Scribblings In The Well
These bizarre instructions were found etched into the wall at the bottom of an old well, somewhere in rural Germany. They have been translated to the best of my abilities:
Somewhere in Europe, there is an empty field of grass. Amongst the long, unkempt grass is a wooden hatch in the ground. The hatch guards an old storm shelter, but this is not your destination. In order to gain access to the alternate opening, you must spill your own blood over the doors. You will awaken at the edge of field; the doors will now be made of rusted iron. You may now enter the hatch.
There will be a long, narrow shaft stretching deep into empty darkness. You must climb down a ladder fixed to the northern wall, keeping your eyes upward at the opening.
If you are to glance downward into the darkness, then return your gaze upward, you will find yourself ten rungs away from where you started. If you look any longer downward, the echoing sound of someone climbing up the ladder will reach your ears, and a rotten, weather-beaten version of yourself will pull at your legs until you fall.
After an undetermined amount of time climbing down; your feet will reach a floor. Keep facing upwards, if you look at your feet; there will be no floor. You must now choose your path.
LEFT
Reaching into the darkness to your left, you will feel a cold metal plate mounted on a concrete wall. Keep your hand on this plate, within the course of ten minutes it will rise to an excruciating heat and your hand will be burned. Do not remove your hand until the plate cools once again and lights click on. You may now turn around.
You will find yourself in a long corridor, there will be a door corresponding to each year of your life on both sides. At the opposite wall will be a door marked ‘PRESENT’. If you enter this door, you will find yourself ahead in your life to three minutes before your death. You must find the door marked with the year that you found most fortunate. Should you pick the wrong door, you will relive that year, but every space in which you did not stand will be torn away to reveal fire beneath. When the year finishes, you will be back at the door, as if you had not opened it.
If you are to pick the correct year, you will enter an enormous space of undetermined size. Darkness will surround all but a straight line through the room. The door behind you will cease to be there if you check behind you. You must follow the lit path through this area for one hundred minutes. Along the way you will regularly encounter loved ones, trapped in rusted metal torture devices. They will beg and scream for you to help them. You must ignore their pleas and keep moving. If you help even one of these people; the exit door will vanish and never reappear.
Should you reach the end of this area, there will be a scratched door with your name engraved upon it. Enter this door and you will awaken in the storm cellar, the original form of this place. You may now leave.
RIGHT
Reaching to the wall on your right will yield different results. You will feel a warm, moist wall of soft flesh. Keep feeling around until you feel a hole in the wall, plunge your hand into it. After thirty seconds, you will be bitten and blood removed from your wound. Keep your hand there until the pressure stops. Your eyes will suddenly adjust to light you never noticed before, you may turn around.
You will see a long corridor paved with pulsing skin, flesh and muscle. On both sides of this corridor, you should see torn openings that stretch inwards deeply. Cool air will gently flow from each opening rhythmically as if it is breathing. At the end of the hallway, you will see a door marked with your mother’s name, awkwardly incorporated into the wall of flesh.
Never enter this door.
You must look for the opening from which hot air is breathed. If you enter the wrong opening, the tunnel will never end and you cannot return.
Should you enter the correct opening; the tunnel will become gradually wider and more humid. There will be hands pushing through from both sides, stretching the wall trying to reach you. Keep away from them, and do not turn around. Every so often you will find an ideal sex partner, sitting in the centre of the tunnel. They will beg you to stay with them, ignore them. If you stay with them, they will devour you from the waist up.
After one hundred minutes in this place, you will reach a hole leading to a far narrower tunnel, enter this hole and crawl as fast as you can. The hands can now reach you and will caress you gently from behind the thin flesh. If you stop, they will drag you down.
As you progress the light will gradually fade and your heartbeat will become louder until it reaches an almost deafening volume. Open your eyes; you will be lying in the foetal position on the floor of the storm shelter. You may now leave.
If you chose the left path; you will receive complete financial security until you die, but your hand will throb painfully once a day.
If you chose the right path; you will be considered popular and charismatic by everyone you meet, but you will be plagued by nightmares of the tunnel.
If you attempt this ritual twice, you will never awaken from those nightmares.
These rituals never have results that equal what you have to go through to succeed. What a waste of time.
My hand will hurt once a day?
I put up with more than that so … done deal.
I dislike ritual pastas
Stale pasta is stale
I’ll pass.
Looks like the playful boy from ‘Inspiration’ has struck again. He should choose some better writers to plague.
vaughn’s gay. he spends all his life here. go the fuck outside vaughn
If you cannot attempt these rituals twice then how did the author know what to write at the bottom of the well?
A good ritual pasta
Hm, complete financial security for the rest of my life sounds sweet, indeed…
But I really oughta say this is way too long. I miss those good and short pastas that drive you right to the point where that cold shiver runs down your spine and you feel your dreams will be haunted forever…
This, on the other hand, is just whimsical, but hardly creepy. Good writing, nonetheless.
ok…so its either be tortured by sexy people and being bitten to become popular or get you hand set on fire and watchin loved be in the saw movies to have financial security, which doesnt necesarily mean you will have lots of money, but that you will have at least enough to get by…this is by far the shittiest ritual pasta ive ever read
I wonder how our culture ever conceived of the idea that one can have anything without cost.
Perhaps the results aren’t what most people would want, but there are many desperate people who nearly ache to be liked by people. Perhaps a serial killer so he can have a never-ending supply of victims to soothe the urge to kill. In court, his charisma makes it completely implausible that he could ever do such a thing, and so he gets off. The nightmares may be a smaller price compared to an unsatisfied urge to kill.
And there are too many people to list who would gleefully accept throbbing pain once a day for financial security.
It’s all a matter of perspective.
That’s why you take a pipe and open up the exit. Did you even read it?
I never do this, it annoys the hell out of me…but
WHO WAS IDEAL SEX PARTNER
I honestly don’t see how anyone can find these rituals to be good pastas.
“Should you pick the wrong door, you will relive that year, but every space in which you did not stand will be torn away to reveal fire beneath.”
I had to reread that around five times before I got it. Seriously, that’s awkward wording.
The tremendous faggot knows nothing. The left path actually sounds pretty reasonable.
Ritual pasta, I am disappoint.
I’m sure there’s some way for me to humorously link both paths’ results to being a whore, but that would be inappropriate.
I’m generally not a fan of ritual pasta. I realize saying that they’re a bit far fetched would be stupid on a site such as this, but they’re just the most unbelievable form of pasta, and it’s hard for me to become immersed in them. Most of the time, the results are not anywhere near worth the terrible trials leading up to them.
But I suppose this one wasn’t so bad. I somehow was able to enjoy it, become immersed in it, and not despise having read it when it was over. I suppose that’s worth something, so good job, on whatever it was I managed to like about it.
7/10
What’s this shit?
Meh. Waste of time.
I also love the cock.
… I lol’d at the price part. Very weak pasta.
Ritual pastas can be great, but they sometimes try too hard to be complicated, and they just get boring.
Learn from pastas like The Third or Negative Gate. How any ritual pasta should be.
This pasta is the feces that is produced when boring eats too much stupidity.
I’m tired of damn ritual pastas. They were interesting when the idea was still novel, but the whole “Keepers” series of pastas pretty much ruined them for me. Fail. It’s not so much the fault of the author — the pasta was written fairly competently — as it is the genre in/for which they’re writing.
left.
costs outweigh benefits as usual.
….either be killed or have dreams of being killed… not a very good pasta :<
Who was foetal position?
I usually love the shit out of these ritual pastas, but this one tasted off, to me. Some good ideas, really, but I don’t care for the execution.
What the hell? A corridor of human skin that breathes warm air? What does that have to do with anything? I think this is a joke…
The door behind you will cease to be there if you check behind you.
WTF? Horrible writing and horrible ritual overall.
I agree with the first poster.
Fucking stupid.
Neither. Ive just had the whole stupid ritual explained to me, I’m just not gonna go into the whole. Big long “do this do this do this perfectly dammit or be horribly killed” pastas should have their own section.
I quite enjoy this story. Granted, it follows the rather worn formula of “do it perfect or die”, but it does it far better than most. While some might think that the rewards are rather small compared to the risk, I think that to those truly in need of either reward, there’s no price too high.
While the reward of financial security and the path one follows to take it are interesting, the path of charisma and popularity is truly enrapturing to me. The reward itself is intriguing, as I’ve had my fair share of moments wishing I was just a bit more clever, a bit more socially graceful. My greatest fascination is the path itself though. I find the halls of flesh and groping hands to be as sensual as they are alien. To me, the price of nightly visions of such surroundings sounds like a rather enjoyable fine.
I thought the pasta was nice, kind of like a choose your own adventure book. You say it was lame, but you still picked a direction right? I agree that the wording was unusual and that part could have been improved. And what the hell was the narrator doing at the bottom of a well in Germany? Kinda weird.
But the pasta was good, I chose right, and given the consequences and stuff, I would have still done it. I don’t think it’s dumb just for being a ritual pasta.
FML i wasted 2 minutes of my life reading this fail. FML because now mums yelling at me to clean my room. but i was reading this shit. thanks -.-
Gotta say I like the detail and where it was going but the end was just a complete drop. Did I pick the wrong side or look down or.. OH SHI-
I thought that it was boring. Bad pasta.
Eh. I give that a 4/10.
I pity the poor bastard who had to spend all those weeks chiselling that novel into a stone wall…
I don’t think that’s quite worth it.
I think I’ll pass on this one.
That must have been one huge well…
lame
Meh, could have been better. *shurg
yeah, how about i just don’t go down into the well, seems like a better plan… man ritual pastas have gotten pretty stale
pasta sucked, needs a lot of salt, and by salt i mean a better author/concept/plot
Okay so, when I chose the path to the right…was I plunged into a vagina? Anyway, it was alright. I liked the beginning the most though, like the consequences of looking down. Creepy D:
baww whats the point. why go through so much crap just for an rubbish prize? I’d rather just buy a good luck charm or long-life charm and hope the best with that.
The right path got me hard reading about it…
Aw, but what happens if you go through the door in the skin hallway marked with your mother’s name?
the right part reminded me of the vagina cave before giygas
Lame.
“he hands can now reach you and will caress you gently from behind the thin flesh.”
I don’t call this nightmares, I call this a wet dream
what is this, a zelda dungeon walkthrough?
Somthing says hes played or read Baroque
I Liked it needs some work but its a fine piece of pasta
7/10
1. Start in an asylum or a halfway house.
2. Add to the Holder’s series.
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!
BUT THEN WHO WAS ROTTEN WEATHER-BEATEN VERSION OF YOURSELF?
Bleh. failpasta.
Boring.
That’s all I have to say.
Try harder next time, champ
“Somewhere in Europe, there is an empty field of grass.”
Shit, really? Imma get right on that, can’t wait to participate in a ridiculous ritual pasta and have hand pain in exchange for money, hell yes
Goddamn, the ritual archetype needs to die
I really really really think this was a joke pasta.
I’d def. take the financial security over anything else, but this was way to long and to much for the reward.
So, what exactly would be the point of doing any of this?
I was gonna read this, but then I remembered that ritual pastas always. fucking. fail.
I find ritual pastas interesting to read but never really concrete creepy stuff. I actually liked this one though. However, the two rewards at the end don’t strike me as balanced. A balanced reward will make making that choice so much harder, but since it wasn’t, I think the majority of people would choose left.
if you are facing the way where your stomache is pointing at the ladder you have a left and right, but if you are turned where your back is facing the ladder you have a different left and right. So which is really left and which is really right and how do you know?
Seems like such a pointless ritual. All for a prize that isn’t worth it. “Let’s put someone through pain and then give them a ‘prize’ and top it off by torturing them after. Hopefully then they then go insane and commit suicide.”
You’re better off not even doing it.
@shorty rox my sox: you know, i was thinking the same thing.
I agree with vaughn. what’s the point in even starting the thing when u know that in the end its not gnna be worth it?? wtf.
Zee - You become unborn or something or born again in Hell or something
good pasta, but the ending fell short. great imagery though.
Meh.
Ritual Pastas should be short and send chills down your spine…
like Negative Gate.
That one was epic.
I say this is half failpasta and half boredom stricken lameness.
I would have taken the rotten weather beaten version of myself to a hospital.
I’m sure he’d appreciate the gesture and reward me by doing my homework for me……. FOREVER
So what happens if a masochist attempts the right path?
Negative Gate was part stupid, part boring, part new-age hippy BS. This was actually fairly good. The benefits are both pretty worthwhile, and the consequences aren’t all that terrible, and the actual ritual doesn’t seem all too difficult. Of course, “An empty field of grass” somewhere in Europe is so vague as to make it all completely worthless, but that’s the way ritual pastas all start I guess.
8/10
Really! Y’d u write the whole thing if someone is gonna know there fate! and who would be the dumb ass to go down in the well anyway. this pasta failed. miserably.
i’d have a bettr time getting dates! my number is 432-699-0833.
DURHUR GO TO A CERTAIN ABANDONED HOSPITAL IN A CERTAIN STATE (we are assuming everyone who reads this is American) AND GO TO THE THIRD WALL ON THE RIGHT FROM THE FIFTH INFORMATION COUNTER AND WAVE YOUR HANDS SEVEN TIMES AND CHANT THE FOLLOWING: “LYRICAL MAGICAL NANOHA FATE-CHAN IS MY WIFE” AND YOU MAY OR MAY NOT GET MAGIC DEMON POWERS fuck you
Why does everyone hate this? I haven’t read much ritual pastas, but this one creeped me out, especially the right path. The terror of crawling away from hands that attempt to rip you apart really got me. The left path is the most reasonable.
most of this is symbolism, though creepy, loved ones and “sex partners” obviously represent desires, if you let them go and chose correctly obviously their has to be a reward worth your trouble, honestly, one could point out that this symbolizes the day to day struggle until one reaches heaven, or whatever ones ideal destination is, the left path is to do with your physical status, and your willingness to look past others pain to reach a higher financial gain, the right path is your social status, your willingness to overlook love and to shun those reaching out to you in order to gain respect. honestly, ritual pastas seem…. pointless, the rituals either mean you break the law or their impossible to do.
light thinks itself the fastest thing , but wherever its heading, darkness gets their first - unknown author
As soon as I saw “These bizarre instructions were found etched into the wall” I thought Shawshank Redemption for some reason :S
Yuck! That left a bad taste in my mouth. 0/10
It was all horribly constructed. Random creepy bits thrown in with “adventure”.
It went from “Hands on the wall.” To “OMG there’s your ideal sex partner all the sudden” The transitions SUCKED!
choose the left cuz if youre rich then you’ll be popular
Choose the right, ’cause if you’re popular people will give you money.
a good story but needs worked on …there are several holes in the story such as if you can only go through once how did the auther know about both tunnels?..a good start bt needs revision-4/10
Needs moar incentive.
omg let me tell you something awsome and the way he knew what bothwas is he did it and had other do it with him thats how he figured it out liek a team of explores only two survived him and his buddy who did it twice
lol you call stories pastas here hahahah
reminds me of The Ruins
4/10
Pretty Good, Actually. I think the right tunnel isn’t that good tho, cause you have to remember the cold, groping hands reaching for you, and the cannibalistic lover…
Nice one… fairly decent.
Sweet story!
What if you just amputate that hand and have a sexy cyborg hand installed?
I’d much rather know what happens if you enter the door with your mother’s name
Meh. It was okay I suppose. Didn’t love it. Didn’t hate it. But I must know… WHO WAS IDEAL SEX PARTNER?
Wait, what happens if you enter the door with your mothers name on it?