Roblox 2011 Test Build Incident

My name John G. I am former roblox employee that used to test upcoming features that will come out to public soon.

it was just normal everyday work until everything changed in 2011/06/12.

It all started this morning, me and my Co-worker James were experimenting things on early version of 2011 test build of roblox, it was just your average job nothing else, in our passtime we will just mess around and do dumb stuff and recently we got a report from our Manager that we will test out new features and so we did. For some reason we decided to dig through the folders of roblox and we found this strangely named folder called "Tormention", We thought it was some kind of joke that employees always do, we asked other employees about the folder itself, to our suprise nobody had an idea what is this folder is all about. Due to our curiosity we decided to open it. The folder itself contained files that are named "Forbid_Horrors.wav" and "Tormented_Souls.rbxm". We decided we will open it after we test the new features of roblox to avoid getting fired.

After we done testing Early version of TeleportService that telamon was working on, we finally decided its time to open the first file. The file itself was an audio in .wav format that lasted for 30 seconds, the audio file sounded like a loud static at 5 seconds we heard low quality sound of woman screaming that was obscured by static itself, the next 5 seconds we heard engine starting up sound, something like chainsaw starting up, then the audio player crashed at 15 seconds mark, we still attempted to play the audio again but its still does it again. At first we thought it was some kind of sick joke that co-workers did, we asked one of co-workers to listen to the audio, for some reason he had a panic attack and ran away, we still have no idea what is that audio supposed to be, my co-worker claimed is either an audio meant for testing or a audio from some snuff film. We decided to open second file, that is a roblox place, for some weird reason this .rbxm file has file size of whopping 650 Megabytes, When we tried to open it, it showed an pop up message saying this file can harm your pc, at first we thought who the hell would have right mind to place a virus inside one of roblox employee computers? We decided to scan this file for viruses, the file however didnt have any harmful properties inside. We opened it, we found out the loading screen was different from the others, it didnt show up how many bricks left to load in, instead it showed up "Tormenting: 3232", It took around 15 minutes to finally load in, the place itself looked like a basic Baseplate with grey fog, the avatar got  changed to pure red, faceless and no arms, after 30 seconds of walking in seemingly long baseplate, 15 seconds later and the screen starting to screw up completely and started playing the same sound from "Forbid_Horrors.wav", but it was more clear than we heard earlier and its much louder than we heard previously, and in next 5 seconds the screen starting to constantly blink, then the game closed itself with an error message  "Looks like you really like to explore our secrets, I see.". I decided to tell it to our manager, which in result he got pissed off and fired me, without knowing who made this folder. To this day I still have no idea who made those files and what are they meant for.