A Stray Program

== Disclaimer ==
Hello everyone here on this page! My name is Starfall and this is my very first creepypasta. Also, this story is completely fake so please don’t believe this is a true story. If there are any spelling or grammar errors, you can edit them. If the story was right out too plain for you, please let me know in the comments. (Also this pasta is kinda long so sorry I’m just bad at making stories short) 
Oh yeah, one last thing: please don’t make any edits altering the main story. Thanks!
By the way, I just made the sequel to this called “The Vengeful Stray Program”. Sorry, couldn’t help but make a new one! If this and the sequel doesn’t get a good rating, I will not make any more pastas in this series.
(inspired by pastas “Entity 303” and “Exception”. Thank you to the authors of these for giving me great ideas!)
== First Encounter: A Strange Night ==
Right after I finished my homework, without hesitation I ran to the PC to start playing some Minecraft. I haven’t been playing some survival lately, so I figured it would be nice to make a brand new world. Due to my fear of the mobs at night, I set the game difficulty to easy mode so that I can still get some mob loot. Anyhow, right after the world was encrypted I immediately spawned in a plains biome. I did what anyone would do in a new world, mark my spawn, get some wood, craft some tools, etcetera. I collected some wool to make a bed (although I only found two that day, looks like I’m going to have to wait the night out) and some food to prevent starvation, and everything was ok. I thought that night was going to be a regular night like in all other Minecraft worlds.
And I could tell you, dude, was I WRONG.
At around sunset, I’ve already made a small dirt hut on a nearby hill to spend the night. I crafted a furnace and set up my new temporary home, got some torches and everything. Everything was okay, but… 
I started to get somewhat confused when night just arrived and all mobs nearby, hostile or not, suddenly disappeared. I stared blankly at the computer screen in a little shock but I just thought it was a random glitch and shrugged it off. Things only got worse though. Three seconds later I could make out a black figure with a occasional green pixel all over itself in the distance. What truly gave me the chills was not this, but because it had the shape of a… player?! Out of curiosity, I immediately burst out of the hut towards the figure but the moment I got within It’s ten block radius it disappeared without a single particle as if it was a mob despawning. It only left a Dark Oak sign that read:
01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00111111
I turned my Minecraft character around only to see the entity once again hit me, and as the screen slowly got covered in corrupted letters, the game crashed. The crash log stated only a single thing: 01000101 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110010 00100000 00110101 00110000 00110000
Since that occasion, I would keep on having nightmares about this entity killing my Minecraft experience. I thought I’d never go back to playing Minecraft again. 
== Second Encounter: On Different Worlds ==
The last time I played survival mode three years ago, a couple of crazy things happened, and no, not like “I found diamonds on day one” crazy but more like an “I died in my really developed hardcore world” crazy. Yeah, unlucky things like that do happen, but that one was like none I’ve ever seen before. Read the last entry. 
Anyways, back to the point being here. Since I was getting bored with just sitting around and doing nothing, I decided to go back to play some Minecraft again, thinking, I’ll be more careful this time, and I got a friend to tag along just in case. Let’s just call him Dave for now. I didn’t go back to the last world because for some really random reason it won’t even let me click on the world bar. Even if I could enter it, I wouldn’t anyhow. 
Right after the world loaded in, we started doing the standard things yet again: get wood, mine ores and kill animals for food. Me and Dave were talking via Skype. Since he was a fidgety person, he would sometimes say, “oh my gosh, SO MANY ZOMBIES!!” Or something like that, and I would laugh in response. Also, we found a village on day two as well, so I guess we got lucky then. Maybe the entity was some sort of joke, after all, we were having a grand old time. 
The events started occurring on the fourth night. After a good day of mining some diamonds (we got six, well, that’s six more than we had), me and Dave settled back into our cottage for the night. We were talking about upgrading our base because it was a bit small and the only thing that we were going to need more was space for us and our resources. We decided to stay up that night to slay some mobs and gather loot, but then, just when I left our hut with my iron sword, I swear, I saw that thing, the entity from three years ago stare right back at me, only to disappear two seconds later. 
I was shocked. I hoped this was some sort of glitch in the world again, but soon I would be confronted with something that reassured me that it was not. Once again, all mobs, hostile or not disappeared from around us. My friend Dave was also shocked. He said, “say, whaaaat?” And asked me what the hell is going on. I replied that even I frankly had no idea, but this time, I didn’t want any damn program to kill the true fun of Minecraft. I was going to get to the bottom of this. 
I saw the entity, yet again, stare back at me only this time it was on top of a nearby tree. Also, he or she or whatever “it” is typed into the chat: 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00101100 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 00101110 00100000 01001001 11100010 10000000 10011001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01110101 01110010 01101110 00101110 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101101 00111111 
At this point, my friend Dave was freaked out. But since he knew quite a bit about computers, he told me that this thing was speaking in binary. He quickly opened another window and converted the binary to text for me, and he told me what it actually said. “Hello again, friend. I’ve been waiting for your return. You still have not found them?” what?? Who was this “them” anyway? How does… 
But before I could finish my thought off, the entity did /tp and came right in front of me. It typed something else in the chat: 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100111 01101111 00100000 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001 00111111 
Dave translated for me. “You want your nightmares to go away?” This one completely caught me off guard. How the hell does this thing know I have nightmares about him??? There are way less of those now, but they still occasionally come up. I told Dave to log off right now, but he wouldn’t respond on Skype at all. Which was really strange because Skype should have given me a notification about him leaving or whatever… I tried typing in the Minecraft chat but according to the server list no one except me was online. 
== Last Statement ==
The entity did not move in front of me nor did he text anything within the chat. I tried to exit out of Minecraft but nothing happened. So then I tried to shut my computer down completely, but my mouse won’t respond outside of Minecraft. Suddenly, me and the entity’s ambient surroundings instantaneously changed as all texture packs of all blocks changed into a corrupted color that I couldn’t even explain. The entity continued staring with a corrupt skin of itself and said one last thing: 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110000 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101110 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101111 01100100 01100010 01111001 01100101 00101100 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 00101110
Again, something unimaginable happened. I started to feel breathless and cold sweat started breaking down as my heart started racing. And slowly, everything seemed to fade out.
== The Aftermath (and My Computer That is Completely Fried) ==
I woke up in the local hospital on a white bed. I saw my other friend (I’m not gonna call her anything here cause she wasn’t involved) look down at me, worried. She asked me if I was doing okay (in which I responded maybe) and caught me up on everything. Apparently my friend here decided to come visit me but found the door locked and no matter how much she waited I wouldn’t open the door. So she decided to come around the back and peer into my room from the window and saw me unconscious on my desk with my PC showing the Minecraft crash screen. She immediately called the ambulance and they escorted me to the hospital, and there was nothing wrong with me except the fact that the doctors still couldn’t give a logical explanation to how I got knocked out in the first place. 
As for my computer, they found the PC to be burning hot and my windows screensaver made of corrupted letters and symbols that they couldn’t understand. I considered telling her what actually happened in the Minecraft world but I was way too tired with all the excitement that day so I refrained on that part. 
Finally, about my friend Dave. Despite my repeated efforts to contact him, I never saw or heard form him again. The authorities made this an active missing person case but never found him even after years of searching and finally gave up. But that thing though…
It was something that I was sure of that I could never EVER unsee.
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