Talk:A Room/@comment-25499830-20141004185921

I have no way to prove it, but I'm the original author of this story. This was something I started writing when I was 16. I used to have dreams about the black, no-face humanoids growing up and they always terrified me. I referred to them as "Bacon Skin Men" when I was a kid because they had this rough, gross looking texture to them. I started writing this story after finising Portal when it first came out and reading the story I think the influence is evident. I wanted to incorporate my bacon skin men into a story involving minimal characters with some kind of unseen narrator.

I wrote this story on and off over the course of about a year. I would just start writing whenever I had a nightmare and wanted to get it into the story somehow. That, as well as my age, is partially the reason for how disjointed it feels in places, in addition to all the spelling/grammatical errors. I oiginally posted this story on 4chans /x/ board under the name JOHN #1045970. I posted the story in chunks and when I started posting it, it was incomplete. This also explains why the ending feels rushed and may seem very different to the rest of the stoy. I didn't expect it to get as much attention as it did, people were liking it so I felt obligated to finish it then and there so as not to leave people hanging.

Again, I have no proof I am the original author. I used to have a picture of "fan-art" someone drew of John and his screwdriver in the original thread on 4chan but I have since got a new computer and I didn't transfer any of my pictures. I just wanted to say thanks to anyone who takes the time to actually read this and a huge thank you to those that enjoyed it. I agree with a lot of the critiques, it's too long, too descriptive at points, dialogue can come off as try hard 2spooky (Read: 16 years old), and it obviously needs a lot of editing. I'm really glad people dig it though and I appreciate that a silly story I wrote when I was younger is actually getting some attention. The only "proof" I can offer at the moment is to post another story I wrote and maybe you can see the similarities in style.

http://www.wattpad.com/4846502-rifle-in-the-sky