Go get an attention span, this is a long one.
Sometime last year, or early this year, I can't recall... Well, sometime I was spending the night over at my friend Kyle's house. My other friend Weston was there too. Anyways, we were having a normal time, playing some Saints Row 2 when suddenly freaky suspenseful music stares playing. It catches us all off-guard, and Kyle pauses the game. The music continues to play, and we hear it coming from his computer room. Upon inspection, we discover that Kyle's music-making program was running, and a file he'd never made was playing. At first Weston and I though Cory, Kyle's brother, was messing with us. But Cory had been kicked out of the house for having a party or something. His parents were upstairs, and we would have known had they come down and used the computer. Oh, but it doesn't stop here!
We close the music making program... to find Notepad open. A message written... I remember it clearly.
"Error
-SI"
So now, I'm ready to shit bricks. We reply by writing another message in Notepad, asking who wrote it. I don't know how we came up with that brilliant idea, but we tried it. Kyle heads for the bathroom, and the "SI" writes back. Nobody touched the keyboard. We looked at the keyboard. NOTHING was tapping the keys, and the keys weren't moving. "I am Superintendant," or something like it. This is where it gets freaky as hell. We asked if it meant the Superintendant from the Halo universe. It said
yes. We asked if it was a part of Bungie. It said
yes. Kyle finishes in the bathroom and we're all like "Dude what the fuck is going on?!" At this point I believe the mouse cursor on screen started acting of its own accord, attempting to shut down the computer. Because we were retarded and felt like investigating further into this, we prevented it from doing what it wanted.
After the third time it tried to turn itself off, we let it. Prior to this point the "SI" had responded to us in very vague messages, one having to do with watching New Mombassa. (At which time it did not respond for a while.) It even drew the Superintendant icon in Paint,
perfectly I might add. We wrote messages in Paint, and it understood. It wrote back with the pencil tool, even. It knew our names. It told us to crouch 100 times on the windows of the Pelican in the Valhalla map. Oh, but not Kyle! Just me. Just Weston. It gave us specific orders, and only to us. We did so, and nothing happened. So after turning itself off, we relaxed and began playing more games, as gamers often do...
"Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here."
Over, and over, and over. The computer was on again. The music making program was running again, and the text to speech box was open, with the words "come here" typed in. The button to activate the computer-voice didn't show signs of being clicked, and stopped speaking once we were in the room. Notepad was up, and it was writing more messages to us. Since the program was up, we asked if it could compose a song for us. It agreed. We were being nice, after all.
Oh boy, did it ever make a song. A song from
Banjo Kazooie, to be exact. I've never played it, but Kyle confirmed it was from one of those games. Soon after, we heard nothing, read nothing, and saw nothing more of the alleged "SI."
Not until June, this year. Kyle and I have a website we created for our joint channel on YouTube, GROUPStudios. It has one member, and four Mods. Who are the Mods? Kyle, Weston, and I. Oh, and IIIIlll. Bungie forum members may recognize that as the username the Superintendant uses. Mhm. Somehow the thing got ahold of the Administrator password, and put a ton of code on our main page in News boxes. One of them looked like a conversation log between military officers. One was in binary. Kyle translated it, and it was a block of text, displaying all of the SI's many catchphrases. Over and over. Kyle and I were discussing the issue over AIM, and concluded that we should delete the Super's account. Upon this revelation, I reloaded the main page to see a new thread had been made! It was titled "DON'T DO IT," by, who else? Username IIIIlll.
Here's a link to the thread. Oh, and when you get to the post where he offers exclusive wallpaper, he really did. Three wallpapers. I'd share them with you lovely Escapists, but he told us it was not to be disclosed to the public
http://groupstudios.webs.com/apps/forums/topics/show/823488-don-t-do-it
That last post on the thread is the last we've heard from him...
So far. *Ominous music*