopsy results of the Linden Street slayings, we have confirmed that the force and direction of every knife wound are consistent with an attack from a much smaller assailant. A child, to be precise."

Add to the sinister forensic findings this statement from Christopher Atkinson, the one surviving victim of the adolescent assassin, and it becomes clear that the Pint-Sized Slasher does indeed walk among us: "The clown! The clown! He's going to kill us all, do you understand me? He stabbed my brother Shaun right in the face! He killed my brother! The little clown!"

But assuming the Pint-Sized Slasher is indeed a real, tangible threat to the peace loving residents of D.C. suburbia, one question remains: why? What could possible motivate a child to don a clown mask and murder innocent people in cold blood? We may never know. At least not until the miniature maniac is brought to justice. Until then, all we can do is lock our doors, kiss our children goodnight - and pray they live to see morning.

Damn, I was shocked when I read that Pip-Boy message, and as soon as I closed my Pip-Boy, the deathscreens came up with a childlike, evil laugh in the background. I immediatly closed the game and uninstalled it. Instead of the normal "you successfully deleted the game" or something like that, a message "you are next anyway, even if you try to delete me!". Damn, I can't sleep since that shit.

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