(( gah, i post so much you guys are probably going to get tired of me D:<
whatever, i need to haunt you guys forever with little shorts that leave you hanging
this is so badly written im so sorry
herobrine does not exist thx u))
I remember when Cher and I started playing Minecraft together.
We settled into the game slowly, learning that creepers blow up when approached, and that you couldn't break stone with fists -- you had to use a pick.
Then we invited Lexi and Toby. Lexi was insane at the game, slaying monsters and everything. Toby would just dig a hole in the ground and wait for Lexi to come around with materials.
Even though he was horrible at the game in general, he was a building pro and built the most beautiful works of art ever.
We'd play on this little private server we had. We'd called it 'Four Swords" after Lexi's obsession with Legend of Zelda. She'd build triforces made out of solid gold EVERYWHERE, and every room had to have had at least one triforce inside.
We'd been playing together for a while, building up at this little server; mining bases set up, whole cities (courtesy of Toby) built everywhere, redstone trains going to important landmarks -- everything was fun, and we bonded together so well.
A fifth character joined.
We'd never given him the IP or anything, which was terrifying, but he'd keep quiet and to himself.
His name was Herobrine.
We'd attempted to talk to him through chat, laughing loudly over the Skype call, but he wouldn't respond. Instead, he'd creep up on us and just place down little signs with brief answers like "yeah" or "idk", none of which he'd bothered to take down. We didn't take them down, either. We didn't want to offend him, after all.
His skin really bothered me, though. it was the default skin -- normal Steve -- but with white eyes. pure white. It was really bone-chilling.
We'd wanted to kick him, but he seemed nice to us, and we just let him do his thing. He didn't bother us at all. It was rather odd that he would shear off all the leaves on the tree. We assumed he was being nice, making it easier to cut down the trees. We were fine with it.
He started placing random chests down, with a sign labeled at the front saying "To Dean" or "To Lexi" or whatever. Inside would be spider eyes, rotten flesh, sometimes some netherrack or glowstone dust. He was being nice, but...
Would you be scared?
It started getting weirder, though. He began placing glowstone in the grass around in random spots. Sometimes he'd just drift away from us, hacking down an occasional tree or clearing out grass in random plains.
He started building huts, made out of gravel and dirt and stone -- it seemed like he was just trying to use whatever materials he had. They'd always be unevenly lit with a torch just placed smack in the middle or on the side somewhere.
They didn't even have a pattern -- they were just random, some big, some small.
But then we started noticing something even stranger.
Each day we logged on, this Herobrine character would already be on. We didn't know what he was doing, but the glowstone blocks in the grass started becoming trails, and the trails zigzagging around trees and going far into the mountains.
We decided to follow this scattered path,
It was about 3 minecraft day's walk, extremely tiring and misleading. Throughout our journey, we didn't even see Herobrine at all.
At the end of the trail was a sign that said simply "X".
We were kind of disappointed, but we were too curious to push it aside.
Cher started digging around the sign until she hit a weird white stone block -- she mined it, and it came out as End Stone, which was some stone we didn't even know existed.
The End Stone layer was rather deep, and by the time we had penetrated it completely, we were at level 12 -- diamond level -- and a dark hole appeared in the stone.
"I'll go in," Lexi piped up.
Lexi jumped through the hole -- and then she disconnected.
Her Skype shut down, too, and we called her cell, and she didn't pick up.
By now, we were insanely worried about what had happened.
Then Toby pointed out how much of a trickster Lexi was, and that we should just let her be.
However, we wrapped up our game and decided to just get some rest and play the next day.
Lexi didn't come to school.
We went to Lexi's house, and her mom said she was... missing?
Lexi -- gone -- she just disconnected.
We went back home and started the Skype call, deciding to talk about it on there.
We turned on our webcams, a little mystified by the missing square that was usually occupied by the crazy gamer girl who would rage at us.
We talked a little bit. About what happened, about the coincidence that she had just disconnected and gone missing.
And what was worse was that we didn't want to play MInecraft anymore.
We sat in silent grim for a while when suddenly Lexi logged on. She entered the call. Her mic was off, and so was her webcam.
"Lexi?" I called out.
"Dean, shh," Toby shot back.
Lexi's mic went on -- static. Just cold static, nothing.
And then her webcam went on, too. It was bright red, little waves travelling down the screen like one of those old-school TVs.
We waited for Lexi to say something.
And then her name changed from "2KUL4ULEXI" to "HeRObrInE".
"Lexi, this isn't funny," Cher whispered.
And then we got a notification in the chatbox that read:
"noT LExI AnyMORe"
"dude this isnt funny" I typed in, biting my lip.
"doN'T CAre YoU FouNd my sTufF and TheN yOu LooKeD in IT"
"Dude, it was really suspicious." Cher typed.
"man idek whats going on here is this a joke" Toby typed in return.
"LeXI's GOnE"
And then she just logged off, our ears feeling a little empty from the lack of static we were hearing.
We didn't play on Four Swords ever again.
--
A couple months after Lexi went missing, her body was found stuffed into trash bin near my apartment.
It was a bit unnerving, the way that she was pushed in there.
The autopsy report said that her ankles and knees were broken, as if she had jumped from something high and landed on her feet. It also said that she had her eyeballs removed, probably when she was still alive.
She also had a pickaxe stuck into her thigh, which was very depressing. The reporters said it was so heavy and rooted in so deep they couldn't take it out.
And -- she was missing for two months -- her wounds were clearly very old, but her body had not decayed a bit, and she looked exactly the same as she was last spotted.
Her hand was wrapped in tape, and upon removing the adhesive, in her hand was a box labeled
"To dEAn"
They told me to open it.
I opened it.
And guess what? Those were her eyeballs.
I am haunted. Even scarier. I mean, c'mon, I come home from school, I open my laptop so I can read a nice story a few hours before I go to sleep and then I read this. Great job, but I slightly hate myself for reading. I get scared a little easily when I read. Wait- I'm looking for a wall to bump my head against once, maybe it'll make it all go away.
whatever, i need to haunt you guys forever with little shorts that leave you hanging
this is so badly written im so sorry
herobrine does not exist thx u))
I remember when Cher and I started playing Minecraft together.
We settled into the game slowly, learning that creepers blow up when approached, and that you couldn't break stone with fists -- you had to use a pick.
Then we invited Lexi and Toby. Lexi was insane at the game, slaying monsters and everything. Toby would just dig a hole in the ground and wait for Lexi to come around with materials.
Even though he was horrible at the game in general, he was a building pro and built the most beautiful works of art ever.
We'd play on this little private server we had. We'd called it 'Four Swords" after Lexi's obsession with Legend of Zelda. She'd build triforces made out of solid gold EVERYWHERE, and every room had to have had at least one triforce inside.
We'd been playing together for a while, building up at this little server; mining bases set up, whole cities (courtesy of Toby) built everywhere, redstone trains going to important landmarks -- everything was fun, and we bonded together so well.
A fifth character joined.
We'd never given him the IP or anything, which was terrifying, but he'd keep quiet and to himself.
His name was Herobrine.
We'd attempted to talk to him through chat, laughing loudly over the Skype call, but he wouldn't respond. Instead, he'd creep up on us and just place down little signs with brief answers like "yeah" or "idk", none of which he'd bothered to take down. We didn't take them down, either. We didn't want to offend him, after all.
His skin really bothered me, though. it was the default skin -- normal Steve -- but with white eyes. pure white. It was really bone-chilling.
We'd wanted to kick him, but he seemed nice to us, and we just let him do his thing. He didn't bother us at all. It was rather odd that he would shear off all the leaves on the tree. We assumed he was being nice, making it easier to cut down the trees. We were fine with it.
He started placing random chests down, with a sign labeled at the front saying "To Dean" or "To Lexi" or whatever. Inside would be spider eyes, rotten flesh, sometimes some netherrack or glowstone dust. He was being nice, but...
Would you be scared?
It started getting weirder, though. He began placing glowstone in the grass around in random spots. Sometimes he'd just drift away from us, hacking down an occasional tree or clearing out grass in random plains.
He started building huts, made out of gravel and dirt and stone -- it seemed like he was just trying to use whatever materials he had. They'd always be unevenly lit with a torch just placed smack in the middle or on the side somewhere.
They didn't even have a pattern -- they were just random, some big, some small.
But then we started noticing something even stranger.
Each day we logged on, this Herobrine character would already be on. We didn't know what he was doing, but the glowstone blocks in the grass started becoming trails, and the trails zigzagging around trees and going far into the mountains.
We decided to follow this scattered path,
It was about 3 minecraft day's walk, extremely tiring and misleading. Throughout our journey, we didn't even see Herobrine at all.
At the end of the trail was a sign that said simply "X".
We were kind of disappointed, but we were too curious to push it aside.
Cher started digging around the sign until she hit a weird white stone block -- she mined it, and it came out as End Stone, which was some stone we didn't even know existed.
The End Stone layer was rather deep, and by the time we had penetrated it completely, we were at level 12 -- diamond level -- and a dark hole appeared in the stone.
"I'll go in," Lexi piped up.
Lexi jumped through the hole -- and then she disconnected.
Her Skype shut down, too, and we called her cell, and she didn't pick up.
By now, we were insanely worried about what had happened.
Then Toby pointed out how much of a trickster Lexi was, and that we should just let her be.
However, we wrapped up our game and decided to just get some rest and play the next day.
Lexi didn't come to school.
We went to Lexi's house, and her mom said she was... missing?
Lexi -- gone -- she just disconnected.
We went back home and started the Skype call, deciding to talk about it on there.
We turned on our webcams, a little mystified by the missing square that was usually occupied by the crazy gamer girl who would rage at us.
We talked a little bit. About what happened, about the coincidence that she had just disconnected and gone missing.
And what was worse was that we didn't want to play MInecraft anymore.
We sat in silent grim for a while when suddenly Lexi logged on. She entered the call. Her mic was off, and so was her webcam.
"Lexi?" I called out.
"Dean, shh," Toby shot back.
Lexi's mic went on -- static. Just cold static, nothing.
And then her webcam went on, too. It was bright red, little waves travelling down the screen like one of those old-school TVs.
We waited for Lexi to say something.
And then her name changed from "2KUL4ULEXI" to "HeRObrInE".
"Lexi, this isn't funny," Cher whispered.
And then we got a notification in the chatbox that read:
"noT LExI AnyMORe"
"dude this isnt funny" I typed in, biting my lip.
"doN'T CAre YoU FouNd my sTufF and TheN yOu LooKeD in IT"
"Dude, it was really suspicious." Cher typed.
"man idek whats going on here is this a joke" Toby typed in return.
"LeXI's GOnE"
And then she just logged off, our ears feeling a little empty from the lack of static we were hearing.
We didn't play on Four Swords ever again.
--
A couple months after Lexi went missing, her body was found stuffed into trash bin near my apartment.
It was a bit unnerving, the way that she was pushed in there.
The autopsy report said that her ankles and knees were broken, as if she had jumped from something high and landed on her feet. It also said that she had her eyeballs removed, probably when she was still alive.
She also had a pickaxe stuck into her thigh, which was very depressing. The reporters said it was so heavy and rooted in so deep they couldn't take it out.
And -- she was missing for two months -- her wounds were clearly very old, but her body had not decayed a bit, and she looked exactly the same as she was last spotted.
Her hand was wrapped in tape, and upon removing the adhesive, in her hand was a box labeled
"To dEAn"
They told me to open it.
I opened it.
And guess what? Those were her eyeballs.
"The devil enters our mind when it's not guarded."
Seriously though, great job.
Good job though! You build the tension in a nice creepy way.
Wow, this is insanely eerie, and it's so unique too. I like it! Keep up the good work.
The Republic of Atlas
same here.
"The devil enters our mind when it's not guarded."