Another Perspective

There are so many well-known stories of scary encounters in Minecraft. But what if the strange antagonists of these stories were simply other players doing their thing? What if they were just as scared of you?
==The Story==
Minecraft Alpha 1.0 had come out a while ago. There were rumors of a secret multiplayer feature in singleplayer, but that just sounded ridiculous. I paid no heed to it, and began a world. It was in the middle of August, 2010. Alpha v1.0.16_02.
I decided to challenge myself: I would spend only one day overground, before living underground for the rest of this world. I chopped down some trees, but set my priority on saplings to bring underground, so I quickly stripped large areas of their leaves. I mined a little as well. But then -
I saw a figure in the distance. It looked like another player - but wasn't I in singleplayer? Yes, I was. I came closer to investigate. It seemed to be looking in my direction, but not seeing me. If it was a player, maybe it had a low render distance. Otherwise, mobs only notice you nearby anyway. And it couldn't have been a player. Where were its pupils? - but perhaps it was only the distance, making it less visible.
I rounded a small hill, and came face-to-face with this thing. It looked. It saw me.
It gave chase.
I dashed behind the hill and ran for my life. I tunnelled through rock to get away from it. After a while, I thought it was gone. I got on with my game. But every now and then, out of the corner of my screen, I would catch a glimpse of it, and then I would flee again. It frightened me to the core. There was another entity in my world, and it was out to get me.
Eventually, I decided to live a sort of undercover life on this world. I built a small base in the ocean, and covered it with sand, so it would hopefully blend into the seafloor. One time, though, I was out swimming when I saw the strange figure again. It did not see me, but seemed to be interested in my base, and came to look at it more closely. Thankfully it did not go behind my base, for then it would have seen the entrance underwater.
I never saw the figure again.
But literally that same day, I saw a new topic on a Minecraft forum. It asked if anyone had seen a mysterious pseudo-player in a Minecraft world, stalking the player. I was about to reply to it, with my own experience that day.
I realised, though, that their 'pseudo-player' was in fact me. Or, more likely, they were the thing I had seen myself, adopting human guise in order to get me.
Since I was a moderator on that forum, I deleted that post.
Another one appeared later. I deleted it within seconds, and sent a private message from my alt account telling it to stop. I then immediately deleted the alt account.
I saw immediately that I had to put it on another tack, so that it would go down the wrong line away from me. I had several other alts, so I emailed it from one of them, saying that I knew multiple other people who had seen a similar figure. I included the details that it gave in its post in my description as well, including the 'no pupils' idea. Evidently it had not seen my pupils, through the distance and the fog.
That was the end of the action that day, but I left it waiting while I thought long and hard: What should I tell it so that it will leave me alone? After almost a month, I hit upon an idea. I would tell it that the 'pseudo-person' was a Swedish gamer and a relative of Notch. Hopefully then it would inquire into Notch, instead of me.
It worked flawlessly. I told it that story, and it believed me. It asked Notch about it. I was safe.
Later it posted the story on 4chan, anonymously. From this I learnt the outcome of the inquiry: the rather cryptic reply sent by Notch was taken to mean that I was his dead brother.
It was only then, reading the post, that I understood. It was no hostile entity, but another player, as confused as I. I almost wanted to write back and apologise to him; but I couldn't. I couldn't destroy the now-fast-spreading myth of the blank-eyed, elusive stalker:
Herobrine.
== Disclaimer ==
Yes, this is a Herobrine origin theory. Please don't comment saying how cliché it is. I know.Category:Creepypasta
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