A few weeks back I went to the sweetest freaking haunted house ever. The house was set at the site of Richard Garriott’s unfinished house and was awesome. The place was massively expansive and throughout the house there was a continuing storyline, steeped in mystery and vampires with one question…what is the demons name! Thought all the actors were volunteers they all performed magnificently, oh yeah and they can touch, grab and even on occasion kidnap you depending on the level of scare you chose. Even without the scares and buckets of blood, the experience plays out as a fun if slightly campy real life RPG.
Normally I stay away from haunted houses for two reasons:
1. They’re normally lame
2. I hate waiting in lines for hours upon hours
But this haunted house was A) not lame, and B) had a scheduling system instead of a line. You buy tickets for a specific time before you go to the event, then when you get there there’s a nice fire pit, food for sale (hot dogs and such) and free massages. Oh, and did i mention free massages !!!
All in all, the Scare for a Cure was a massive win, and when you add in that it’s for a good cause, its just about the greatest thing ever.
P.S. If anyone has any clue what the Demons name may have been, please comment below.
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Glad you liked it! We sure had fun putting it together, and we’re already starting to throw around interesting ideas for next year.
Well now that it is over… we made a somewhat dark and controversial choice with regards to the win/lose scenario at the end.
The Demon’s name was NOWHERE in the haunt… you won by keeping the demon away from the vampires, and you lost if the vampires ended up controlling the demon and taking over the world.
If you had the demon’s name — I called him Elmo, by the way — we would have had the tricky situation of winning groups walking out of the haunt with a pet demon! While our actor, Nathan, might have enjoyed that in some cases, overall it would have been a logistics nightmare.
Glad you enjoyed the haunt! We are already bubbling over with ideas for the next one; always trying to top the previous year.
Thank you so much for coming out and supporting SCARE for a CURE and the Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas. We are thrilled that you enjoyed yourself!
This year was an amazing feat for SCARE- we had a last minute venue change and unforgiving weather that loved to challenge the patience and the health of our volunteers. Despite all this, we were able pull off an amazing/bloody show and we raised more money than ever for the Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas!
Stay tuned for 2010, we’ll be in the same location with a whole new tale of horror to tell…
- Joetta
Promotions Manager, SCARE for a CURE
ps: The Demons name is….
Hi! All of us at “Scare for a Cure” are mighty proud of the work we did this year, and are even more delighted that folks like you are spreading the word about it. I hope to see you back next year. Better still, feel free to volunteer.
Jeff Johannigman
aka
Senior RIPper Clivus Multrum
PS: As for the Demon’s true name, we’re NOT telling! Unless maybe you volunteer to help next year. ;-)
The trouble with knowing a demon’s name is that then you can free him, and let him wreak havoc on the world.
No matter what master the arch-demon served, it would have brought Armageddon if freed. So, the clue to guess the demon’s name was entrusted to only one patron, Richard Garriott, who still didn’t remember until days later when brushing his teeth.
Geeze, you defeated a 5000 year old master vampire, freed your friend from captivity, escaped being eaten, and stopped a demon from taking over the world. That wasn’t enough, you wanted to keep the demon, too?
You all did a great job, i for sure plan on helping out next year. I had a sneaking suspicion that there was no way to actually guess the demons name, though that didn’t stop me from going twice just to try to figure it out.