r/ServerBlight

i don't know how to explain this. i know how it sounds and half of you reading this on the board will probably say its fake or some stupid troll post but i swear to god this shit just happened to me. a while ago i got obsessed with sailer's video saga, you know the whole skinwalker thing in tf2? look, i know how the Source engine works. i know maps get glitched or corrupt and i know how easy it is to fake weird shit with console commands and editing, but something about those clips just felt wrong and i couldn't stop looking into it. after scrolling through dead forum threads for hours someone DMed me an invite link to a small discord server tracking active IPs. there were only 11 of us in the server: Slayer, Meat, Anon, Mag, Ivan, Gold, user, Deez, Phil, Thomas, and me. everyone was quiet and nobody was really talking in general chat except for brief introductions. it felt off, but i figured that was normal considering what we were there for until user dropped a raw IP in announcements: "It's active. Get in before it shuts down." my heart actually spiked a little bit. five of us loaded up the game and pasted the IP in console. the first map was cp_dustbowl. i picked medic like i always do and spawned in while phil, deez, ivan, anon and mag connected behind me (the rest of the guys in discord said their game just kept crashing on the loading screen). dustbowl was dead empty with no ambient wind, no sound effects, nothing. we walked through the whole map, checking every spawn room and standing under the dark corners of stage 2 while deez kept shooting his shotgun into the dirt just because the silence was getting creepy. we stood at the spawn, we were about fifteen minutes staring into the skybox waiting for something to jump out or happen, but nothing did. in chat deez typed "what a total waste of time lol", ivan said it was just a dead server, and phil said he was backing out to go to sleep. i was about to alt tab and close the game when user dropped another message in discord saying: "I know it sucked but I have another server gang!." Anon chuckled on mic, said "fuck it, one last try," and we pasted the new IP. the second 2fort loaded i immediately knew something was different. there was no team select voice, no music, no announcer, and it just forced all of us straight into RED spawn. we walked out into the courtyard and stopped. the water under the wooden bridge was pitch black and completely flat, like somebody had forgotten to apply the texture properly. "look at the sky," ivan muttered over voice chat. up in the skybox, one of the wooden cow cutouts was completely upside down, just hovering in the air with no shadow under it. it looked wrong. i took a screenshot, but the cow was right-side up in the image file. i didn't mention this to the others. we crossed the bridge toward BLU base. right as we opened the garage doors, a loud, horrible CRACK came through our headphones. it sounded like someone opening a terrible microphone in a silent room, followed by two heavy footsteps right next to us that cut off dead. "who was that? who was that?" phil freaked out on mic. "it's just a sound bug shut up," anon said, but you could hear his voice shaking. we waited, but there was nothing. then i noticed something strange about the footsteps: there had only been two, but the second one sounded slightly closer than the first. i said that out loud, phil asked why i was analyzing footsteps, and i told him i didn't know and I still don't we went down the spiral stairs into the basement. the BLU posters on the walls looked fucked up, like the colors were all washed out and blurry. the deeper we went into the hallway, the heavier my chest felt. there were no screamers or red text on screen, just everything in the game feeling dirty and wrong. at one point i stopped because i thought i could hear breathing through someone's nose slowly and very calmly before it stopped, though everyone swore they couldn't hear a thing we turned the corner into the intelligence room. the desk in the middle was empty and the briefcase wasn't there. hanging right above the desk, stuck to the concrete ceiling upside down in the dark, was a fucking shape. at first i thought it was a player model, but then it movednot like a player, not like an animation. it unfolded itself from the ceiling. phil started screaming while deez immediately tried to leave the server typing "KICK ME KICK ME KICK ME", phil shouted "HOW DO I LEAVE", and anon screamed "EVERYONE GET OUT". people started disconnecting and kicking each other from the server at the same time, making the scoreboard flicker so quickly i couldn't even read the names then everyone was gone. just like that, i was alone with it. the thing slowly climbed down from the ceiling while i stood there unable to move. it was shaped approximately like a human being, but everything about it was slightly wrong: the arms were too long, the head was tilted farther than it should have been, and its movements were strangely careful, like somebody had learned how humans moved by watching them through a window. it looked at me and said "MEDIC." i raised my medi gun (probably the smartest thing i have ever done)and activated the beam. the creature went completely still, its head turned slightly, and it muttered "Med

then the server crashed. when i returned to the main menu, everything was normal. the discord server was gone probably they deleted it, the IP didn't work, and the screenshots were wiped. so yeah, it was probably a troll who made a weird server, scared us, and deleted everything. that's all it was and i'm embarrassed i fell for it, so yeah you can join, trust me, is nothing bad, you should join, yeah join, I'm waiting for you to join

one day someone creates a tf2 bot named "TheRealKid" however somehow it comes to life (maybe they're a really shitty coder idk) this bot enters a casual match of thundermountain at first its going really well for blu team but then "it" appears one by one everyone on red is assimilated only leaving Breadolphin, directionz and GULLIESUIT alive on red they all hide out eventually someone on blu jumps off the cliff and leaves everyone else on blu most likely follow along GULLIESUIT now with the rough knowledge of how to leave gets ready to warn any new comers that the entity is here and that you need to die to escape eventually dicksalot joins and the empty server and onwards play out