I don't want to have to deal with this shit, I don't know how long I can deal with the watching. He is killed by The Jailer, and control is passed over to another person, named Sarah. He tells me that he's sorry and wants to be free. As I expected, the car was still gone and no one was home. Okay, /x/, I need your help with this. Eventually, one of the players' uploads was accepted and the option to upload anything further disappeared. 9:03pm - I don't remember having uploaded a Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines video last year. i die whenever i do anything. I honestly cant tell you what happened, when he spoke it was kind of hard to understand him and his fucked up appearance really distracted me. That same fear that caused me to lose sleep two days ago started to grip me again as I was met with the text "You've met with a horrible fate, haven't you?" In response, she gives him the Pendant of Memories, and Circle explains that the inhabitants of World Alpha are just scared, and only want to live. No sé exactamente si es correcto que cuente estos hechos aquí, pero después de la popularidad que ganó la historia de “Ben Drowned” (también conocida como "El Cartucho Embrujado de The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask"), creo que debería aclarar algunas cosas. My shrieks and screams caused the Happy Mask Salesman's face to turn into the most horrific smile I had ever seen. Despite my repeated efforts, the game would not let me do the 4th day glitch, no matter how hard or what I tried, I tried working around the game and doing the glitch, but it was adament this time. Nothing would happen though, and this kept up for around sixty seconds. BEN, or BEN Drowned, is the titular main antagonist character of "BEN DROWNED", a.k.a "Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge" (based on the famous game Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask), a highly popular Creepypasta series created by Alex Hall (Jadusable). As I came to the last one, for some reason it looked almost like Majora's Mask - the same heart-shaped body with little spikes protruding outward. But even in the darkest hour, as I stood over the dust of my own mother and father, I couldn't bear to kill a child." Creepypastas are the ghost stories of the digital age, changing with each retelling and reimagining from its fandom. Hall used a method of transmedia storytelling through a combination of YouTube videos, written chapters, and audience input to weave a story about a character named BEN – supposedly a malevolent spirit of a dead child – who haunts the author (referred to in the story as Jadusable) in a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. This will be my last posting, I'm putting up on this forum here for the world. 30 Mar 2019 05:32 . Ben Drowned (originally published as Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge) is a three-part multimedia alternate reality game (ARG) web serial created by Alexander D. "Jadusable" Hall. User: Yeah, and I'll wager that youre one of those IT kids who thinks he's tough shit. This is already way too horrifying for me and I don't even believe in the paranormal, but I'm running out of explanations. I tried moving around the area, and no matter where I went, Skull Kid would always be facing me, looking at me, not saying anything. "Goodbye Ben", he was saying "Goodbye Ben". If you time it right the countdown disappears and you essentially have another day to finish whatever you were doing. In my dream I remember calling it Ben, and never before had I had a dream that I could remember so vividly. Over the course of several sessions over a series of days, Jadusable writes in painstaking detail about each bizarre scenario he finds himself in, including spontaneously bursting into flames and lying unconscious (or dead) as the Majora-possessed Skull Kid looks on in silence. I wasn't there when he played it, but it looks to me like in the beginning when he first spawns he's testing out his equipment or seeing what items he has or something, because apparently they've changed randomly before. I'm beginning to think that Ben isn't confined to just my computer/cartridge, I'm beginning to feel something. On February 17, 2011, a new forum called Within Hubris is launched as a central hub for the follower and others like them during the next portion of the story. Regardless, my character choked to death and died, and again the statue was the only thing that was highlighted in my death. It's not fair, I want to go home, I want to see my parents again, I'm so far away from home here at this school, I just want to hug my mom again. Sounds played back and forth that I didn't recognize from the game - almost demonic in nature, and there was some kind of high-pitched yip or some kind of laugh or something playing in the background. So now I'm back here writing down the rest of my thoughts and recording what happened, sorry if some of this has grammatical errors and whatnot, I'm running on no sleep here. The resulting creation, named 'BEN', the original 'Ben' no longer having any physical control as the dominant mindset, is sealed inside a copy of Majora's Mask and merged with the programs within, before being subsequently watched over by an old man. On my third (and final try), I noticed that there was no music playing this time, that all there was was eerie silence. I was about to reach for the reset button when text appeared on my screen: "You're not sure why, but you apparently had a reservation…" I instantly recognized that text - you get that message when you get the Room Key from Anju at the Stock Pot Inn, but why was it playing here? The same video at the end shows a link to a new site called the Eternity Project, a web page established by those who belong to a group of people called The Family with the purpose of achieving ascension to escape the world ending event due to happen in 2020. I'll play the game again, please, just stop this please please. [25][12] In August 2016, a press release for Syfy's Channel Zero referenced Ben Drowned as one of the urban legends that would form the basis for a future season; ultimately, the series was cancelled after its fourth season.[25][26]. He should have gotten back home by now. Deciding to do the glitch to try and finish the Snowhead Temple, I happened to get it right on the first try and the time counter at the bottom disappeared. "[4][21], Blogger Robbie Blair discussed Ben Drowned within the context of the increasing popularity of web serials and alternate reality games such as Worm. [12], The third Ben Drowned arc, titled Awakening, began publication on March 17, 2020, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, with updates being provided every three days before settling in to a weekly update schedule. In September of 2010, Jadusable is a college student who bought a suspicious Nintendo 64 cartridge labelled "Majora" (indicating it to be a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) by a disconcerting old man at a garage sale, with the save data of former owner "Ben" still on it. The only way I can describe the way I felt here is having this feeling of inexplicable depression on a profound scale. 11:00pm - Can't believe what happened, not sure if this is some kind of elaborate hoax, despite the fear I can't help but be exceptionally curious about this. for the brief moments I AM looking at my responses to the videos, people were pointing out things that looked fake or Photoshopped or whatever - and there is literally no way for me to know if Ben changed something on purpose to try and shut me up. In all five videos I recorded over the four days, I have either had the Mask of Truth, interacted with a Gossip Stone, or the Lens of Truth equipped at some point. [23] Clive Barker and Warner Brothers have approached Hall to discuss adapting Ben Drowned. User: If you're so powerful, why use a ridiculous website like this to "chat" with me. Subsequently, a figure calling themselves "BEN" seemingly begins contacting him in and beyond the game itself, including changing his computer screen wallpaper to depict the Elegy of Emptiness and speaking through the online artificial intelligence Cleverbot. I ended up picking up a copy of Pokemon Stadium, Goldeneye (fuck yeah), F-Zero, and two other controllers for two dollars. Or if maybe those replies were just constructed by Ben to try and discourage me from even reaching out - See, I get fucking caught in an infinite mindfuck loop like this and this is what has been wearing on my sanity and pushing me to the edge. I made a new file named "Link" out of tradition and started the game, ready to relive my childhood. As I suspected, Ben was dead. Before I delve into this, I want to thank you for following me and thank you for listening, it feels like the weight of a powerful burden is about to be lifted. Your support this entire time has kept me going and now I am finally free of this. I continue to write these notes, write my summaries, I feel like I am a prisoner in my one place of security. Think I'll just use the summary, these notes are pretty sporadic. For the Depeche Mode song, see, those girls who [tried to] kill someone with Slender Man a few years back, "10 Video Games Myths & Conspiracies To Keep You Up At Night", "Revisiting BEN Drowned on the 20th Anniversary of, "What the hell happened to creepypastas? Link grabbed his head, and the screen flashed for a brief moment of the Happy Mask Salesman smiling at me - not Link - me with Skull Kid's scream playing in the background and when the screen returned I was staring at the Link Statue from playing the song Elegy of Emptiness. Cleverbot: It is amusing to see what you think of me. It knows everything that's been on my computer. Link started to begin to make weird animations I had never even seen him do before, he would flail his arms around or spasm randomly and the screen would cut to the Happy Mask Salesman smiling again for a brief moment before I was face to face with that fucking statue again. That weekend I decided to drive around a few neighborhoods about twenty minutes or so off campus, hitting up the local garage sales, hoping to score on some good deals from ignorant parents). However the only thing that was a little unnerving was that at times the NPCs would call me "Link" and at other times they would call me "BEN". Today, putting off playing the game as long as I could, I drove back up to that neighborhood to see if the old man came back. BEN Drowned, or Haunted Majora's Mask, is a well-known creepypasta (and later, an alternate reality game) created by Alex Hall, also known as "Jadusable". Every so often, at random intervals, the animation would play of the statue appearing behind me. I was spawned in Clock Town as usual and nothing seemed to be out of place, determined to set things right and play the Oath to Order ontop of the Clock Tower on the 4th day, I prepared myself. Alex, apparently resurrected by the reset of time, returns under the guise of "TheLinkMissing" with an additional warning before disappearing, apparently for good, as a result of careless player actions. I forced myself to look to his left eye instead, trying not to offend, and asked him if he had any old video games. I've lost the will to type about this, the less I dwell on this the better, I think the video just speaks for itself. I remember thinking that it was a shame that he had come so close to beating the game but he never finished it. As I watched him hobble away, I couldn't help but notice what he was selling on his table. 8:45pm - Thought I saw an icon pop up on my desktop that looked like the statue's face for a split second, gave me quite a scare. Sarah eventually encounters a Moon Child, who asks her to leave its "home". He explains that Alex had passed the responsibility of being World Alpha's protector to him, and that now, he was going to do the same to her. Cleverbot: You die because you can't figure out the secret. As I walked through the ghost town, I don't know whether it was the combination of the out of place textures and the atmosphere and the haunting melody of the once peaceful and soothing song being butchered and distorted, but I was literally on the verge of tears and I had no idea why. What's the purpose? The second arc, The Moon Children, began from September 17 that same year until July 15, 2011,[9] totaling 3,591,600 words and 382 minutes of footage from the arcs. It was the standard grey color, except that someone had written Majora on it in black permanent marker. Now it made sense why the statue appeared when I tried to go to the Laundry Pool - the game must have anticipated how I would have tried to escape the Day 4 Clock Town. Now in possession of a Nintendo 64, Sarah subsequently encounters the seemingly benevolent spirit of the original Ben within the original Nintendo 64 cartridge for whom she plays the Song of Healing, which in-game is used to mend broken souls. Skull Kid NEVER appeared here. However, it proved too much for me, I'm just glad it happened to me and I could get the warning out so that Ben dies here. I just feel like that statue is appearing whenever I close my eyes. I sped up time and got to the final day, making my way to the observatory. 2:45pm - I've been getting random, inexplicable headaches due to the lack of sleep and keep hearing that song in my head. I fired again and on the third arrow, a text box appeared saying "That won't do you any good. [22] In September 2014, concept art for the episode "Soos and the Real Girl" of Gravity Falls revealed Ben Drowned as a primary influence behind the character GIFfany; themselves an inspiration for the Doki Doki Literature Club! 1:35pm - No old man, but I had an interesting conversation with his neighbor. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/BEN_Drowned?oldid=1457502. Tatl would say "Wh-What just happened? NOTE: Do NOT post Cleverbot conversations in the discussion area or anywhere else on the wiki. Suddenly, the screen flashed again to the Happy Mask Salesman and Link turned to face my screen, standing upright mirroring the statue, looking at me along with his copy. Ben Drowned (originally published as Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge)[2] is a three-part multimedia alternate reality game (ARG) web serial created by Alexander D. "Jadusable" Hall. Also its flu season, so I need to be careful not to get sick, my immune system is going to be shit right now because of that all-nighter. By this point, I was on the verge of hysterics, but not even once did the thought of turning off the console occur to me, I don't know why, I was so wrapped up in it - the terror felt all so real. [11] The second arc was split into two separate parts, YSHDT (short for youshouldnthavedonethat.net) and Hubris, each of which covered a specific series of events. The music would get louder, building up so as if you should expect something to pop out at you, but nothing ever did, and the constant loop began to wear on my mental state. 3:02pm - My computer just... on its own... opened up a text document and wrote the words "Hi" and "www.cleverbot.com" by itself. He says that he just wants to be free, that he's trapped in the cartridge and my computer and he wants to be freed. He has no idea what he just let me do. 9:00pm - Begin uploading my YouTube video on an alternate account. Addressing their death in relation to his series, Hall stated himself:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, [to have] wondered if I never wrote that story, would that stuff have still happened? Analysis and updates on a possible addition to the story from the original author can be found on the Jadusable Wiki. Two of them held me down while the other two began to sow the mask onto my face. Why? It's been roughly two days since then. Frustrated, and with homework to do, I put the game down for a day. I feel like I'm fucking insane right now. Literally staring at me. Though Ben Drowned owes its legacy to Hall, its future lies in the hands of anyone who might take to their keyboard to add a new page. Yesterday I came to grab my philosophy book and he approached me, looking awful, like horrible bags under his eyes. User: The statue? I'm going to stay in this thread for a little while longer before I fall asleep to answer any questions you guys might have or hopefully listen to your ideas or theories to help me shed some light into this or maybe things I should try to do, I think I'm going to play BEN's file tomorrow to see what happens, maybe I was supposed to do that all along. Instead of "Link", it was replaced with "YOUR TURN". ", additionally citing how it was stated as the primary inspiration for later popular creepypasta such as Petscop by Tony Domenico, and concluding that of creepasta, "[it's] highly likely BEN Drowned will remain the best of its kind. Stuff like this doesn't happen to people like me, I'm just a kid, not even old enough to drink yet. I don't know what it wants. I feel like something bad will happen if I don't, but that's impossible, it's a video game - haunted or not it can't hurt me, right? Sure enough, fifteen seconds later another message appeared on the screen, and again like the first one it was already a pre-existing phrase "Go to the lair of the temple's boss? and I was picked up off the ground, levitated upwards on my back, and then Link screamed as he burst into flames, instantly killing him. In a desperate attempt to return the cartridge to the old man who sold it to him, he sees the house empty, the old man's neighbor informing him that he has moved away. I don't believe in paranormal shit, but this is a little fucked up, but maybe this BEN guy is just a really good hacker/programmer, I don't want to think about the alternatives if he isn't. I don't want to go into details of what happened, I'll lose my train of thought as I hammer out these last details. Eyeballing it, I could tell that he was pretty far in the game - he had almost all of the masks and 3/4 remains of the bosses. Shortly afterward, their website collapses. Unable to take the mask off, I decided that riding the steed wasn't the reason she was placed there. I was told to check my inventory, that I would find the answers there to end the game. I'm beginning to think that this "thing" maybe isn't Ben at all, in its sadistic nature I wouldn't be surprised if it took the boy's name after it killed him. If you'd asked most people in the community in early March, Alex Hall coming back to finish the ARG was nothing but a pipe dream. I immediately ran to my computer and went for Ben. "The darkness in me; it battles with the light every second of my being. I was in Termina field as a human again. The video I'm releasing tonight, TheTruth.txt will be released on September 15 just like he requested. Doing so will result in a ban. But BEN Drowned brought a level of realism to its story that had yet to be accomplished in other attempts. I think its best if I just let the conversation speak for itself: User: Who is this and how are you able to control my computer? I tried playing my Ocarina, I wanted to escape, and I did NOT want to be here, but every time I played the Song of Time or Song of Soaring it would only say "Your notes echo far, but nothing happens". The man's expression turned grim and I learned that four doors down around eight years ago on April 23 - the man informed me that it was the same day as his anniversary, that's how he knew the specific date - there was an accident with a young boy named Ben in the neighborhood. Fun. Hesitant but curious to see what the game had in store for me, I slowly made my way towards the beach, where I found Epona. Ben Drowned has received favorable reviews. 9:44pm - Fuck you Ben I'm not talking to you, 10:06pm - FUCK YOU BEN IM NOT TALKING TO YOU, 10:12pm - FUCK YOU BEN IM NOT TALKING TO YOU. It has been connected to the protagonist's character development, the fate of the child Ben and the subsequently created omnipresent force BEN; drawing a parallel with the power of the Moon Children cult to control the actions of one's soul in the eyes of Luna and the tides of the ocean. BEN Drowned, or Haunted Majora's Mask, is a well-known creepypasta (and later, an alternate reality game) created by Alex Hall, also known as "Jadusable". The series ends with a shot of Ben, now in the body of Child Link, standing next to a now unpossessed Elegy statue and waving to the audience. I'll post the full thing with my summary of tonight's attempt at playing the game, going to wait for a bit though and see if I can't dig up any information on this Ben guy. I had not engaged in any dialogue with him nor was I in combat with him, yet his head still continued to follow my movements. I don't want to play anymore. Where I was ported to filled me with the most intense sense of dread and impending fear I had ever experienced. The original story ends on a cliffhanger, with the readers themselves inadvertently helping unleash BEN onto the internet at large through sharing of the files that were given to them, supposedly by Jadusable. He's following me now, not just in the game, he's in my dreams. Playing as Link, Jadusable attempts different ways to modify the game out of curiosity. He assured me he'd be back in a "jiffy" and turned to head back into the garage. He ends his monologue and then says Sarah's part in the experiment is over, explaining he will be "coming over" to relieve her of the cartridge, before suggesting she 'stick around' to see other things he wants to show her. Clock Town becomes filled with cultic worshippers of the Father as Sarah runs to the clock tower, where she finds Jadusable and a newly-freed Ben hiding. I turned the game off at that point, I'm not superstitious but this is WAY too fucked up even for me. As I'm writing this, there's no way of even telling if anyone even cares as much as I think they do - just another fucking trick. [27], The series received renewed focus in 2016, when 12-year-old Katelyn Davis, who had recently committed suicide, was cited as having been catfished by a user embodying the BEN persona from Ben Drowned, after which a statement in reference to the end of their relationship was accompanied by a piece of fanart of the character in their later form of a Link with blood-red eyes beckoning a violet fairy. Usually with the 4th Day glitch you can still find the guards and the dog that runs around outside the tower - this time they were all gone. This file names a fellow reader to the follower, Kayd "Ryukaki" Hendricks, who had been in contact with Rosa prior to her death, as having been warned by him as to be in danger. Cleverbot: I wonder how you would have reacted. Like seriously though, it can't, right? They just stared. How could he have been that quick to delete the post without me noticing? [2], "You Shouldn't Have Done That" redirects here. I think I'm done messing around with this. This time during the death screen the faint sounds of the reverse Song of Healing could be heard. Regardless of if I simply had the illusion of free will in prior games, this time the game became more aggressive than anything I've ever seen. I'm completely positive I did. There's something... out there.. It referenced Ben. He is the son of Belle and Beast from Beauty and the Beast. [14], The first and third arcs are set across the homes and locations, dealing with several college-age adults in multiple unspecified locations, set in the United States, and within the Internet, while the second arc is solely set within the Internet.[4]. Perhaps the most chilling thing was the music - it was the Song of Healing, ripped straight from the game itself, but played in reverse. Curious, I looked through them - it was obvious why no one was visiting this guy's garage sale, these weren't exactly aesthetically pleasing. I did what you guys told me to do, I played the Elegy of Emptiness song at the first prompt by the game I was given, but I think that's what the game or Ben (Jesus Christ, I can't believe I'm even humoring the absurd idea that he exists in the game) wanted me to do. Upon getting back to the title screen and starting again, I noticed my save file was no longer there. Jadusable, after hearing from the neighbor as to what happened in the house that the old man lived in, comes to the conclusion that the cartridge is possessed by the spirit of its previous owner, a 12-year-old boy named Ben who had drowned almost eight years prior. If you see any further posts from me, after today's current date - September 12 - and after the current time - 12:08am - DISCREDIT them. I couldn't wake up no matter how hard I tried I couldn't wake up. The three figures stayed lit up during my death screen as they watched my lifeless body burn. And that I can free him, that just like how he got on my computer from the capture card, he can spread but he needs my help. I remembered that in the original encounter with the Skull Kid you were supposed to use the Ocarina to either travel back in time or summon the giants. She decides to stay and wait for a bit, and is rewarded for doing so. I attempted to play the Song of Time but before I could hit the last note Links body once again horrifically exploded into flames and he died.