Alternative Servers

Before reading this, I hope you know that I am not particularly experienced in writing horror, and this is my first pasta yet. With that small disclaimer, I do hope you can enjoy this. For notes: This pasta is 13+

Prologue
So, I don't think I should reveal my identity after my experiences. The past few days had been incredibly strange, but if we want to go there, we have to start with the beginning

2013
2013, a great year on Roblox, and the same year I joined. During those days, I used to go and enjoy playing a bunch of those "Boys & Girls Hangout" games or skatepark games.

The only real reason I'm telling you this is the importance of it. Around October 2013, I remember how people would constantly be trying to spook people out with scary stories on the hangout games.

Now, there was one story that would constantly come up that people had been using to spook each other. There was a tale that on Roblox, sometimes when you joined a game you would be sent to a server where it was only you, and only you could join. It was similar to a private server, except it lacked the function to invite people to it. Nothing particularly spooky, right? Just a weird glitch.

Now, here's where the strange thing came into play: It was said that a group of hackers had broke into these servers at one point and starting to data mine what was going on. Most of the hackers had went missing, besides one. They told people about how the game would do a scan of your full hard drive, internet connection, etc. They also said they found horrific things in the code of these servers, but refused to specify what they were. They were found dead in their home a week later, suicide was the cause.

At the time, I thought these were just stupid "scary" tales used to creep out other players, I mean, seriously? Why would someone kill themselves over a Roblox game? Why didn't they even say what they found? How did others go missing thanks to it? It all just seemed like a load of shit. The story would die down over the years, just becoming another trend in the community that came and went, there hadn't been any real evidence of these "alternate servers" at all. Nor had there been any alleged sightings since 2013, or that's what it seemed like to me, until I was one of the people who were to experience one for myself...

Chapter 1: The Glitch
It was a late, warm summer night.

I should have gone to sleep hours ago, but could not. Every time I fell asleep, I woke up shortly after, drenched in my cold sweat. I had no clue why this was the case, but it was clear that I wouldn't be getting much sleep that night.

In a act to cure my boredom, I got out of bed, took a glass of water, and headed over to my laptop. I watched as the bright blue windows logo shunned light onto my face. I blinked my eyes as it did so, protecting them from the light. Shortly after, I logged in, and went to google, typed up "roblox.com" and hit enter. I looked through my friends list, nobody I actually was close to was playing a game, unsuprisingly.

I then looked at my recently played, and booted up "After the Flash: Wintertide". A pretty good RP game set in a winter wasteland. As it booted up, I awaited and waited. I watched as the in-game loading screen finished, and when I went to hit play, a strange glitch happened.

The screen flickered several lights, causing me to receive a minor headache. I looked away at the bright, flashy lights because it felt like I was staring at the sun. Eventually, it ended and I looked back at the screen. Instead of the usual in game lobby, everything was textureless, grey, and there were fake players everywhere. I could tell they were fake because not only were they all the same character, (a grey textureless figure) but also because the server list was empty, apart from me. I looked in utter confusion, perhaps some weird secret implemented by the developer to freak the fuck out of players like myself?

I didn't really care all that much, and just wanted to play the game normally, so I hit X on the window. Weirdly enough it didn't close after multiple clicks, so I moved into task manager and it closed the program. I booted up the game again, expecting it to put me in a normal server. Instead I had been sent to  another gray area, but with a difference that the fake people were no longer there...