What Was It

One admittance of mine is that I have not experienced this story I am writing. It is a tale told by many of my peers on this server, each and every one of them convinced that this is legitimate. I'm inclined to agree.
== 1. Backstory ==
This tale started with the beginning of the server itself. It was, is, and has always been a PvP enabled survival server with a twist; griefing was always allowed, and there was no protection. Its fun subversion of expectation made the server into a fun phenomenon, and from there it gained a dedicated following.
The server's name? Geecraft, named after the owner of the server, MattGee.
MattGee is a rather "hands-off" admin, working less to enforce the lenient rules the server had, and more to maintain the technical side of things, always making sure his server was in tip-top shape. Couple this, with a handful of moderators, and you had yourself one of the most engaging servers out there.
== 2. Event ==
January 13, 2012. MattGee updates the game to release 1.1 which had just come out a day prior. MattGee had accidentally crashed the server while applying the change. All of the player data was lost, and had to be loaded from a recent backup.
Then, a second error. One of the skins in the server storage had no player linking it to the skin. MattGee deleted the skin file, but not before taking a picture of it and posting it to a Skype chat for the server. The image posted here is that very picture. Matt uploaded the image with the filename "yellow-head.jpg", which later became the player's unofficial name, Yellowhead.
== 3. Spotting ==
January 27, 2012. A moderator receives an in-game report that one of the users online was hacking. The exact report listed that some sort of 'base finder exploit' was used to track down the victim's base, which was almost a hundred thousand blocks out. The exact report reads as follows:
:Report 27/01/12 00:47 (UTC)
:sooooo someone found my base and i think they're using hacks, base finder exploit and noclipping. thebase is top secret, i have posted no pics or anything even talking about the base's existence and that guy has found it somehow??? its super far out, like 80000 blocks
:i saw the guy spying on me a while away and i ran up then it literally went under the ground and i lost
:didnt get a username btw but i can give you guys co ordinates to the base
This base was scoped out by a moderator the next day, however there was no sign of the mysterious player anywhere. The reporting player had later mentioned that the player had looked "pretty much the same" to the bugged skin.
== 4. Skype ==
Febuary 10, 2012. As mentioned earlier, the server had a group chat on Skype, where moderators and well-known players would often converse outside of the server. The following transcript was saved from their conversation as this unknown player caused some weird side effects. Please note that this :jigokunoyuza player's main language was not English and some of their speech is broken.
:vorbis: You should seriously, like, should be using these auto-saving plugins because any crash could happen at any time, and you'd best be prepared for that stuff, dude.
:MattGee: The only ones that work are all from Beta 1.8 and we don't wanna wait that long and I don't wanna have to fix up another stupid plugin again all because-
:[user joined call]
:MattGee: -it just takes up way too much time for each one. Hey there.
:jigokunoyuza: Thank... you. I have someone at my farm place.
:MattGee: Hm?
:jigokunoyuza: Went through the ground. It might be... cheater.
:jigokunoyuza: It has the skin that, uh... the "yellow head"...
:vorbis: Umm... What?
:MattGee: Okay, hold up. Who is it?
:jigokunoyuza: A person at my farm. Come teleport, my game name is same as my name here.
:MattGee: Finishing this bit and then I'll /tp to you.
:jigokunoyuza: Oh, I see it. It is...
:vorbis: What's it doing?
:jigokunoyuza: Moving towards me. Just walking, and I am not moving away.
:MattGee: It might be trying to PvP you, crap, I'm coming
:jigokunoyuza: Within reaching of me. Has not tried kill me.
:MattGee: ...okay...
:vorbis: Server's not responding, Matt...
:MattGee: What do you mean?
:vorbis: Oops, and it just disconnected me. Aaaand nobody's online.
:jigokunoyuza: I am still on. So is the person.
:jigokunoyuza: It's talking to me.
:MattGee: Well, that's literally impossible considering that the server just crashed. There are literally no players online?
:jigokunoyuza: I can understand it.
:vorbis: What is it saying?
:jigokunoyuza: It, uhm...
:jigokunoyuza: Sorry...
:jigokunoyuza: I won't telling...
:[user left call]
:vorbis: Okay, what the hell?
:MattGee: That was weird.
:MattGee: But the server's rebooting so we should be back to normal in like, a minute.
:vorbis: Hope you saved, lol
:MattGee: I did about ten minutes ago.
== 5. Aftermath ==
Febuary 13, 2012. The recording, combined with all of these other occurrences, set the community alight with theories and accusations like wildfire. It would remain to be a one-time myth for the time being. I only joined in October 2012, so I didn't get to witness any of this. Yet.
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