Username: El Titere

TF2, possibly one of the most popular FPS game at the moment, is a game I personally have never been

interested in. It's fine, but I've never personally found anything special about it, other than it's witty humor and unique graphics. Well recently my friends have convinced me to download the game again because they really wanted to convince me that it was a great game. I knew it wasn't going to work, but seeing as how there was nothing to do that night I decided to play along. My friends and I decided to play around 11 PM, which was a good thing because really, TF2 is a pretty large game to download.

I came back from school, went on steam, and downloaded the game immediately. 2 Hours. 1 Hour. 30 Minutes. 10 Minutes. A few seconds, and it was downloaded. I still had quite a few hours till our "play date" actually started, so I figured why not play a few rounds to familiarize myself with the game? And I did just that, play against the bot.

The game asked me if I wanted a coach or something with me, and after my abysmal display of sucking, I thought it might have been cool to have a little coach along. I checked the option, and just played as normal. Then, a person appeared along with me. The person's username was El Titere, which is actually a pretty sweet name. "El Titere", which means The Puppet in Spanish. I wanted to kid around with the guy, make an online friend of sorts. So I said Hey.

He said nothing.

He was playing as the Spy at first and just ran around disguised as an Engineer. And when I mean

run around, I mean it as literally as possible. He just ran around, and around, and around. Same place, at the spawn point, doing nothing. I figured this guy was just a troll or something, not too familiar with the whole coach thing, but I'm sure lots of trolls just show up and grief the entire game.

The game was starting to bore me though, as I predicted, so I decided to check up on him again. Turns out he changed his class without me noticing because now he was just a Scout banging the floor with his melee weapon. I asked him "Having fun there?"

Nothing.

I thought it was hysterical honestly, so I just joined him in "griefing" by banging the floor with my bat too. While crouching to the beat of the bat, sorta like dancing to it all. After about a dozen seconds of just screwing around, he stopped banging the floor. I noticed immediately and asked "Aww, is it over?"

This time, he responded. Well, about as much of a response as I was gonna get out of him. For a spl

it second, his username popped up on the bottom right corner of the screen, as if he was going to talk with his mic. Then about a few seconds later, he left the game.

"Well, that was weird", I thought to myself.

It was around the time where me and my friends were going to play TF2. I left the bot matches and started a game with my friends. We played a few rounds of capture the briefcase, or intelligence, or whatever. Everybody was an asshole, as expected, so to an extent, everything was going fine.

El Titere has joined the game.

Perhaps it's strange to say, but when I saw this guy come into the same game me and my friends were playing on, I got pretty creeped out. I don't know why, but that weird encounter with him was just bizarre. Funny, but bizarre. Well, he didn't act differently this time around. El Titere did his thing, and his thing was, you guessed it, griefing around. This time he was a Pyro, running back and forth, pointing towards the sky and just shooting flames. He did this till he would die, obviously, where he would quickly just run back and grief again.

I just stopped to watch him griefing, and eventurally our team and even the opposite team was getting sick of it, and we were threatening to kick him from the game.

He stopped.

Dead in his tracks, right in the middle of setting the sky on fire. His name flashed again, as if he was trying to communicate again. Then some sniper shot him right in the head. His name appeared again, and he started "talking". It was possibly the weirdest thing he's done, because he wasn't really talking at all, he was just saying nonsensical gibberish. It was erratic, ranging from soft whispering gibberish, to loud, almost harsh screaming gibberish. He wasn't holding downt he mic either, he kept pressing the the mic button, so it made it seem much crazier than it already was.

It was all just an incoherent mess, and last up to a minute till everyone just kept telling him to shut up, in which he would just be louder and much more vicious, as if he was just messing with them just to spite them. This had to be a troll right? It wasn't anything paranormal, just a guy messing around with us. However, the strangest part was what happened after he was kicked from the server.

Once he was kicked out of the server, everyone in the game sighed in relief, finally! We were rid of that obnoxious little troll. A few minutes into the game and all of the players seemed to have forgotten he was ever here. It just seemed like another minor annoyance. Things were going just as usual, until

Everyone froze.

Mid animation, while in the air, during a shot, everybody just froze. Either my game crashed or I was facing some severe lagging problems, so I asked if I was the only one experiencing the problem. Everyone said they were dealing with the same issues.

El Titere has joined the game

Just as soon as he entered the game, everyone vanished, and it was just me. Alone. At least, that's what the server said. It was a short moment of silence when suddenly El Titere started screaming words in Spanish, mostly profanity, and when strung together, it still felt like he was talking gibberish. Only with bad words in another language. I was still "alone" in the game back at the spawn point. I wasn't really alone, because I could still see players trying to talk with their mics, but whatever they were saying was just blocked out by the unbearable screams of El Titere. Just then, everyone, and I mean everyone from both teams spawned in the same exact room I was in. Making the entire game lag fiercely as people frantically shot their rockets, flamethrowers, shotguns, etc.

The lag was so bad, and the screaming just kept going and going, the entire game just became virtually unplayable at this point. So I just decided to abandon the entire game and exitted the game. As soon as I was about to hit the "Quit Game" option, the scream suddenly stopped and white noise played loudy through my speakers. Don't know how long that lasted for, because I just immediately left. What happened after I left I wondered? Seeing as how my friends were still in the game when I left, I asked them what happened afterwords. They said that once the white noise was playing, a 5 or 9 note song played about 3 times over the noise, and then the server just crashed immediately afterwords

We talked about the entire thing 10 minutes later through Skype, and joked around about how my first time playing was the worst experience ever, and that it should be noted that not every game in TF2 is like that. All jokes aside, it still bugged me. Who was this person? Was it all just for kicks and giggles? Was it for his Youtube Channel? If so, then this was one weird way to troll around the game. I had to look this guy up. What I found was nothing important. No Youtube channel or anything. But just one Steam Gamer by that very same name.

Keep in mind however, that anybody on Steam can change their names on the fly, so the person I found on Steam could be someone completely different. After all, this guy hasn't played on Steam in over 100 days, so it couldn't have been him...right?