Player Alone

It was always strange to me seeing a player playing a empty game for hours without a real reason,until i found myself in a simular situation.

And you are probably asking yourself why im posting this story on here?

Well I cant believe it,and i dont want to believe it.

Yet i know that it did happen.

The whole thing played out in 2013 somewhere in March,while i was farming with a few friends in a rpg called "Return Of the Overseer Forces".

The game had 15 areas a teleport hub and a spawn,and had some amazing scripting that we havent really seen in a rpg before so we decided to play it and after some time we reached high levels.

All of my friends were level 80+ at that time so we were racing to reach lvl 100 which was kinda hard since it required over 500,000 xp points,and was boring as hell,but the prize would be a place on the leaderboard and some amazing weaponary.

To confirm,everything was normal in the begining,full server,quite some newbies playing and weak lag.

One hour later
After a hour ton of players began leaving the server including a my friends,and soon everyone left,except me i decided to still grinding for gold and experience and stayed since there werent any people to steal my kills.

The area where i was farming after reaching level 95 was nicknamed "Icy Plains" or "area 14" that included a abandoned and ruined castle, and a few level 100 snow monsters in it.

Even tho i was kinda bored from killing one same enemy 20 times i kept being determined to pass the next 6 levels and reach level 100.

Yet the more time i spended trying the more i had the feeling of being watched.

I shrugged it off as some sort of useless paranoia.

But soon it got a little bit more weirder.

Rarely,in the distance and even in the corners of my screen i could see silhouettes of players,they even had hats but black ones,black like every other part on their body

After first seeing one of them i thought that someone had joined the game,yet that thought quickly vanished and a chill ran down my spine as i realised..

That there was only one player on the server,and that one was me.

They dident try to interact with me or attack..they just roamed from one place to another,it was like if they dident even notice me..Then i figured,maybe it is a feature? Maybe the developer added it in as like a backstory: Ghosts of the people who lived here now roam the land or something.

Two hours later
Within the begin of the second hour the silhouettes were commoner that before.

It was getting more and more unconfortable seeing those things appear in the distance only to walk behind a nerby wall or a hill just to simply...vanish.

What more gave me the creeps was while i visited the spawn area once to sell the loot i got from the monsters,the soundtrack of the game slightly speeded up and the beat changed to randomly and shortly containing the sound that you hear when grey noise appears on a tv,and it remained like that,it wasen't paticulary scary..just kinda weird,and the silhouettes appeared at spawn,too.

Paranoia was at its peak,yet somehow i managed to calm myself down with the silly excuse: It is surely a feature,the game developer wants to scare me off to a server with people in it so that i dont farm a million and then quickly surpass like 15 levels with the new equpment i get. Luckly i was just 2 numbers away from level 100.And kept on going,hoping that this is all there is to it.

Until,due to the day/night cycle,the game had turned to night and from that point just got darker and darker to a point of pitch black,now instead of seeing shadows move from one place to another..white figurines of players just stood on some seemingly random places.

And if i walked near one of those figurines,they would somehow mix up with the black sky in the air and vanish aswell.

Another event accured pretty soon after.

The whole place began turning one minute white the other one black with a creature infront of me that resambled a distorted version of a roblox avatar and was always the opposite color of the background.

It was like if the creature caused that weird slow flashing of black and white.

At that moment i began to abnormaly panic and got overthrown with paranoia and anxiety.

Later on i found myself on the ground,after getting up and scaredly looking at my computer i noticed a black box in the middle of my screen saying: You were disconnected for being idle 68 minutes

Aftermath
You may ask why i dont belive in what i saw.The anwser is that after that occurence i was diagnosed with Anxiety,a mental disorder.Due to that i believe that what i saw could have just been a mix of my imagination and the disorder.As for the game,the creator was banned and the place was deleted due to "inapropriate content".I tried searching for anyone who had a simular experience as me,yet without any luck.Yet maybe just maybe the short term desiese that struck me in the past wasen't the cause of what i saw,after all im pretty sure that no game with even god-like scripting couldn't create those things in the old 2013 roblox engine.Maybe those things are the reason why some players play a game alone for hours,hunting for the silhouettes.On the other end,nobody can know for sure what a player alone sees.