The Return of Redworm

About 2 years ago, I lost one of my friends TJ to a Roblox hack. The name? Redworm.

After his death, I wasn't on Roblox for a few months. I didn't want to log back in to know that TJ would never be online again. So I didn't. After TJ's death, my antivirus showed that Redworm had been successfully deleted. I believed it, because nothing anomalous happened on my computer again. For all these years, I thought Redworm was just caused by a small data breach, but boy, I was very wrong about small. Mysterious deaths had been reported for users playing Roblox, and there was a warning from many news networks to not log on to Roblox until the issues had been resolved by the authorities and Roblox respectively. So I didn't get on for a while. When the drama all ceased, and the warning was lifted, I logged back on. My avatar was a blank avatar, no hair, no R15, no hats, no clothes, no nothing. So I went to go and equip one of my outfits, however, the outfits also appeared to be deleted. I figured that when Roblox was working on patching Redworm's backdoor that they may have caused another data leak. My fears were confirmed 2 days later when another warning came out telling people not to log on to Roblox for about a week. I was bored, and I was quite stupidly brave, so I logged on. When I logged on, I was greeted by the Roblox message at the top of the website saying:

"We advise you to log off immediately. There is currently a backdoor which could cause real world safety. We will let you know when this issue is resolved."

I wasn't really that worried, because I saw that there were still about 6k people on Adopt Me, a very low number for that game, but it shows that there are indeed still a lot of people on Roblox right now. I was going to play Blood and Iron, however it was at 2 players. I figured I'd join anyways, just to see what was going on. When I joined, I selected my team, but when I spawned, there was no fighting. I was a bit confused, because I couldn't find the real Blood and Iron on the website, so I decided that the one with the most players (2) may have been it. It was created by a user called Evaulity. Anyways, Once I was ingame, there was no fighting, there actually was no sign of the players at all. So about 2 minutes in to nothing I decided to leave the game, but right before I left, a chat message said my friend TJ joined the game. It took me about 5 minutes total to process what I just saw, but I figured it was one of his family members because TJ had been confirmed dead on the day of the Redworm. I said hi, thinking it might be his brother, because I knew TJ's brother played Roblox alot, however there was no response. About a minute later, my computer completely shut off. About 2 minutes later, so did my power. It took about 30 seconds for the power to come back on, because we had a generator. I figured this was caused by the rain, but it wasn't heavy rain, it was very light rain. I thought, "Maybe a tree fell, or someone hit a power line?". I didn't think much of it. But when the internet finally came back up around an hour later, my parents said they were going to go to dinner, and to have me watch over the house for them. They always say that, so I said I love them, and they headed out. I hopped on Minecraft and then played a little bit of Hypixel Bedwars, but then the power went out AGAIN. Since our generator was manual, I either could sit in my dark room and wait until my parents got back, or go down to the basement and manually turn the generator on. So I decided to head to the basement. But when I got near the basement door, I heard a loud scratching sound from the basement. I was quite frightened, so I returned to my room. I sat in my room for about 2 hours in the dark before my parents got back. I informed them that I was going to turn the generator on when I heard those noises. My father figured it was probably a raccoon or coyote, so he got his hunting rifle and went down to the basement. 20 seconds later I heard screaming and then a gunshot. Then it was silent. Me and my mother rushed down the stairs with metal shovels in our hands, and when we got there, my dad was in pure terror with his rifle pointed at some stranger facing the wall, who had fallen down after being shot. The stranger did not respond or move at all, so we decided to call the police. We called them, and they came and dragged the man out. But a little sticky note fell out of his pocket that read:

"REDWORM IS BACK FOR YOU"

This is all for now since as of writing this I am quite tired but I do plan to add on to this later.

Even though it's not the greatest writing, read Redworm before reading this if you haven't already.