Ghost User

Who is the player who is shown in our server?

This was a Question which went through everyone's head. It was just the matter of that Cursed said it out loud, that we investigated the problem.

Chapter 1 - Lone Developers
Today's day wasn't anything special. Me and my Friends, Cursed and Bloxer were developing our Hangout game, as every Saturday. We've been planning to finally release the Winter update and take a break from developing the Game, but what happened next left us here.

Skemer's Developer Blog Part. 1
Hello guys, it's me Skemer, a Roblox Developer. Me and 2 of my friends are working on a game called Parts' Meeting. Even                               though we were close to Failing, we finally released the Winter update in our Game. I hope you will check it out since we put a lot of work into it. What we added? a Basement, a Winter map and expansions to certain areas (Abandoned District, Steamville and Northern Town!). That was it for my first post, I hope you will follow our game!

That was what I posted on my Developer Forum blog. I wasn't expecting anything. Maybe one or two players in the span of 4 hours, before the game would die out completely again. We joined our Game, to stay inside in case someone would come, while I rubbed my eyes. I just realized how tired i was, after 6 straight hours of developing. With a headache i leaned into the pillow of my gaming chair and pushed the upper part back, so it was almost as flat as a bed. And when I opened my eyes it was dark.

My room was completely dark, and my body weirdly hurt. Everything was quiet, and my headphones were slipped out of my ears. As I tried to move my neck, it stung painfully. This was the moment i realized that I slept. For Quite a While. I looked at my Clock. It was shortly after midnight. While i thought about just passing out on my chair again I noticed something. My Roblox Client was still open, and I wasn't kicked for inactivity. Most likely a Script that Cursed or Bloxer Made. Or not, Perhaps. I pushed the upper side of my chair back up, giving my best not to fall asleep again. I looked at the playerlist. Empty of course. I clicked back to Chrome without closing the Roblox Client, and the page that was opened was Parts' Meeting's servers. The moment i wanted to click away from it, and watch some YouTube Shorts, I noticed something strange. According to the Servers...

I wasn't alone.

Chapter 2 - Reality
I Opened my Eyes. My head hurt. Bright Sun flashed into my Field of Sight, as it was already light morning. My neck hurt from my weird sleeping position this night. I stood up, lightly dizzy.

It was a long day in school, and it started getting dark as my bus was stuck in traffic for over 1 hour by now. While i was stuck in my thoughts, the thing from yesterday night came up to mind. Did it really happen? Was there really a user who... technically wasn't there at all? or something like that... my memory of the event seemed faded, and the more i tried to remember it, the less i could come up with. I swiped up on the lockscreen of my phone and opened up Discord. It felt stupid to ask, since I believed more and more that it was all just a dream.

Or wasn't it?

Before I could delete the so stupidly sounding message, Bloxer answered me. Are you sure you weren't dreaming? As we were playing you were suddenly completely gone. We were worried but I just thought you fell asleep in the end.

Yeah, that was kind of the problem. Myself, I didn't even know if what i saw was real. I opened Reddit, and decided to post my encounter on r/roblox.

Did Anybody else ever encounter this user?
Tonight around Midnight I've encountered a strange user in my Server. He had a basic avatar, hair, sunglasses, and brown hair with grey skin. As i've looked on the server page, he seemingly was in my server, but as i looked into my Client he seemed absent. Help is Sought.

I was too tired to continue my research. I had still left 30 Minutes to home.

Chapter 3 - The Realization
Today was the day of the Beta Release. After 5 months of Work we would finally release our game, and we even had a bunch of players waiting for the very specific moment. The last thing that we needed was a thumbnail, and Game images. I joined the Game and started taking all pictures we needed, showing off as much of the game as possible. It was very enjoyable to take the images, and i totally forgot about what's been bothering me. I opened Clip Studio Paint, set the Canvas to a correct size and was about to import the images when I saw something. It was a screenshot. The date was... 21/12/22 0:14. I curiously opened it. It showed my Roblox Website, with the Servers on it. With the proof on it. So I did make a Screenshot. So i wasn't dumb enough to leave it open that night. It existed. And now I had the proof i needed.

After a while I finished the pictures for the game. Indeed, I wanted to show everyone that i wasn't wrong, but decided to wait with it. Don't get me wrong, I was still feeling as stressed as i ever could, but at least I had to finish those thumbnails. We Finally released the Beta. Today was the Day, the day we've been working for.

I waited for Cursed to join in.