CPs (rumor)

[madimpossibledreamer]

Aon:

This time on Aon’s Believe it or Don’t!  this affects the real world.  Sometimes there are people who go into a coma who play Innocent Sin.  I’ve heard this one personally from a friend, let’s call him A.  A had a friend, B, who’d gone into a coma.  Now A said he logged on and he’d see B’s character wandering around the world.  This is strange, he thought, so he asked his friend to group with him, thinking nothing would happen.  But the friend, B, accepted the group request and would adventure with him as normal. 

            Confused, A asked a few questions, and it turned out the character knew secrets only B would know.  Maybe the thing about the coma was just exaggerated?  Then he asked about things that had happened in the real world over the past couple days, and it turned out B couldn’t answer.  In fact, B seemed confused about the difference between the game and the real world, and the memory of the world outside the game was a little hazy.  A broke into a cold sweat and moved away from his keyboard.  What was going on?  It was a little elaborate for a prank, thought A.

            Several days like this went on, and then A noticed that it said that B had been on for more than 72 hours.  In fact, he’d been logged in since he’d supposedly gone into his coma.  Now, some people may say that this could be explained by idling in the game, but this is not in fact the case, since Innocent Sin Online logs you out after a period of idling.  B had been on and active the entire time.

            Could it be, A wondered, that B’s mind was somehow trapped in this world, away from the real world?  It was so unbelievable, but B’s body lay out there in a coma, and to all intents and purposes a character who is pretty much B is wandering around in this game world for such a long time…

            Two days later, something else changes.  B suddenly stops accepting requests to group.  In fact, B begins not answering emails and avoiding A.  A does his best to track B down, because that chill is running up his spine again, but every time he catches B, B runs away without another word.

            Things develop further.  B suddenly disappears offline.  The character still exists, but suddenly the counters say that B hasn’t logged in since he fell into the coma.  A still searches to this very day, but to this day B remains in a coma, and his character has not yet re-entered the game.  People have tried to tell A that hackers are responsible, but how could hackers know all those little intimate details of B’s life?  Some have said it’s a prank, but how can a person in a coma play a prank?

            Very little is known, officially, about the causes of these Coma Players, but they officially do not exist.  Believe it, or don’t.

 

anonymous:

you sure you’re not A, Aon? lol

 

Breaw:

It’s no laughing matter, anon.  same thing happened to me with a friend and I was starting to wonder if I was going insane but the fact that someone else experienced the same thing makes me feel a little better

 

Goerwen:

Me too!  I was so weirded out I took sone ss just to prove my point: screenshot_00034, screenshot_00035, screenshot_00036 for the first day she logged in when she was in a coma, screenshot_0041 for the Clan ‘when people were last on and how long they’ve been logged in’ page, screenshot_0043 for group decline, screenshot_0044 for abusive/freaked out email message I got, movie_0004 for me chasing my friend all around the city, screenshot_0046 for the changed Clan ‘when people were last on and how long they’ve been logged in’ page.  Links for article about coma, computer screenshot email about coma.

 

 

anonymous:

You know it’d be easy to fake those, right?

 

Goerwen:

And why would I want to do that?  It’s my freaking sister, for crying out loud.  Why would I want to mess around when my family and I are scared out of our minds hoping that she’ll be fine and wake up like it’s nothing?

 

anonymous:

I don’t know, why would you?

 

Seimei:

Hey, hey, let’s not jump to conclusions like that just yet.  It’s human to search for patterns, to find meanings in things, especially when it’s something like a coma, where we don’t understand everything about it yet.