Look like Me

It was late, very late at night in DC. I had just finished setting up for Mabon, and was getting ready for the opening blessing. My girlfriend was in the other room, working on her video game. She usually helped with the prep ritual, but she was deep into her designing, almost done in fact, so I didn’t bother to disturb her. She was really excited for this game, and was going to be sending it off to a couple YouTube game stars once it was done. I had helped her contact Markiplier, Pewdiepie, danandphilgames, and smosh. I had also contacted Natewantstobattle. Yeah, he was mainly a singer, a PokeTuber and a less well known YouTuber compared to the others I just messaged, but I like his videos and thought he’d enjoy the game.They’d all seemed interested and agreed, seeing as it was free for them completely. Shaking my head, I cleared my head and sat down, getting ready to start the ritual. Now, I’m not going to explain the exact ritual, as it is a private one that my girlfriend and I made just for us for Mabon. However, since this Sabbat is a thankfulness and reflection holiday (Kinda like the American thanksgiving), I will say that it involves a lot of offerings and praying to both the god and goddess. The ritual itself took about fifteen minutes from start to finish, and after I felt really relaxed. Still, something felt, odd, about the circle closing.
My energy still seemed to be connected to something and it was harder to shut it down than normal. “strange…” I shook my head and decided not to worry about it at the moment, instead focusing on cleaning up the mess from the ritual. Just as I finished scrubbing the incense bowl, which likes to hang on to bloody ash really tight, I heard an excited yell from the office. Five seconds later, my excitable girlfriend came running out the office and nearly knocked my over in her excitement. “Yes Jordan?” I asked, hugging her and raising an amused eyebrow, “What warranted such a huge glomp?” She was touchy-feely, but rarely did this. “I finished! Danielle, I’m done!” She squealed, squeezing tightly. It took me a moment to realize what she meant. “really?! Show me!” I all but demanded, and got dragged into our bedroom by a very excited Jordan. She all but pushed me down into a chair, making me laugh. “woah, slow down darlin! We still have stuff we got to do!” She pouted at me a bit, but nodded. “Okay, but let me at least show you the screen~!” I thought for a moment, then nodded, to her delight.
Quickly she pulled up the window with game, and boy did it make me shiver. The screen was an animation of a young male with light brown hair and eyes. For a few seconds he just stood there, smiling, then it would flash to a shot of him all bloody and hollow eyed. While that imaged showed, a faint flash of the words “YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE THE CYCLE” would appear, just barely long enough to read the words. “Shit, this is amazing, Jordan.” I praised, hugging my now blushing girlfriend tightly. “thanks” She hugged me back, then let me tug her to her feet. With a smile she followed me as I left the room, leaving the game up. Now we had another thing to be thankful for. A couple hours later I sat on my laptop, a copy of the game on my screen. Jordan was curled up next me in bed, dead asleep, as I wrote emails and DMs to all of the YouTubers I had contacted about the game. Each email had the game attached and was carefully checked for program problems before being sent off. With a sigh I went to close my laptop, glancing at Jordan with a smile. It was only 10:30 pm, but she was out from how hard she had worked on this game… my eyes went back to the screen and I bit my lip. Might as well play it, right? I didn’t do well with horror games, especially 2d pixelated horror, which is exactly what this was. Still, she had worked so hard, I should try it. With another sigh, I reopened the game screen and clicked ‘New Game’ and waited for the screen to load up. This was such a bad idea… now I’m never going to sleep. Finally the screen loaded up and I was treated to a lovely view of the front of the abandoned building that served as the setting of the story. Ugh, ghosts and hauntings didn’t sit right with me, not when my own philosophy from wicca is not to mess with shit like this. Taking a deep breathe, I pressed ‘New Game’, before blacking out. In four other locations in the states and England, five YouTubers unknowingly do the same, not realizing what is about to happen to them.



This was such a bad idea… now I’m never going to sleep. Finally the screen loaded up and I was treated to a lovely view of the front of the abandoned building that served as the setting of the story. Ugh, ghosts and hauntings didn’t sit right with me, not when my own philosophy from wicca is not to mess with shit like this. Taking a deep breathe, I pressed ‘New Game’, before blacking out.