Scratch.exe

### The Beginning

It all happened when I logged on to scratch a few days ago, It's still so vivid and fresh in my mind. It started off when I received a message from the scratch team. "Damn it" I thought to myself. "What have I done this time." I was almost certain it would've been some dumb thing and one of my projects got removed or something. But instead, I was greeted with a very unfamiliar message. It read something along the lines of: Hello we are happy to tell you that you are one of the lucky scratchers to test out a project from the scratch team! It's called: "Scratch Cat's Awesome Adventure!" Click *here* to download." I was so confused but excited at the same time. I clicked the download button but it lead me to a page that didn't exist. The URL was just a whole bunch of numbers and letters. But then I noticed at the end it had the .onion domain so I knew I had to get the onion browser. I downloaded it and copy and pasted it into the URL in the onion browser. It started downloading something called 'Scratch.exe'. I waited for it to download but it was a really large file, for a scratch project. Like 2GB or something. I waited for it to finish downloading and then clicked on it to run the game. The project took a while to load but then it finished so I clicked the green flag to start the project.

### The Project

I decided to record this and then planned to edit it with a tts commentary. Once the menu screen popped up it had a rainbow version of Scratch Cat on the side and a play button. at the top of the screen it read: "Scratch Cat's Awesome Adventure!" And this felt normal. So I clicked the play button. But then something really weird happened. The whole screen for a brief second flashed into a distorted version of the main menu but I couldn't see the whole thing because of how fast it was. However, my screen recorder captured the creepy title screen and I wouldn't see it fully until after the whole thing. You can see the image in this paragraph.

### Where it All Goes Downhill

The game started off with Scratch Cat saying "Hello! will you help me avoid these obstacles?" And then I put yes in the little answer box. "Great!" Scratch Cat answered. "Lets go!" The game then proceeded to be a normal side scroller with spikes coming in Scratch Cat's way. But then I accidentally hit one of the spikes and it then suddenly cut to scratch cat down a long but not so creepy hallway. However only a few seconds went by and then there was a sudden jumpscare of Scratch Cat's head on screen with an ear bleeding scream and static it sounded like your ears were about to burst! The jumpscare ended with a disturbing set of text. It said: "I know this isn't real. This world I live in... It's fake. But I want out. And you can't stop me." After a while it cut to an eerie title screen with scratch cat on the side twitching and a red button that said 'play' on an endless black void. I felt like I had no other choice but to click play.

### The Terror

The game cut to a dark office room. It had so much detail. There were three doors, one behind me and two beside me. There was also a window in front of me. Some red text popped up on screen telling me what I had to do. It said: "keep the doors shut tight, don't look out the window, only the computer screen. Teehee! PRESS K TO CLOSE POPUP." I clicked the computer screen and it loaded up 3 cameras and they were both just outside the doors. Scratch Cat was outside one so I ran to that door, which was the one behind the player, and locked it with keys that were on the desk. When I looked on the computer screen, he was gone. I tried to lock the other doors. but then red text popped up saying: You can only lock one door. Unlock the other to lock this one." So I couldn't do that. I decided to look at the window and Scratch Cat was right there, staring right through my soul. Scratch Cat eventually shattered the glass and then jumpscared me with a loud scream, stabbing the player, but then my computer blue screened. When I turned on my computer again I realized Scratch.exe was no longer there. I had a sigh of relief until I realized my screen recorder was also missing and the video file ended when I clicked play on that creepy title screen with Scratch Cat twitching. I've never been so scared in my life on that day. Sometimes I feel as if I'm being watched...