Connection

These were a true series of events that happened around December 12th, 2020. Earlier that day, around 9 Pm-ish, I decided to start a new survival world with some friends in a Google Meet. I wanted to write about this to see if anyone else had a similar experience, but we split up around different sides of the map to see what we could contribute to the group loot. After around 2 hours, all music on everyone’s device, (we were playing bedrock on a multitude of electronics, I was on iOS 7) completely stopped. I hadn’t realized anything was wrong at that point, since my music settings were not set at the default and I thought it was something I must have changed, but it got increasingly creepier. We were on a lucky seed (-288866632) when a friend told me that on an unexplored cave they spotted a redstone torch. We all thought they were trying to mess with us, obviously, but it got weirder. Friend A, who found the torch had met up with Friend C, who was on the south side of the map. Friend B, who was on the west side, stumbled across something he said looked like a floating island, which don’t generate naturally. Made of stone and grass in a confusing formation, he built a dirt tower to investigate it. We came with him after meeting up, and as he stepped a pixelated foot onto the island, he vanished from both the server and the call. At this point I was getting a little creeped out so I tried calling him, to no avail. He’s probably just tired or his parents caught him, right? Cool, okay.
Not. Cool.
The last two friends and I traveled to the stronghold under a sand village in hopes of getting to the end within that day. The thing is, the two of them had set up base camp just a few bits away from the village earlier that day, (try out the seed if you want to check it out) but once we got there all the villagers were gone, vanished without a trace, and the doors were broken. Friend C was frustrated, since she spent a large amount of time capturing villagers to make a farm. All the torches were gone too, leaving the sand village dark and desolate. Our humble house, made of wood planks, was unaffected. All of us were very suspicious, since we were on a survival world without cheats on, and there was no method of travel fast enough to cover that distance. It was around midnight then, but we decided to go to the end nonetheless. When we arrived, and to our surprise, there were no endermen there. Nothing but the dragon in an endless and very suspicious abyss. I guess the dragon was normal for the most part, but I was sure it wasn’t a coincidence at this point. As we got to work at defeating the dragon, my game closed out with absolutely no warning. Just a small freeze and then the game closes down, even though I was on an iPad. Normally, on PC, the window shuts down, but it shot me into the home screen. When I double clicked the home button, it said Minecraft was still open but somehow, it ejected me out of it. I asked A and C, and they said it had given them a “Disconnected from server” message. 
Unfortunately, it continued to get worse that night. When we got back, none of us were in the end. Mobs weren’t spawning, both hostile and passive, and nights became unusually long. All items from our chests had vanished, and so had the one wolf Friend A tamed. (To be honest, that was the worst part, Rest In Peace Skippy.) Friend A and C were at the peak of nervousness now, so I decided to go off on my own and trust them to keep each other safe. I went back to the original village, in the woods/plains where we spawned. Unfortunately, the endearing village was left in the same fashion as the sand settlement. I explored a little further, around 120 blocks with my sword out, and came across a small oak sign that read; <J3x0#$> Hwq0 y0iU@& L33v n0 +(ax4dn)
What? Yeah even translate can't fix that one, Sherlock.
I backed off, not sure whether to break it, or burn it, or get the heck out of there, and turned straight around with the intention of getting back to A and C. As it started to rain, I took a bed from the godforsaken village and tried to sleep, but it read, “cannot rest now, there are monsters nearby”.
What MONSTERS???? There’s LITERALLY nothing here. 
Exasperated and pissed, I went back to the base, and whatever was in my world absolutely and utterly SNAPPED. Lightning struck Friend A, killing him instantly. A message appeared in the chat that read “Friend A left the game”. Friend C and I ran for our lives, and Friend A started panicking on the call.
Friend A: “Guys, guys guys guys guys GUYS-"
Me: “Bro are you like okay, what just happened? Why aren’t you rejoining? Is there a network problem?"
Friend A: “My game just crashed out on me and nothing I’m doing is working. I can’t reopen Minecraft”
Friend C: “Have you tried closing out all your other tabs”
Friend A: “All except this one, We can't afford to lose contact. What if something happens?”
Friend C:”Uhh, check your- router maybe?”
Me: “Wait his computer runs on WiFi he wouldn’t be talking to us, right?”
Friend C: “That’s true, but honestly what else would it be?”
As we made it back to the house, another message appeared in chat; 
<J3x0#$> vak m&1dmixl uru 9# sxqth 3ljh@
I typed back, “Who are you” 
<J3x0#$> 46792 L3xp %^uH 0884S ja211?
As it replied, I spotted a dark figure standing outside our house, with a skin model with no defining features, and a strange reddish-orange wolf alongside it. 
(Oh $h1z SKIPPY?????)
Friend A: “Uhh, Friend C, have you checked the command log? Like that overly complicated thing that stores the info, yknow.”
Friend C: “Not yet I’m having trouble checking the network connection I’m using”
It got closer. Stepping slowly and most likely relishing the fear we gave off. 
Me: “Guys. It’s OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW. WHAT DO WE DO. “
Friend C started frantically breaking her way out, but her connection on the call faded as she froze up on the screen. 
<Me> "Hey, HEY, FRIEND C???? CAN YOU HEAR-"
It happened again. [Friend C left the game]
With her leaving the server, I was left alone and terrified with a figure outside of our house. With only Friend A on the call, and a panicked mental state, I gave in.
Me: “Screw this I’m SO DONE. Let’s see what this jerk has to say. I refuse to deal with this.” I typed;
<Me> look man who the heck are you
<Me>: some sort of hacker? sweet joke you decided to play. seriously. leave us alone
A pause. A bit of static.
<J3x0#$> n0N3
<Me> uhh, parle vous anglais? Hablar ingles? 
And then came the worst, dread inducing moment I have ever felt. The screen froze for a second. 
You have been teleported to ERR0R.32J3x0#$[Name].dat
It was completely dark, wherever I was. The world didn’t load correctly. Stuck in an endless void, I struggled to control my keyboard and mouse. The last thing my character saw was the colors glitching up into bright pixelated magentas and blues, and a message in chat.
<J3x0#$> th1s w0RLx is M2n3 N0w. le4v3. Y0u c4Nt Outr3n M@
Then it was gone. My app shut down, and as I tried to open it, the world we had been on was deleted, along with the content logs, GUIs, and resource packs. All I have are a couple screenshots, none of which have a clear picture of the “thing”. Every search I’ve had comes up with a dead end, no results for any particular formation of characters. I fear whatever this THING was. And lord so help me, if this wasn’t just some sick joke, or a hacker having some fun, I am never playing Minecraft again. 
Please leave a comment or something if you have had a similar experience.
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