Player Alone

It was always strange to me seeing one player play a empty game for hours.Until i found myself in a simular condicion.

And you are probably asking yourself why im posting it 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".

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

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

The area where i was farming was nicknamed "Icy Plains" that included a abandoned castle and a few snow monsters in it.

Even tho i was kinda bored i kept being determined to pass the next 6 levels and reach level 100.

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

I shrugged it off as some sort of useles paranoia

But soon i it got ton more weirder

Rarely,in the disstance and even in the corners of my screen i could see silhouettes of players.

I first thought that people 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..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
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 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,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,now instead of seeing shadows move from one place to another..white figurines of players just stood on some seemingly random places,and the whole game began getting suprisingly blacker and blacker to the point of pitch black

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

Yet another event accured pretty soon after.

The whole place began turning one second white the other black with a creature infront of me,when it turned black the creature turned white and the other way around.

At that moment i began panicing even being overthrown with paranoia and anxiety.

Later on i found myself on the ground,seeing that the i left the game due to inactivity for 30 minutes

Aftermath
You may ask why dont i 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 ben a mix of my imagination and the disorder.Unfortunatly i could find any solid records of the illness,making me unsure if it even was a desiese or disorder.As for the game,the creator was banned and the place was deleted due to "inapropriate content".Yet maybe,just maybe the short term desiese that struck me in the past wasen't the cause of what i saw,since nobody can whitness what a player alone did.