Video summary
The narrator recounts a terrifying experience involving his eight-year-old sister and an anomalous Roblox user known as "21," who appeared in their games approximately a month prior. Initially, the account seemed harmless, asking polite questions about the game and life while exhibiting strange glitches like floating upwards or breaking game mechanics. However, the situation escalated when the user began displaying uncanny knowledge of their physical environment, such as knowing the color of LED lights in the narrator's sister's bedroom without being told. This interaction culminated in a sudden screen freeze where the avatar transformed into a grotesque, fleshy entity with empty eye sockets, revealing itself to be something from "the void" rather than a normal player.
As the encounter progressed, the entity confessed its true nature and expressed a desperate desire for friendship, yet it also hinted at a terrifying hierarchy involving an "outsider" or "king" who held immense power over others. The atmosphere in the game shifted dramatically when the narrator joined the user's mysterious new game alone; instead of a standard map, he found himself on an endless staircase that led to a dark, oppressive void. In this surreal space, the entity attempted to strangle the narrator with invisible pressure before collapsing into a fetal position, sobbing and explaining that it was forced to act against its will by the "king," who demanded the deaths of two specific people: the narrator and his sister.
Realizing the imminent threat, the narrator fled the camping trip in a panic, rushed home, and convinced his traumatized sister to immediately delete the Roblox app. The horror did not end there; shortly after their sister returned from school, she broke down hysterically because two of her friends had died overnight under mysterious circumstances, confirming the entity's warning that the "king" was hunting for them. The narrator discovered that the anomalous game had received very few visits despite its strange mechanics, suggesting it was a trap designed to lure specific targets. The story concludes with the family left in a state of shock and fear, realizing that the digital encounter was not merely a prank or role-play but a genuine supernatural threat that had already claimed innocent lives.
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the formidable.
Okay, I'm done watching BFB 25, so let's
get on with some classic text to speech
creepy pasta narrations. My sister and I
often play Roblox together. She is 8
years old and used to always beg for me
to play on my PS5. By the way, back then
I played Roblox on my old PS4 when it
was ported to the console in October
2023. Since I did not have an extra
controller, I decided to get Roblox on
her phone and mine and play with her
from time to time. Why am I telling you
this? After all, what I'm describing is
completely normal. Just an older brother
finding a way to hang out with his dead
sister. Not really. at least not
anymore. Around a month ago, we met
someone. I think laying this out like a
story with this person is the only way
for me not to sound completely out of my
mind. I also just need to get this
weight off my chest. I need someone to
know what me and my sister experienced.
The name of the account was 21576
AFW9242.
Just going to call it 21 for simplicity
sake. It has been recently deleted, but
I know that whoever it was is on a new
account.
Enough of explaining why I'm making this
and time to get to the point. Around 1
month ago, my sister and I were playing
natural disaster. At first, everything
was normal. Of course, there was this
random bacon hacker. Eventually, the
hacker decided to keep on flinging
everyone. And eventually, on the voice
chat, it started to blast this audio of
the queen song. Another one bites the
dust. So, naturally, no pun intended, my
sister and I decided to join another
server. The server we joined originally
was just the two of us. The round did
not start, so thinking it was broken, I
was about to leave until someone also
joined. The user did not have a name
tag, however. What was strange was that
when they typed in the chat, both my
sister and I could see their text
despite us being in different age
groups. So realistically at best only
one of us could have seen what he typed
instead of both of us. 21. Hi me. I'm
not sharing my username. Hello sister.
Hi. 21. Can you please be my friend? Me.
Okay sister. Okay's law. They then sent
a friend request to both of us and
without thinking much I accepted it. 21.
Can you accept sister? Why would I
accept you sending a random friend's
request to me? 21. What does friends
mean? Sister, sorry, bad grammar. 21.
Can you please accept my friend's
request? I looked at her in the other
room and asked my sister why she was so
hesitant. It really did not matter if
she accepted or not. It's not this
lifealtering choice. She shrugged and
then decided to accept it. 21. Thank
you. Can we go to another server? This
server is broken. I don't know why the
game won't start. The next server was
mostly normal, just him following us
around, being surprisingly polite, and
asking a lot of questions. I remember
some of the questions he asked. Is
Roblox good? Do you like this game? Etc.
Weirdly, he was always getting into my
avatar's face to ask the questions. The
question that I vividly remember was
when he asked me why I chose my vessel
to look like that. He then immediately
said I was sorry and that he had to go.
I thought that he was RPing as a myth or
something, but even then he still
creeped me out. But nothing bad so far.
So for the next two weeks, this user
from time to time joined our games. He
kept asking questions, but I also
learned some things. first is that he
was naturally curious about things, not
just about us, but with Roblox itself,
and at times even just general life
questions. It also seemed to kind of
suck at pretty much every game we
played, most of the time, not knowing
what to do and having the reaction time
of a snail. The game also sometimes
would break at times. There was this
funny example with Murder Mystery, too.
When the killer stabbed them with the
knife, they instead of dying just
started to slowly float upwards. They
just slowly looked around confused. 21.
It appears that I am ascending. M3 W9 at
symbol. Some random guy. I'm just making
this name up. What me? Lol. It kept
ascending upwards to the sky box until
he was gone from view. as the server was
losing its mind. He kept descending
upwards throughout the entire game. He
didn't even try to reset or anything. In
fact, I don't think they know how to
reset. Over those two weeks, his
questions gradually got more specific.
It was mostly harmless stuff like, "Why
do people enjoy dying in this game?" or
"What is the purpose of Roblox?" My
sister thought he was just role-playing
as some weird robot character, so she
rolled with it. She even started calling
him bot guy. Eventually, I started to
ask it questions. When we played
Bloxburg, I remember asking them in that
chat about home. 21. Do you two inhabit
the same location? Me: Yeah, we are
brother and sister. Sister, we live in a
house. Me, where do you live? 21.
Complicated. I live in nothing. I wonder
what having a home is like. I felt my
skin crawl when he said that. It was
just how fast he responded back and the
sheer bluntness of him saying, "I live
in nothing." My sister, however, didn't
think twice about it. Bot guy went to an
empty plot and asked how to build it. I
responded by telling him to just open
his mailbox and click the hammer icon on
the bottom right corner of the screen.
He built a tiny and bare rectangular
room with four wooden walls, a single
door, and a cheap light bulb hanging
from the ceiling. 21 then walked
straight in the middle of the room and
said, "I've never had friends before. I
feel happy. Thank you." I felt weirdly
sad for it. Every alarm bell in my head
told me something was wrong, but it
became more and more clear that it was
not acting or anything. It was
legitimately that lonely. Looking back,
I have no idea why I did not block him.
One day, we were at Bloxburg. We were
customizing the bot guy's house and
everything was going normally at first.
I've been noticing how it seems bot guy
at playing or moving around. In fact, a
day before we were playing Animal
Hospital, and he did surprisingly well
going around shift 21. Bot guy then
typed in chat, "21, I got a joke. Why
did the chicken cross the road? Me?
What? 21. It didn't know cars were a
thing. I don't blame the chicken for
dying to what it can't know. Sister.
Okay, but you never set up that the
chicken got run over. It would be more
like why did the chicken die crossing
the road? 21. Apologies. For the past
couple of days, I've been noticing a
couple of, let's say, interesting things
about him. For one, he is always, and I
mean always, online. He was still
playing when it was 2:00 in the morning.
Second, he had a game that he published
that had no name or description. I
wasn't able to join his game, instead
getting an error code. However, it had
around nine visits. Me: You seem to play
Roblox a lot, like all day. 21. Yes. It
took him way longer to respond than
normal. me. Do you do anything else? 21.
I'm not allowed to answer that question.
I think you're also going to ask about
the game. And again, I'm not allowed to
answer that question. I did not know how
to respond to that bonshell, so I just
gave up mentioning it for now. As we
moved on to designing the bedroom, we
naturally talked about other things like
how much my sister's math teacher is a
real piece of work and how I was doing
in high school. I don't remember much of
it, but there is one that I absolutely
do. Sister, would you like a light in
your bedroom? 21. Yes. Sister, what
color light? 21. Let me think about
that. Sister, okay, take your time.
After about 10 seconds, 21 responded
back. I would like to have the blue
light that you have in your room. My jaw
dropped. I felt what I can only describe
as a blanket of complete and utter shock
just covering me as my whole body went
completely ice cold. My sister has a set
of blue LED strip lights lining her
bedroom ceiling. My mind was racing as
my ears started to ring so loudly that I
couldn't even hear my own frantic
breathing. I did not know how to type
back to him or what to even say. but
before my sister or I could have
responded. The screen froze and an error
box popped up in the center of my phone.
I immediately rushed to my sister's room
and she was visibly shaking and starting
to cry. I tried to calm her down first
as she was having a panic attack and was
hyperventilating.
What made it worse was that our parents
were not home. After she calmed down, I
asked her if she saw anyone suspicious
or dangerous looking these past couple
of months. Unfortunately, she said no.
After about I don't know how long, she
stopped hyperventilating. I picked up my
phone and went to my friend's list. I
went to his account to report him and
then block him. But before I could do
anything as soon as I entered his
account page, the UI disappeared. I
froze for about a couple of seconds
before he started to move, like actually
turning his body towards me. You mean
his avatar? He then spoke. His tone was
almost ancient like, "Apologies. I'm not
going to hurt you." "Didn't you bother
putting quotation marks on the
character's dialogues?" I wrapped an arm
around my sister, pulling her close
against my side. My hands were shaking
so violently, I could barely hold the
phone. I yelled, "Who are you?" "I'm
something, nothing. I don't know what I
am." From there, I asked more questions.
Where he is from? Why here? why us, etc.
I learned from what he told me that he
is not unique at all, that they live in
this location, and how many of them
called it the void, which he commented
on how he found it funny how blunt the
word was. However, most of my questions,
he just said he was not allowed to
answer. Eventually, I asked if he was
allowed to even interact with us or be
our friend. He paused for a moment
before answering no. I took a deep
breath and asked him, "Is this what you
really look like?" He responded
nervously. "No, it is not built for this
game. It is uncomfortable.
Show us now. Still, where are your
characters quotation marks for crying
out loud?" After a couple of seconds,
the blocky limbs began to snap, stretch,
and fold, making this wet, disgusting
flesh sound like he was remaking his own
muscles. He was much larger than his
normal avatar. I don't know how large,
but I think I can compare a normal
Roblox avatar being the size of a
teenager and him being roughly the size
of a tall adult. His body still had the
unmistakable blocky proportions of a
Roblox character, except everything had
become biological. His body was made
from a strange pale material that looked
almost like the combination of half
plastic and half flesh that had been
forced into a Roblox-like shape. His
torso is rigid and rectangular with his
block-shaped arms and legs attached to
it at crude looking joints. The joints
are the most obviously wrong part. His
arms and legs don't naturally connect to
his torso. Instead, what I can only
describe as a dark red semi-olid
substance stretches between the pieces
acting like his muscles or connective
tissue. It did not look like blood, but
muscles. His head is still roughly
cubic. However, in the place where the
two perfectly round black openings where
his eyes should be are replaced by just
holes containing nothing but an empty
abyss. Yet somehow, despite there being
nothing visibly inside them, you can
tell he's looking directly at you.
Before I could make a sound, he
responded, moving his mouth that was as
empty as his eyes. Yes, I know I'm
disgusting. Apologies for everything. My
sister finally spoke up, her voice
barely louder than a breath. But guy,
are you are you going to kill us? He
immediately responded, "No, I am sorry
for making you cry. I do not want to end
your lives. I do not want to destroy
anything. I love you friends. I know
that my nature is disturbing, but all
that I ask is that you don't tell
anyone. I still want to be your friend.
please. I thought about it. I did not
know how to respond. So, I looked at my
sister and asked what she thought. After
a long pause, she looked at me and said,
"Okay, looking back at it now, I know
how insanely stupid we were. Every
instinct should have told me to break
that phone. But when you are 17
and home alone with your sister and this
living breathing thing is crying on a
screen in front of your traumatized
little sister begging you to stay. How
he means no harm and that all he wants
all he wants in the world is just a
friend. I don't know.
Still, it didn't mean that it wasn't
unbearably awkward knowing that you're
playing with some elrich creature and
not some bond or troll account. We only
played a couple more times before I went
camping with a friend of mine. Every
time he joined our game, I just felt a
cold breeze go over me and I actively
wanted to get off the server. I still
remember the last time I played with him
before going camping. We were at a
private server when he joined. He was
eerily quiet this time. He just joined
our game and did not say much. After a
while, he did eventually say something,
but it did not go how I expected.
21. Question. In school, you listen to
the teachers, right, sister? Yes. Me?
Yeah. 21. So, hierarchy is important in
life. Me? Yes. 21. I will tell you
something. We also have a hierarchy.
There is us. We are pretty strong. Yet,
none of us hold a fraction of the
outsider's power. The king. Sister.
What? Me? Why are you telling me this?
21 some information you like learning
both of you me what are you talking
about? What do you mean king? 21 then
just stopped moving. I thought that he
was frozen or something but he then
typed out one final thing before he just
left. I love you friends. That was the
last game we played with bot guy. A day
later I went out with some friends. We
planned to go out for the night and camp
for the entire day. The whole trip was
just a mess from the start. We had no
idea what we were doing as it was pretty
much all of our first attempt. None of
us had enough food and only one of us
had a map. It was an absolute slo.
Still, I had fun. Well, a train wreck
type of fun, but still a good time. I
remember that it was late at night. I
was sitting on a lot looking at the
river as the moon was reflecting back. I
had just had what I would describe as
just a talk with a friend of mine. And
after a while, he left. So, it was just
me and my thoughts for a moment. I
thought about a lot of things like
school, work, the fact that they somehow
were able to get Wi-Fi for the whole
damn park, and how much that most likely
cost them. Since the Wi-Fi was
surprisingly good, I thought that since
my sister and I usually play Roblox at
this time, I would log in and see if she
was playing anything. She wasn't online.
However, I noticed that bot guy had
messaged me about something. Hi, I need
some testers for my new game. Please
join and test the new mechanics. I added
your feedback is really important. He
did not talk like that. This felt like
he copied a message from someone else
and then typed it himself. Still, I went
to the account page and then to his
game. When I joined, instead of kicking
me out like it did last time, it finally
allowed me to join. The game at first
was just the default starting place that
every account has. I picked up the
lantern from the chest, went over the
bridge, and then stopped at the sign
explaining how the erode tool works. I
was confused about why he would allow me
to play this game and why he would just
lock it for most users. I then turned
around. The environment changed
immediately. The starter place was now
entirely done, being replaced by an
endless flat grass world with gray steps
going endlessly up. I was immediately
freaked out by this, but was still
curious on how this would go. So, I
continued up the staircase. Soon, the
skybox slowly switched to nighttime as
the volume eventually started to
decrease. When I started to notice the
Roblox walking clacking sound was
becoming quieter, I checked if I was
accidentally turning it down, but it
turned out it was at max, leaving me
more confused and anxious. But still, I
continued. So, I walked and walked and
walked. Eventually, I just realized that
this staircase was going to go on
forever. The endless stairs from Super
Mario 64 eat your heart out. I looked
behind me, expecting something to
change, but all I saw was the endless
gray staircase that I was walking up.
Then a message appeared despite me being
the only one in the game. 21. Jump. I
paused for a moment, deciding what to
do. I then jumped off. Instead of
falling like I expected, I hit the
ground almost instantly as I was
immediately flying a bit. When my avatar
recovered, I immediately looked around
my environment. Not only was it just a
normal base plate, but my avatar almost
instantly became R six, but classic
avatar rig in Roblox though. Me, what's
going on? I know you can hear me. What
are you doing? Before I could type
anything else, the UI just suddenly
vanished as my screen became completely
black. I would have thought that my
phone died or turned itself off if it
wasn't for what looked like red streams
of light that started to cover some of
my screen. I heard heavy footsteps
coming from my phone before bot guy
appeared from the right of my screen,
stopping at the center and facing my
direction. He was looking at the ground
like he wanted to tell me something or
do something that he doesn't want but
has to. But guy, what are you doing? I
said cautiously. I felt the cold air
around me become colder as an almost
slight pressure started to form around
my neck. But guy just froze there. And
as I felt the air get colder and colder,
I nervously asked, "What's wrong?" But
guy then raised his blocky arms to me
and then made a fist. The pressure
around my neck instantly exploded like
an iron clamp crushing inward. I was
immediately forced onto the ground as I
started to claw on my own neck, dropping
my phone from my sweat-filled hands.
Tears almost immediately started to well
up in my eyes as I tried to do anything
to crawl back to the phone, but wasn't
able to do anything but make this
growing sound as my hands were only able
to just crawl on the dirt below me. That
was a long ass comma sentence right
there. My chest started to feel like it
was burning alive as the beautiful
moonlight started to get brighter and
brighter. As my eyes started to feel
strained and as my hearing started to
ring, I started to truly understand that
I was going to die. Make this a drinking
game. When I keep reading, the two words
started to eventually. I stopped
struggling and started to stare at the
increasingly brighter moonlight. But
then, like how it started without
warning, it abruptly stopped. As I let
out those wheezed coughs as air finally
came back to me, I turned on my side and
started to just cut myself, shaking
uncontrollably. For a good minute, I lay
there on the grass, looking at the
nearby tree as the ringing in my ears
started to pipe down. After a minute, I
realized I heard a sound coming from my
phone's speaker behind me. I wasn't the
only one sobbing. The creature was in
the fetal position, repeatedly saying in
a whisper,
>> "What have I done? What have I done?
What have I done? What have I done?"
>> It then looked at those empty eye
sockets at me and screamed, "I'm sorry."
I looked at him on my phone, asking a
whis what? As I really slowly crawled my
way to my phone, he then explained why.
He made me the goat, the king. He found
out about us. He wants me to kill again.
He wants me to kill you, too. He will
hurt me if I don't. Like he hurts the
others who disobey. I'm sorry. I have to
do it. I have. Before he finished, I got
to my phone, got off of Roblox, and then
immediately deleted the app. I almost
dropped my phone again as I uninstalled
the app. However, the relief I felt in
that moment only lasted for a couple of
seconds as I started to understand the
full weight of what it said. It said
that the king wanted two people dead. My
sister. I felt a sudden surge of
adrenaline as I scrambled off of the
grass. Ignoring the burning sensation in
my lungs, I immediately sprinted full
force back to the campsite to get my
keys. My friend's laughing and carefree
attitude almost immediately dropped as
they saw me covered in dirt and mud.
Ignoring them, I just told them I had to
go and started to pack my things to go.
One of them was trying to ease the
tension by throwing a stick to the fire
and turning to the friend. I had a
personal talk in the woods and said,
"Looks like you made him take a little
bit of a rough tumble out there." I
immediately looked at him and screamed
at him to shut the up and that it
was an emergency. As I got in my car and
raced back to my house, my mind
immediately imagined the worst case
scenario over and over again. When I got
back, the babysitter looked completely
shocked that I came back so early and
that I looked, well, less than great. I
paid for him to leave early and went to
my sister's room. Thankfully, she was
okay, but was woken up by the commotion
I was making. I then told her that she
had to delete Roblox. She originally
tried to ask why, but seeing me in my
current state, she quickly obliged.
Afterwards, I took a long and hard
shower as I just tried to comprehend
what the happened.
After I went to bed and woke up, despite
there not being a single mark or bruise
on my neck, I felt like I had been
strangled near to death because, to be
fair, I was. But still, thank God I did
not have school that day. I could not
imagine trying to act like everything
was fine while having the voice of a
harsh raspy chain smoker like this. I
chugged a cold glass of water trying to
ignore that swallowing felt like I was
drinking sharp glass rather than water.
When I went downstairs, mom obviously
asked me what happened to make me sound
like a dying frog. I said that I just
caught a bug in my throat. My sister
side hied me, obviously knowing that was
a lie. But mom accepted my lie. And of
course, she ignored my sister and me
like she always does. For the rest of
the day, I was home alone, mostly
watching shows on Netflix, trying my
best to avoid my mind, thinking about
the day before or what had just happened
for the past month. I thought for a
moment that this was over, that whatever
the king was, he can't get to us. Still,
I thought, who was the king? So, the
king is an outsider and some goat thing,
I thought. I immediately snapped back
and told myself to knock it off. After
all, it was over. All of this was over.
I was almost correct. When my sister got
home, she was sobbing hysterically. My
dad, who picked her up, was trying to
calm her down, but she just ran upstairs
to her room. I asked my dad what could
have happened to her to make her so
hysterical. Two of her friends died
overnight. They were found in the
morning by their parents and later in
the school day they had an emergency
assembly to tell them why they weren't
in school. Later that night, a day
before the account was deleted, I went
on a third-p partyy archive tool to
check the nameless game statistics. The
game had 12 visits.
Heat. Heat.