Minecraft -- It's Distrubing

EDIT: Haha. So months later after this incident, Nayruden finally admitted into installing a Herobrine mod that had just been released that day. Joke's on me! ;___;

So there's this "Herobrine" character that's sort of a joke in the Minecraft community. Supposedly he's an incarnation of Notch's deceased brother who appears at random or on a combination of rare conditions... Anyways, my friend told me about him a few months ago, and since then, I have long forgotten about Herobrine. Until recently that is.

This same friend runs a small server just for a small group of friends (whitelisted server, mind you) with a few addons. Runecraft is one of those addons, and the server has one central "nexus" in which players add their teleports to their areas of interest. Players can teleport between the nexus and the players' creation through this nexus.

Sometime about 9:45 PM or so I got excited about organizing my many waypoints and teleports into a central "subnexus" of just my teleports. I was alone in my friend's server when I joined, as I made my way to my floating islands, in which to scout out a new location for this subnexus.


This island looks like a good place to place the subnexus.

I jumped off the island and tried to land in the lake over there. I managed to land in water, but it was shallow enough to take a significant amount of damage. This is where it starts to get weird: A few seconds later (at exactly 10:00 PM), I get a private message from Herobrine: "..." This takes me by surprise as I was the only one on the server. I check the player list and find that I'm still the only one in the server. I had forgotten who Herobrine was, and attempting to communicate with Herobrine as a player proved futile. "Oh, well," I thought, as I made my way across the lake to my target island. But as I was wading across the lake, I saw the "Herobrine" swimming across this same lake not too far from me. (And to much regret, I hadn't thought to take screenshots until much later.)



Here I am about to make my way to the island, when I noticed Herobrine about where that torch is and the water artifacts are. (The torch, cobblestone, and sign were added later to mark where I saw Herobrine.)

At this point, I was seriously disturbed. As I tried to follow, he started to sink into the lake... He then proceeded to sink through the lakebed until he was so far away that his tag wasn't visible anymore.



This was my conversation log, taken much later after the incident occurred.


When I first saw Herobrine crossing the lake, I made a quick sanity check with my friend (the server owner):

(9:55:50 PM) fastcall22: also, would you be mad if i were to start my own nexus?
(9:59:55 PM) Nayruden: What?
(9:59:57 PM) Nayruden: Why would you do that?
(10:00:17 PM) fastcall22: who's "herobrine"?
(10:00:21 PM) Nayruden: ?
(10:00:30 PM) fastcall22: Herobrine
(10:00:33 PM) fastcall22: he's in our server
(10:00:37 PM) fastcall22: and walking through the floor
(10:00:41 PM) Nayruden: haha very funny
(10:01:39 PM) Nayruden: Wasn't I the one who told you about him in the first place?
(10:01:46 PM) fastcall22: dunno ?
(10:02:56 PM) Nayruden: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/6/68/1283223082465.jpg
(10:03:06 PM) Nayruden: I remember linking at least stickly to that and probably you too
(10:03:14 PM) fastcall22: ah yes
(10:03:18 PM) fastcall22: so is this an addon or something?
(10:03:23 PM) Nayruden: ?
(10:04:29 PM) fastcall22: this is what i saw: http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7619/herobrine.png
(10:04:37 PM) fastcall22: erm, at least in the chat
(10:05:20 PM) Nayruden: lol you know standard messages don't have (MSG) in front of them
(10:06:02 PM) Nayruden: I'm not falling for it :P


He also didn't believe me. Most of the conversation that followed took place in Minecraft, and I'll edit this post when and if I can get a hold of the logs from Nayruden later tomorrow. Basically, Nayruden accused me of staging the incident, and what not. I tried my best to convince him with the lame sauce screenshot above as the only proof I had. He mentioned that Herobrine produced anomalies in the terrain, such as neatly built pyramids, or 2 high by 1 wide tunnels of missing blocks, and etc. I also proved that it was impossible for me, the only one in the server, to send a private message to myself, and it was impossible to have received a private message from anyone, with the sender's name in grey. As I traced the steps I took during the incident, with Nayruden following, went to about where I saw Herobrine crossing the lake.




It was here I noticed this odd straight water feature, the kind that surfaces when you remove a block of water. The fact that this line agrees to about where I first saw Herobine, the direction he traveled, and about where he started to sink.




Here's where Herobrine fell through the lakebed; it looks like he carved his way through it.





The tunnel continued in a straight diagonal line, a very odd structure -- not something I would have built. As Nayruden and I explored the tunnel, placing torches as we go, we reached the end of the cramped tunnel after about 42 blocks or so. Nayruden wasn't convinced, so he dug around the dead end to find that the tunnel continued... Twice...





The tunnels were shorter in length, but there were a total of five redstone torches placed in those tunnels... I did not have any redstone or any redstone torches, and neither did Nayruden... We tried to dig around the end of the last tunnel, but we did not find anything.

There wasn't much more to it after that, life on the server continued as normal, and Nayruden eventually believed me, though I still wish I had taken at least a screenshot of Herobrine swimming across the lake.

For the most part, I feel quite disturbed. The whole experience was almost like being abducted by aliens: The story is so absurd that no one will ever believe you.