Whew... I'm never gonna look at Roblox or Portal the same way ever again.
Why, you ask? I'll tell you.
Chapter 1[]
What a beautiful day! I load up Firefox and check out what's new on Roblox.
In my recommended for you section, there is a game called "Full Portal 3". It has no players, and it has no rating, so I assume it's new. Looking on its page confirms this, as today is May 26, 2021. The game's creation date was May 24, 2021 and was updated today.
As I am a portal fanatic, I think to myself "What the heck?" and join. The game is extremely high quality, and features lifelike speech.
Around 3 days later and 12 hours of Gameplay, I reach Chapter 15, marking the halfway point through this massive Portal game. However I see something disturbing right about now. I'm looking at myself through a portal, and my hat is suddenly missing. I jump down a hole to die and reset character, however my hat is still gone. It's equipped on the website. I tried rejoining and it worked. After what happened to me in Deep In The Null, I am quite cautious.
Suddenly I hear something weird coming from a speed gel pipe. No other pipe makes this sound. This pipe seems to be special. I bust it open and gel gets all over the place. It's safe to say I didn't think that through. And then the game darkens, and fades to black.
The game then just says "Thank You for playing!" and then Roblox closes.
Every time I try to join, it just does this. It kicks me. But I'm not one for this kind of stuff. I'm the kind of guy who wants answers.
So I set up a virtual machine, and an alternative ROBLOX account to dive into this weird game again.
Chapter 2[]
Somehow the game automatically sends me back to that special pipe. Obviously I want to stay away from it, so I progress onwards. I hear a familiar noise, but I can't quite pin it down. The noise is coming from the floor. The noise sounds like a mix between the sound Roblox used to play when you got messaged, and meowing. I know I know, it sounds weird. At this point it does that "Thank you for playing!" thing again. Except now the alt does it sometimes for games. There's about a 25% chance every minute that the Alt gets kicked from any game.
Strangely, I tried joining Work at a Pizza Place on my main account and I didn't get kicked. By the weird mystery "Thank you for playing!" thing, that is.
So yes, I got kicked. For some reason, whenever I joined, everyone seemed to hate me and see me as an enemy, even though I did nothing wrong. I then got votekicked for what I assumed was no reason. So then I tried another game - same thing, everyone is bashing me.
I create a new alt and a new virtual machine. This time though, something else happens. Usually someone would expect people to either continue or stop bashing me. That's the normal thing people would do. Knowing my awful luck, I thought it'd be option 1. However, it wasn't.
Infact, this was what I consider a miracle - if it weren't for this, I wouldn't be writing this. I'd be in a hole... under a large rock.
Let me explain. First, people continue to bash me. However then, it teleports me to the game. This time, I am in the relaxation vault. It fills with smoke. Suddenly, the game closes and I am left with a message on the Roblox website.
Chapter 3[]
It's by some all blue noob-like figure, with no display name. He then explains the following.
"You might be wondering who on earth I am, or why I am messaging you. You probably have a lot of questions. But before I answer that, I need to explain some things real quick. You're lucky. I only get to save about 1 in 1000 people. You were that 1. 1 lucky survivor in a pool of 1000 people who... aren't as lucky.
Please, do not play that game. I have restricted access to the game on your IP address as so you don't play it again. The game plays a sound that curses certain individuals. About 1 in 5. The curse includes side-effects such as computer issues, terrible luck, being kicked, being hated, and eventually being in constant agony, and death within a month.
You're not safe yet. I know the 1 and only way to make people safe. However, it involves the answer to some other questions you might have had."
A month, I think. I first played the strange effects a week ago. I tell him this.
"Yes. I know. You have approximately 6 days before you are... gone, unless you are saved. It's best to save you within 3 days though, as there is another symptom you haven't experienced yet. Constant agony. Every bone in your body will feel like it is carrying 30 trucks. Trust me, I know the hard way."
He pauses for a few minutes from typing, as if he is reading something or thinking. He then types the following.
"Okay, so I think we can save you in about 2 days. Don't worry, we will start right now.
So you're likely wondering why I have no name, and why I am a blue blocky mess. It's really simple. By saving someone, you must give up an aspect of your roblox character. I have saved 6 people, so my head, arms, and legs are now blue as there is no aspect making me different colors from my torso. I was a noob skin. Anyway, my name was recently another aspect I gave up. However, they recently added Display names. You can't give them up until you have given up at least 7 things, though.
So let's actually start. Let's join a game together."
He unfriends me on the alt account, then weirdly with the exact same dialogue appears on my main account. He joins Work at a Pizza Place. Everyone is still bashing me.
He then says something. Here is the chat log.
[madsheeplovel]: HAHAHHAHA JULYISVETERANMONTH IS STUPID
[]: Stop. They're cursed.
(The entire chat): What do you mean? Are you some noob defending them?
[]: No. I promise.
He then sends me a private message saying "First we need to calm the chat and get them to treat you as normal."
I ask him "Why do they have the urge to hate me in the first place?".
He calmly says "We can't explain now, we have work to do.".
(The entire chat): Wait, why is your name blank? Lol hes hacking guys report him
[]: Guys stop. It's because I had to help someone else. Who had the same curse.
[Julyisveteranmonth (me)]: I promise he's not me.
He then private messages me again.
"We might have just gotten lucky and calmed them down on the first try. Now watch this."
[]: I subject, the status of my profile, to end a curse that is hurting people.
He then says something.
"Look on my profile, my status is completely gone. Go join another server, I bet noone is bashing you."
I join another server.
Chapter 4[]
Upon joining the server, noone is bashing me anymore.
He then joins, or whatever gender it is. Let's just say NoName joins.
I private message him "I'm safe! Yay!"
But then he rapidly replies.
"No you aren't. To finalize saving yourself, you need to go to my profile and refresh 1000 times. I promise it's irritating but it works. They're calm now because that temporarily disables it for about a day. Nothing is delayed though, we're just immune to the effects it currently has for the time being."
So I sigh and tell him "Aight.". I go to his profile, and agonizingly refresh 1 thousand times.
It's currently 2:02 PM.
Update[]
I just finished, and it's now 5:47 PM. That was hell, but now the Status part of his profile is gone, not just the text it contained. He then messages me.
"Good job, you're safe! And now I can give display names instead. You're probably going to thank me but I should thank you."
We then trade texts for about an hour as to how it hasn't been taken down. Long story short, the symptoms speed up the more you are negatively told about the game. Unfortunately this means that the game cannot be taken down because moderators experience all the symptoms in less than a second.
He then tells me how he knew. It turns out he was one of my friends, I just didn't notice it. I'm actually super lucky because so far he's the only one who knows how to fix this.
So me playing "Work at a Pizza Place" and getting bullied turned out to be a blessing in disguise. But then something bad happens. I decide to tell my friend that I played a cursed game, and then he gets a load of curiosity.
Chapter 5[]
A while ago I stupidly invited him to the game. He plays the game, then says he "feels uncomfortable" and leaves. To make him feel better, we play some Build a Boat.
Turns out what you probably thought was right - He played the game and got cursed. People were bashing him in chat, and now I know why - there is a strange pulsating field of anger around him. You just get angry looking at this stupid idiot. It's so strong that as I am writing this, I can't resist venting about this total moron a little. I did not mean to say that. I guess as you recall memories about the moment, the effects are applied too.
I then try to calm the chat - and myself. Unfortunately the chat seems a lot tougher. I explain what's happened to one of his friends, and he joins. We finally get the chat calm.
But now I have to go to sleep.
And when I wake up, tears fill my eyes. He knows me on discord. He's called Violet. Yes I know, it sounds weird that a guy is called Violet, but anyway, continuing.
He cries in the chat talking about immense pains and suffering. He's a happy person and he's really hard to irritate. So seeing him this totally upset truly saddened me.
I explain the situation, and despite being in so much pain, he manages to respond.
In the first server, we can't calm everyone down.
Same in the next few servers.
However in the eighth server, we manage to calm everyone down. This was perfect.
I then say the following.
"I subject, the I Love Pizza Shirt in my inventory, to end a curse that is hurting people."
Surprisingly, this worked. I told him to refresh 1000 times. The shirt was gone, and I couldn't buy it back.
After he had refreshed 1000 times though, I could suddenly buy it again and my friend felt much better.
I manage to coax a moderator into playing it, then save him. He then immediately takes down the game and thanks me for saving lives. So you know what? This is truly awful and terrible, but atleast it had a somewhat happy ending.