Notch
The Hallway
For a period of about two weeks in 2016, I would routinely wake up in the middle of the night to find a doorway had appeared in my room, where there had been solid wall before. A perfect black rectangle leading into a darkness I couldn't see into from the angle of my bed.
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At first, I paid little credence to this phenomenon, because I'm quite prone to hypnopompic hallucinations. My nightmares sometimes start while I'm asleep, sometimes when I wake up. After a million of these night terrors, you don't get as worked up by the giant spider on the ceiling lowering himself in the dark to devour you.
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But, I soon noticed this was different. The regular shadow things always disappeared in less than a minute, but that fucking door would just sit there, no matter how long I starred, until I fell back asleep.
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A trick of shadow? A streetlight coincidence? It had to be. And yet, from what? No new lights were outside, no new shapes. It wasn't there when I first went to bed. What was causing it?
And if it wasn't a hallucination...Well, what kind of thing only comes into your room when you are at your most vulnerable?
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After a couple weeks, the doorway stopped appearing. I'd wake to the usual razor wire falling to slice me to bits, and have it fade a few moments later, the doorway not there. A relief to see it gone. And yet, a kind of proof that it couldn't have been a new streetlight, because this time I was sure nothing had changed outside the window.
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I'll never know what it was, but I did make this short video game in RPGMaker about what might have happened if I had explored it. It's the fifth or so video game I have made, but all the others are lost to ancient operating systems and hard drives baked in Las Vegas desert apartments.
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I'm pretty sure you just extract the Windows one and find a file to run. Maybe the same for MAC, but I never actually tested the MAC one. This is made on RPGMaker, a tricky program to work with, but one that can occasionally do some fun things. The soundtrack is by the same guy who did the music for my movies.