Who's There?

This happened to me a little while back, you know, the iconic kind of early years of Roblox. The old speech bubble, no community made items, everyone was playing adopt and raise a cute kid, I think you get it. Unless you don't, which I guess I'm sorry you didn't have the privilege of experiencing old Roblox. Anyways, let me start.

I believe around late 2016, a little bit after Tix was removed, I joined onto a game of Roblox High School which I usually did. I enjoyed hanging out with the cool kids with their boomboxes and hoverboards as well as partying in Club Red. When I joined, it was the afternoon and school had finished. I went to my rather poorly decorated house, coloured with a vibrant yellow and just hung out there with myself as I waited for the evening. When night struck, I made my way to Club Red and I was disappointed to see nobody there, instead I just bought some of their potions and messed around before leaving. After that, I walked down the road. Past the swimming pool and that little random shop, I never really knew what was in there. Then, I was outside the woods. Being a young careless child, I decided to go in. It was already eerie, but it was a Roblox game and I was young, so I had no worries.

The woods were quite thick, full of trees, there were also little tents and cabins too with a fireplace in the middle I believe. Anyways I was just exploring them, still drinking the potions and zooming around on my hoverboard. With the hoverboard, I was pressing the button over and over so like I was equipping it repeatedly because I had no idea what to do till the morning. However, I spammed it a little too much as I suddenly no-clipped out of the world and started falling through the map. Typical, I sat there clasping my tablet waiting to respawn again, little did I know this was not happening anytime soon.

I was re-directed to a game, simply called just '---', with no creator name. Confused, I didn't want to leave because being a young child, I was curious and wanted to know what was going on. I loaded on and immediately a horrible sound of demonic screams and cries blasted, I quickly turned down the volume, startled. I was in a red room with rather gory and bloody images of god knows what plastered on the walls and floor. Too much for my child mind to understand. There was another room so I walked out of the red room and went into it. It was a plain white room, but then I noticed something. Stood by the back wall, there was another player. I walked up to them and read the username.

RubbingSherbetStick. I suddenly realised that was my previous account that I mysteriously got logged out of after not even a month of playing on it. Creeped out, I just watched my old account's avatar as it stood there, but then my closed chat got a red 1 notification. I tapped it open and felt sick as I saw my account was talking.

 'Who's there?' 'Is that you?'  'It's getting darker'

I chatted back to it, interested but still concerned as to why my old account was online talking.

 'your my old account!!'  Is what I remember saying.  'why r you here'

It ignored me before speaking again.

 'It's getting darker!' 'Please, help me!'

Overwhelmed, I shut the chat but stayed on game. The notifications on the closed chat gradually went up and up, reaching 52 before I finally opened it. They were kind of calm before becoming demanding and well, scarier.

'' 'I know you shut the chat' 'Open it!'  'The darkness will get you!'  'Come on, open the chat'  'It's coming for you! :)' 'Come on, open the chat!'''

Quite scary, but then it got worse.

 'OPEN YOUR CHAT.' 'I KNOW YOU MISS ME'  'JOIN ME IN THE DARKNESS'  'THE DARKNESS KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU'  'COME ON, [name], OPEN THE CHAT'

Then, it proceeded to say my exact home address. The date and time on my tablet then changed to my exact birthdate. At this point, I was in tears and I immediately went to leave the game.

'Thought you could leave? Good luck! :)' My old account said.

Suddenly, a picture of a grotesque and graphic smiling face popped up on my screen, my old account still spamming the chat. I shut down the tablet, throwing it on the floor, cracking the screen and then I ran downstairs to my parents telling them everything. They contacted Roblox who looked into it and then came back with answers. I was informed that RubbingSherbetStick was hacked and the IP address was grabbed by the hacker, they then got access to all my information. They looked into the horrible game and deleted it, IP banning it. I didn't play Roblox for a year after that, when I finally did though I made a brand new account which I still have to this day and nothing like that has happened ever again.

My advice, never do anything dumb that could noclip you into that horrible server, it could happen to you next.