54L3M1

It was on a Sunday afternoon, when I was done with homework from my school. I decided to spend the rest of the day playing Roblox games. Then, I log into Roblox and play casually. I ran into my friend on a game, they wanted me to join their game so we can play together. However, when I went to click on their profile on my friends list, their profile would not show up. I decided to search up their name on the Roblox search bar on the website. Note, my friend's name is 'Maxtherealist1000.' Then, I came across an interesting name, '54L3M1.' It allured my attention, since it looked interesting and it was on the top of the page instead of my friend's username. In addition, the name Maxtherealist1000 is not even close to being related to 54L3M1. I decided to retry searching my friend’s username on the search bar. I was curious to see what happens if I search up something else. I put “123” in the search bar; 54L3M1 was still on the top of the list. I searched up more random terms on the search bar, but no matter what I did, 54L3M1 would be the first result. I realized, the list of the people or games recommended that I searched up would decrease until it was only 54L3M1. I even refreshed the web page, but the list got shorter. I brushed this off as some strange glitch or bug occurring within the Roblox system. Finally, my curiosity died out. I got frustrated, so I decided to join my friend in his Roblox game; I did not want to keep them waiting after all. My friend then sent me a message through the Roblox messaging chat, he said, “Hey, why were u taking so long? Ima go eat some dinner very quickly. Im still up for games. Brb.” I decided to wait for him and sat on my rolling chair there patiently. After a minute of sitting on my chair, the Roblox notification sound echoed through my speakers, “Oh just another friend request from a rando,” I said to myself. I clicked the inbox at the top of the Roblox webpage, curious to see who this possible acquaintance could be. My heart sank into my stomach. The person who sent me the friend request was 54L3M1. I was curious but scared, filled with chills running down from my head to toe. I decided to click on 54L3M1’s profile, and I realized their avatar was a female. Furthermore, their biography and about section was empty. Curiosity began manifesting within me: I wanted to message this individual and question their purpose of befriending me and their strange behavior. Before I greeted him in our chat, I typed, "Who are you?" Immediately, my message is met with an error message. The following being, "Your message was moderated and not sent." Oddly enough, I did not type anything inappropriate or offensive which can get under the radar of the Roblox filter. In addition, the words in my sentence were not even filtered or tagged. "This is pretty strange," I thought to myself in confusion. I decided to scroll back up from 54L3M's about section and noticed that they were in a game. A rush of adrenaline raced through my veins, "This is my chance to talk to this individual." I clicked the green "Join Game" button and transitioned to the Roblox loading screen. I began to notice the game that this person was in had no name or a thumbnail. I knew I was going to be in for an interesting ride. The loading screen fades away and I am met with a very dull and dark scene surrounding me. There was nothing, solely empty darkness. Furthermore, the game was lagging astronomically. I received a very eerie and creepy vibe from this strange game. I decide to walk a few steps north of the dark map. Then, I run into 54L3M1 standing motionless and staring at me. It was a very eerie and weird experience to say the least. 54L3M1 greets me. "Hello," 54L3M1 says to me blankly. After greeting me, 54L3M logs off the game quickly. This is then followed by the lag of the Roblox game getting worse; speaking hyperbolically. The lag was so bad, It makes the entire Roblox application crash. I go back to the page to check on 54L3M1; they are now offline. My friend then comes back and messages, "Hey, srry i took a bit. Had to do some chores. I cant play rn, mom is making me sleep early for school tomorrow. Can we play tomorrow?" Then, I begin to remember I have to study for an upcoming exam for this final semester. I decide to close the window and go to study for the exam. However, I was still curious about 54L3M1. Who is 54L3M1, why did they friend me? Could this be a troll? I theorized it could have been my friend, I mean, when he went to grab dinner, he could have made the account to troll me. My friend is sneaky but also a bit of a realist; I refuse to believe he would just make a crap laggy game.

The following week of exams for the final semester, I forgot about the whole 54L3M1 ordeal. My friend and I decided to spend time playing Roblox, Since we finally finished our exams; besides, it was a nice Saturday at the time. I invite my friend over to my house to play and we both sit on my bed with our laptops. I log into a game my friend and I have been talking about at school throughout my one week hiatus from Roblox. Once we join the game, we are both redirected to a different game than the one I chose. Then, we spawned inside a building from one of Roblox's preset games. Everything seemed normal, except for the sky. The sky was a pitch black color. Along with that, we were not able to move. My friend then asks in a confused tone, "Wrong game?" I press tab and a cold shiver runs down my spine, 54L3M1 was in the game with us. My friend then asked me, "Who's 54L3M1?" I did not respond back, since I was a little frantic when I came to the realization 54L3M1 was in our game; once again, I do not know who they exactly are. After all, why did they befriend me? Who are they? My friend and I came to the realization: we were stuck in place at the center of the building of the Roblox preset game. “Bruh, I can't move,” My friend says as I was observing the scene around us. My friend and I tried to leave the game, but the esc key would not work. We tried to close the window of the Roblox game application; it was not working. My friend then asks in a bewildered tone, "Dude, what's goin' on, I'm just gonna shut the page window. Who the 54L3M1 guy though?" I was in too much shock and fear to respond to him when the realization of 54L3M1 hit me. Thoughts raced through my mind, something odd is going on that I can not explain. If my friend is not the one doing this messed up joke. Then who is? Can this be an admin? My friend then says, "Let's just shut down our laptops, that should work." Once again, I did not respond back. My friend then questions me in a worried voice, "What's the matter dude?" I finally respond with, "She.. She…. is following me.. She is following us.", I stuttered, "Dude! What do you mean? Come on let us just shut this off and play something else," My friend says. "Okay," I say in an emotionless tone. Then, I reach for my mouse and move it; the cursor would not move along. My friend experienced the same issue, his cursor was not moving either, even with the tracking pad, it was still not moving. I was totally frantic and confused at this ordeal. Then, the keys on our keyboard suddenly stopped working. Additionally, we tried to press the button to shut off our laptops; it did not work. My friend looked at me with a face of that of a child who does not know what to do in a school test. We could not explain what was going on. It is as if we were trapped by 54L3M1. But why, do they want to tell us something? Do they want a friend? If so, why can I not message them? Unexpectedly, the in-game room began to set on fire. The game began lagging a lot and our characters were unable to move. They stood idly, while the fire was spreading all around the structure. My friend and I stared at our laptop screens frantically in shock. Once the fire reached our in-game characters, the game lagged so immensely, our laptops began to crash entirely. However, I was able to catch a small glimpse of something disturbing. Our characters were on fire, burning up with 54L3M1 standing a few in-game steps away at the center of us: watching our characters burn up in flames. After a minute passed, the window finally closed. We retained full control of our laptops once again. I felt a sense of relief and curiosity on this predicament. I could tell my friend had the same expression, judging by his weak smile. I laid back and let out a huge sigh of relief. My friend then says, "Let's never do that again," I reply with, "Yeah.. Creepy." My friend then questions me in an anxious tone, "I'm still confused though, who is 54L3M1? Are they a friend of yours?" I then say, "They uhhh, sent me a friend request. I found them when I was looking up your name. Quite a long story," I said. "Dude that was creepy, don't jus' friend randoms. I know I ain't doing it anymore after this crap," He says with a slightly frustrated tone, "Yeah, never.." I responded with. Then, I got up to shut down my laptop but as I was about to turn it off. An error from the Roblox application appears on both of our screens. There was an error message, which then made my blood run cold and my eyes bulge. "An unexpected error has occurred: I can't breathe here," Followed by my laptop freezing and transitioning to the Windows 10 shut down screen.