In Shinigami Forest, where rain was pouring

Stood a teen, exploring at one in the morning.

Ten went missing here before him, that much he knew.

It gave him reason to fear, but nothing he couldn't push through.

Online tales told of a demon called the Coffin Queen.

A vicious monster whom few living eyes had seen.

For a while, the teen's searching came up empty.

As he planned to leave, he saw something tempting.

A trail of footprints beckoned him along like a siren song.

The trail started human-looking, before changing to something more...wrong.

The trail ended in beast-like prints, just before an unassuming church.

As curiosity got his better, he opened the door and searched.

Inside, he saw things not meant for prying eyes.

Crescent sigils, scriptures and human sacrifices.

As he turned to leave, he saw eyes in the distance.

Something had been watching him. Stalking him.

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My initial plan for the Creepypasta Collab was to make a short story about some clickbait YouTubers getting more than they bargained for. I ended up dumping that idea pretty quickly, and went with making a poem based off of JackAstral's Slender-inspired Coffin Trail, instead:

This is my first time doing VA, with naught but my laptop's mic for recording. Production-wise, I recorded this one verse at a time, with naught but Audacity for audio editing.

For background music, I took cues from Jack and used "Horror Ambience" by Triskele - pretty damn good ambient track, if you want my opinion:

Everything else used in this (the Universe 08 icon, the chase/jumpscare audio), meanwhile, was taken directly from Coffin Trail, via decompilation with JPEXS.