''Who is the player who is shown in our server?''
This was a Question which went through everyone's head. It was just the matter of that Cursed said it out loud, that we investigated the problem.
Chapter 1 - Lone Developers[]
Today's day wasn't anything special. Me and my Friends, Cursed and Bloxer were developing our Hangout game, as every Saturday. We've been planning to finally release the Winter update and take a break from developing the Game, but what happened next left us here.
Skemer's Developer Blog Part. 1[]
Hello guys, it's me Skemer, a Roblox Developer. Me and 2 of my friends are working on a game called Parts' Meeting. Even though we were close to Failing, we finally released the Winter update in our Game. I hope you will check it out since we put a lot of work into it. What we added? a Basement, a Winter map and expansions to certain areas (Abandoned District, Steamville and Northern Town!). That was it for my first post, I hope you will follow our game!
That was what I posted on my Developer Forum blog. I wasn't expecting anything. Maybe one or two players in the span of 4 hours, before the game would die out completely again. We joined our Game, to stay inside in case someone would come, while I rubbed my eyes. I just realized how tired i was, after 6 straight hours of developing. With a headache i leaned into the pillow of my gaming chair and pushed the upper part back, so it was almost as flat as a bed. And when I opened my eyes it was dark.
My room was completely dark, and my body weirdly hurt. Everything was quiet, and my headphones were slipped out of my ears. As I tried to move my neck, it stung painfully. This was the moment i realized that I slept. For Quite a While. I looked at my Clock. It was shortly after midnight. While i thought about just passing out on my chair again I noticed something. My Roblox Client was still open, and I wasn't kicked for inactivity. Most likely a Script that Cursed or Bloxer Made. Or not, Perhaps. I pushed the upper side of my chair back up, giving my best not to fall asleep again. I looked at the playerlist. Empty of course. I clicked back to Chrome without closing the Roblox Client, and the page that was opened was Parts' Meeting's servers. The moment i wanted to click away from it, and watch some YouTube Shorts, I noticed something strange. According to the Servers...
I wasn't alone.
Chapter 2 - Reality[]
I Opened my Eyes. My head hurt. Bright Sun flashed into my Field of Sight, as it was already light morning. My neck hurt from my weird sleeping position this night. I stood up, lightly dizzy.
It was a long day in school, and it started getting dark as my bus was stuck in traffic for over 1 hour by now. While i was stuck in my thoughts, the thing from yesterday night came up to mind. Did it really happen? Was there really a user who... technically wasn't there at all? or something like that... my memory of the event seemed faded, and the more i tried to remember it, the less i could come up with. I swiped up on the lockscreen of my phone and opened up Discord. It felt stupid to ask, since I believed more and more that it was all just a dream.
Or wasn't it?
Before I could delete the so stupidly sounding message, Bloxer answered me.
Are you sure you weren't dreaming? As we were playing you were suddenly completely gone. We were worried but I just thought you fell asleep in the end.
Yeah, that was kind of the problem. Myself, I didn't even know if what i saw was real. I opened Reddit, and decided to post my encounter on r/roblox.
Did Anybody else ever encounter this user?[]
Tonight around Midnight I've encountered a strange user in my Server. He had a basic avatar, hair, sunglasses, and brown hair with grey skin. As i've looked on the server page, he seemingly was in my server, but as i looked into my Client he seemed absent. Help is Sought.
I was too tired to continue my research. I had still left 30 Minutes to home.
Chapter 3 - The Realization[]
Today was the day of the Beta Release. After 5 months of Work we would finally release our game, and we even had a bunch of players waiting for the very specific moment. The last thing that we needed was a thumbnail, and Game images. I joined the Game and started taking all pictures we needed, showing off as much of the game as possible. It was very enjoyable to take the images, and i totally forgot about what's been bothering me. I opened Clip Studio Paint, set the Canvas to a correct size and was about to import the images when I saw something. It was a screenshot. The date was... 21/12/22 0:14. I curiously opened it. It showed my Roblox Website, with the Servers on it. With the proof on it.
The Screenshot I made that Night
So I did make a Screenshot. So i wasn't dumb enough to leave it open that night. It existed. And now I had the proof i needed.
After a while I finished the pictures for the game. Indeed, I wanted to show everyone that i wasn't wrong, but decided to wait with it. Don't get me wrong, I was still feeling as stressed as i ever could, but at least I had to finish those thumbnails. We Finally released the Beta. Today was the Day, the day we've been working for.
I waited for Cursed to join in.