4547424446

One really murky, dark evening I was playing Battlefield 3. I always loved battlefield. That day playing games was really charming, because of the rain outside. Winter didn't come yet. As unusual as it is. And usually the winter brings a spectacular layer of snow and freezing temperatures. I prefer rain anyhow...

After a few good rounds of rush and conquest, I decided to play team deathmatch. I went to the server browser, checked TDM, Noshahr Canals and searched for servers. First in the list was a server called '#05'. I was kinda curious, but what brought my attention to the server was the ping - it was minus 4. I didn't even join the server, because I thought it was hacked. Then suddenly the battlelog plugin had a popup saying i'm in the servers queue. I didn't even click anything. And when I really lost my mind was when it said there's 666 people in the queue. When I tried to cancel the connection, my PC froze. And it never does! It's brand new. Just a few weeks ago, I got and assembled the parts together. And I tried to turn it off with the on/off button, but at that moment it unfroze again.

I was in the american team. My unlocks were gone, so I had to play with defaults. But play against who?

I spawned and walked around the map. Escape button didn't work. I tried Alt+F4. I tried Control+Alt+Delete, and it didn't work either. Only regular controls worked. Then I tried turning the computer off, but it didn't. Instead it started hissing. I thought I broke it, and at that moment to check if PC is okay, I turned back to monitor and saw a russian support player standing right in front of me. Then he momentarily started running around the map lagging and stuttering. His latency must've been bad, so I checked the score board and on the scoreboard there was noone besides me on the table. I spotted him when he passed by and his name said '454742446'. When I spotted him the second time he stopped. I went behind him and knifed him. As my character pushed him to the ground, my screen went all glitchy with green and pink squares, missing textures and black sky and the weird guy's opened till his chest and his eyesockets became black. This gaping face stared at me even when I got up from the chair. I walked around the room and the black eyes were following me. The buggy textures were overlapping the face. The computer froze completely. I tried to turn off the power supply and the computer was STILL running. I unplugged it from the wall, I unplugged all the damn cables, but THE FACE and the gaping mouth and the eyes were still following me around my room. I ran off to the kitchen to have a drink when the plasma TV on the wall turned on all of a sudden and was showing the same face. I grabbed the 'Jack Daniels' bottle and ran off to my friend's house. He was playing Battlefield 3 with me the previous rush rounds and promised to join the TDM game. And before the house, I saw his mother screaming and crying, police cars and ambulance truck. Two paramedics were bringing out a dark bag. I ran up to the paramedics, tore down the zip and saw my friend's face... His burnt face...... his eyes were gouged out, and his jaw was ripped off.......

I ran back home and when I came back, everything was back to normal. And 'back to normal' to a such degree - all the cables, all the things I've flipped over and broken. It was all back in it's place. The face was gone. The PC was on with my browser with my battlelog page on the screen. The battlelog plugin said (Disconnected from the server).

It is said that the 4547424446 is a phantom that is still in the '#05' server, that appears from time to time. The people that knifed the player had reportedly relatives and friends dying, one by one.....