Scary SMBX Creepypasta

[aero]

It was a day like any other day. I just got home from school and hopped on my computer to play SMBX as usual. The level editor launched, with the welcoming sound effect is usually does though something sounded a bit different this time. I shrugged it off and started putting down some blocks, placing some custom NPCs, and checked my level design sketchbook for a little inspiration with some level features. I saved the level like normal, but the file save sound effect didn't play. Maybe something went wrong, gdi redigit? I waited and waited, and suddenly a message box appeared. It looked like a threatening message box with red text and a black background. The message said "STOP PLAYING NOW!" It was an ominous message, and the only button I could click was "OK" also in red text. I shrugged it off and clicked the strange button. The level saved and played that familiar tune, then I closed the editor and decided to check out the forums.

I logged into the SMBX forums and looked at some threads. Strangely though, there wasn't any unread posts indicated by the iconic goombas. In fact, there wasn't activity since I last logged off. Normally there were a bunch of exciting posts to comb through but today there was none. Nobody was online, except for me an one guest. There should be dozens of people online right now, after all the new Mario game was out which people were bound to talk about. My curiosity became too much to handle and I decided to visit the Who Is Online link to see what that guest was up to. It showed my name and said I was viewing who was online naturally. The guest however... it said something strange. Next to the guest account the page read "WATCHING YOU". That wasn't a standard message in the forum software that's for sure. I shrugged it off and figured I should just go ask an admin what's going on. After closing out the tab, I launched Discord. Even Discord seemed a bit strange today. Normally it would have a funny message when the program launched, but this time the message said "I AM GOING TO HAUNT YOU FOREVER!" The Discord icon did not animate, and it just stood still. The happy little twirl it did was one of my favorite things about starting up Discord but it just sat there staring at me menacingly. It took a while for the application to launch. I figured that my damn ISP was throttling it because of that net neutrality thing. This was taking too long, supernaturally long. I waited it out. After more time passed, Discord launched but I could have sworn the colors changed from the normal gray and white to a dark black and blood red for a split second before Discord finished opening.

Sadly, none of my friends were online. The internet seemed like a ghost house today. "Thanks FCC Chairman Ajit Pai" I said sarcastically. Much to my shock I was only in one server, all of my other servers were gone. The one server was the Official SMBX Server. Nobody was there, just me and... the admins. Each of the admins were set to Do Not Disturb mode. I shrugged it off and began typing:

"hey uh @admins what's going on here, huh~?"

I pressed enter to send the message. Little did I know that was the biggest mistake in my life. One after another they each typed in all caps "IT'S TOO LATE" with strange attached images. Thanks to my ISP's high tier package I was able to view the images. They were horrifying hyper-realistic gifs of Mario. Each gif was a bit different and seemed to be small clips of a larger story. The first round of gifs showed a very sad Mario crying. He was very sad and crying about something bad or evil that happened. As the gifs went on Mario just looked sadder and then suddenly the admins stopped. My permissions were changed and I was able to see channels nobody else has. I saw some archives, staff discussion channels, a private anime sharing channel, and some other ones. Being the nosy person I was I decided to snoop on what the staff where saying in their private discussions. To this day I wish I hadn't.

The message history was bizarre. The first messages were from the 1940s, long before Discord or the internet was around. A chill went down my spine as I read the messages... they were all the same... "DEATH!" It got creepier as I read through the same message over and over again. Each of the messages were posted at the same as well... 6:66PM. I was starting to get scared. I tried to close Discord but it wouldn't work. I kept clicking the X but then suddenly Discord's colors changed. The background was an empty black, and the text was bright red just like in the SMBX level editor. The room around me got darker.

"Was it already night time?" I thought to myself.
"It couldn't be, I just got home from school an hour ago. There's no way it can be that late!"

I looked outside and couldn't see a thing. It was just dark like nothing was there.

"What the H? That can't be..." I said to myself worried.

I looked at my alarm clock, but it was turned off. I didn't remember unplugging it. As a matter of fact I didn't remember turning off everything in my house either. My computer monitor was the only source of light. Luckily, there was a handy clock in the bottom right corner so I could check the time. The time said... 6:66PM. I couldn't believe my eyes. That was supposed to be impossible. The white text turned pink, and then became increasingly red. All of a sudden, a haunting song played. It was a familiar song. It was the Monster version of YMCA from the horror movie Stan Helsing

The room seemed to emanate this song from every direction.


The music gradually increased in intensity, and I had to escape. I took out a flashlight and looked for my notes.

"Let's s-see let's see uhhh design sketchbook? No. Sorry SMBX, you can't help right now."
"Uhh school notes? No. Old documents? No. SMBX University finale draft? That mistake is over." I mumbled to myself looking through my stack of notes.
"Dammit where were my notes on-"I began.

I moved my flashlight to where I stored my anti-haunting notebook. Without hesitation I opened the notebook and read aloud the spell to send the ghost away. The music amplified more and more as I read the chants aloud. When I finished reading out the spell I closed my eyes and opened them again with everything looking back to normal. The sun was out, my computer was behaving right, the SMBX community was online, and everything was okay now.

The End

[FireyPaperMario]

Oh my god, that's is the scariest SMBX story I ever read!

[Tarkan809]

you almost died didn't you?

even dough this isn't halloween yet.

[Oshi]

Ah, the good ol' days of the internet where there was cringy Creepypastas and Minecraft cancer everywhere.



This brings back memories. Good job.

[aero]

What are you trying to say here?

[Snessy the duck]

Wait, is this secretly Net Neutrality propaganda?

[arcade999]

What are you trying to say here?

probably not something great imo

[Knux]

MorphForest is a real SMBX horror story