More Than Just a Game – Paranormal Nightshift Story – Episode 94

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Welcome to Paranormal Night.
Shift your home for all things

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that go bump in the dark and
your fan story is told here.

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What happens when virtual
reality becomes reality?

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Well, that’s the story that Alex
sent me and it truly is

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terrifying.
Jay and I were finishing up our

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senior year of college.
Both of us had gone for graphic

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design, but turned out video
design is really what we wanted

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to do.
We were going to create the

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coolest video games ever.
We’ve been best friends for

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years, but this was it.
This is what we were going to do

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with the rest of our lives, and
I couldn’t wait.

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Jay had this crazy idea about
how virtual reality was going to

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be the future of gaming, a full
indepth game to where it really

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brings your character to life.
Sure, there’s some Star Wars

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games out there, and some of the
VR stuff’s actually kind of

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cool, but he wanted a game that
was fully emerged to where you

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were the person.
And Jay had always loved scary

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games.
So what if we made a game that

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was truly a portal?
One where you would go around

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and and paranormally investigate
some of the scariest things the

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world has ever known?
He had whole chapters about

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Bigfoot, alien, UF, O’s,
anything that you could think of

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that was paranormal.
That’s what Jay wanted to put in

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the game and the game sounded
amazing.

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Jay got really involved into the
occult, anything paranormal.

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He wanted to make the game a
portal and that’s what he called

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it.
Portal to Hell.

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A truly horrifying video game,
one that would be fully

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involved.
Everything that you saw, you

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felt that scary, spying,
chilling feeling that was going

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to be what the game was about.
He started researching things

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more and more, more darker and
demonic entities like playing

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with Ouija boards and doing
spirit boards.

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He wanted to know all the
paranormal stuff because that’s

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what he wanted the game to be.
He came across a creature that

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consumed his life.
Now, out of respect for Jay and

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the other people who have told
me about this, I’m not going to

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say their names because I think
that’s what happened to Jay.

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We’ll call them Skin,
Pedestrians, S, W’s.

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That was the level that consumed
Jay’s life.

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A fully investigative SW
investigation where your

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character was walking around
trying to find them.

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Jay would work on that level
every night.

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It’s got to be real.
That’s what he kept telling me.

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It’s got to be real.
I want it to feel real.

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And he would.
He would play VR all night long,

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programming and stopping reading
more about the S W’s, how they

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acted, how they sounded, what
they would do, how they would

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attack.
That’s all Jay wanted the game

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to be. 3 days Jay worked on it
nonstop.

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Hey, Jay, we’re we’re going to
be late for class.

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Don’t worry about class.
I don’t want to go.

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I want to do this.
Jay, We we we got stuff to do.

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I don’t want to do it.
I want to do this.

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All right, well, I’m going to go
get some food.

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When’s the last time you ate?
Don’t worry about it.

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I want to do this.
It was all Jay could think

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about.
I became very concerned for my

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friend.
The more information I read

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about these things, the more
evil I realized that they were.

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Jay was spending all his time
trying to to program into this

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game.
How to find them, what to do

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with them, how they would
attack, how they would hurt you,

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how they could manipulate your
mind.

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And that’s what I think happened
to my friend.

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I came home one day from class
and Jay was still playing.

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It had to be 4 days straight.
I know that he hadn’t been to

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class.
He was immersed in the game.

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Would never take his headset
off.

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Would continue to program.
Jay.

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Buddy, I’m going to get dinner.
Do you want to come?

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Not now.
I almost have it.

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But Jay didn’t almost have it.
Jay was so far gone.

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Jay, we need to go.
But he didn’t.

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He stayed there.
I wish I would have forced him

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to go.
I wish I would have called

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somebody to get help.
When I came back after dinner,

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Jay was already gone.
I’ll never forget the look on

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his face of pure horror.
I pulled the headset off of him.

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He just looked scared.
Scared to death.

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That’s what he had done.
He had made the game so real

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that even as he was programming
it, his body responded to the

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things that had happened.
He was being attacked in the

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game.
And his body was being attacked

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in real life.
I know this all sounds way

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farfetched and the plot for a
really good movie.

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This is what happened to my
friend.

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I destroyed the game.
I don’t want anyone else playing

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it.
The only word of device I can

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give you is certain things,
regardless if it’s a movie, a

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video game, or just
entertainment.

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Certain things that you ought
not meddle with.