So I was browsing through DoomSeeker for a good Vanilla Sever (as so many people tend to do *coughdownwithHalecough*). Yesh, I was rather bored that day and was about to hop on over the Hales if there was nothing else going on, but this particular server caught my eye. Just a humble little Vanilla server that I’d never seen before. The only player on was someone named “???”, with another “???” spectating.
Wanting to go and give it a shot as there were no other base servers open, I joined. What I discovered upon joining to MM8DW1 was that the player was lagging like hell and generally wasn’t all that good. Still, I figured, why not humor the guy? He must be a new player, I’ll just give him a few… er, pointers.
I raped him several times over. He didn’t seem to understand the concept of a Proto Shield, or why you shouldn’t stand on Oil Slider blobs when the enemy is stocked with fire weapons. Eventually, I got bored again and started to troll him a bit with Leaf Shield and Treble Sentry in MM6WIN.
The spectator “???”, obviously not entertained by this, began to type strange messages into the chat. Odd things like “Keep going” and “Open the door”. I assumed it was some inside joke between the two, and told them that there was no door.
A few moments after sending that message, the server map changed to MM5NAP, skipping over the usual match ending screen. The usual music was replaced by a quiet droning noise. The spectator joined the game, but after searching around the map, they were nowhere to be found.
After another run around the stage, I was ready to just disconnect, until I finally found the two standing in front of the cave waterfall, facing the pit. Neither of them moved, so I assumed they were AFK, until one of them began typing those odd messages into the chat. “Keep going.” “Open the door.” “Stay with us.”
“Stay with us.”
Thoroughly creeped out, I attempted to just shoot them. Before I could, the two EvilRobots walked forward into the waterfall pit and died. Their obituaries both read, “??? went too far.”
I disconnected, and haven’t seen the server or the two players since.
I keep thinking that they were trying to tell me something. Doesn’t matter, I suppose, but now every time I go to MM5NAP, I get this chill down my spine like something is watching. Is that EvilRobot that appears there sometimes a known bug?
It keeps appearing in the waterfall pit. It doesn’t do anything, but sometimes if I shoot at it, my game will crash.
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