Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24779263-20140405184534

Hi there,

I'm a 27 year old guy from the Netherlands. So English is not my native language, although it is my preffered language for story's.

With a vivid imagination I've somtimes tried to translate my imagination to paper, without training, without avail. Last week I was binge reading/listening to creepypasta's and as a neat coincidence my friends and I encourered a strange glitch while playing Diablo III.

(I can appreciate all kinds of feedback or criticism)

So here's my video game CP:

The White Waypoint

Like many other nights a week I was slaying demons left and right with my friends in Sancturay, Diablo III.

As always we maintained a Skype connection to communicate some basic tactics to make the demon slaying as smooth as we could.

Usually within seconds the tactics flew out the window and chaos ensued.

Tonight was kind of a special night for us, as one of our friends managed to find a moment of free time in his busy married life to be online for a few hours.

When all four of us were online we took the opportunity to summon and slay special bosses for legendary crafting materials, as the keys to build the summoning machines were quite time-consuming to gather.

After using up all of our summoning machines, we had some time to spare and decided to gather more keys for our next boss summon run.

After a little while one of my friend had to go back to the town of New Tristram to sell the loot he picked up.

“''Guys! The freakiest shit is happening. I teleported to the New Tristram waypoint and ended up on a glitched-up piece of map''”

My other two friends responded with: “''Cool! I’m teleporting to you!''”

I can’t tell you why, but somehow whenever I encounter a glitch in a game I get a mixed reaction. Like most things that scare us, these are at the same time the things that intrigue us.

I right-clicked the character portrait of my friend and selected: “Teleport to player”.

Cruz, the Crusader, started casting and the loading screen appeared on my monitor.

Landing on a waypoint I saw my friends running around in an empty area of the map.

The area looked like The Weeping Hollow, the place you end up when you take the north exit out of New Tristram.

It looked like the map had been sliced off after a few feet, displaying nothing but a vast, white, empty, abyss.

The thought of some form of limbo always freaked me the hell out, so I immediately clicked on the waypoint and teleported out of there.

After a short moment of radio silence I could hear my friends starting to speak again:

“''It’s kinda cool, because it’s broken. Other than that.. it mostly sucks. Too bad it wasn’t a infinite legendary glitch or something.''”

We finished our key runs, said goodnight and logged off.

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The weeks after that most of us were playing DIII almost every night with nothing like the waypoint glitch happening in the many, many hours we played.

We sometimes talked about it, but that was it.

Still, the chopped of piece of map stayed with me in the back of my mind and I regretted teleporting out of there so fast.

One night after everyone had logged off I decided to keep playing solo.

After an hour of adventuring and bounty collecting I got bored.

As I teleported to New Tristram the thought of the “White Waypoint”, as I started to call it in my mind, popped into my head.

Seeing as some of the maps are randomly generated when you start a game, I wondered if I could make the glitch happen if I kept restarting games after teleporting to New Tristram. This went on for more than an hour: start game, teleport, leave game, start..

After basically getting bored with the substitute for my boredom and not even getting a glimpse of the glitch, I decided to give up.

.

Some nights later I was watching a movie when I got a message:

“''LoL! Back in the Tristram glitch!''”.

In a flash I pressed alt+F4 to dismiss the movie and booted Diablo III.

Entering my friends game I quickly teleported to his location and there I was, back at The White Waypoint.

This time the area made me feel safe instead of the ‘limbo feeling’ I got the previous time I was there.

In party chat my friend asked me to join him on Skype. I read what he said, but ignored it. This place seemed to slowly suck me in, demanded my attention.

Not wanting to speak or move, I was staring into the white abyss at the edge of the world listening to a faint music in the background.

Preferring sound effects over background music, I had to change my audio settings to make the music more audible.

It was.. beautiful and serene, matching perfectly with the white abyss.

The whole scene with the music gave the area a heavenly feel.

The hands of my friends character started glowing and *poof* he teleported to a town that was not glitched.

“Y''o! Did your game crash? If you’re reading this: I’m going to sleep! Goodnig...zzzzzZZZZ''”

I saw the text out of the corner of my eye but ignored it again.

“Your friend has gone offline”.

I’m all alone now.

After some time of being entranced by the white abyss on my screen and listening to that perfect heavenly music coming from the speakers, I slowly started to come out of it.

Enough for me to walk around a bit.

“Why are you here?”

A text-box appeared after a few steps.

Normally each text-box has a character portrait on the left side of it, to indicate who is speaking. This one did not have a portrait, instead a white glow where in the middle you could almost make out the shape of a sphere if you squinted your eyes.

I stared at the text for a few seconds an pressed space to dismiss it.

Immediately the same text-box popped up:

“Why are you here?”

This time I saw the same sentence in bright pink on the bottom left side of my screen.

My heart started racing and my vision got blurry.

“Calm down” I said to myself, must be a moderator trying to ask me how I got into this glitch.

I pressed R on my keyboard and started explaining how it was by accident my friend discovered this area and that I was more than happy to leave this place.

“'You were not supposed to be here! No one is supposed to be here!'”

Getting the impression he got agitated, I told him we were sorry for not reporting the glitch and asked him not to ban any of us.

“'We were here in the beginning.. We are here now.. We will be here till the end of time!'”

“'The White Waypoint.. as you call it.. is.. no mistake!'”

My heart was racing once again, my body started trembling and sweating, everything turned blurry in front of my eyes except for a few words: “The White Waypoint”.

“''Impossible, right? Did I tell anyone this? I thought I only called it that in my head?''”

I needed to get away from this place. Now.

Spamming T or M on my keyboard did nothing to get me out of there. The waypoint light was out, I was stuck here.

“'We will corrupt! We will consume! We are eternal!'”

A bright white flash expanded from my monitor.

The heavenly music slowly built up it’s volume making my body twitch, heart race faster and vision fade in the same increasing build-up as the music’s volume.

Then I noticed it, the white abyss swallowing up the little piece of map that was left.

Ramming several random keys due to the twitches that were getting worse by the second, I failed pressing ALT+F4.

Getting weaker as the music got louder I thought to myself “this is it”, and gave up.

With the abyss having swallowed al but a few inches of map, my vision went out and I twitched to the floor next to my pc tower.

Then nothing, the music stopped and with it my body fell still and I slowly regained my composure.

Lying on the ground wondering what had happened, I heard a beautiful sound coming from my speakers.. the Windows boot-up sound.

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A few weeks went by without me even touching a video-game, no matter the platform.

When my friends and I met in person they would constantly ask me when i would be online again. Every time I made up some kind of excuse, everything to not have to tell them what happened that night. “Not wanting to game anymore because I believed it all really happened would make me crazy, right?”

One night over some beers in a bar I finally ran out of made up reasons not to join them in a game, and so I reluctantly told them about the second time I went to The White Waypoint.

As expected, they all started laughing.

“''I know you like your jokes, but weeks of not gaming? Kudos for sticking with it”''

“Haha, almost sounds like real demons hid inside a fictional game about the battle between demons and angels, to corrupt real people to win their battle against real angels”

“Awesome movie idea right there!”

“Next thing you’re going to tell me is that people who supposedly died behind their games because they forgot to eat or drink were secretly killed by demons!?”

“Don’t forget to include all the spree- and serial killers who claimed games made them do it, maybe the games really did” 

''“Maybe demons nest in random popular games around the world, subliminally corrupting the souls of those already trying to escape reality. Marinade to devour, as you will”''

''“But seriously man! We’ve been there too, seen the light, heard the music, nothing happened to us, we’re still all right”''

 As the music in the bar skipped to the next track, familiar tones came from the speakers.

A beautiful, serene, heavenly melody.

 

The laughing stopped.  

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So there it is. I hope you've enjoyed reading my feeble attempt at something resembling a CP.

 