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Inspiration



Estimated reading time — 3 minutes

You know those long, involved ritual creepypastas, the ones that involve a million different steps, the ones where if you breathe at the wrong second you die? Ever wonder who figured it out? It couldn’t
have been trial and error – you don’t get a second try at something like that.

The answer’s actually pretty simple. Nobody figured it out.

He already knew.

There’s… an entity, I suppose you could call it, although I always think of it as a him. A little boy, to be exact. He seems to enjoy playing around with people, you see.

And he knows all the rituals, or at least all the real ones. So sometimes he spreads out the information. Ever felt inspired to write some piece of horror that seemed to contain elements that didn’t even
exist in your nightmares? Ever had a disturbing idea for some horrible but compelling rite, that seemed to ‘just come to you’? It might have been him working through you.

If you get one of those flashes, write it down and post it. I can’t guarantee your health if you don’t – he can be awfully persistent about getting his little messages out, and even if you’re just babbling it to your safe padded walls you’re still saying it.

But, at the same time, if you get one of those flashes… halfway through writing it, stop, open up the instant messenger of your choice, and IM yourself. If all you see are your own normal words echoed back at you, give up there. Either it really is just your imagination that gave you the idea, or he doesn’t want to talk.

But if the message comes back with odd typos that weren’t there before, or new capitalization, or different punctuation marks… well, I’m sure you’ve seen enough pasta with puzzles in it to know what to do to find the message and respond.

If he likes you, or finds you amusing, he’ll talk to you directly there. If he gives you a new puzzle… keep going, but be careful. They get harder and harder, turning from simple wordplay to numerology
to esoteric mystical references to God knows what else, but also more and more compelling. It’s harder to just close the window and walk away, and the feeling that you’re just about to reach a solution never eases. And so the next time some poor soul’s found slumped over their computer, killed by starvation and exhaustion and neglect… well, maybe it was just some game, right? But maybe he just wanted to solve that one damn puzzle.

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If he does greet you directly, you can name three things you desire – any three at all. He will give you, in complete detail, rituals to achieve those three things – if you’re lucky, it will be a single rite that grants all three. They may be dangerous, but they will be clear and detailed paths to gain what you want through paranormal means.

But, of course, there are catches.

The first: you have to spread the rituals on. You can embellish them as you wish, add your own spin, even lie outright, but you have to leave the goal and most of the steps intact, and you have to put it
somewhere where people will see – a forum, a notice board in real life, on the door of a building, wherever. The more popular it is, the happier he will be, and you want his blessing.

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Because the second catch is that he always omits some key step. As long as you’ve posted the ritual up in public, you will know when the time comes what that step is – but it could be anything from drawing a simple squiggle to murdering your true love in cold blood. You could have to give up your soul, or mutilate a limb, or drown yourself… or you could just have to hop backwards two times. And you won’t know what it is until you’re buried deep in the rite, unable to stop.

So when you talk to him, be nice and friendly, and make sure you amuse him. He’s kind enough, most of the time. Just a bit mischievous.

How did I learn all this, you ask?

I don’t really know. It just came to me. Inspiration, you could say.

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72 thoughts on “Inspiration”

  1. Queen of Frosts

    Absolutely spiffing! Writing rituals and making up mythos is kind of a hobby, so this made for a bit of a giggle. thanks for the fun, m’dear.

  2. Ritual pasta has never tickled my taste buds but this was written in a way that kept my attention. Cliche and predictable maybe but not bad at all.
    Bravo.

  3. the hash slinging slasher

    haha i just love it when i get my friends to perform those rituals and nothing happens XD they look stupid and i usually get it on camera for my enjoyment XD

  4. I miss you creepypasta…you were my only friend. Now you are gone forever…

    Goodbye, My Only Friend

    DX

  5. Those who complain about the IM part: It says that the person can lie outright (Which we can assume is the only part guaranteed to be true, since otherwise, well, wouldn’t the author get in trouble?), so who’s to say that IM is the only way, or even is a way that works?

  6. Hint:
    When there’s a catch to ANYTHING….wouldn’t recommend it in the first place.

    kinda creepy pasta. 5/10

  7. Hi, dont turn around

    light thinks itself the fastest, wherever its going, darkness gets their first – unknown author

    ^
    |
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    forgot my signature their lol ^ ^

  8. Hi, dont turn around

    @ paperpasta,
    the rituals on creepypasta are made so that they wont be tried, are impossible to complete, and requiring sertain locations.

    @author
    nicely done If you’L wrIte some more please? oK im going to Eat now
    It was grand, Ta-ta

  9. Interesting but a little flawed as I see it.

    If ‘he’ omits steps in the ritual based on whether you made him happy or not then why would i attempt the ritual at all? I mean, if he omits the step “you will have to kill your loved one or suffer for eternity in order for your reward of immortality/money etc” then I would rather not have started the ritual in the first place.

    One thing we’ve learned from dealing with these evil little kids is to never trust them… right…? Right?

  10. What if I don’t use an instant messenger? Yeah, there are people like that on the internet. So this pasta fails for me.

    Those who don’t understand the ending – it’s pretty logical imo. It’s said in the beginning that ideas for rituals come through inspiration. That’s how the boy communicates them and getting a weird hunch is a first step to getting to know him. So you can well say that what you know of a boy came through inspiration.

  11. Predictable ending prevented it from being as good as it could’ve been. Though, I don’t particularly enjoy the taste of ritual pasta anyway. There was no clear reason to make him as happy as possible by posting it in the most public place available. Sure, he omits a step and you’ll know what it is, but making him happier didn’t seem like it was going to alter the step or make it easier to perform. He doesn’t make the rituals, only knows them, so it certainly couldn’t make things easier on you. And since you won’t know until the time comes anyway, it just seems arbitrary to make him happy.

    Well, I’m not trying to pick apart the story or anything, that just bothered me a bit. Anyway, it was good, for a ritual pasta, but I just flat out hate ritual pastas, so I didn’t enjoy it. No fault to the author, I’m sure it was a fine story, I just couldn’t get into it.

    Ritual pastas remind me of quicktime events. Press X not to die.

  12. I always used to think that most of the rituals you see are kind of dumb, because who would just happen to know all of those steps? So it’s nice to see that someone else wondered about that too, and gave it an interesting explanation. This was a good pasta.

  13. Not creepy, just awesome. Making it ‘creepy’, I think, would’ve ruined it. Like, I would’ve been so angry if the end had been something like “AND HE’S GOING TO KILL YOU NOW, MWAHA.”

    But it wasn’t anything like that, and I enjoyed it very much.

    Nice idea, explaining the ritual-pastas and all. And well written, too.

    9/10.

  14. Sir Shoop Whoopington

    i see WhAt you did there. iN’TeresTing pasta imO and furthermore, ParticuLArlY unique chAracter. blaming GAMEs on wht he does

    ok fucking fail, lol

  15. Phaaros? Is that you?

    Goddamn, it’s been so long since I’ve read an actual creepypasta.

    To be honest, I didn’t care for it. An interesting idea, though.

  16. Not creepy. Not particularly intersting.
    And it’s all the worse because at the end he doesn’t say that the child talked to him or anything to give it a relative substance, rather he simply sais it was a hunch, rendering everything almost completely meaningless.
    What a waste of time.

  17. Hmm. This is one of those pastas I just feel… neutral about. Didn’t really like it, didn’t really hate it. Just kinda apathetic.

    Meh.

  18. I would cut out the ‘you ask?’ at the end. Stuff like that sours whole pastas for me. Call me pedantic, but I didn’t ask.

    Anyhoo, not very creepy but quite enjoyable nonetheless.

  19. Not actually scary, but it does tie together plenty of the rituals. The last slight twist at the end was good.

    This does, at least, make me wonder about some of the rewards in a Holder creepypasta. Some of them are things you wouldn’t ever want.

  20. Didn’t like it.
    Not very good, nor original. It simply took an already-used idea and ran upon that. Not creepy or scary or even very interesting.

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