A Pitch Black Room

I was playing Roblox late at night, on my favorite game ever, Epic Minigames. During one of the minigames, I died, and then the screen turned black. That confused me, that's not supposed to happen, and I'd never seen anything like it before.

After waiting a minute for something to happen, I decided to try exiting the game. I pressed the escape key, and nothing happened. Then I tried to move my mouse to click the X button in the top right. That didn't work either, though, apparently I was in first person mode. I tried to zoom out, but that didn't work either. So then I tried switching tabs. Nope. Control Alt Delete? Of course not.

I was starting to get a bit frustrated, so I smacked my computer. I tried everything again, and surprise, smacking your computer doesn’t make things magically work. Of course, just turning off the computer would always work, but I had a pretty good reason not to. I had written out an essay, and hadn’t saved it in quite a while. I couldn’t risk losing progress.

I was forced to wait until I got disconnected. So I waited... and waited... until I started hearing the falling sound, and shortly after I landed. I still couldn’t see anything, except for the cursor in the middle of the screen or zoom out, but something was actually happening now.

Not having any other options, I decided to walk around. And walked. And walked some more. Eventually, the sound of my avatar walking stopped, it seemed like I had hit a wall. Then I heard a chuckle. At this point, I was starting to get creeped out, normally whenever I got into a situation like this in a horror game, I’d just quit the game like the pansy I am. Unfortunately for me, though, I couldn’t this time.

I turned around, and I saw... nothing. I walked forward a little bit, and then a jumpscare happened. I almost fell backwards in my chair, but luckily, I didn’t. I accidentally smacked off my headphones in the process, though. Despite that, I still pressed on, hoping that the game would close itself, or something, if I just continued long enough.

Things started to change after that, though. My avatar’s footsteps stopped, and the room started brightening into a dark gray instead of pitch blackness. I spun my character around, looking around to see if there was anything I could see now. What I saw was a pitch black figure, sprinting right towards me. Another jumpscare, louder than the last, came from my headphones.

At this point, I was really considering just abandoning the essay and just shutting off my computer... But I didn’t want to risk it. I had to push through this! The room became even lighter than before, changing from dark gray to light.

My character froze, and the room turned completely white. And then I waited... and waited... and then I heard loud footsteps coming from my headphones. That was a step too far, I finally decided to turn off my computer.

I decided to just go to bed, and forget about this waste of time, but then I realized something. The lights in my room had turned off. I thought my lamp’s bulb burnt out, so I put my hands on my desk and pushed my chair back, in an attempt to get up. Unfortunately, instead of grabbing my desk, my hands found thin air where it should’ve been, and I fell forwards, out of my chair.

I decided to just go to bed, and forget about this waste of time, but then I realized something. The lights in my room had turned off. I thought my lamp’s bulb burnt out, so I pulled my chair back and put my hands on my desk, in an attempt to get up. Unfortunately, instead of pushing myself off the desk, my hands met thin air where it should’ve been, and I fell forwards, out of my chair.

There was no desk. I was stuck in a pitch black room.

I wrote all of this out on my phone. I tried calling and texting my parents, my friends and family, the police, but it all failed.

I just heard a chuckle coming from nearby. And now, there’s loud footsteps, closing in on me.