The Mist

Now, I'm one of those people you'd say are hard to impress, and I guess that's true. About a year ago, I was on Roblox, and I wanted to find a horror game that actually looked scary, not that weird mascot horror junk kids are into nowadays. I do admit, I'd played some Roblox horror games in the past that were actually pretty good, but I wanted something new, not to mention I was kind of picky. I didn't like games that had overly long titles, games that looked too low quality, nothing was really my standard. After what must've been 10 minutes of mindlessly scrolling, I finally found a game that caught my attention. There was a game simply titled "The Mist", with the thumbnail being a pair of glowing red eyes staring at the camera, along with a bit of grass around the bottom shrouded in darkness. Nobody else was playing the game, not that it really mattered to me as the server size was only 1. I joined, and I was locked into the first-person camera. I appeared to be in a forest, only that was a guess because I could barely see anything around me, the only light being a small space around me and the moon in the sky. I started getting a little disappointed, due to the lack of exciting gameplay.

Suddenly, there was a crunch sound behind me, like someone had snapped a twig. It actually made me jump for a second. I turned around, and there was a glowing red pair of eyes. All of a sudden everything around me became bright red and saturated, and this heavily distorted music played as the eyes got closer and closer to me, slowly gaining speed. Eventually, they caught me and I was kicked from the game. I felt like I'd wasted my time, and just decided to take a little break.

Around a week later, I got an E-mail, the title of the E-mail just being jumbled up symbols, numbers, and letters, as well as a Roblox link. I checked the sender, however their name was also just nonsense like the title. I knew it was a pretty suspicious E-mail, but I thought a Roblox link couldn't really hurt me. So, with some slight caution, I clicked the link. It threw me back into The Mist, although this time I could see better. I noticed there was this damaged cabin in the distance, so I walked towards it and went inside.

The cabin was that wooden house that appears in default Roblox games, but with a bunch of differences. In the far right corner, there was a skeleton that was sat down. I noticed whenever I was next to it, this quiet noise that sounded like static would play. There was a book in the corner, and I seemed to be able to click it. It popped up with a piece of text, unfortunately being more garbled nonsense. After I put the book down, the same crunch sound effect played and the eyes showed up. This time however, the distorted music was replaced with this extremely high-pitched screaming that was almost painful to listen to.

After being caught and kicked from the game like last time, I went into my E-mails and decided to block the sender, since I'd had enough of this weird game. However, whenever I tried to block them, nothing happened. I gave up, and went back into my E-mails. I was not really prepared for what was about to happen. Suddenly, I started getting sent hundreds of E-mails by the second, all from that same sender. My computer was starting to lag like hell, so after about 20 seconds of trying to close my mail, my computer crashed. Frustrated, I turned my computer back on, this time avoiding opening my mail as I was probably still getting sent a ridiculous amount of spam. I opened Roblox, however it just automatically sent me to The Mist. I left the game, only to be met by an image popping up on my computer. It was red text on a black background simply reading "I'm not done with you yet..."

Now, I was a bit creeped out. I closed the image, only to be met with the Roblox home screen, but something was very wrong. The background was completely black, and the people in my friends list's avatars were changed to just be completely black, except for them wearing the glowing red eyes, as well as their names being changed to "Lost soul". All of the games had been replaced with The Mist, and this screeching sound slowly grew louder.

I hurriedly tried to close Roblox, but to no avail. Once the screeching was loud enough, Roblox closed, however the only thing I could see on my computer screen was the text "Those who venture into the mist and are lucky enough to survive never return unscathed." Then, after a few seconds of silence, my computer shut down. I tried turning it back on, but it just displayed that text again before turning off again.

If you see a game called The Mist, don't play it under any circumstances, even if it looks slightly promising.