Temple Run: 666

I'm going to start off by saying that this is actually 100% real. My hands are shaking as I'm writing this from the desk in my room. No one knows about this besides me. If you don't believe me, then that's your loss. I suggest that you pick your smartphone up and uninstall the worldwide phenomenon game Temple Run at once. It broke my phone. It still won't start up; even when it's plugged in. The game has done something to me that will probably traumatize me for the rest of my life. But enough of me talking; let's get started with what happed to me already.

This all happened yesterday, actually; November 24, 2012. It was just a normal day besides the fact that some family was over. I decided to go in my room and play on my phone for a while (I have tons of games on it), and felt like playing Temple Run. That was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. On startup, the Imangi Studio screen was even different. The wall that the two words were on were splattered with hyper-realistic blood. I thought it was strange, but I shook it off; thinking that it was some sort of joke that Imangi coded into the game. I'm a coder, so I know that a task like that is possible. Anyways, the boot screen was done loading, and the camera panned on the temple. The water around it was blood red (probably blood), and floating in it were corpses. A blood splattered sign sticking up out of the water said: "Players Who Lost", with an arrow pointing toward the water/blood. I thought that was disturbing also. There was only 1 option on the menu screen: Play. So I did what the screen instructed; and hit the button. Why I didn't stop there I don't know why. The camera twisted to the standard person you play as, Guy Dangerous. He had an extremely detailed and worried face, and looked straight at the camera. He looked pained, and about to cry; I felt like he was actually trying to get my attention to help him (as if I could). As for the Demon Monkeys, they were covered in blood, maybe even some sticky remains of human entrails. He started running for his life, and now it was in my hands. I started to collect the coins, and when I was about 200 coins, I started to hear muffled screams, like they were coming from right from behind me. They started to get louder about every 100 coins I collected, like they were programmed to do that. After the screams began to get louder, I started to hear static as well. Then I reached the dreaded 600.

I reached 666 coins as I was in the middle of one of the long lines. The coin number stayed at 66 even as I collected more. After that is when it really started to get out of hand. There was a horrible, scratchy, deep and grisly voice saying: "No one can save you now." I still don't know what that thing was, or why it was provoked to say that. I believe that there is a God and a Devil, and that might've been The Devil himself. My character then proceeded to stop running, and the entire game froze. When the game unfroze, what I saw was terrifying. The Demon Monkeys rushed to my character and piled on him. Blood, human entrails, and bone matter were flying up over the hungry beasts and splattering onto the brick and stone bridge. I felt the thick, sour puke rush up my throat. I swallowed it back down with a very large shudder and some coughing. When the monsters stepped back they looked straight at the camera. They had blood-stained smiles covering their faces, their grins up to their cheeks, teeth as sharp as a cannibalistic lion. I felt like they were staring at me right through my phone's screen. I felt horrible for Guy Dangerous, for his corpse was mangled and bloodied, the squishy remains of a few half-eaten entrails lying out of his stomach. His tattered clothes were stained with horrible cherry red blood. I felt like crying for him, grieving for him. After about 30 those horrible, red-eyed demons staring at me, the number 666 in bloody font kept flashing on the screen. After that, the screen went black. But it wasn't over. There was one more damned thing that will haunt me until the end of my days. In full darkness, a bright spotlight fell on the dead body of Guy Dangerous. The camera zoomed up on him, until he was in full view. The screams came back again, in 10 second intervals. I can still faintly hear them, too. Then they stopped. Guy Dangerous' body began to slowly rise. What I saw was by far the worst out of all the horror I had experienced.

Guy turned around, revealing bloody, empty eye sockets, mouth knife-carved into a smile, tattered, bloody clothes, and stomach crudely ripped open. He proceeded to say three words. Very bold, and very loud: "GO TO SLEEP". The game crashed after that, and wouldn't open afterwards; not that I wanted to play it again. I went straight to the Google Play Store and uninstalled. After that, I threw my phone onto the ground, and ran into the bathroom while shedding heavy tears. I let them pour out, I didn't stifle any of them. I had that horrifying image of the "GO TO SLEEP" Guy burnt into my eyelids every time I closed them. My mom asked what was wrong when I went into the kitchen, and I just said I was thinking of my deceased dog, Charlie. She told me that she was sorry, and then went into the front room. I started to sweat and shake, thank God that she didn't come into the kitchen at that time. I decided to breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth and drink some water. I started feeling physically better. My friend (we'll just call him John), posted his score on Temple Run on Facebook and said how good he was. I blocked him. It was nothing personal, I just didn't want any more of those posts showing up on my timeline. I didn't sleep a minute that night, I just stayed up playing on my iPod reading Rage Comics and listening to some of my songs. (I'm a music producer). I just asked my mom for coffee this morning, and she said sure. I was very glad. I was also grateful that today's Sunday, so I didn't have to go to school being groggy and emotionally exhausted; my girlfriend would ask what's wrong and I didn't want to scare her. Not that she would believe me, anyway. Well there you have it, my dreadful, horrifying, traumatizing experience of the game Temple Run created by Imangi Studios. I feel like this was past the prank level for them. This was too far. The date is November 25, 2012, on a Sunday. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to sleep.

Sweet dreams.

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