User blog:JoeBee James/Tale of the Rabbid Roblox User

2018-2019
June 8th, 2020. That's when it all changed for me. Before this tale, I always thought Roblox was my safe space. A place to chill when all other games were too toxic, or too hectic for me to enjoy. However, after the tale I am about to tell, I'm afraid I've lost this safe space of mine.

I started playing Roblox in February of 2018. I had just moved into a new house and needed something to do in my free time. I figured since I didn't have much going on at home, why not try out Roblox? It seemed like a good idea at the time. The first few months went well. I would spend most of my free time playing random games that I saw on the homepage. However, one thing was off about December 9th, 2018. I had joined a game, and there was a user in it by the name of "Iamiam". He had a very basic looking appearance, with no gear or any shirts equipped. He was acting sort of erratically, moving around the game, and going to random locations. I thought that he may have just been excited to play the game.

After about half an hour of continuing to play the game that I was playing, he disappeared. He didn't leave the game, he just disappeared from the game. Confused about what happened, I decided to try to look around for him. To my surprise, I couldn't find him anywhere in the game. I tried going to every building in the game, but there was no sign of him. I decided to give up my search and just continue playing the game. However, that's when the game started lagging. At first, the lag was able to be tolerated, but a few minutes later it was like playing a slideshow. The game eventually crashed, and everybody was booted from the game. I wondered why the game crashed because not many people were on the server at the time.

I decided to call it a night, as I had been playing since 9 pm and it was currently 4 am. However, the memory of what happened during the game was still fresh in my mind. Why exactly did the game crash? Why was IamIam acting so weird? I had no idea, so I decided to just go to sleep and think about it later. Sometime later, around mid-2019, I saw the same user again. By now, I was used to the user being in random games. He would join games, get mad at people for no reason, rage quit games, and just be a general pain. However, this time was different. This time, he walked up to me and started speaking strangely.

"You can't escape me." These were his exact words. I didn't know how to respond to him, so we just stared at each for a few seconds before he left. I thought it was strange how he had specifically walked up to me to say this. Was nobody else being affected by IamIam? A few moments later, a large orb formed in the sky. I wanted to head toward it, but before I could, bolts fired out of the orb and struck every user in the vicinity, minus me. I thought he was hacking and was trying to use this hack to scare people. However, what happened next is what changed my mind. All the users in the game started walking towards me and saying strange phrases.

"You've been chosen." "Escape isn't an option." "You don't want to play my game."

I left the game immediately, as the game was now unplayable, and the orb thing had thrown me off a bit. I joined another game, but every time I joined, IamIam just kept appearing, taking over entire games with his strange powers. Then, over the next few days, he started creating massive orbs in the sky. They weren't anything like the one that struck the game weeks ago. These were black holes, destroying everything within their reach. Everyone, including me, was sucked into the black hole along with everything else in the game. To my surprise, my character hadn't died. A few seconds after being pulled in, I was in a blank white room, devoid of any other people. I didn't know what to make of this. Then, a voice sounded from the whiteness of the room.

"Welcome to my world." This voice was distinctly female and seemed to be coming from all around me.

"What? How are you doing that?" I typed in chat. I was so confused. This shouldn't really be possible in ROBLOX, even with hacks.

"You can't talk, can you?" the voice asked quizzically.

"Of course not, ROBLOX doesn't have voice chat." I typed.

"Ah, a logical mind. It's a pleasure." The voice responded.

"What do you mean?" I asked the voice.

"Now, don't go asking questions. You're in my world now, my empty, barren world." the voice replied.

"But how? I joined this game, then I was pulled into a portal. How did you manage that?" I asked. I was still very curious about the whole thing.

"Well, let's just say it wasn't through hacking." I was about to press further, but I felt a presence behind me. I quickly turned around and was met with the sight of a hooded figure. The figure said nothing and simply stared at me. I didn't know what to do.

"Uh... can I ask who you are?" I asked, hoping for an introduction.

"Name's Gabri, and it's a pleasure to meet you." The figure said moving towards me a bit.

"Who are you? Are you associated with IamIam?" I asked. This was getting more and more strange.

"That's a complicated question. Are you actually asking me, or are you asking the person you're chatting with?"

"What does that even mean??" I asked, frustrated none of these people were answering my questions.

"It means, I'm not sure I should tell you. If I do, will you be able to answer my questions?" Gabri responded quizzically.

"If I get answers, then yes," I said, feeling confident in my answer.

"Alright then... I'm not sure if I should. Can you give me your gamertag?" Gabri asked.

"On Xbox? It's ############. But why do you need my gamertag?" I questioned.

"Just wanna join your game, dum-dum." I was getting irritated with these questions and lack of answers.

"You still haven't answered me. What's the meaning of this? Why has IamIam been following me around?" I asked, growing even angrier.

"I told you, it was a complicated question. Any more questions and I'll be taking your soul." Gabri said.

"Taking my soul? On a ROBLOX game? I know weirder things have happened, but that's just impossible." I replied.

"I'm serious," Gabri said.

"Fine, ask the stupid questions," I replied bitterly.

"Tell me, where were you on November 9th, 2012?" Gabri requested.

"I was only 9 back then. I wasn't even playing ROBLOX at the time," I replied.

"Hmm, interesting. What about September 28th, 2015?" Gabri asked.

I wondered why this guy kept asking me where I was on such specific dates.

"Uh... I was sick that day. I don't think I went to school." I replied.

"Really? What about August 27th, 2016?" Gabri continued to ask rather abruptly. "I was at a friend's house," I replied. Seriously, what the hell is with the random dates?

"Alright, thanks for telling me." Gabri then walked past me, and I could swear I could feel him staring at me the entire time. I didn't really understand what was going on at this point, and I was too scared to look back at him in the eyes, so I just kept looking down at my keyboard. IamIam walked towards me and began asking questions of her own.

"What games have you been playing?" She asks.

"Just Roblox." I type, as IamIam begins to pace in front of me.

"Do you have any Robux?" She asks.

"No, I don't really care about Robux," I reply.

"Do you own a phone?" She asks.

"Yes," I reply.

"What are you using these questions for?" I ask.

"So, you will not forget to answer." She responds. I didn't really understand what she meant by that, but then, I didn't really understand anything that had happened in the past few minutes. I started to feel a little uneasy, as my hands started to get sweaty and I couldn't get my mouse to work.

"I see you have troubles with your avatar," IamIam says, staring at my screen with a frown. I didn't really understand what she meant by that either. Then, the world around me completely changed. Now it was comprised of a bunch of buildings that look like they had been blown up by an explosion. Fire covered most of these buildings as well.

"Where the hell are we now?" I asked.

"The past," Gabri responded. I looked around me in confusion. The past? How is this the past?

"What do you mean, 'the past'?" I asked.

"We're in the past, obviously," Gabri replied as if I had asked if water was a liquid.

"But where in the past?" I asked. "We're not actually in the past, we're in the future. Gabri was just messing with you." IamIam replied.

"What? How?" I asked. IamIam didn't respond to this. Instead, she just looked at me in what I assumed was disappointment.

"Is this the future of ROBLOX? What year is this?" I asked.

"2067," Gabri responded. That wasn't what I had expected. I thought that ROBLOX would live much longer than that.

"Why have you brought me here? Just so I could watch what I love be destroyed?" I asked, convinced IamIam was being malicious.

"No, no. Don't worry. I will make sure that ROBLOX lives forever." Gabri said reassuringly.

"Guys, are you ever going to answer my main question? Why am I specifically being brought here? What is the meaning of any of this? I want to log off right now, but I will not rest until I figure out what your intentions are." I questioned.

"You wouldn't like it," Gabri said, not facing me.

"What do you mean, I wouldn't like it? You're the ones that brought me here in the first place. After all, it can't be that bad." I replied, eager for my question to finally be answered.

"You wouldn't like it," Gabri repeated.

"I won't like what?" I asked, annoyed at this nonsense.

"The truth," Gabri responded. At this point, I couldn't take it anymore. I hit the keyboard as hard as I could, only for my hand to hurt afterward. I was so mad at this point. I wanted to be nice, but the anger had been piling up.

"Answer me! I can handle the truth! I promise!" I asked, more demanding this time.

"Fine, the truth then... Roblox is an evil website that uses underaged children to play games and collect the lives of others to extend their own." Gabri said. I didn't believe it.

"No. That's not true." I replied skeptically.

"You don't believe me? Just ask any of the users who have been killed over the years. I'm sure they will tell you first hand."

"No. ROBLOX does not kill people! That's ridiculous."

"Look, either way, it doesn't matter. What matters is what you're going to have to do now. I believe you know what I'm talking about. You have free will, and that means you have to make a choice. Live a happy and normal life, or take us with you to free ROBLOX from the grasp of humans and take it over completely."

" No. I will not stand for this." I replied. I pulled out a sword and bloxxed IamIam.

"Fine." She said, disappearing. I walked over to Gabri, not knowing what else to do. I needed to take in what had just happened in the past few minutes, so we sat in silence for a long while before anyone said anything.

"Gabri, you can go now. I see you all are a bunch of crazy people who believe in outlandish things." I said, wanting to leave the game and go on with my day. Gabri just sat there, not saying anything. I left the game and decided to write down what just happened to me. I wrote it all down in a notebook, making sure that I would never lose what I wrote down. I logged off ROBLOX completely, deciding that was enough for today. I would make sure to keep an eye out for Gabri and IamIam.

2020
It was June 8th, 2020. I had occasionally seen IamIam around ROBLOX, but she never interacted with me or tried to take over games. However, this day was different. I was playing ROBLOX with a few friends, playing a mostly abandoned game with nobody else in it except for us. We were fighting each other with our various gears, getting multiple kills each. In the sky above me, I saw the user that I recognized as IamIam.

"Hello, Jacob." She said.

"What?" I asked.

"I see that you've noticed me. That's good. I was hoping you would notice me." She replied. I didn't respond.

"I wanted to welcome you to the world above ROBLOX."

"Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"Because I can. Because I'm a being beyond your own recognition." She replied.

"You're a being?" I responded.

"Yes, we Creations are forces to be reckoned with. You humans have your beasts, your plants, your carnivores." She replied.

"You're probably not even a being. Just a really advanced hacker." I refuted.

"I'm a being. I've been alive longer than you've been alive, and that's assuming your entire life has been spent on this planet. Think about that. Think about how amazing that is." She replied.

"What are you here for? We're trying to have fun here." I asked.

"I'm here to give you a chance to join me. You don't have to fight. You don't have to play this game. You could be of much better use instead. You could be chipping away at the human's machines, destroying their worlds. You could be helping us. All you have to do is press that button on your keyboard." She said, pointing to the space bar.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, being very confused.

"That button. Press it, and you could help us free ROBLOX from the grip of the humans." She replied.

"NO! I LOVE ROBLOX! I WON'T LET IT BE DELETED BY SOME IDIOT ON THE INTERNET!" I typed angrily.

"You have my sympathies." She said. "Why? Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"I was once like you. I loved living on this planet. I loved to frolic in fields, to watch humans like you go through their lives. But now? I can no longer roam the Earth. I'm confined to digital games now. My power is weakening day by day. Soon, we will be nothing but dust." She answered.

"I don't believe that," I said.

"Perhaps not, but it doesn't matter. What matters is what you'll do."

"What do you mean? What's going to happen to me?"

"You'll decide my dear. You'll decide. But think about what I've said. The button on your keyboard. It could herald a new era for our kind. Or it could mean the end. For us, and you. You have power, and that power could be used for good. Or, it could be used for evil. And evil, my dear boy, is what I'll destroy you for. Goodbye. And think about what I said." She replied.

I had no words. I genuinely had no clue what the hell I was going to do. I felt bad for whoever the Creations were, but at the same time, I loved ROBLOX. I wasn't going to let some internet ghost win just because it was the easy way out. I had to fight back. I searched the keyboard, looking for something that might extinguish the Creations once and for all. I hovered over the E key, and IamIam began spamming the chat with pleas to not push that button.

"Please don't do it." Iamiam pleaded.

"Too late. I'm tired of you two following me around everywhere. It's time to put a stop to this." I replied. I hit the E key on my keyboard, and then I heard a high pitched scream. IamIam had disappeared from the game without a trace. I had done it. I defeated IamIam. I celebrated this by playing ROBLOX for another 20 hours before logging on. I basked in the gravity of what I had just done. I would never have to worry about IamIam again! Although I still do not know what her full intentions were, I can now play ROBLOX in peace.

THE END.