User blog:MiXiPixel/Proto-Pasta: "Praise"

For about the past few months until a few weeks ago, I had had a friend named Praise.

He was a very mysterious figure. Today is the day I want to find out the truth about him.

Let me explain.

Chapter 1 - The Beginning
I met Praise in March 2021 in Build a boat for Treasure. We friended eachother on Discord and became pretty good friends - we'd call daily, and exchange stories and such. At this time, Praise was a 13 year old boy who had a light and somewhat squeaky voice. His accent was strongly russian, which made sense as that's where he lived.

Praise was quite stupid and asked some pretty stupid questions, but he wasn't stupid in the bad "Don't do that you idiot" way, he was stupid in the "lol you actually dont know?" sort of way. One time he even asked me if Mexico was part of Africa.

Over time, Praise weirdly became far smarter, and had a deepening voice. I thought it was just him going through puberty, but his voice eventually got so deep he sounded like one of those deep-voiced villains in a cartoon.

He also changed personality-wise too.

Over the time I knew him, he got 3 friends - Michael, Theo, and Vincent.

Weird stuff would start happening around Praise ever since he met Theo.

Chapter 2 - What's wrong, Praise?
Some really strange stuff started happening around Praise - i even got cursed so that most people hated me around this time. Weird stuff would also happen to Michael, and Theo. He had not yet met Vincent.

I asked him what was wrong, why weird stuff was happening around him.

"You will find that out one day, but for now do not ask me that or I will block you."

Geez... Praise used to be such a sweetheart. Why is he suddenly so hostile? This had raised some serious red flags in my mind.

Then we found a really weird Sonic fangame. It was really crazy and I almost died playing it. Praise confirmed he played a part in that game and wasn't affected. This made me even more suspicious of him - how is he immune to this weird stuff that's happening to me, Theo, Michael, and Vincent?

About a month later he found some weird noob, and he treated the noob like his pet.

Praise went from my best, most clearheaded friend to this weirdo who seems to cause evil around him.

And finally, a few days ago, he ended up being abducted, and everything in my chat became tagged.

I have since fixed the tags by talking to Michael about it - he said it was something to do with Praise. Michael is a pretty nice, yet still mysterious guy. He agreed that Praise was a bit strange, and he wants to get to the bottom of this whole Praise fiasco with me.

Chapter 3 - What?!
Michael and I decided to start getting to the bottom of this. We visited Theo's house. Theo had supposedly been murdered. After ringing the doorbell, we were greeted with... Theo's dad.

I asked him if I could see Theo.

"Didn't some Praise dude lie to you and say he died? Well anyway, he's upstairs. He's not dead."

Me and Michael went upstairs and said hi to Theo. He was scared of us, because apparently he had seen things and started having hallucinations after Praise had faked his death. We explained that we were not a threat, and Theo decided to play a few rounds of Build a Boat for Treasure with us. With 3 people, we were sure to find out the truth about Praise.

"What are your hallucinations?", I asked.

"I keep seeing Praise's Roblox character killing me in my dreams.. and I keep hearing knocks on the door and seeing Praise in my closets. It's like I'm having nightmares when I'm awake."

We went to my house for the night, and I was thinking really hard about how we could find out the truth about Praise. Maybe Theo had something to say? Maybe we could visit Vincent?

I asked Theo if he still had contact with praise.

"Yes, he keeps telling me you're gonna die, it's scaring me, I cry myself to bed almost every night."

Let me tell you about Theo.

He's a 15 year old boy, but he's quite skittish and shy. He has great care and respect for his friends, but sadly he's easily exploitable.

"Alright, let's visit Vincent", I said.

While we were able to walk to Theo's house as it was only 2 miles (about 3.5km) away from our house, Vincent's house is a few towns over.

Good thing Michael is 17, I guess. He drove us to Vincent's and when we arrived, we asked if we could see Vincent.

"Whose vincent?", Vincent's mom asked.

"Your kid?", Michael bravely answered.

"Forget about Vincent. Don't think about him. Vincent never existed", Vincent's mom creepily says.

"Do you know praise?", I asked her.

"Yes. I used to have him friended on discord.", she responded.

"Okay, but can we please see vincent?", Michael asked.

"There was, is, and never will be any Vincent. Now get out.", she said.

Gosh... that was weird. We each went home and slept.

In the morning, I got on Build a Boat, and I had a message from none other than Vincent. It simply read "HELP ME. CHECK #######.". I assumed ####### meant Discord, so I checked Discord, and sure enough had a message from not just Vincent, but - oh god no. I also had a message from Praise who was supposedly abducted.

Vincent Conversation
"Help me. I am alive, they're lying. They hate you because of Praise. They think you ARE praise. Help me, Praise is threatening to kill me.", Vincent said.

I said "Okay, I'll see what I can do."

Praise Conversation
"Stop. NOW! Or else. Do one more thing and vincent is DONE. I'm already on my way to his house.", Praise said.

So since he said doing one more thing would cause vincent to be "done", I didn't respond and instead focused on rescuing Vincent.

Me and Michael (who, by the way, are siblings) went to Theo's house, picked him up, then quickly went to Vincent's house.

"Why are you back?", Vincent's mom asked.

"We aren't praise. I promise. Here.", I said. I pulled out my phone and opened discord to prove I was not Praise.

"Okay, so you AREN'T praise. Vincent's inside.", she said.

Vincent was good at hacking, so I asked him to do something crazy.

"Hack Praise.", I told Vincent.

Chapter 4 - The Truth
After hacking into Praise's discord account, Vincent had learned the truth. Praise was not a 14 year old russian kid. He was some strange interdimensional entity that came from a place known as "The Tunnels". Maybe I will explore the tunnels more in the future.

Atleast I have my friends back - and no, Praise is incapable of hurting us.