Inferno

March 10th, 2020
The Inferno. A being whose story begins about a week ago, March 10th, 2020. It was a day like many other days in my small hometown, with nothing of note going on, up until this point. I had been playing Phantom Forces late at night because I didn't want to go to sleep and had nothing better to do. I was playing very well, getting kills left and right. Then, something strange happened. A building on the map had caught on fire. I thought it was very strange since there were no announcements of random game events like these, nor does it seem that it was intended. The fire killed anyone who was in the building too easily for it to have been added by the developer. No developer would add a feature that instantly kills players, especially if it was unannounced.

Here is some players' reaction to the event. WATERGOD12311: WHAT?! guest4life: Sorry WHEN was that added? tracey4000: I have no clue also can our team ####### ### #### tracey4000: get good WATERGOD12311: the heck it kills you instantly AngelBeam: wow... devs really aren't at their peak this week... I got out of the area to avoid the insta-kill flames. I thought I was safe from its grasp, but the flames started spreading across the map. Eventually, there was only 25% of the map that did not have the flames spread across it. People started to complain and many left, being angry at the overpowered flames. Eventually, nearly the entire map was engulfed in flames when the round ended. The flames did not come back after that round, leading many, including me, to believe it might've been leftover from buggy code. After playing a few more rounds, I left the server. I decided to message AxisAngle, a member of StyLiS Studios, about the supposed bug. WATERGOD12311: hey, today I encountered a bug on PF. Building caught on fire for no apparent reason, spread across the map. AxisAngle: That doesn't sound good. I'll be sure to take a look at it. I decide to play a different game while I wait for another response from AxisAngle. I booted up Car Crushers 2 and everything in the game worked fine. That was until I unlocked the Golf Cart. As soon as I spawned it in, the cart caught fire.

I thought to myself, "But why? The car JUST spawned in, it's not like it's taken any damage". That's when I noticed that the same thing that had happened with the building in Phantom Forces happened here. The fire spread to other crushers and eventually the entire map. I had to leave the game because it was essentially unplayable at this point. At this point, I was convinced it couldn't be a bug that had been overlooked because it had happened more than once. I decided to get back to AxisAngle. WATERGOD12311: Whatever you're doing in Studio you can stop now. The same thing that happened in your game just happened in Car Crushers 2. AxisAngle: Strange. Very, very strange. I guess I can stop looking into it now. I decided to get off of ROBLOX for now, feeling that I've played enough for the day.

March 12th, 2020
It had been 2 days since the fire incident. I was playing Arsenal on ROBLOX, and suddenly I got a message. INFERNO: do you like the heat? After I received this message, I noticed that a large portion of the map had been set ablaze. I freaked out.

"Isn't this the same thing that happened two days ago? Did the guy causing it just message me?" I thought to myself. My thoughts were confirmed as INFERNO sent yet another message. INFERNO: Yes. It is me controlling the untamable heat. I could not believe what I was reading. How could a player possibly make anything light on fire when they aren't even in the game? Or better yet, how can they control fire when they don't have access to the developer's account? My mind started to wander away from the game and onto INFERNO. WATERGOD12311: Why are you doing this? Can you stop, it's actually getting annoying! INFERNO: NO. THE FLAMES ARE MY POWER, MY ABILITY. FOR YOU TO COMMAND ME TO STOP IS LIKE TELLING THE WIND OUTSIDE TO STOP BLOWING. WATERGOD12311: k brainless, cut it out. INFERNO: WHAT. WATERGOD12311: brainless, cut it out. As you can see, I was getting fed up with INFERNO for being the way he is. Interrupting people playing the game to ruin the fun by killing them over and over again? Douchey. I was about to lecture INFERNO about why it isn't ok to hack into games to ruin people's fun, but then something incredible happened. The map I was playing on exploded, and the worst part is the map doesn't regenerate so the game was unplayable. Because of this, was forced to get off. I was getting angrier and angrier with INFERNO because he was still ruining me and other people's fun. WATERGOD12311: LISTEN, CUT IT OUT. IT'S NOT FUNNY. INFERNO: no. That was my last warning to INFERNO. I decided to report INFERNO for exploiting, but then something else happened that I did not expect. The form to report him disappeared. I tried going to his profile, and that didn't work either. I couldn't do anything about him at this point. In frustration, I turned off my computer and stopped playing ROBLOX for the day.

March 13th, 2020
The day after INFERNO had angered me enough for me to get off ROBLOX early, I decided to investigate who INFERNO was. I google-searched "INFERNO Roblox". At first, nothing came up except for unrelated items/games on ROBLOX and INFERNO himself, but then I decided to go a bit deeper into the results than usual and go to page 2. What I found was a bunch of posts from random blog sites complaining about INFERNO. One of these blogs was titled, "THE TRUTH.". I decided to click on it, hoping to find an ounce of information. Turns out, INFERNO had been going under multiple names and, up until now, was doing most of this in secret. He would regularly mess with the disasters on Stickermasterluke's Natural Disasters, though nobody noticed because the disasters usually glitched anyways. THE TRUTH - MARCH 11TH, 2020 I encountered a ROBLOX user, INFERNO today. I was playing one of my favorite games, Jailbreak, when the map caught on fire. The game eventually became unplayable because the fire instantly kills you when you touch it. I decided to do some digging into INFERNO. Turns out, he has gone by different names in the past: SHAKEGROUND AQUATSUNAMI TIPFALL This is not possible to view on his profile because they're all under different accounts, but it is possible to uncover the usernames using a method I will not reveal the workings behind. It appears they all related to an element of some sort, with them being; Earth, Water, and Wind. Why he does this to games is currently unknown. I was blown away. I realized that he must've been doing this for many years now undetected, especially since he started small, not interfering too much with gameplay. But it seems he was aiming to disrupt people from playing the game this time, doing it to more and more games as time went on. I decided to contact the person who wrote the blog and waited for a response. Later that day, at around 5:30 in the afternoon, I got a response back. [BLOG POSTER'S EMAIL]: You contacted me about INFERNO saying that we should team up to try to put an end his antics. Are you sure you want to do this? It could mean anything from your account being banned for a long time to it being straight up deleted... or worse. [My Email]: I'm sure about it. This seems to be getting worse every day. [BLOG POSTER'S EMAIL]: Then it's settled. What's your ROBLOX username? [MY EMAIL]: WATERGOD12311. We messaged each other on ROBLOX, pondering what we could do to stop INFERNO in his tracks. Then the blog poster, who goes by the username bubbajoe1 on ROBLOX, formulated a plan. We were going to join a game in the Popular section of the homepage. We decided on joining MeepCity since there was a better chance of being able to counter his attacks in a small map like this. Next, we had to formulate a plan on how to stop him. This phase of planning well well into the night hours.

March 14th, 2020.
Finally, with the help of scripting work from bubbajoe1, we were able to find an attack method. We were going to inject bubba's script into the game to stop him. The script would cancel out his script which is done by killing all scripts in the game. After this, e joined MeepCity, and it wasn't long before INFERNO started setting the place ablaze. Bubba injected the script. Nothing happened. bubbajoe1: WHAT?! BUT-BUT HOW? WATERGOD12311: what... but that should've stopped what he was doing! INFERNO: Or so you think, you brainless ape. Your silly code cannot stop the very forces of nature from flourishing. bubbajoe1: why are you doing this... Pianissima: GUYS WHAT IS GOING ON I DON'T UNDERSTAND private_myname: #### ### ##### INFERNO: SILENCE, YOU FOOLS! YOUR KIND HAS BEEN SINFUL, NOT APOLOGIZING FOR ANYTHING THAT YOUR SPECIES DOES... bubbajoe1: what are you on about? you some kind of tin-foil-wearing-extremist? It was at this point that INFERNO started to wipe out the Meep City servers, making more people leave by the second due to his exploits. We were getting furious. INFERNO: I AM A BEING VANQUISHED FROM EARTH BY ANGELS SENT BY HIM TO RID OF THE EVIL THAT PERSISTS TO THIS DAY. THEY TRIED TO STOP ME, BUT I CONTROL THE FORCES OF NATURE WITHIN THIS GAME. SOON I WILL GO BEYOND THE VIRTUAL WORLD AND ASCEND INTO REALITY. YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE MESSING WITH, YOU HELL-BOUND IDIOTS! bubbajoe1: oh no... WATERGOD12311: that's not cool. very much not cool. Suddenly, we were teleported to a game unlike any other. The game had no title, with no creator. When we loaded in, the first thing we saw was the "VICTIM COUNTER". We had no clue what this was referring to. Was it referring to the number of ROBLOX players who've been a victim of his ways? INFERNO: YOU HAVE INSULTED ME ONE TOO MANY TIMES. YOU HAVE UNDERMINED MY POWER, WHICH WAS A GRAVE MISTAKE. THE COUNTER IS NOT COUNTING THE HUMANS THAT HAVE HAD THEIR ENJOYMENT RUINED BY MY ANTICS, NO. THE COUNT IS OF THE PEOPLE WHO I HAVE VANQUISHED WITH MY POWER. WATERGOD12311: Do you want a fight? Well, have at it. The second after I had sent that message, INFERNO was charging at me. He had lava for skin, tree roots for legs, water for hands, and a blurry face. His avatar seemed to represent all four of the elements. I ran for my life, afraid of what would happen if he caught me. The rest of the game was just as bleak as the start of the game, with long, gray halls leading to other parts of the game. There was fog surrounding the building that comprised the place. Some of the fire made by INFERNO was raging on in the room closest to me, blocking one of my hiding places. Suddenly, I realized that if anybody uses their powers too much, they are sure to perish doing so. I quickly messaged Bubba on a plan I had to overwhelm INFERNO.

WATERGOD12311: Listen, Bubba. I didn't know it would have to come to this, I'm sorry. bubbajoe1: huh? go on, I'LL DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS. WATERGOD12311: We both swarm around INFERNO, getting him to use his powers to the max. Then you have to drive INFERNO to insanity by berating, insulting, and teasing him. You might die, are you ready for that? bubbajoe1: If it means saving the world from whatever hellish monster he may be... I'm ready to die no matter how painful it might be.

We circled INFERNO. He kept having to fire off his powers in multiple directions, eventually angering him to start using his powers more than he previously had. Bubba ran over to the other side of the map and started insulting his power. ​​​ bubbajoe1: hey, INFERNO? what do you even do anyways? touch people with virtual fire? spray people with VIRTUAL water? What's that going to do, baptize them? Sacrifice them to Satan? He kept doing this, with the insults getting worse each time. Eventually, INFERNO lashed out and sent a burst of power towards Bubba. He was weak, as he had tried to use all his power at once missed because Bubba moved at just the right time to avoid the blast. INFERNO was furious. He let out another beam of his power and... Bubba was hit. He had disconnected from the game instantly. I believe he probably died and was another victim of INFERNO's power. Poor Bubba died while fighting for the world's protection, and I will remember him for it. What happened next showed that he did not die in vain. INFERNO's avatar started to wince in pain, and parts of his avatar started to fall off. What appeared to be blood started to leak out of the missing parts. INFERNO: NO!!! NO!!! NO!! THIS CAN'T BE... HOW COULD I... BE... OUT...DONE BY A HUMAN.......................... INFERNO had sent his last message. His entire body exploded into multiple pieces, splattering the blood onto the floor. INFERNO was extinguished from ever becoming a threat. ROBLOX was saved, and so was the human race.

Epilogue
Bubba can sometimes still be seen online to this day. I do not know how he still comes online, as he never messaged me back to say if he was okay or not. He might've used the power that INFERNO used for evil to live on within the virtual world of ROBLOX. I am proud to be here today to tell the tale of The Inferno.