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BEN's following you where ever you go, he's gonna eat your flesh.You shouldn't have done that!
The Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge (also known as BEN DROWNED) is an incident which happened on Tuesday, September 11, 2001Last Thursday, which has now spread all over the virgin gaming community and the Internet. As the name implies it involves a haunted Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask cartridge doing some crazy shit which would lead you to believe it's haunted. The cartridge is described as a normal, gray one with "Majora" written on it in marker and currently owned by a college drunk which on YouTube goes by the name "Jadusable".
The haunted cartridge is pretty trippy and can make a person go insane. Like all scary stories have, the gameplay includes:
Three videos which show the story of the ghost of BEN.
Haunted Videos
Let the journey begin.
Shit's freaky.
A good example of what happens after you die.
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The three videos that are supposedly by BEN:
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thetruth.txt
In the fourth video's description, Judasable's "roommate" announced that a file named "thetruth.txt" would be released on September 15th. On the 15th, a new video was added to the channel along with a mediafire link to a file called "thetruth.rtf".
Now those who believe in the ghost can now get the shirt!
Already the theory behind the owner who first owned the game was:
Ben was a boy who supposedly died drowning and Majora's Mask was his favorite game, so through that he's communicating to the current owner. And with all the things that happen to you in there, he probably was one really strange kid.
2003 - Moon Children cultists got their hands on Ben and tried to "ascend his spirit to Luna" by drowning him. Ben's spirit, however, was like, "fuck your shit," and inhabited an N64 cartridge with "MAJORA" written in sharpie across the front.
Way-Fucking-Back When - The Moon Children cult has been around for quite some time, but they just recently got a website allowing them to communicate easier.
Now - Jadusable (whose real name is Christopher Matt as evidenced in jadusable.wmv) got his hands on the cartridge from an old man at a garage sale. The old man is known to these cultists as "Drowned" or "Mr. D"...we think that he was one of the ones who killed Ben, thus why he said "Goodbye, Ben" with a smile as Christopher Matt was walking off.
Mr. D is reported by Christopher Matt in TheTruth.txt and in the original pasta to have been seen standing outside his dorm, staring up at the window. Meaning, that Mr. D and his cult buddies were coming to claim their next victim.
Meanwhile, While This is Happening - BEN is now "infecting" Christopher's Matt's computer and making us all believe that he was causing Christopher Matt harm, while in reality he was trying to warn us with the tags on the YouTube videos.
Now these cultists have Christopher Matt and I'm pretty sure they've killed him ("Christopher successfully ascended yesterday. I'm so jealous."[even though our story teller's name is Matt]), but Ben is till trying to warn us.
Tags From the YouTube Videos: "I'm sorry I couldn't save him", "terrible fate", "jadusable", "This is not me", "Children of the Moon", "Drown Me Next", "can't run from this".
Summary - Ben tried to save Christopher Matt, he tried to tell everyone that he wasn't the one doing this, that the Moon Children were and Christopher Matt couldn't run from them, that Christopher Matt was going to suffer a terrible fate, like the one he suffered, the Moon Children believe that it's "Christopher's Matt's turn" to ascend to Luna (the Moon).
Ben is finally free from them, but he's still trying to warn us...trying to help Christopher Matt. I don't know what the counter counts down to, but I'm not so sure it's the end of the world...it's something from Ben, another message or another warning.
What Really Happened
The "Haunted Majora's Mask Cart" story is part of an ARG (alternate reality game). It is unknown if it was planned out as an ARG from the start, or if "Jadusable" decided to turn it into an ARG after getting a ton of publicity after his videos went viral on major gaming blogs.
The current state of the "ARG" leaves Jadusable MIA, and the "ghost" from his game is now an Internet ghost running amok on the Internet, starting up websites about moon cults and leaving poorly-encrypted messages on YouTube and /x/. After failing to come up with a reasonable conclusion to the ARG, Jadusable copped out and came up with the wise idea that some asshole played the Song of Time, which resets everything back three days, endlessly repeating this cycle of faggotry until /x/ gives in to his demands or stops caring. However, this is /x/ we are talking about, so this has the potential to go on for quite some time due to the paranoid nutjobs who think there are moon cults sacrificing children in the woods behind their house in order to bring the Moon crashing into the Earth.
One such believer was Jarrod Varner, aka "bleachfan614". One of the many retards from /x/ who was in a Mibbit IRC room trying to solve the mystery of the cartridge, literally believed that moon children were out to get him and everyone he cared about. In a rare Captain Cornflake sighting, brief recon pulled up Jarrod's Facebook page, which was immediately given a friend request from Ronald Reagan. Captain, masking himself as Arab, proceeded in feeding Jarrod's paranoia, instructing him that he was under surveillance and would be dealt with shortly, and Jarrod's full cooperation was requested to make things "easier on him." Freaked out and scared out of his mind, Jarrod gave in to "Horatio Alger's" demand of accepting the friend request from the former President, which led to the discovery of his home phone number.
After further feeding of Jarrod's paranoia, which included telling him that Reagan was assigned to his case, it was decided that somebody needed to call his house. While no recordings were obtained, the following summary was posted in a private IRC room:
<capncornflake> ahaha <capncornflake> i got bleachfan's mom on the phone <capncornflake> she asked who was calling and i said "Horatio" <capncornflake> and she walked off and i heard them talking and he sounded all freaking out <capncornflake> but she came back "oh he cant come to the phone right now, can i take a message?" trying to pass it off as all cool <capncornflake> and i told her 'yeah if you could tell him to stop investigating the moon cult and that nothing is going on that would be great." "uh, ok" "thank you!" <capncornflake> i never once thought that at one point in my life, id have to tell somebody's mother in a very serious tone "please ignore the moon cult"
Jarrod proceeded to FREAK THE FUCK OUT and start closing his online accounts, being sure to send his few iIternet friends "goodbye messages", warning them of the danger of the moon cult.
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I'm sorry that I didn't tell you earlier... forgive me. Please,? don't go too deep into this mess, I never wanted this to happen. Please tell the rest that I am sorry. Goodbye....
All I have to say is, be careful, these people, as it has been shown, they are not normal people. They have the skills to discover your true identity, regardless of how much or how little personal info you post on the internet.
Please stop trolling through my stuff, seriously. Everybody already knows the Moon Children cult doesn't really exist, you would know if you read Jadusable's post on the website this morning. I just did that stuff to my account cuz I was just messing around and playing along, just a little innocent fun. So PLEASE STOP TROLLING ME, just leave me alone and I'll leave you alone, okay?
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—Jarrod's cries for mercy!
For the record, Jarrod Varner is nineteen years old, lives with his parents, and basically sits at home all day watching anime.
He is currently fearing for his life after BEN found him on Facebook. However, he tries to act hardcore by threatening him with Slenderman These threats of Slenderman did not bother BEN as he continued to taunt the stupid asspie and sent him a link to this very ED page because he'sa ghost that lives in computers so it's all very logical. Jarrod didn't take too kindly to it and promptly blocked BEN, threatening Facebook moderators to replace the Slenderman rape. BEN clearly wasn't scared because he's just a ghost.
Bleachfan614's rage
After Bleachfan614 realized he is even on ED now, he just completely snapped into a fit of butthurt rage. Unable to deal with trolls, he sent a very angry letter to anyone who dares to upset him.
Obviously, this guy is real dangerous if he was able to combat 13 big black guys AND send them to the hospital AND get a criminal record. You better watch out for this guy!
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... that's it, one way or another, if I ever see you in real life, you're dead.
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—Jarrod threatening to kill anyone that adds him to ED.
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...he's one of my biggest fans. I salute you Jarrod, where ever you are. Keep on truckin' bro.
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—Jadusable, on the subject of Bleachfan614, in his interview with ZeldaInformer.
Haha guys I was trolling you!
Despite how many times Bleachfan614 tried he can't stop himself from being trolled. He then comes up with a bullshit lie that he was trolling everyone else and that he faked everything. Note his horrible attempts at playing everything off.
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LOL. this is funny. I seriously can't believe you guys actually thought I got all emotional over being trolled by you guys. Have you ever heard of a Cannibal troll? Well, you just got trolled by one, trolls. Thanks for the lulz, it was great.
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—Bleachfan614 trying to cover it up.
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I love how ppl try to use that to try and get me all mad. Can't you see that I was plying you the whole time? I mean, look at what I wrote again. A troll can have a field day with that. Isn't it just too good to be true? Well, it is. I purposely played into your taunts, just for the lulz. I can't believe how easy it was to fool you. It's just too funny! But I will give you credit for putting in the effort of trying. You're pretty good at trolling. I commend you for attempting to make me "ragequit" out of "butthurt", but I was faking it the whole time. Thanks for giving me something to laugh at, bro. I really appreciate it. :D
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—Still trying.
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I know I'm all over ED. But like I said, that was when I was faking being all "Oh no, the moon cult is gonna get me!" and "FUCK YOU GUYS IMMA RAGEQUIT GRR!", so I don't care about that, it was hilarious anyways lol. And no, I'm not mad, I never was bro, it was fake :D
But anyways, come on, keep talking to me, you're keeping me entertained with your trollishness :3
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—Still trying to deny his fail.
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Well, it's only because I faked it before, and you all thought I was being srs. You actually caught me a little off guard when you called my house, though I did find it humorous that you would go that far just to troll me and get some reaction.
I also find it amusing that you're trying really hard atm to get me to become "upset" again, and you are failing. HARD. Good job on that.
On the evening of Saturday, Sept. 18th, it was reported that several of the fine members of /x/ were convening on Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina to stop the moon cult. How they came to the conclusion that the woods of North Carolina were involved at all has yet to be determined, but there were reports of two separate groups making the excursion:
The second group was a particularly crazy individual known to the IRC as "Kaza". While the other people talking about going to Grandfather Mountain were obviously just getting some role-playing in, Kaza seemed into the whole situation to an unhealthy level, later exclaiming that he was taking his fathers handgun and running out into the woods to "stop the moon cult." That was the last anybody heard of the aspie manchild, and we are currently awaiting the eventual news story where his partially decomposed body was found after being mauled by a bear.
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT, JADUSABLE!
On September 20th, 2010, Jadusable decided to quit because he's a faggot - either that or he is a broke black person. Either way, so far two people's lives have been ruined in the panic, while Jadusable puts on his best trollface and basks in his Internet fame.
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Hey, Jadusable here,
Consider this the 'real' TheTruth.txt
A lot of you may hate me for this, but I've decided that I can no longer continue the Majora's Mask story the way I originally wanted to. Even as I'm typing this I can feel the disappointment and the "OH MY GOD YOU ASSHOLE" cries as you guys read this, and really, it kills me. A lot of people have initially surmised that this must be some kind of viral marketing effort from Nintendo, or some kind of marketing ploy, and while I can't tell you how flattering that is I can assure you that it is neither. I'm just a sophomore in college who came up with this elaborate idea and as it stands I simply don't have the manpower or the funds to continue this in the direction that I wanted it to go (now I realize why it took a team of talented individuals to do Marble Hornets as opposed to just a one-man-army).
Perhaps too ambitious, I purchased the cheapest webhosting service I could find given my budget (aka nonexistant), and with all of the people attempting to access the site (since the website opened two days ago, I've gotten over 300,000 visits and I've spent probably half that time in maintence) - it was almost consistently down. If you're going to involve a website this closely in your interactive story, then you can't have your website crashing or unavailable for the majority of your users; you would need a service that could handle that many viewers. Unfortunately this was something I simply could not afford being a broke college student. I paid for the site out of my own pocket (in retrospect probably not the most sound finanical decision), and with the insane amount of traffic I was getting the server host wasn't cutting it and I didn't want to "break character" by putting Google ads in to generate revenue. I didn't have the money to upgrade and I knew that I wouldn't be doing this story justice if I continued on as things were. Even if the money issue was solved, there's still the matter of the updates taking too long - I simply did not have the time to devote enough attention into the project for speedy updates. So I was presented with two options - either wrap up this game in a lackluster ending that would feel contrived, or stop here and resume it later.
A bit of backstory: Writing/story-telling has always been a hobby of mine - I actually have a TV show that I'm currently finding an agent for - and being a closet dork, videogames have always interested me as a kid with Majora's Mask ranking among my favorite. I've never attempted writing anything remotely scary before, but MM aways had that "creepy" vibe to it and so on a whim I decided to try my hand at it. Maybe it wasn't everyone's forte, maybe a little cliched to some, but the concept of a videogame - a device that only reacts to what the user tells it - suddenly going outside its coding was something I wanted to explore and something that could engage the reader and have it relatable on more than one level. I wanted to make the story creepy not because of severed heads or morbid descriptions, but on a more psychological level with a fair amount of mindfuckery, for both the poor bastard protagonist and the reader.
I view this whole story as two separate stories - the original "Haunted Zelda Cartridge" - which ended with TheTruth.rtf - that is my original work and story. The second story - involving the website - would pick up where "Haunted Zelda Cartridge" left off. However, it obviously isn't completed and may seem too "out of place" for people to really get the whole picture, thus subject to a lot of "jumping the shark" claims. I know that there were some of the original fans who weren't happy with the direction it went in after the website came out and that it seemed like two different concepts entirely - they were, but I feel had this thing run its course the way I intended those same people may see the "second part" of the story in a new light. This explaination will not do it justice, but perhaps clears things up as to what my overall goal was:
The story was just as much of an experiment to me as it was an adventure for you guys. Being new at this genre, I wanted to try and bring a new kind of feel to the standard "creepy" stories; one that had to do with shattering the fourth wall and that sense of security. When you read a scary story, there's no doubt that it can be creepy, but in the back of your mind you know you're safe behind your computer screen on the internet connected to millions of other people. You've used the internet for years and you know how it works inside and out - and as a result you have this built up sense of security because of how familiar it is. I attempted to shatter that "fourth wall" with BEN. I wanted to write a story that involved the reader so they would feel more connected to the story. The biggest example of this is the big reveal at the end of TheTruth.rtf where the reader suddenly realizes that BEN has not only tricked the protagonist, but the reader as well, making them personally feel betrayed and uneasy at the same time. Obviously Cleverbot isn't haunted, but the way it works is that if a bunch of people start chatting with it saying specific words, the program will notice a pattern and start to associate them together, making it a perfect choice for leaving that lingering doubt of "what if?", especially now that BEN has leaked out into the internet and could theoretically control exactly what you're reading now. Maybe he just wants you to think this was all fake so you stop worrying about it and continue on with your normal lives. Probably not.
As I played with the concept of having the reader become more and more involved, the story sort of evolved into an Alternate Reality Game. I had always admired the unique sense of impending disaster and the three day concept in the videogame, and I wanted to take Majora's Mask and incorporate it into reality without copy/pasting it, which would make it lose all sense of believability. Instead, I opted for a more "modern" take, on how Majora's Mask would be if it happened in real life - there would be no goofy giant moon with a nasty face on it, there would be no floating mask that can possess said moon, etc. Instead there was a cult worshipping a moon that is destined to fall, a hero from another world, an evil entity that has crossed over into another dimension (Majora into Termina, similiar to BEN's entrance into the real world), a three day time cycle, as well as other parallels that would have become available further in the story. I wanted to capture and recreate the same feelings that we all got when we were playing Majora's Mask for the first time as kids. That feeling when you first went back in time, realizing that everyone else was oblivious, that was something that I wanted to try and bring to life. After that, with new knowledge of the events that will unfold, you then set out to change what was about to transpire.
I eventually introduced a "Link" to the viewers, with a second Youtube account, and my idea was to have him decide what kind of actions he'd take based on reponse videos. These response videos would require the user to boot up their own copy of Zelda and preform an action, not only making them feel more apart of the story, but directly in control of it. The viewers now served as Link's guide - or Navi as it was in the game. The main example of this is how Link is killed because of a bad video response on Youtube to a video put up by Jadusable (an incorrect song played). Link then posts a video on his account of the game over screen and nothing more. Yet not even 30 minutes later another user records a video - without any hints from me whatsoever - of him playing HIS Zelda game and releasing a fairy (which revives the player if killed) - which prompted me to revive Link and continue as him. This was only the beginning of what I originally had in mind - Link was the only person who could save our reality despite him being in a completely different dimension, but the players could dictate his actions. So in a sense, they were the guide, yet they were also the actual "player" controlling Link. I'm not going to reveal entirely what would have happened to the main characters or the plot, because I do intend to pick it up again some day and continue this.
I'm still experimenting, but I feel like the genre of "ARGs" is something that should be explored more often; the level of interactivity between the viewers and the creators gives the story a much more "personal" feel. I really hope that we see a rise of them in the coming years - if one single busy college student like me got this far - with an actual team the sky's the limit. The one major issue that I've noticed though, is fraud - no matter how many times I'd subtly try and remind my viewers "in character" that the only people they should be taking information as canon are accounts/websites linked to the original Jadusable Youtube account, every time some new guy claiming to either be a player in the story or be in contact with someone who is came to light, immediately people would swarm them and they'd end up throwing everyone else off because of bad information. I suppose I can't blame them, some of them were pretty damn convincing with their explainations of how they got into the story.
I expect that some of you are pissed now, and I can completely understand why - I can't tell you how much it kills me to have to cut it short like this because I know I'm letting you guys down, but hopefully you can see it from my perspective. I would like to thank my fans - it's because of your support that has motivated me to get this far. If I had it my way, it wouldn't end like this, believe me. But I'm still amazed at how big this has all gotten - its really surreal browsing the internet and seeing an article about something you've written up on Digg, Kotaku, and what-have-you, or overhearing a conversation in class and doing a double-take when you realize what they're talking about.
I would also like to extend an apology to a certain message board who has literally been taken over by people analyzing, exchanging theories, and discussing all aspects of what all this could mean or what the next move is. Haha, I'm sure there are quite a few people who can't wait until this is all over so things can go back to their regularly scheduled programming. Not too much longer.
I am going to leave the website up, but modify it so that it now serves as an archive of the story, and include a timeline of events (I know a few members have been keeping a record, if you could forward that to me at the address below when it's done that'd be much appreciated). Unfortunately being as broke as I am, I don't have the funds to maintain the website for very long, and donations would be appreciated just for the sake of keeping the website up as an archive for future viewers, otherwise the website will probably have to be taken down by the end of the month. If you are legitmently interested in making a donation to help host, there is a donate link at the top of this page. Don't feel obligated at all - knowing that I've kept you guys entertained all this time and provided something fun is reward enough, as lame as that sounds.
As I said before, this has been an experiment, and I've learned a lot of lessons from this for the future, and this is something that I would very much love to do again if given the resources. But, just know that this isn't the end.
If you need to get in contact with me or write me a nasty letter, my email is [email protected]
Thanks again guys, it's been a wild ride. Loved every single second of it.
Jadusable
Basic Summary: Fuck you guys.
Current Project
Currently he is working on a game that he hasn't really given much details into. It's unclear if it has anything to do with his current story or not. It sounds like it is going to be a puzzle solver like Nancy Drew or some shit. Basically he is just bitching about how hard it is to make a game and how broke he is. Go to his website and you will see nothing but butthurtvirgins spamming u mad and various other memes. Most likely he will start asking for donations soon where he will most likely spend it on a WoW subscription.
You REALLY shouldn't have done that!
IF I SEE THAT FUCKING STATUE ONE MORE TIME...
Why don't you take a seat over there, you shouldn't have done that.
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT, MAH BOI!
Another reason to hate Justin Bieber.
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