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The Unfortunate Death of Herobrine

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Yesterday I was exploring a desert biome and it started to get dark so I built a little hut out of sand and some cobble I had in my inventory and sat inside with a single torch.
Pretty soon I started to hear mobs outside... Then suddenly I heard the death sound of a spider.
"Ha ha" I thought "got nailed by a cactus."

But then I heard another... and then a zombie death sound, then a skeleton, then another zombie!

Something outside was killing mobs!

Soon the noises stopped and there was silence... Until I heard the soft "shush shush" of footsteps on the sand.
Slowly the footsteps moved around my little sealed hut, "shush shush... shush shush... Shush, shush, shush."

A cool bead of sweat rolled down my forehead and my fingers trembled on the mouse.
For what seemed like hours I sat motionless, listening...
Finally with care and patience I equipped my sword... In my mind I saw those white staring eyes, that impassive dead expression I had looked upon in countless videos, so many screenshots I myself had decried as 'fake' and 'photoshopped!'... But now I knew, I knew... This was it, he had finally come for me, Him...
The ghost of Minecraft, the unwritten code... Herobrine!

With a flurry of strikes I broke open the sand walls of my hut, morning sunlight streamed in and I leapt out...

To see a solitary chicken wandered around my feet, "shush shush, shush shush... shush, shush."

Several blocks away a selection of string, rotten meat and arrows floated nonchalantly at the bottom of a pit trap I had dug weeks before.

I remembered it all, the hills, the ravine a few blocks east... even the remains of a previous hut I had built.
I laughed at my foolishness, Herobrine lol, what a noob I was...

But you know, thinking back on it now... the one thing I don't remember is leaving that sign by that pit trap with the words "next time" inscribed on it...

Ah, Herobrine.
Few subjects can incite such rage in Minecrafters as the legendary ghost of the code.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret...

Nobody ever actually believed that a game was haunted, but some people like to pretend it could be... because, well because it's the same reason people tell ghost stories and watch horror movies.

It's a cool creepy little idea I think, that a single player game is haunted by this malevolent entity that stalks the player.

What really ruined it wasn't the videos or tall tales or kids claiming Herobrine burnt down their house, they were fun.
No what really ruined it was all the people who felt the need to scream the obvious... "FAKE!!!! FAKE!!!"

Well herp a freaking derp, you don't say?

...and there I was about to call Father Murphy in to perform an exorcism on my PC.

>.>

The naivety is not in believing it... because nobody actually believed it.
The naivety is in thinking people did believe it and feeling the need to tell us all it's fake.

Honestly, I ask you... Who believes it?
The people who fake videos and screenshots don't because otherwise they wouldn't be making them...
The great detectives of the brutally obvious don't... as they are so fond of reminding us.
The smirking jokers at Mojang don't but that doesn't stop them having fun with it.

I don't... But that doesn't stop me having fun with it.

Minecraft could have had a creepy little urban myth to call it's own but the same people who just have to leave "fake" in the comments of UFO videos on Youtube couldn't just play along...

Shame.

One thing however always makes me smile, whenever we get a big update at the bottom of the notes there is inevitably the words "removed Herobrine".

That at least let's me know that Mojang does indeed get the joke and understand the concept of the myth.

This little nod however, has two effects on the great masses of internet blockheads, the first is a flood of wide eye'd forum posts pointing a trembling finger at it "omg LOOK!".
The second is the flood of scornful responses from people who need us all to know how mature they are by pointing out how fake it is and "they always do that you noob... Herobrine's not real you know. "

Yes, well thank you for that revelation Holmes, what's your next big case?
Santa Claus perhaps?

You're not mature, you're not all grown up, you're just a killjoy with no sense of fun or imagination.

Peace out.

EDIT: I never actually realized this, but there's a forum section on this very site that is devoted to this very idea...
http://www.planetminecraft.com/forums/ghosts-the-code-f56.html

Looks to me like PMC admin understands too. ;)
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Update #1 : by superbatprime 03/09/2012 7:33:04 pmMar 9th, 2012

Just realized something about this very site!

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03/22/2012 6:56 am
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Grarrdor
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So it was mobs dying in sunlight, with a chicken struttin' around, gratz....
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03/22/2012 9:18 am
Level 47 : Master Skinner
superbatprime
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No it was mobs falling into a trap I'd made a while ago.
But you understand that didn't really happen right?
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03/12/2012 4:48 am
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jcolmos
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creepy i mean it's true they're just a bunch of killjoy that ruin a little mystery or fun to the game
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03/09/2012 11:41 pm
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xXB3ASTXx
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Lol
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03/09/2012 9:42 pm
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Comiclove
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TBH, I want to meet Herobrine, I'm F*cking ready for a fist fight B)
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03/09/2012 8:56 pm
Level 4 : Apprentice Explorer
xXB3ASTXx
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DIAMOND 4 U
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03/09/2012 9:03 pm
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superbatprime
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THANK U!!!

Rawr!
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03/09/2012 11:30 am
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Goldenseek
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I might subscribe to you. Imagination should be free to flow around everywhere and be enjoyed by everyone. The only unfortunate thing about this is: as intelligence goes up, creativity goes down. You are one of those people that doesn't let that happen to you. And for that, I thank you. This won't be the last time you hear from me...
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03/09/2012 6:05 pm
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superbatprime
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I look forward to the next then... and thank you. ^^
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03/09/2012 5:35 am
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Karenthian
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Thank you for this. When idiots do the whole "L00K AT T3H N00BZ WH0 TH1NK H2R0BR1N3 IZ R34LZ!!" I'll point them at this. It explains the issue eloquently and covers everything.
~Karenthian~
p.s. That l337 sp34k took longer to type than I thought it would O.o
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