The burned man

The year is 2013, I was your average 14 Year Old boy and a few friends had mentioned this little website named Roblox, The concept of it seemed cool to me, I was really getting into developing and wanted to become a software engineer when I was older.

The idea of innovation and that I could created anything Imaginable in this game was a concept that hadn't be capitalised yet, much less for free.

So I started by messing around with the creation tab, seeing what I could do with it, messing around with the marketplace models, you know.

That was until I noticed something strange about my account...

'''My name was different, instead of being called "Andrew" It said "AoD" I wasn't sure why or how but I knew that this wasn't normal so I decided to ask one of my friends if he had any ideas on what was going on. He didn't have an answer either. So I just decided to leave it alone. I got home from school and logged onto the computer, I was going to check out some forums or maybe start a new game to mess around with the tools they gave us to create our own games. When I tried logging in it took me to the main menu of the game, It was empty, No big deal right? I thought to myself. I was just about to log back in again when I noticed that there were no servers online, That's weird. I checked the status page, It showed that all of them were offline, except for mine.'''

'''I clicked on my server, It showed that it was offline as well, But then I saw a message appear at the bottom of the screen. Your account has been suspended due to an internal error. Please contact customer support for further assistance.'''

What the hell is this?

'''I quickly opened up a chat window with one of my friends and asked him if he had ever seen this before, He said that he had not, so I decided to try to contact customer service. I went to the main menu and clicked on the link to get help, When I did that, It redirected me to another site where I would be able to send a ticket to the staff to let them know what was wrong.'''

I wrote down everything that I could think of that might be causing the problem and sent it off to the customer service team.

'''After waiting for a while, I got a response saying that my account had been reactivated. I was confused because I didn't receive any emails about this. I was about to tell them that when I logged back in I found that my name was now "AOD" once again. I looked at the status page again and noticed that there was no longer a message at the bottom of the screen.'''

'''I logged back into the game and saw that all the servers were still offline, I checked the forums and saw that there was a thread about this, Everyone was complaining about their accounts being suspended without any explanation. I opened up a chat window with one of my friends and told him what happened. He asked me to try logging into his account to see if it worked, I did so and it did. I asked him to try logging into mine, he did so and it didn't work. We both agreed that it must have been a glitch in the system.'''

'''I tried logging in again and this time it worked, I was a bit worried that this might happen every time I logged in, So I decided to stay away from the game for a few days. But when I returned to the game, It was working fine. I was about to log in when I noticed that my name had changed back to "Andrew". I opened up a chat window with one of my friends and asked him if he had seen this happen before, He said that he hadn't.'''

So I decided to go ahead and log in, I was hoping that it wouldn't change my name back.

'''Couple days later I logged onto this weird roleplaying game, I assume it was called Kingdom life; though don't quote me on that. For 2 hours all was normal, though things started getting weird quickly after that, the game started lagging and then my character began to act strangely.'''

'''I started moving slowly, I was trying to run but my character was only moving at half speed, I tried opening another tab but nothing happened. I tried to open my menu and it didn't respond. I then decided to close the game and try to play it again in a few minutes, When I came back to the game it was still acting weird.'''

'''My character was moving very slow and it was almost impossible to move. I tried to open my menu again and it still didn't respond. I closed the game and tried playing it again a few more times. Every time I played it, It was the same thing.'''

'''It was like the game was glitching or something. I decided to log off and try to come back later, I went to log out but when I did, My character was stuck. It had gotten way worse, I couldn't move, I tried pressing the escape button but it didn't do anything. I tried hitting the backspace key but that didn't work either.'''

I tried to type in the chat window to tell someone that I was stuck but I couldn't, I tried to open the menu to see if I could find a way out but it wouldn't respond, I tried opening my inventory but it wouldn't open, I tried typing in the chat again and I couldn't type anything.

I tried to press the escape key again but it still didn't work.

I tried closing the game again but it wouldn't close.

I tried to open my inventory again and it opened, I was relieved but then I realised that I was still stuck in the game, So then I hard booted my computer and started looking around the task manager to see if I had any malware or something along the lines of that, I checked for viruses and stuff but it turned out that my computer was clean.

Then weird meshed faces started appearing on the advert banners, weird spikes of audio would play and I could always hear a tiny buzzing noise come of out my monitor, I knew that it was coming from my computer so I opened up the task manager to see if there was anything that I could do to stop it.

I opened up the sound mixer and I saw that my volume was set to 100%, I figured that it might have been a virus or something so I decided to shut down my computer and try to play the game again, I tried to shutdown my computer but it wouldn't do it.

Tried opening the task manager again to see if there was anything that I could do to fix it but I couldn't, I tried opening the game again but it wouldn't start, I tried to turn off my computer and it wouldn't turn off, I unplugged the back and the damn thing still wouldn't go off!

I didn't know what to do at this point, I couldn't do anything, Nothing worked!

'''I tried turning on my computer again and it started to boot up normally, I was surprised by this so I decided to wait a couple of seconds before shutting it down, When I did shut it down, It was exactly the same as it was before. When I managed to get back onto my computer a few hours later, my wallpaper was just black, all of my apps were gone except for that stupid goddamn game.'''

'''This isn't one of your spooky jumpscare, lego dead baby creepypastas! I'm writing this on my phone and I can't log back in! My computer keeps bringing up these weird tabs and I don't know what to do! I'm going to sign off for the day then continue possibly tomorrow, I'm thinking of selling the computer at this point and anytime I make an attempt to fix it, It get's worse.'''