Eric

Eric, a username always going to echo in my head. Although he isn't the antagonist in this chapter of my life, he played quite a large role in it. The accident happened quite recently, around July 2020. I'm sure you already have a lot of questions. Don't worry, I'm going to answer them one by one.

Here's what happened:

My friend asked me if I wanted to join him on Roblox and play on Saturday, saying that he found a cool new game. I agreed to play with him around 3 PM.

On Saturday we both logged into Roblox; we both were in Discord voice call, so we don't have to type in the Roblox chat everytime we wanted to communicate. He joined the new game, and I did the exact same thing shortly after.

The game looked oddly ordinary at first glance, but I noticed that we were the only players in the game. I asked him about it, and he replied that it was because not many people knew about this game. I dismissed it almost entirely, and followed him to some sort of a portal. We both jumped into it, and we spawned in a small room with a bunk bed. I noticed that someone typed in the chat. His username was Eric066. He typed a simple, "Hello. My name is Eric, What's yours?" We replied with each of our respective usernames, which I will keep anonymous for privacy reasons.

Eric then told us to exit our room, and we did as Eric told. We were guided around what seemed to be our house that Eric had provided. Eric and my friend chatted about how to get the best weapons in the game, and Eric told my friend about the locations of the materials to craft it. And Eric also told us how to harvest the materials.

Anyways I'm going to stop rambling about the boring stuff that we did, and skip right to the point. Once we saw the sun going down through our window, Eric told us to leave the game immediately. We were confused, because we had such a great time. Eric said we have to leave, because it was about to get dark. Me and my friend refused, saying that we could just stay in our house and be unharmed. Eric demanded us to leave, saying that he had to stop "it" before it came after us. I had so many questions in my head. What was "it"? What came after dark? But I didn't think for any longer, I instantly quit the game afterwards. My friend however, is a different story. I could hear him raging in my Discord call, shouting curse words.

But then he stopped. I refreshed my Roblox page and I saw that his account got terminated. He exited the Discord call afterwards, and I was clueless to what happened.

Two days later, I found out that he committed suicide. He died while holding a paper in his hand. His family told me that the paper read, "Play no more. Seen enough. Too much nightmares, can't take anymore."

'''Beware of what game you play. Your life may depend on it.'''