Brian was sitting at his computer as he had done every night this past week. Things hadn’t been the same as they were this past month. He was left at home once again without anyone to go hang out with. All of his friends had gotten sick of him, his girlfriend dumped him, and his family was disgusted with him. He couldn’t understand why so many people disliked him. Maybe it’s because of the way I think, he thought to himself. He could understand that he could never say no to his mind but never tried to get any help for it. All of a sudden a screen asking if someone could IM him appeared on his screen. "That’s weird. That’s supposed to be blocked." He quickly Xed out of it and didn’t think twice. All of a sudden he felt this urge to go out and walk around for a bit. He got up and walked towards the front door when the door bell rang. He opened the door and there was a man in a black trench coat with black gloves and a black cowboy hat on. "You’re either with me or against me." The man said. "Get bent" Brian said without thinking about it. All of a sudden the man pulled out a grenade, pulled the pin, dropped it, and said, "Your loss is my gain." The grenade exploded and all Brian saw was darkness.
A man appeared from the burning house. He was wearing a black trench coat with black gloves and a black hat. He smiled a sadistic smile and pulled out a little black book. In that black book was a list of about 40 or 50 names he crossed out number 3 but as soon as he did another name appeared on the list. He walked around the corner just as the police arrived at the house. He could hear fire engines coming as well. It wouldn’t matter. No amount of water could put out that fire. There was only one thing that could. He wasn’t about to tell anyone what it was but it was still there. No one would notice it either.
Have you ever walked down a white hall? It is very eerie yet at the same time very satisfying. It wants to tell you that your life was successful that it had meaning. The calmness reaching from your eyes down into your heart. It feels like a cold shiver reaching into your spine and relaxing it. Gentle fingers massaging your essence as if to say that you deserve it. As you walk in this white hall you notice that every little detail of your previous life is drifting from your mind and you are at a state of complete relaxation. The memories, thoughts, emotions are all just drifting away onto the next plane and you are there just walking forward, just waiting for something to happen but it doesn't. When you wait you are being touched by a comforting voice. Seeping into your mind that everything is just fine. You start to fall backwards and for a brief moment there's just a small glimmer in your eye. You drift along with everything and close your eyes. You don't have to open them again. But I did.
It’s not an easy story to tell or hear but it must be recorded for reasons to which I cannot divulge at this point. I can say one thing though. After you are done reading it a man will come to your door and ask you if you are with him or against him. It is your choice. I cannot say whether or not he will kill you. He may be in a good mood that day and let you live. But he never forgets who you are. I’m going to light a cigarette. I suggest you do the same whether or not you smoke. It’ll be the only pleasure you have while I recount the last couple of years. I thought it was just a game that I could have fun with. It was a game just not the type you would think it to be. This type of game is either hunt or be hunted. You can run, you can hide, but I guarantee that you won’t survive. I guess you are wondering why this is up on a web site. Because it’s the only place where it will be halfway believable.
I guess I should start out at the beginning. There was one time where I thought I was happy. It was not a time in my life where I was completely happy but was happy enough to not be able to tell the difference. I had family, friends, and a girlfriend. I was working, planning on returning to school. I never thought that I would have to rid myself of those things just to be able to sleep again. I couldn’t deal with what was happening so I just picked up all my stuff one day and just left them. Never told them where I was going never told them that I couldn’t stay there anymore. That it was just too hard. I couldn’t live with myself if I was to corrupt them anymore. I’m sorry I am getting a bit ahead of my self.
One night I was sitting at my computer doing normal things on the net. I was playing some game and talking to friends on messengers. Someone I didn’t know messaged me and asked me if I was happy with my life. That’s where the real story begins…I figured it was one of my friends trying to prank me so I decided to play along. I answered no, setting "my friend" up with asking "why not?" Instead of what I thought would happen this person answered back saying that he could make my life better. That he could show me a world that I never knew existed. I in my infinite "wisdom" thought that this was still a friend playing a prank on me so I just was like ok whatever. He knew that I thought that he was full of shit so he called me on it. He asked me for my full name and since I still thought it was a friend I played along. I still have the conversation.
Before he/she signed out they sent the file to my computer. I clicked on the accept button and it downloaded. Even though it was a huge file it took less than 30 seconds to download. As soon as it was downloaded I went and opened it. It asked me to input a password that no one would know. I put ******* and hit enter. I didn’t get a popup. My screen went blank. I figured maybe those were lucky guesses or maybe I had told one of my friends those things when I was drunk. As I got up from my chair I heard a familiar tune as I saw windows load up again. Maybe it just restarted I thought to myself. Although it looked a bit different and instead of saying Windows XP it read: WELCOME TO MASTER PC.
I thought that it was just someone messing with me still. I thought it was a promotion of some kind sending out demos for a new game. Either way I decided that if it was a virus then it was an advanced one. I needed a new computer anyway. I clicked on the icon that said MASTER PC WIZARD. It brought me a screen that told me to enter a subject name. Oh great another role playing game I thought to myself. Since I really had nothing else to do, it was 130 in the morning, I put my name into the space and hit enter. When the image came up it astounded me and scared the living crap out of me. On the screen was a visual image of myself in the same clothes that I was wearing at the moment. On the right of it was all of my statistics with up and down arrows on the right of those statistics. On the bottom was a line that read "ENTER A COMMAND". At the end of the given line was a button "SEND"
This was getting to be a bit much for me to understand so I looked up at the top of the screen and saw the word help so I clicked on it. It gave me choices so I went to "OVERALL VIEW OF PROGRAM". A message popped up on the screen that said "YOU HAVE NOT READ THE MESSAGE FROM PREVIOUS USER. WOULD YOU LIKE TO VIEW THIS MESSAGE NOW?" I clicked on yes and proceeded to read it very carefully hoping that it would give me some kind of advice on what this program is and how to use it. Here’s what it read:
Dear Julian,Please accept these apologies for not being able to fully explain myself earlier. I had to remain secretive because there are people who have been tracking me for a while now and the only way I could explain things would be to write you this letter. First off there is a 1-month period to let new users adapt themselves to the program and for them to enjoy it. It’s like a rest and relaxation period before it all starts. You may be thinking to yourself what the hell is he talking about but I will get to all of that in a minute.
Firstly congratulations on receiving the program. This program allows you to become a god among people. With this program you are able to do anything, create anything, and become anything. You might have thought that this was a game at first but its not. You are able to do anything. To prove this to you I have already sent a command that will enact itself upon the end of this letter. Many of the people who have received this program have done things that no ordinary human could possibly dream of being able to do. Take the one-month and enjoy it as much as you can because you are going to need it.
No one knows where this program came from but it started with one person that it was sent to. Then it was sent to another and another. The program chooses the person who it wants to be sent to. When I chose to send it to someone it gave me a list of 5 people that it would send to. You, Julian, were number 4 on my list. By the time I had searched someone and tried getting into contact with him or her, they were dead. Master PC chooses the people and knows where they are so that there are no territorial marks invaded. Unfortunately one of the people got bored with the part of the world that they were in and moved with the program. This started the territorial wars.
There were two masters for a while in the same territory but there weren’t problems between them until one of them started to get power hungry. They battled for a while until another master came out and joined one of the masters to stop the other. Territories were destroyed and so was the program, or so it was thought. The master that sent me the program had fixed everything and made people forget. He restored the programs tracking record of people to send it to. Everything was fine for a while until the program was sent to the wrong person by accident.
This guy was heavily against keeping it from the world to use. One of those psycho environmentalist people that believed everyone should be equal no matter what types. He put the program on the World Wide Web and within hours the world was once again destroyed. Previous masters around the world gathered together to reverse time by twenty-four hours to keep that guy from getting the program. They were able to, how I’m not sure, reverse time and one of them sent the guy a command that he had just had it with society and smashed his computer to pieces before he knew of the program.
Every master knew each other now. They decided that since it was quite boring to just manipulate people anymore that they would create a game. This was like no ordinary game though. It was decided that they each had a territory. They could make allies or enemies with who ever they wanted. They decided that the prize would be that whoever was the last one left standing at the end would control the world. If you died your powers and program would be sent to your killer. They made it so that if you were to send the program to anyone other than your killer, that person would have a one-month adapting period to the program.
It was also meant as a gift to those who were chosen by the program to become a god. Since the previous masters had gotten time to enjoy the program they should allow others that were chosen to enjoy it as well. The territory is now yours. When I say territory I mean 100-mile radius. Anyone, including masters, in that radius during your one-month adapting period is subject to anything that you command. However as soon as that period ends whatever changes you have made to any of the masters will be reversed to the settings that were there upon their arrival into your territory.
To give you a fair advantage at the point I am writing this letter there are about 23 males and 15 females that have become masters in the world. Once you begin in the "master’s challenge" there are no rules. You must do anything to survive. I am not able to recount some of what has happened specifically but there has been mass mental, physical, emotional, and psychological warfare in this challenge.
Since there are no rules to me anymore I believe that I don’t want to play anymore and want out. I have already killed myself but do not worry. Since no one is expecting it I was able to prove to you that this is real. I have sent my Master PC program to you. I have killed 3 masters so far so this program is pretty powerful. I have also sent you a list of names with this program should you want allies later on. Although this will end the letter this will be the beginning of your new life. Just remember you were the one to accept it.
Sincerely,A friend
I was shocked, to put it bluntly I wanted to scream out motherfucker but I just remained quiet. I guess this would be a good time to take a few minutes break. Now you know the beginning of what I was getting myself into. So just stand up, walk around for a few minutes, go to the bathroom, just do whatever you have to do for the next time you stand up it may be your last. It might not be. All I know is that I’m definitely wanted at this point…