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The house was built on a small mound a little back from a winding lane. The once-white paint was faded and peeling, leaving gaps where the warped boards showed through. The shutters hung loose and clattered when the wind blew. Panes were broken or missing from many of the windows. The chimney was at an odd angle and the roof was missing several dozen shingles. The young couple saw it as a fixer-upper. A place to raise their three-year-old son. The seller did not bother to mention its history. . . . Built 120 years ago by an aristocratic family that had come over from England. Small marks of good workmanship, though weathered and now old, still showed. The door was solid oak and weather-stained, with small inset windows and a handle that looked large enough for a giant to use. Stories had it that the Vondarks were hard working but curious people. They had built and owned the morgue, and had also built the town's cemetery which many out of towners noticed was strangely large and perhaps out of proportion to this very small New England town. And there were other, more stranger stories about the Vondarks as well... Some said that people had seen strange shadows and heard the most outlandish noises when they came near the House when it was still occupied by the VonDarks. There was one man who was supposedly driven mad after he had gone to deliver a strange, damp, package one night, all that he had supposedly said since that point were insane mutterings about "chaos, claws tentacles, and eyes, too many eyes." Although this was never proved to have occured, people began avoiding the house, until one day, it was suddenly and mysteriously empty. Since that time, the house had lain empty and decaying, that is until the young family had moved in... Starting in the Spring, the young couple worked every weekend on renovating and updating the house. Chimney straightened, roof re-shingled, windows replaced, interior and exterior re-painted. By the Fall, the place had regained its former glory. In late October, the family moved in. There were a few oddities remaining. The stairs going down to a non-existent cellar, the door in the back of the pantry that did not open, and the way the front door squeaked no matter how much the lock and hinges were oiled. But these were minor things to the young family, at least at first . . . However several weeks after they had moved in strange things began to happen, indescrible, yet disturbing noises could be heard from behind where the cellar door should have been, yet this was only the beginning... Over the next week the incidents became more chilling by the day, food in the pantry was found rotted, with huge, bizarre not quite maggots crawling in and out of the gap beneath the locked door, and a strange, alien smell pervaded the pantry and kitchen. On the sunday of that week, the most disturbing and impossible event yet occured, the couple's sons room began to stink of rotting flesh, but that was not all, the walls became covered in dark stains that seemed to form some characters of some odd and alien language that were chaotic and random seeming and yet somehow hinted at an incomprehensible and throughly alien geometry. These eldritch symbols were sickening and disturbing to behold and the family's cat seemed to be in mortal terror of them. However, these horrific events only hinted at what lay in store for the young family.... (I also have a link to a cool little halloween point and click with a similiar story to our one, here)

(gotta stop this thread falling off the first page guys! ) the oranges tangoed'

Korpiklaani - Beer Beer ~Doom We need a day of alcohol related songs

Agalloch - The Isle Of Summer No genre can define Agalloch ~Doom

The house was built on a small mound a little back from a winding lane. The once-white paint was faded and peeling, leaving gaps where the warped boards showed through. The shutters hung loose and clattered when the wind blew. Panes were broken or missing from many of the windows. The chimney was at an odd angle and the roof was missing several dozen shingles. The young couple saw it as a fixer-upper. A place to raise their three-year-old son. The seller did not bother to mention its history. . . . Built 120 years ago by an aristocratic family that had come over from England. Small marks of good workmanship, though weathered and now old, still showed. The door was solid oak and weather-stained, with small inset windows and a handle that looked large enough for a giant to use. Stories had it that the Vondarks were hard working but curious people. They had built and owned the morgue, and had also built the town's cemetery which many out of towners noticed was strangely large and perhaps out of proportion to this very small New England town. And there were other, more stranger stories about the Vondarks as well... Some said that people had seen strange shadows and heard the most outlandish noises when they came near the House when it was still occupied by the VonDarks. There was one man who was supposedly driven mad after he had gone to deliver a strange, damp, package one night, all that he had supposedly said since that point were insane mutterings about "chaos, claws tentacles, and eyes, too many eyes." Although this was never proved to have occured, people began avoiding the house, until one day, it was suddenly and mysteriously empty. Since that time, the house had lain empty and decaying, that is until the young family had moved in...

Just so you know, this appears to be the manual way of doing what FasterFox does, because my friend who has fasterfox was going to do this, but when he had a look, everything had already been done ~Doom

Well when I reinstall on monday, I may well try SP3 as soon as drivers are installed, because that way, the worst that can happen is a need of a quick reinstall ~Doom

Thanks guys, and once I'm through this I don't think I'll ever be able to face a windows XP installation screen again ~Doom

LOL! Viva la revolution! Also I was trying to find the clip, but it doesn't even get an article on the BBC website... Stupid government supportive biased national news... Anyway, I WILL find I clip Then we can all see! ~Doom The Beeb is forgiven, I found an article, its jsut badly named Seeing if its clip is the correct one

Yeah I have an AMD based system, however that problem is an endless reboot cycle that only applies to AMD based HP computers, I looked for issues when I first hit this problem All files are backed up now, just waiting for a new DVD drive (should get one on monday) and all will be well and good with the world once XP is reinstalled My brother managed to realise why I'd been having trouble installing you see ~Doom

Well if anyones noticed my inactivity, I've been away in windows hell for the last month or so, my troubles began with XP SP3 which eventually ruined my copy of XP, then I had loads of trouble installing XP again, currently its booting of a different partition to the one windows is on Now that its finally working again, my DVD drive just failed.... Anyway I'm back at last, so hey all! Though I'll probably be reinstalling windows one more time as soon as I get a new DVD drive, because I'd like to have the system and boot on the same partition How have you lot all been? ~Doom

Ulver - Hymne III - Wolf And Hatred Sing your hymns! Yay Ulver! ~Doom

I can't help but think that the rocking horse thing to the left of the picture looks pratically demonic ~Doom

tunefully demonic, therefore

OMG OMG OMG! Todd! Amon Amarth! Wooot! Enjoy! Amon Amarth --- "Twilight Of The Thunder God" Is it me or is there a conspiracy? Amon Amarth - "Twilight Of The Thunder God" I just boguht the album with birthday money ~Doom

Thanks guys @ gogo, thats like the parallel opposite of what I actually had for dinner today Yorkshire Pudding, veggie sausages, mashed potato, and blackberry and apple cobbler I also bought 5 albums, with 1/3 of the money I got, I love special offers ^^ ~Doom

Drudkh - Archaic Dance From their folk (not even folk metal) album, its as brilliant as any Black Metal they've done, albiet in an entirely different way... I'm beginning to think Drudkh can do no wrong ^^ ~Doom

lol lord Baphomet sung a...

Alright before I look I'm guessing its about them both being in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of hamlet... I was wrong, (although they are ) Patrick Stewart in Doctor Who, whatever next... thanks Todd! (Also its funny you knew before me, when its a british show ^^ ) ~Doom

So Azezel danced...

Drudkh - Ukranian Insurgent Army and (for another thread's game) MARCO! ~Doom

Nix needs to hurry up and finish Lord Sunday, I already own all the others! Also I've been working my way through The Sword Of Truth Series. Currently 1/2 of the way through "The Stone of Tears" but I've taken a break because its pretty heavy reading ~Doom

Trust me, its better, there was a survey/research doen over which countries broadband had the biggest gap between maximum and actual... Guess what its UK.. and my connection is SUPPOSED to be 256kbit.. its 30kbit >_< and we're meant to have been upgraded to 8mbit for free by this point ~Doom P.S. It'll take at LEAST 16 hours to download

Satyricon - Into The Mighty Forest ~Doom

That song, from the Celebrators of Becoming version, converted me to THerion tomi Belenos - Oraison Funebre I need more demos, they always seem to have a lot of atmosphere ^^ ~Doom