Hallou people of the Underworld, R. Jaggerjaquez here :D Off topics for today:
1) I'm truly sincerely sorry that I didn't posted this the day I said I would, I didn't realized the date I stated I had exams DX But now that I got over that with today being my final exam, I can assure there will be no drawbacks anymore :D
2) When I gave you my PSN/LoL account so we could play, I really meant PLAY, not you asking me for money so you could buy GTA San Andreas... plz don't do that, it gets annoying....
3) I made a contest on Twitter to decide who will co-host my next post (no not this one) and the winner is Runaway Terrorist, congratulations I'll send you details later :3
That's it for now, let the kombat BEGIN!!!!!!!!!
MORTAL KOMBAT... THE START OF AN ERA
Back in 1992, a game based on Jean Claude Van Damme, was on its road to fruition, but since Van Damme had other plans and decided not to shoot for the game, the producers were left without their star player. After much thinking one of them got of the hole and said, "hey, why don't we make our own fighting game?" The rest of the team agreed and they start working, considering the revolution that Street Fighter was, this team decided to make something that wasn't seen before, and hell, was it never seen before.....
Enter Mortal Kombat...
The first Mortal Kombat game was developed by Ed Boon and John Tobias over the flagship of what was Midway, with the incredible and arduous work of Dan "Toasty" Forden, MK had a lot of great and memorable tracks to hear while playing the game, this was when MK's self proclaimed catchphrase came as well, as the only thing you could here in the arcades were either "HADOKEN!" (courtesy of Ryu) or "GET OVER HERE!" (courtesy of Scorpion, curious fact, Ed Boon himself voiced Scorpion's phrases.)
Anyways, Mortal Kombat was characterized by having digitized graphics, meaning that they shoot actors doing the various motions and incorporated them in game, which actually looked pretty sweet and wasn't being very well developed until this game came around, apart from that, remember when I said they wanted to do something different? Well yeah, the other characteristic of this game was its gory effects and its breath-taking Fatalities, which worked as a way to finish off your opponent in a very flashy and gory way. Back in the day, doing a Fatality instantly made you the King of The Hill (nowadays you can search for Fatalities in Google :/)
Mortal Kombat made a huge impact and caused a lot of controversy becuz of the gore and violence issue, angry parents unable to control their kids shouted to the sky that this game was too violent and that it should cease production, mainly becuz of one Fatality in general, maybe burning your opponent alive or taking their heart out was in a way acceptable, but someone uppercutting your head AND your spine out of your body and hold it up in victory? Goody lord! That's the devil! Thanks to this single Fatality, the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) was created in order to give a rating to games and give a warning of the things that the game might contain.
Another interesting fact is what Mortal Kombat introduced, and that being......... you guessed it, SECRET FIGHTERS! Back in the day, you were fking GOD if someone saw you fighting against the weird green ninja that has both Scorpion and Sub-Zero's moves, this went so far that people began speculating that there were more secrets characters to be found, even making up the majority of them while only having a little more than a basis on one, which was the Red Scorpion aka Ermac, but this is something to be told another time :P
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Well it wasn't supposed to end so short, but I have to rush the other works, so this MK history will have like one or two more parts, expect them soon :D
Thank you for tuning on to us, see ya later Underworlders!! :D
Hello people of the Underworld! R. Jaggerjaquez here, so after a long hiatus I finally got a little break from my homeworks, so I'm presenting you, MORE CREEPYS!!!! :D
Offtopics for today!
1) Have you seen the new Pokémon X/Y trailer?? I myself liked it and I'm looking forward to it, what do you think? You can leave it on the comment section below :3
2) I kinda have no internet for a time so I'll not be able to play MK9 or SoulCalibur 5 online for a while, sorry to the guys that actually played me, right now I'm using my cel as a modem and sadly I can't connect it to my Wii or PS3, so sorry :(
3) I like food :3.... No I'm kidding, I got the program becuz I now remembered I owed the Red-Eyes and MK history :(, so after this, MK History Part 1 will be posted on February 4, Red-Eyes will be on the youtube channel soon I hope, The Legend revives part 2 will be posted February 13, MK History part 2 (and I hope last par) will be posted on February 20, part 3 and 4 of The Legend Revives will be posted in February 26 and March 3 respectively
That's it, let's start! I will take you on a wild ride!!
BEN DROWNED (jadusable VERSION)
Okay, I need your help with this. This is not copypasta, this is
a long read, but I feel like my safety or well-being could very well
depend on this. This is video game related, specifically Majora’s Mask,
and this is the creepiest shit that has ever happened to me in my entire
life.
Having said that, I recently moved into my dorm room starting as a
Sophomore in college and a friend of mine gave me his old Nintendo 64
to play. I was stoked, to say the least, I could finally play all of
those old games of my youth that I hadn’t touched in at least a decade.
His Nintendo 64 came with one yellow controller and a rather shoddy copy
of Super Smash Brothers, and while beggars can’t be choosers, needless
to say it didn’t take long until I became bored of beating up LVL 9
CPUs.
That weekend I decided to drive around a few neighborhoods about
twenty minutes or so off campus, hitting up the local garage sales,
hoping to score on some good deals from ignorant parents). I ended up
picking up a copy of Pokemon Stadium, Goldeneye (fuck yeah), F-Zero, and
two other controllers for two dollars. Satisfied, I began to drive out
of the neighborhood when one last house caught my attention. I still
have no idea why it did, there were no cars there and only one table was
set up with random junk on it, but something sort of drew me there. I
usually trust my gut on these things so I got out of the car and I was
greeted by an old man. His outward appearance was, for lack of a better
word, displeasing. It was odd, if you asked me to tell you why I thought
he was displeasing, I couldn’t really pinpoint anything - there was
just something about him that put me on edge, I can’t explain it. All I
can tell you is that if it wasn’t in the middle of the afternoon and
there were other people within shouting distance, I would not have even
thought of approaching this man.
He flashed a crooked smiled at me and asked what I was looking
for, and immediately I noticed that he must be blind in one of his eyes;
his right eye had that “glazed over” look about it. I forced myself to
look to his left eye instead, trying not to offend, and asked him if he
had any old video games.
I was already wondering how I could politely excuse myself from
the situation when he would tell me he had no idea what a video game
was, but to my surprise he said he had a few ones in an old box. He
assured me he’d be back in a “jiffy” and turned to head back into the
garage. As I watched him hobble away, I couldn’t help but notice what he
was selling on his table. Littered across his table were rather…
peculiar paintings; various artworks that looked like ink blots that a
psychiatrist might show you. Curious, I looked through them - it was
obvious why no one was visiting this guy’s garage sale, these weren’t
exactly aesthetically pleasing. As I came to the last one, for some
reason it looked almost like Majora’s Mask - the same heart-shaped body
with little spikes protruding outward. Initially I just thought that
since I was secretly hoping to find that game at these garage sales,
some Freudian bullshit was projecting itself into the ink blots, but
given the events that happened afterward I’m not so sure now. I should
have asked the man about it. I wish I would have asked the man about it.
After staring at the Majora-shaped blot, I looked up and the old
man was suddenly there again, arms-length in front of me, smiling at me.
I’ll admit I jumped out of reflex and I laughed nervously as he handed
me a Nintendo 64 cartridge. It was the standard grey color, except that
someone had written Majora on it in black permanent marker. I got
butterflies in my stomach as I realized what a coincidence this was and
asked him how much he wanted for it.
The old man smiled at me and told me that I could have it for
free, that it used to belong to a kid who was about my age that didn’t
live here anymore. There was something weird about how the man phrased
that, but I didn’t really pay any attention to then, I was too caught up
in not only finding this game but getting it for free.
I reminded myself to be a bit skeptical since this looked like a
pretty shady cartridge and there’s no guarantee it would work, but then
the optimist inside me interjected that maybe it was some kind of beta
version or pirated version of the game and that was all I needed to be
back on cloud nine. I thanked the man and the man smiled at me and
wished me well, saying “Goodbye then!” - at least that’s what it sounded
like to me. All the way in the car-ride home, I had a nagging doubt
that the man had said something else. My fears were confirmed when I
booted up the game (to my surprise it worked just fine) and there was
one save file named simply “BEN”. “Goodbye Ben”, he was saying “Goodbye
Ben”. I felt bad for the man, obviously a grandparent and obviously
going senile, and I - for some reason or another - reminded him of his
grandson “Ben”.
Out of curiosity I looked at the save file. Eyeballing it, I
could tell that he was pretty far in the game - he had almost all of the
masks and 3/4 remains of the bosses. I noticed that he had used an owl
statue to save his game, he was on Day 3 and by the Stone Tower Temple
with hardly an hour left before the moon would crash. I remember
thinking that it was a shame that he had come so close to beating the
game but he never finished it. I made a new file named “Link” out of
tradition and started the game, ready to relive my childhood.
For such a shady looking game cartridge, I was impressed at how
smoothly it ran - literally just like a retail copy of the game save for
a few minor hiccups here and there (like textures being where they
shouldn’t be, random flashes of cutscenes at odd intervals, but nothing
too bad). However the only thing that was a little unnerving was that at
times the NPCs would call me “Link” and at other times they would call
me “BEN”. I figured it was just a bug - a fluke in the programming
causing our files to get mixed up or something. It did kind of creep me
out though after a while, and it was around after I had beaten the
Woodfall Temple that I regrettably went into the save files and deleted
“BEN” (I had intended to preserve the file just out of respect of the
game’s original owner, it’s not like I needed two files anyway), hoping
that that would solve the problem. It did and it didn’t, now NPCs
wouldn’t call me anything, where my name should be in the dialogue there
was just a blank space (my save file name was still called “Link”,
though). Frustrated, and with homework to do, I put the game down for a
day.
I started playing the game again last night, getting the Lens of
Truth and working my way towards completing the Snowhead Temple. Now,
some of you more hardcore Majora’s Mask players know about the “4th Day”
glitch - for those who don’t you can Google it but the jist of it is
that right as the clock is about to hit 00:00:00 on the final day, you
talk to the astronomer and look through the telescope. If you time it
right the countdown disappears and you essentially have another day to
finish whatever you were doing. Deciding to do the glitch to try and
finish the Snowhead Temple, I happened to get it right on the first try
and the time counter at the bottom disappeared.
However, when I pressed B to exit the telescope, instead of being
greeted by the astronomer I found myself in the Majora boss fight room
at the end of the game (the trippy boxed in arena) staring at Skull Kid
hovering above me. There was no sound, just him floating in the air
above me, and the background music which was regular for the area (but
still creepy). Immediately my palms began to sweat - this was definitely
not normal. Skull Kid NEVER appeared here. I tried moving around the
area, and no matter where I went, Skull Kid would always be facing me,
looking at me, not saying anything. Nothing would happen though, and
this kept up for around sixty seconds. I thought the game had bugged or
something - but I was beginning to doubt that very much.
I was about to reach for the reset button when text appeared on
my screen: “You’re not sure why, but you apparently had a reservation…” I
instantly recognized that text - you get that message when you get the
Room Key from Anju at the Stock Pot Inn, but why was it playing here? I
refused to entertain the notion that it was almost as if the game was
trying to communicate with me. I started navigate the room again,
testing to see if that was some sort of trigger that enabled me to
interact with something here, then I realized how stupid I was - to even
think that someone could reprogram the game like this was absurd. Sure
enough, fifteen seconds later another message appeared on the screen,
and again like the first one it was already a pre-existing phrase “Go to
the lair of the temple’s boss? Yes/No”. I paused for a second,
contemplating what I should press and how the game would react, when I
realized that I couldn’t select no. Taking a deep breath, I pressed Yes
and the screen faded to white, with the words “Dawn of a New Day” with
the subtext “||||||||” beneath it. Where I was ported to filled me with
the most intense sense of dread and impending fear I had ever
experienced
The only way I can describe the way I felt here is having this
feeling of inexplicable depression on a profound scale. I am normally
not a depressed person, but the way I felt here was a feeling that I
didn’t even knew existed - it was such a twisted, powerful presence that
seemed to wash over me.
I appeared in some kind of weird twilight-zone version of Clock
Town. I walked out of the Clock Tower (as you normally do when you start
from Day 1) only to find that all of the inhabitants were gone. Usually
with the 4th Day glitch you can still find the guards and the dog that
runs around outside the tower - this time they were all gone. What
replaced them was the ominous feeling that there was something out
there, in the same area as me and that it was watching me. I had four
hearts to my name and the Hero’s Bow, but at this point I wasn’t even
considered for my avatar, I felt that I personally was in some kind of
danger. Perhaps the most chilling thing was the music - it was the Song
of Healing, ripped straight from the game itself, but played in reverse.
The music would get louder, building up so as if you should expect
something to pop out at you, but nothing ever did, and the constant loop
began to wear on my mental state.
Every now and then I would hear the faint laugh of the Happy Mask
Salesman in the background, just quiet enough so that I wasn’t sure if I
just hearing things but just loud enough to keep me determined to find
him. I looked in all four zones of Clock Town, only to find nothing…. No
one. Textures were missing, West Clock Town had me walking on air, the
entire area felt… broken. Hopelessly broken. As the reverse Song of
Healing repeated for what must have been the 50th time, I just remember
standing in the middle of South Clock Town realizing that I had never
felt so alone in a video game before.
As I walked through the ghost town, I don’t know whether it was
the combination of the out of place textures and the atmosphere and the
haunting melody of the once peaceful and soothing song being butchered
and distorted, but I was literally on the verge of tears and I had no
idea why. I hardly ever cry, something had gripped me here and this
powerful sense of depression that was both foreign and crippling.
I tried leaving Clock Town, but every time I attempted to zone
out, the screen would fade to black and I would just zone in to another
part of Clock Town. I tried playing my Ocarina, I wanted to escape, and I
did NOT want to be here, but every time I played the Song of Time or
Song of Soaring it would only say “Your notes echo far, but nothing
happens”. By this point, it was obvious the game didn’t want me to
leave, but I had no idea why it was keeping me here. I didn’t want to go
inside the buildings, I felt that I would be too vulnerable there to
whatever I was terrified of. I don’t know why, but I came up with the
idea that maybe if I drowned myself at the Laundry Pool I could spawn
somewhere else and leave this place.
As I zoned in and ran towards the pool, that’s when it happened.
Link grabbed his head, and the screen flashed for a brief moment of the
Happy Mask Salesman smiling at me - not Link - me with Skull Kid’s
scream playing in the background and when the screen returned I was
staring at the Link Statue from playing the song Elegy of Emptiness. I
screamed as the thing just stared back at me with that haunting facial
expression. I turned around and ran out and back into South Clock Town,
and to my horror the fucking statue followed me in the only way I can
compare this is like the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. Every so often,
at random intervals, the animation would play of the statue appearing
behind me. It was like the thing was chasing me, or - I don’t even want
to fucking say it - haunting me.
By this point, I was on the verge of hysterics, but not even once
did the thought of turning off the console occur to me, I don’t know
why, I was so wrapped up in it - the terror felt all so real. I tried to
shake the statue, but it would literally appear right behind me every
single time. Link started to begin to make weird animations I had never
even seen him do before, he would flail his arms around or spasm
randomly and the screen would cut to the Happy Mask Salesman smiling
again for a brief moment before I was face to face with that fucking
statue again. I ended up running into the Swordmasters Dojo and ran to
the back, I don’t know why, but in my panic I just wanted some kind of
assurance that I’m not alone here. To my dismay I found no one, but as I
turned to leave the statue cornered me in the cubby in the back. I
tried attacking the statue with my sword but to no avail. Confused, and
backed into a corner, I just stared at the statue waiting for it to kill
me. Suddenly, the screen flashed again to the Happy Mask Salesman and
Link turned to face my screen, standing upright mirroring the statue,
looking at me along with his copy. Literally staring at me. Whatever was
left of the 4th wall was completely shattered while I ran out of the
dojo terrified. Suddenly the game warped me to an underground tunnel and
the reverse Song of Healing queued up again as I was given a brief
moment of rest before the statue started appearing behind me again… this
time aggressively - I could only take a few steps before it would
summon behind me again. I hurrily made my way out of the tunnel and
appeared in Southern Clock Town. As I ran aimlessly - in a sheer panic -
suddenly a redead screamed and the screen faded to black as “Dawn of a
New Day” and “|||||||||” appeared again.
The screen faded in and I was standing ontop of Clock Tower with
Skull Kid hovering over me again, silent. I looked up and the moon was
back, looming just meters above my head, but the Skull Kid just stared
at me hauntingly with that fucking mask. A new song was playing - the
Stone Tower Temple theme played in reverse. In some sort of desperate
attempt, I equipped my bow and fired off a shot at the Skull Kid - and
it actually hit him and he played an animation of him reeling back. I
fired again and on the third arrow, a text box appeared saying “That
won’t do you any good. Hee, hee.” and I was picked up off the ground,
levitated upwards on my back, and then Link screamed as he burst into
flames, instantly killing him.
I jumped when this happened - I had never seen this move used by
ANYONE in the game and Skull Kid himself didn’t HAVE any moves. As the
death screen played, my lifeless body still burning, the Skull Kid
laughed and the screen faded to black, only to have me reappear in the
same place. I decided to charge him, but the same thing happened, Link’s
body was lifted off the ground by some unknown force and he immediately
burst into flames again killing him. This time during the death screen
the faint sounds of the reverse Song of Healing could be heard. On my
third (and final try), I noticed that there was no music playing this
time, that all there was was eerie silence. I remembered that in the
original encounter with the Skull Kid you were supposed to use the
Ocarina to either travel back in time or summon the giants. I attempted
to play the Song of Time but before I could hit the last note Links body
once again horrifically exploded into flames and he died.
As the death screen neared its end, it began to chug, as if the
cartridge was trying to process a lot of something…. when the screen
came to, it was the same scene as the first three times, except this
time Link was lying on the ground dead in a position I had never seen in
the game before, his head tilted towards the camera, with the Skull Kid
floating above him. I couldn’t move, I couldn’t press any buttons, all I
could do is just stare at Link’s dead body. After around thirty seconds
of this, the game simply fades out with the message “You’ve met with a
terrible fate, haven’t you?” before kicking you out to the title screen.
Upon getting back to the title screen and starting again, I
noticed my save file was no longer there. Instead of “Link”, it was
replaced with “YOUR TURN”. “YOUR TURN” had 3 hearts, 0 masks, and no
items. I selected “YOUR TURN” and immediately when I did I was returned
to the Clock Tower Rooftop scene of my Link dead and the Skull Kid
hovering over, with the Skull Kid’s laughing looping again and again. I
quickly hit the reset button and when the game booted up again there was
one more save file added, below “YOUR TURN”, entitled “BEN”. “BEN“‘s
save file is right back where it was before I deleted it, at the Stone
Tower Temple with the moon almost crashing.
I turned the game off at that point, I’m not superstitious but
this is WAY too fucked up even for me. I haven’t played it at all today,
hell, I didn’t even get any sleep last night, I kept hearing the
reverse Song of Healing music in my head and just remembering the sense
of dread I felt exploring Clock Town. I drove back to the old man’s
house today to ask him some questions with a buddy of mine (no way I was
going there alone), only to find that there’s a For Sale sign in the
front yard and when I rang the door no one was home.
So now I’m back here writing down the rest of my thoughts and
recording what happened, sorry if some of this has grammatical errors
and whatnot, I’m running on no sleep here. I’m terrified of this game,
even more so now that I relived it a second time writing this all down,
but I feel like there’s still more to it than meets the eye, and that
there’s something calling to me to investigate this further. I think
“BEN” is something in this equation, but I don’t know what, and if I
could get a hold of the old man then I would be able to find some
answers. I need another day or so to recuperate before tackling this
game again, its already taken a toll on my sanity I feel like, but next
time I do this I’m going to be recording my footage all the way through.
The idea to record only came to me towards the end, so you see the last
few minutes of what I saw (including Skull Kid and the Elegy statue),
but it’s on YouTube here.
I’m going to stay in this thread for a little while longer before I
fall asleep to answer any questions you guys might have or hopefully
listen to your ideas or theories to help me shed some light into this or
maybe things I should try to do, I think I’m going to play BEN’s file
tomorrow to see what happens, maybe I was supposed to do that all along.
I don’t believe in paranormal shit, but this is a little fucked up, but
maybe this BEN guy is just a really good hacker/programmer, I don’t
want to think about the alternatives if he isn’t.
That’s the end of the copy/paste, I’m hoping that maybe this is
some kind of running gag the developers had and that other people have
gotten “gag” or “hacked” copies of the game like this. This just really
scares me.
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I'm going to post what happened and link the video footage, but last
night everything got too real for me. I think I'm done messing around
with this. I passed out pretty much immediately after making that
thread. But last night, that Elegy of Emptiness statue, I had a dream
about it. I dreamed that it was following me in my dream, that I would
be minding my own business when I'd feel my neck hairs stand up on end. I
would turn around that thing... that horrible, lifeless statue would be
staring with those empty eyes right at me, merely inches away. In my
dream I remember calling it Ben, and never before had I had a dream that
I could remember so vividly. But the important thing is I did get some
sleep, I suppose.
Today, putting off playing the game as long as I could, I drove
back up to that neighborhood to see if the old man came back. As I
expected, the car was still gone and no one was home. As I was walking
back to my car, the man next door mowing the grass killed the power to
his lawnmower and asked me if I was looking for someone. I told him that
I was looking to talk to the old man that lived here, to which he told
me what I already knew - he was moving. Trying a different avenue, I
asked if the old man had any family or relatives I could talk to. I
discovered that this old man had never been married, nor did he have any
children or grandchildren through adoption. Starting to become worried,
I asked one final question, one that I should have asked from the
beginning - who was Ben? The man's expression turned grim and I learned
that four doors down around eight years ago on April 23 - the man
informed me that it was the same day as his anniversary, that's how he
knew the specific date - there was an accident with a young boy named
Ben in the neighborhood. Shortly after his parents moved, and despite
any further attempts to talk to the man to get more information, he
wouldn't divulge anything else.
I went back and started playing again, I loaded up the game and
immediately I jumped at the title screen where the mask flies by - the
sound that played was not the normal "whoosh" sound, it was something
much more higher pitched. I pressed start, bracing for the worst, but
just like two nights ago, the files "Your Turn" and "BEN" were displayed
(truth be told I looked at the BEN file earlier, it seems to fluctuate
between displaying the Owl Save and not). I brought up the BEN file,
hesitated for a moment noticing that the stats were not the same as they
original were two days ago, it seemed like he had already completed the
Stone Tower Temple this time... Summoning my courage I selected it.
Immediately I was thrust into complete chaos. Sure enough, I was
outside Stone Tower Temple, but that's about all that was expected. The
zone itself wasn't called Stone Tower Temple, but rather "St o n e", and
immediately a dialogue box of complete gibberish that I couldn't make
out greeted me. Link's body was distorted - his back was cocked
violently to the side where his posture was permanently disfigured.
Link's expression was dull, almost monotonous, he had an expression on
his face that I didn't recognize before, it was a blank look - as if he
was dead. As Link stood there his body spasmed irregularly back and
forth I examined what had become of my avatar and noticed I had a C
button item I had never seen before, some kind of note, but pressing it
did nothing. Sounds played back and forth that I didn't recognize from
the game - almost demonic in nature, and there was some kind of
high-pitched yip or some kind of laugh or something playing in the
background. I had all of two minutes to take in the environment before
another one of those fucking Elegy of Emptiness statues was summoned and
immediately after I was cut into the "Dawn of a New Day" screen, except
this time it was without the "||||||" subtext.
I was a Deku Scrub in Clock Town - this scene would normally play
after the first time you traveled back in time. Tatl would say "Wh-What
just happened? It's as if everything has..." but instead of saying
"Started over", she finished her remark in broken text as the laugh of
the Happy Mask Salesman played in the background. I was put back in
control of my character, but from a fucked up camera angle - I was
looking from behind the door to the Clock Tower, watching my avatar run
around as a Deku Scrub. Seeing as how I really had no place to go
because I couldn't see anything, I begrudgingly went inside the door.
There, I was greeted by the Happy Mask Salesman who simply told me
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" before the screen whited
out.
I was in Termina field as a human again. I might as well not have
been playing the same game anymore - I was being warped around and
there was no sign of a day clock or anything. I took a moment to get my
bearings as I looked around the field and immediately I could tell that
this was not normal. There were no enemies and a twisted version of the
Happy Mask Salesman's theme was playing. I decided to run towards
Woodfall before I noticed a gathering of three figures off to the side -
one of them being Epona. As I approached them, to my horror I saw the
Happy Mask Salesman, the Skull Kid, and the Elegy of Emptiness statue
just standing there. I figured maybe they were bugged out, but by now I
told myself that I should know better. Nevertheless, I approached them
carefully and found that the Skull Kid was playing some kind of idle
animation on loop, same with Epona, and the Elegy of Emptiness statue
was doing what it has been doing all along - just standing there eerily.
It was the Happy Mask Salesman that scared me more profoundly than the
other two.
He too was idle, wearing that shit-eating grin, but where-ever I
moved, his head slowly turned and followed me. I had not engaged in any
dialogue with him nor was I in combat with him, yet his head still
continued to follow my movements. Reminded of my first encounter with
the Skull Kid on top of Clock Tower, I pulled out my Ocarina (to which
the game played the ding sound when you're supposed to play your
Ocarina) and tried a song I hadn't played yet - the Happy Mask
Salesman's own song and the song that had been playing on loop back in
Day 4 - the Song of Healing.
I finished playing the song and as I did, a ear-piercing shriek
blasted on my TV, the sky immediately started flashing, the Happy Mask
Salesman's twisted theme song sped up, intensifying the fear inside me,
and Link exploded into flames and died. The three figures stayed lit up
during my death screen as they watched my lifeless body burn. I can't
describe to you how sudden and terrifying the transition from eerie to
terror it is, you're going to have to watch the video if you want to see
first-hand. That same fear that caused me to lose sleep two days ago
started to grip me again as I was met with the text "You've met with a
horrible fate, haven't you?" for the third time. There has to be some
kind of meaning behind that.
I had little time to ponder as I was immediately given another
small cut-scene of transforming into a Zora and now I found myself in
Great Temple Bay. Hesitant but curious to see what the game had in store
for me, I slowly made my way towards the beach, where I found Epona. I
wondered why the game had decided to put her here, was the game implying
she was trying to get a drink? Unable to take the mask off, I decided
that riding the steed wasn't the reason she was placed there.
Suddenly I realized that Epona kept neighing and the way she was
angled made it look like she was trying to signal a point to me off in
the distance. It was a hunch, but I dove into Great Bay and started
swimming. Sure enough - I almost missed it - I found something at the
bottom of the ocean; one last Elegy of Emptiness statue. I went down to
examine it and suddenly my Zora started doing a choking animation I had
never seen a Zora do before - which didn't even make sense because
Zora's can breath underwater. Regardless, my character choked to death
and died, and again the statue was the only thing that was highlighted
in my death. I didn't re-spawn this time, I was booted back to the main
menu as if I restarted the console.
The "press start" screen was before me, I knew the only reason why it
would put me here is because the save files had changed again. Taking a
deep breath, I pressed start, and I was right. The new save files told
me about Ben. Now it made sense why the statue appeared when I tried to
go to the Laundry Pool - the game must have anticipated how I would have
tried to escape the Day 4 Clock Town. The two save files told me his
fate. As I suspected, Ben was dead. He had drowned. The game obviously
isn't through with me - it taunts me with the new save files - it wants
me to keep playing, it wants me to go further, but I'm done with this
shit. I'm not touching any more of the files. This is already way too
horrifying for me and I don't even believe in the paranormal, but I'm
running out of explanations. Why would someone send me this message? I
don't understand it, I just get too depressed thinking about this, the
footage is up here for those who want to see it and try and analyze it
(maybe there's some kind of coded message in the gibberish or something
symbolic in what I went through - I'm too emotionally and mentally
drained to fuck with it anymore).
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I know its early in the morning, I've stayed up all night, I can't
sleep, I don't care if people see this, that's not the point, I just
want the word to get spread so I don't suffer for nothing. I've lost the
will to type about this, the less I dwell on this the better, I think
the video just speaks for itself. I did what you guys told me to do, I
played the Elegy of Emptiness song at the first prompt by the game I was
given, but I think that's what the game or Ben (Jesus Christ, I can't
believe I'm even humoring the absurd idea that he exists in the game)
wanted me to do. He's following me now, not just in the game, he's in my
dreams. I see him all the time, behind my back, just watching me. I
haven't gone to any of my classes, I've stayed in my dorm room with the
windows closed and the blinds shut - that way I know he can't watch me.
But he still gets me when I play, when I play he can still see me. The
game is scaring me now. It talked to me for the first time - not just
using text that's already in the game - it spoke to me. Talked to me. It
referenced Ben. It talked to me. I don't know what it means. I don't
know what it wants. I never wanted this, I just want my old life back.
Stuff like this doesn't happen to people like me, I'm just a kid, not
even old enough to drink yet. It's not fair, I want to go home, I want
to see my parents again, I'm so far away from home here at this school, I
just want to hug my mom again. I just want to forget that statue's
horrible blank face. My original game file is back - just the way I left
it before it was gone. I don't want to play anymore. I feel like
something bad will happen if I don't, but that's impossible, it's a
video game - haunted or not it can't hurt me, right? Like seriously
though, it can't, right? That's what I keep telling myself, but every
time I think about it I'm not so sure.
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Let me just clear things up - I know you guys are worried but
"jadusable" is okay. He finished moving out today and he said he's going
back home, he's just taking this semester off. I'm not really sure
what's happened , I have a vague idea but you guys probably know more
than I do. I'm "jadusable's" roommate and obviously I knew something was
wrong with him for a few days now. He stayed in his room all the time,
fell out of contact with literally all of his friends, and I'm pretty
sure he hadn't been eating hardly anything, after the second day I
couldn't stay in there anymore, so I've been crashing at a buddy's
place, only coming in to my room to get stuff that I need. I tried
talking to him several times but he would cut me off or keep the
conversation brief when I asked him about his strange behavior, it like
he was convinced something was hunting him. Yesterday I came to grab my
philosophy book and he approached me, looking awful, like horrible bags
under his eyes. He handed me a flash drive and gave me specific
instructions. He told me that he needs me to do one last favor for him -
he finally explained to me what has been going on, gave me the account
info to his YouTube account, and told me that he's getting away from
here, that it lured him to play it again instead of trying to change
things and that he shouldn't of done that, and to upload the footage and
inform people what happened. I told him that he could do it himself and
he got this wild look in his eye and told me that he is never looking
at that game again, and that's the last thing he said to me, he never
even said bye when his parents came to pick him up. I never even got to
meet his parents.
I honestly cant tell you what happened, when he spoke it was kind
of hard to understand him and his fucked up appearance really
distracted me. On the flash drive there was the footage of the game last
night, a text document with his name and password for YouTube, and a
third document called TheTruth.txt containing what he told me were "his
notes" that he'd taken. He told me that this meant everything to him
that I follow his instructions exactly, normally I wouldn't be so
'to-the-letter' for request over a fucking video game, but the way he
spoke and the way he looked made me know this was really serious, and
I'm going to honor that. I've had this video since yesterday, but had to
have someone help me use pinnacle, that's not really my forte. That
after watching it I had to go back through and look at his other videos
on his YouTube account to realize what was going on and even then I'm
really really confused. The video I'm releasing tonight, TheTruth.txt
will be released on September 15th just like he requested. I haven't
dared peek at it yet, so the first time I see it will be the first time
you see it out of respect to my friend. To answer your questions, no, I
haven't tried calling him yet, I think I'll give him a call tomorrow to
see if hes okay or not. He should have gotten back home by now.
About the video: in this video I cut straight to when he loaded the
"BEN" file in the game, looking back I realized that jadusable left the
save select screen in because it said different names sometimes, so my
bad for that, but all it said this time was the same at the end of his
last video (Link and BEN), nothing different. I wasn't there when he
played it, but it looks to me like in the beginning when he first spawns
he's testing out his equipment or seeing what items he has or
something, because apparently they've changed randomly before. Then,
after that I just think the game got too personal for him.
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Hey, guys. "Jadusable" here. This will be the last time you will be
hearing from me, and this is my final gift to you - these are the notes
that I have taken and the realizations I've made. Before I dwelve into
this, I want to thank you for following me and thank you for listening,
it feels like the weight of a powerful burden is about to be lifted. By
the time you read this I won't be around anymore, but after spending
four days with this maddening game, I have begun to understand what's
really at play here and hopefully after reading this we can ensure that
this never happens again.
There are things that I could not share with you while this was
going on due to the circumstances to which I'll explain. With Ben
blocking any attempt I made to try and relay the truth to you, I tried,
ever so subtly, to warn you guys in various ways. Amidst the chaos and
my delirium, I devised a make a barely noticeable pattern in my videos.
In all five videos I recorded over the four days, I have either had the
Mask of Truth, interacted with a Gossip Stone, or the Lens of Truth
equipped at some point. For you Zelda enthusiasts these are all symbols
of honesty and trustworthiness and I would hope that one of you may have
picked up on the reference. As I played the file which I would name
"BEN", being mindful of how Ben was watching over my every move in the
game, I made a point to avoid doing anything too obvious, but I sent out
a hidden message to you guys - I never equipped the Lens nor the Mask
nor visited a stone. It worked, and the video was uploaded. I prayed
that someone would notice the pattern didn't apply to BEN.
The tags followed suit too, I hope you guys paid attention to
those as well. They were my little messages to you - nothing big enough
that would catch Ben's attention or make him suspect anything - with Ben
manipulating and changing my files, I honestly hope that what you guys
saw was close to what actually happened, but there is no way for me to
know.
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Damn it was it long, but I hope that you enjoy it, maybe you already knew about it but I dunno, I like to give that trip to the first time kind of experiences xD
I will leave this around here:
This is all for today, see ya later Underworlders!!!
Hi guys! Pérez and the rest of the Underworld team here. I hope you've had a good holiday season.
Like the titles says, we're going to make a review of each of our 2012. We'll tell which were the best animes we saw, the best mangas we read and th best videogames we played (they don't have to necessarily have been released in the 2012) in a Top3 fashion. So lets-a go!! XD
Best Anime Pérez: Well, this year I couldn't watch as much anime as I would have liked, but I did get to watch a few awesome animes. My Top3 of animes that I watched this past 2012 would be:
3- Cowboy Bebop: It was recommended by a friend who wanted to make a cosplay of Vincent Volaju, so he wanted me to be Spike Spiegel. Lets just say that I was a Spike Spiegel with a black suit instead of a blue one XD Now, returning to the anime, it was just great. The story is excellent, but I'll admit that it took me about 10 episodes to start liking it. After that, for me, the quality of the anime skyrocketed.
2- Busou Renkin: With this one, Danny was the one that recommended it to me while I was reading the Rurouni Kenshin manga. In just 26, I was absorbed a lot in the story.
1- Fate/zero: Kaiser Nebur was the one that recommended it to me and I have to say it, it's one hell of an anime :D My favorite character was Kariya and the character I hated the most was Gilgamesh. It managed with only 25 episodes to make me cry with some of the deaths :/ It gave me practically the same emotions as Busou Renkin, but I ended up choosing Fate/zero as my top anime because I liked more the story.
Honorable Mention: I feel that I have to mention the Sora no Otoshimono anime because I feel that it is the funniest (with its second season Sora no Otoshimono Forte) anime I've seen in my life. I laughed so much, that sometimes my head started to hurt XD
Judini:My my, hallou people of the Underworld, R. Jaggerjaquez/Judini/Ricardo/Creepypaster here, so becuz I was kinda interested in making something like this and Pérez got ahead of me, I might as well contribute to the post :D so same format as Pérez, and I dunno, I'll take you on a wild ride! NUMBER 3: Hell, I've been able to see so many animes, it wasn't so tough to decide on my Top3 as it may look, but anyways, I'm giving this spot to Black Cat, amazing story, amazing characters, and the ever present fan-service xD NUMBER 2: Number 2 spot is taken byHellsing, lol sincerely this is awesome, I can't stop watching Alucard kicking ass and being a dick xD I even have a wallet including his Restriction Release simbol :3 NUMBER 1: Yo, doesBtooom! ring a bell? This was recommended to me by a friend and it's AWESOME! totally deserving my first place, I won't say anything about it, just give it a shot I promise you'll like it :) HONORABLE MENTION:Meeh, I'll give it toKaras becuz although it was good, it was SOOOO small, I mean 6 episodes, dafuq with them? I understand that production was pretty expensive but damn. Danny:
1) Fairy Tail: As a love of anything that relates to a magical world, specially if it includes dragons and why not some fanservice here and there I have to recognize this one as the best anime that I have seen this year. I am not very far yet, just have started watching the Magical Games but Ill continue watching it until I am to date and then Ill start with the manga. I really recommend this one to all of those who love magic related stuff to watch this one. 2) Busou Renkin: I knew that Nobuhiro wasnt going to fail me with this anime, a cute but not sickly sweet love story and plenty of action ensured that I really enjoyed this anime thoroughly. Although the ending(no spoilers) could have been better, this anime is still worth watching. 3) Clannad: Pretty sure that everyone has at least heard of this anime, the only thing that I can say about this anime is that it is sure to bring out more than just a tear when watching it.
Kaiser Nebur: Best Manga Pérez: I started reading mangas in December 2011 where I read in 21 days Bleach's manga and I also read the manga of Candy Boy (what can I say? I love yuri :3). After that, I've read a few more mangas. Unlike animes, I could read a few chapters of manga to distract myself a little bit when I was studying for a test. This year I've read some fantastic mangas, but also, started reading the mangas of some of the animes that I grew up watching so that I could remember them. My Top3 would be:
3- Rurouni Kenshin: It was the first manga of the old animes that I grew up with that I read. I even made a post about it when I finished it (by the way, in the comments of the post, two persons asked about Shogo Amakusa. I forgot to say that I only made the Top10 with characters that did appear in the manga). The story was way better than what I remembered, and got the nice surprise of the Yukishiro saga which is an OVA of the anime for some reason.
2- Black Cat: I remember Danny talking about it back in early 2011 when we were still in school. Back then, I thought it didn't sound so good, but when Danny finally convinced me to read it around March 2012, I started reading it with doubts. At first I didn't like it a lot and stopped reading it because I didn't understand it, but one day, for some reason, I started reading it again and started understanding it more and started liking it a lot. I ended up reading it completely and finally understood what Danny said about the story and all. I highly recommend it :D With Danny, we have the idea of making a group cosplay someday of Sven and Train :P
1- Elfen Lied: A friend of mine called Bernarda recommended me to watch the anime of Elfen Lied, but since I didn't have much time to watch anime, I tolde her I would read the manga instead, and man, what a great manga it turned out to be! The story is simply fantastic and I loved it from the beginnig (plus, the ecchi wasn't bad at all ;) ) XD I could say that with Elfen Lied, I decided to better read the mangas instead of watching animes because the animes are usually subjects of a lot of changes.
Honorable Mention: I feel that I should mention that I didn't include Bleach in the list because the last two arcs have been a rollercoaster. The Fullbring arc was good, but it wasn't nowhere near as good as the Arrancar saga, and the actual saga, started slow, got really amazing, and ended up with filler (yup, Kubo Tite is the first mangaka to include filler in a manga XD). It took a few weeks for the manga to be interesting again.
Judini: No rodeos here, check them out... NUMBER 3: Hey, what better deserving than theNaruto manga? not bad but not that good either, had its ups and its down, hey ya noticed that Naruto apparently isn't gay anymore? xD NUMBER 2: This one goes to Katekyo Hitman Reborn, even though it was given such a shitty ending, I think its overall story, likeable characters, memorable villians-turned-allies gave it more of a dime than it intended :P NUMBER 1: I'll give my number one spot toMagi, my girlfriend recommended it to me, and even though I thought it was silly (the main character also being pretty perv/genius) it ended up giving me a nice reading experience and overall, I believe I got pretty hyped when they started making the anime of it :3 HONORABLE MENTION: Bleach, awesome fights, yet lacking story, reused clichés (I AM YOUR FATHER) and fking FILLER in a manga. Danny:
Kaiser Nebur:
Best Videogame
Pérez: Like with animes, I couldn't play as much games as I would have liked, but still got to play some awesome games this year. They were either in a Nintendo console, a Nintendo emulator or a PC. My Top3 would be:
3- Pro Evolution Soccer 2012: I got it as a Christmas present in 2011, but I included it because I played it a lot this year also. I liked FIFA 10 for Wii, so I decided to try PES to see how it was. For my surprise, I liked it a lot more than FIFA 10. I really liked the gameplay and liked even more realist graphics than FIFA's cartoon-like graphics. I did get disappointed when I saw that Konami wouldn't give a roster update for the game, but well, from one year to another, there isn't a big difference ^_^
2- MadWorld: Judini gave it to me as a birthday present back in May, and I finally finished it in New Year XD I'm planning on making a review soon ^_^ The game was fun, it did get kinda repetitive, but the boss battles were really great *-* I still haven't played the multiplayer though... XD
1- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Simply, a masterpiece. TLOZ: The Wind Waker for many years was my favorite Zelda game, but Skyward Sword finally took the throne. I can tell you, if you don't have a Wii, this game is the game that should make you get one :D
Honorable Mention: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars DS: It is my first GTA game and I really liked it. I played it in the NO$GBA emulator, so I had sometimes a hard time with the gameplay and framerate, which in a particular mission made stop advancing in the story and just kill people XD After I finished it, I was amazed with the story and stopped thinking that the GTAs were only useful to kill people and run from the cops :)
Judini: Well, the icing to my cake this year, let's see what we have shall we? NUMBER 3: Mmm well I think I'm leaving this spot as a tie, as I will include bothSoul Calibur V andKing of Fighters XIII here, why? They're fighting games :3 Also, one (SCV) is an excellent game of a series I've been in love with since the first installment (Soul Blade), I don't really know why people flame on it, but I really like it, I like the Brave Edge system, Nightmare is at his best (even though I prefer the SCIV model) The only thing I didn't like is that they took Talim and Cassandra out of the game :/ Now KOF XIII is an extremely balanced game, it feels like the KOF 97 era yet more beautiful looking and revamped fighting system that still feels nice, also, I LOVE YURI SAKAZAKI! :3 NUMBER 2: This spot is given toLeague of Legends, hell, Danny invited me to play this crap, and even though I didn't like it at the beginning, once I played a few more matches, I got addicted to it, as of right now I'm level 30, also this game made me stay up late almost like Mortal Kombat 2011 did, so it deserves second spot :) (Add me if you want, names XDNightmare) NUMBER 1: So what title is deserving of my first place? Simple, Metroid Other M(yes, I finally played it xD). Now now, I know what you'll say *whiny fanvoice* Metroid Other M sukx! It makes Samus look like an arrogant b*tch and also a wimp! So to that I have one simple thing to say, the only difference between this game and the other Metroid games is that Samus now talks, she probably was like that in the first place, but becuz she didn't talk, we had no way of knowing, also this is my opinion, respect it. Metroid Other M is the best game I played this year and it's totally deserving of this first place. HONORABLE MENTION: Need for Speed Most Wantedis the only NFS game I was dying to play for a long time, and thanks to acquaintances of the university, I finally got it for my PC, so I played it, and it far outranked NFS Underground 1/2 out of my favorite NFS game, seriously I love this game :3 Danny:
1)Minecraft: You may or may not know that I am a huge fan of this game, I have always liked sandbox games that allow you to do whatever you wish to the world, and this game gives a completely new meaning to the gender sandbox. This definitely takes the place of my favorite game of this year and very probably of all times, I congratulate Mojang on making such an addicting and amazing game. 2)Oblivion: Very well designed story, tons of game time and impressive graphics are some of the best aspects of this game, there is just so much that you can do in the world of Cyrodil that youre never going to be left bored. 3) Assassins Creed Brotherhood: Great game from a great series, I can say without fear of being called wrong that any game with Ezio Auditore is a game worth playing. Kaiser Nebur:
So that was our 2012 review. We hope that you liked it, and tell us in the comments which were your favorite animes, mangas and/or videogames of 2012 :D
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