Seronum

Author's Note: I happened to find a strange notebook in my room, telling of the tale of Seronum. I wrote it here to spread the word.
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All my dreams are of that fated occasion. Seronum is a being that cannot be defeated.
It all started on the 8th of November, 2019. It had been a long day at school and I was beat. I decided to check Discord. My friend private messaged me to join a call and said he was gonna play Minecraft. I joined the call and opened up Minecraft. We decided to make a new survival world. We had lots of plans for things we could do. Everything was normal when we entered the world, but it would not stay like that for long. 
We managed to finish most of the things we wanted to do within a few Minecraft days. When we were done, I decided to check the location of the sun. This was when I noticed the first strange thing. The clouds were not their usual color. Instead of being the usual color of white, they were a darkish green. I passed this off as a simple bug in the game and moved on. "Hey, the sun is gonna set soon, let's get to our bed." I said. We both rushed to our main base and slept. I did notice something strange though. I clearly remembered dying my bed red, but it had somehow turned cyan while I was gone. I simply passed it off, believing my friend might have done it as a prank. We soon got working again, we decided to clear out a cave so we could make an underground base. This was when it all went downhill.
As we were clearing the cave out, my friend came across something strange. He told me to hurry to his location, and I did. He told me to look at one of the ores he was staring at. Instead of the usual gray color of the stones, The stones had turned purple. and the ore was orange. My friend mined it, just to find that it was coal. As if that wasn't weird enough, all of the torches we had placed in the cave suddenly went out. We could barely see a thing! We tried to get out, only to get lost, and lost again. We eventually made it out, but we both knew those occurrences weren't normal. We felt relief for only a second, as something had snuck behind me.
"Watch out!" my friend screamed, and just in time too, as the strange creature started to attack. I managed to block the attack with my shield, but it immediately broke. I jumped away from the creature as fast as I could. The creature had no legs, and was completely covered in black ink. It had a name tag with the words 'Follower' on it. The follower paused, and suddenly started chatting.
<Follower>01001000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101
<Follower>01001000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101101 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100 
<Follower>01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01101001 01101101 
<Follower>01001100 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110111 
I had no idea how to react to these. I didn't even know what the follower was saying, after all. My friend felt the same. Then, all of a sudden, the world glitched out without warning. 
When I could see correctly again, we were back in our beds. I exited the bed. Everything looked normal, and my friend was right next to me. We decided to get out of the base to check if anything was out of the ordinary. That was our biggest mistake.
Outside, everything was a mess. The grass was all sorts of colors, the sky was green, our wheat farm was growing pink wheat, and the clouds were all different shades of red. All of this made me dizzy. In the middle of it all, was a strange figure floating above the multicolored grass. The figure had different colors on each body part, the colors changing every 5 seconds. They had red eyes with black tears streaming down their face. They were covered in overgrowth, they looked quite ancient. The figure spoke.
<Seronum> Hello
<Seronum> My name is Seronum
<Seronum> It's been a while since I've awoken. It's made me hungry.
<Seronum> So who shall be my first target?
Without warning, Seronum pulled out an arrow and shot my friend. My friend tried to block with his shield, but to no avail. The shield broke, and the arrow hit him. My friend disappeared without a trace. Not even his items dropped, he just... left. No message, no anything. I checked the Discord call we were in, and to my terror, I was the only one in the call. I was devastated.
<Seronum> I'm still famished
<Seronum> You're next
It didn't take me long to realize I was surrounded by the inky followers I had met before. They were all around me, and chatting gibberish like crazy, like they were chanting.
<Follower_51> .... . .-.. .--. / ..- ...
<Follower_26> Tb'ob qoxmmba fk qefp cloj
<Follower_11> 23;5;0;3;1;14;';20;0;7;5;20;0;15;21;20
I felt like all hope and luck had left me. Seronum's two red eyes glowed up. Seronum turned around, showing their backside to me. They had a mouth behind them, and it was ready to feast. The tongue grabbed me, and slowly pulled me towards the mouth. The teeth were sharp and bloody. Right as the teeth were about to chomp on to me...
I left.
I left the game right before it had me in it's gnarly teeth. I was relieved, but still terrified. I decided to call it off for the day and sleep.
All weekend I tried to contact my friend, but there was no reply. None of the phone calls were picked up. I was so worried I decided to visit him in person. I walked to his house, only to find the most shocking thing my eyes could ever witness. Where his house had been was a colorful mess. I tried knocking. No response. As I thought, the door was locked. I had to check through the window. It was everything but clean in there. Broken chairs all over the floor, the window was slightly cracked, and... was that blood? Was my friend dead? Had the strange creature who called itself Seronum killed him? It was most likely as I had never had contact from him since that incident. Ever since I've had nightmares or can barely rest.
That incident has broke me. I started to question things. Eventually, I couldn't handle it anymore. I wondered if the world around me was real. I began to realize the world around me was a simulation. I realized I had probably not escaped Seronum's grasp. I became more and more aware by the second. I can't handle it anymore. I've wrote this to tell you all about my story, then I will cease my existence. I am sending you a warning message from this subworld to tell you to watch out for the great Seronum.
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