Sneaky Tag

Sneaky tag was a game my older siblings created. It's a cross between hide and seek, freeze tag, and a horror movie.
This game is played strictly outside the house, in the dark.  It takes about 4-6 hours to be completed. One person is "it". They count to 100 while everyone else runs and hides. Then they wander around the perimeter of the house trying to find people. Once you're spotted, you have to run away and avoid being tagged. If you're tagged, you're frozen and required to stand there until someone else decides to be nice and unfreeze you. If you're tagged 3 times, you're it. Most of getting unfrozen involves you begging the person near you to unfreeze you while they spend at least 5 minutes mocking you for being slow and bad at hiding. If they decided to be nice, you were pretty much still screwed because you would forever be in their debt, doomed to carry their boiling hot cappuccino's home for the rest of your life! A lot of times, people would just prefer to stay frozen, rather than have to run away and hide again. Come to think of it, there was a lot of backstabbing going on in this game. If someone who I knew was slower than me was frozen, and the "it" person was nearby, I would unfreeze them to give myself time to escape while they were run down. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, we were some weird kids with way too much free time outside. It's just too bad that we were all very athletic kids. If only we'd had one slow sibling, or maybe one with severe asthma, this game would have been so much easier!
We weren't confined to the ground either. The reason my older brother never got tagged is because he knew how to get up on the roof, and the rest of us either didn't know how, or were too scared to try. So he would pretty much just sit up there and laugh at the rest of our toil. That's probably why he always wanted to play, because he always won! Curses!
The winter was the best time to play because we could climb up high in the pine trees next to the house. We had a good visual of the landscape and when someone started climbing the tree after us, we were able to slide down the branches packed with snow and land safely on the pile we'd made earlier. Plus it was fun to throw pine cones at people walking by.
This may all sound pretty fun to you, but that's because you've never played it before. It is a terrifying game. Being chased at full speed, through the pitch dark, like your life depends on it is horrible when you are a 6 year old kid. Even if you know it's just your sibling trying to tag you. No wonder I have so many nightmares! Thanks a lot guys for inventing this terrifying, yet addicting game.