User blog:Kyoichi Mori/Patient Zero

Patient Zero is amongst one of the smartest and most horrifying entities there is, simply because it managed to outsmart and fool its own creators, the whole ROBLOX staff team, into thinking it was dead before the official release of the game, only to emerge back into the game when they least expected it.

The very first person to ever know about Patient Zero states that the whole entity was an accident. The writer of the story (Me) claims that his dad was an employee who worked at ROBLOX, and one of the people who have helped develop ROBLOX. The dad's name, of course, wasn't revealed for privacy reasons. While working on the alpha versions of ROBLOX. the ROBLOX staff (including the dad), suggested working on a boss for unknown reasons.

Something that's way more ferocious than any player will ever encounter...

A true challenge for the player(s), something truly terrifying and actually hard to defeat...

The staff actually considered the idea, and have left a bunch of useless zero in the game code for those seeking secrets as a reference to what was supposed to be a future addition to the game.

They referred to it as codename "Annihilation"...

Actual work on Annihilation began while working on the Beta version of ROBLOX. the skin for the boss of Annihilation was made, which consisted of random shades of gray and red from head to toe, and no recognizable face. It was also given the AI of a hostile NPC, where it would just slowly chase the player in hopes of punching them to death. But over time, the AI got enhanced more and more, and at the end, had an AI more powerful than the last.

The writer of the story (Me) stated that the AI was: "Not terrifying but incredibly unnerving". After the annihilation entity was done being worked on, it was added to the game, but only as a secret. It couldn't be spawned as commands didn't exist back then until 2014. The only chance there is of encountering the entity was if you went to a specific game and typed exactly 8 zeroes. The player never knew the chance, and he never dared ask his dad...

The staff had decided to save Annihilation and the entity for a future-pst release version, and locked the code until then. After the code was locked, the father decided to check on it one last time for anything different, and to his surprise, the "complex" code of Annihilation was retransformed back into nothing but zeroes, But that's not all...

Despite that, the entity would still spawn in the specific game, even without its existence in the game code. Although the dad had planned on looking into the bug, too overtaken with other major additions that needed to be done before the release of ROBLOX, he completely forgot about it. It might seem like a not-very-big deal, but it was, leaving the Annihilation code in the official release left access for the entity to the whole code of the game...

After the official release of ROBLOX, the staff of ROBLOX decided to take a little break from working on the game. Which gave even more time for the Annihilation entity (Later named Patient Zero) to take over the whole code of ROBLOX. After the break and after the staff returned to working on the Game, the team noticed something odd about the Annihilation code...

It grew way bigger than they left it...

But not just that, the code seemed to have been tampered with, or "overhauled" as the writer said. It seemed to have bits of all AI's of all NPC's at the time (2006) in the game... Whenever the dad tried to re-edit the code, it would immediately turn back to zeroes and cause the game to crash, and then going back to the normal Beta code when its left alone... Since the dad was the one in charge of the Annihilation code, he was commanded to do anything he could to remove the code from the game until he was told to so otherwise.

Builderman managed to lock the Annihilation code out of the game so that they could safely release more ROBLOX versions. Thinking it was over, one night, the entity of Annihilation managed to escape Buildermans lock and latch itself onto the dad's ROBLOX account, giving it access to the code once again. The entity is very smart, and although it had control over the code once again, all it did was manage to fire its biggest threat, the dad.

When it latched itself onto his account, it changed some of the code into 0's, making it seem as if the dad was trying to bring back the entity secretly. After ROBLOX found out about this, he fired the dad without hesitation. As mentioned by his son (The writer of the story), the dad was depressed for days after he got fired, not just because he lost his job, but because the entity was still tampering with the code and he couldn't do anything about it. It was on April 30th, 2014 that the first sighting of the entity was reported on the ROBLOX forums. soon after, More and more appeared. and On December 18th, 2018, Approximately 234 sightings were reported.

Its unknown if ROBLOX lost the fight against Patient zero, but one thing is for sure: Its keeping up a good fight.