Dec 17, 2019 2:58:46 GMT
Post by 4̸̛̥̭̟̈́͛͜0̵̛̘̟̪͈̖̀4̴̪͐͋ on Dec 17, 2019 2:58:46 GMT
>If there’s one thing everyone knows about the elusive 404;
it’s that no one knows anything about the elusive 404.
But 404 knows everything about everyone. Or at least, if it’s on the internet, 404 has access to that information. They like to regard themselves as all-knowing, but all it takes is one hacked camera feed or a simple social media search for them to see all that they need to know. It’s delightful being a self-proclaimed Internet God, truly.
Years and years of building an empire– all the encryptions and VPNs, the practice and precision– required to put themselves at a level above others has resulted in an intangible power to use technology and the internet to their advantage. Everyone uses the internet– and if you don’t, then are you truly living?
Imagine ending a corrupt politician’s career with just a few doctored tapes and phone calls. Imagine ruining someone’s life by placing a few scandalous images on bright, technicolor billboards. Imagine having nearly every wire and connection at your disposal– to have so much influence from the other side of a screen.
And then imagine using that power to get back at someone for griefing your base in Minecraft.
404 imagined the poor kid was probably hacking– saw the Internet God’s base a million blocks away from 0,0 and under a carefully placed layer of lava. But sonic_shade14 didn’t know who they were messing with.
Imagine 404’s surprise when they log in with the typical
404fuckersss: wassup guys :P
only to be greeted with a base filled with lava and sheep running rampant.
“What the fuck,” they exclaimed, hand gripping their mouse.
“Oh no.”
redhyuga was the first person to speak up.
redhyuga: hey jsyk ithink sonic griefed your base
redhyuga: he was saying something about hitting the jackpot or something and was bragging about going down in history Dx
404fuckersss: o damn
TommWildly: Yeah, me messaged me earlier saying that you need better building skills.
redhyuga: 404s building is great tho :(
404fuckersss: thanks red
TommWildly: He’s probably mad about Hunger Games last week.
Ah, yes. 404 had “whooped some ass” when the group decided to go onto another server for some Minecraft Hunger Games. 404 wasn’t the last one standing, but killed sonic_shade14 in several rounds. They guessed that kind of loss just doesn’t settle well with some people.
Alright, well, revenge is in order.
Fair is fair after all, and crimes must be punished. No, simply banning sonic from the server wasn’t enough. Not nearly enough. 404 had to make him pay for his transgressions.
Getting the IP address was nothing. Finding out who owned the IP address was cake. It was embarrassing, really. It was some 19 year old with an internship at Morei Tech–
Wait.
Morei Tech.
The feeling the name evoked was wistful… but the feeling was immediately replaced with a sort of empty resentment.
Morei Tech.
Damn rich kids. You couldn’t get an internship with MT unless you were super gifted or through money and/or nepotism. MT was kind of a joke now. Ever since the passing of Valo Morei and the disappearance of some key individuals involved with the company, the company’s reputation became smeared on the wall like a dead fly. Like blood you can’t get out of your carpet. And it was absolutely pitiful.
404 formerly held Morei Tech in high regards– it was a company that pioneered the technical world and was one of the most successful corporations in Hiraeth City. But with the company’s decline and the rise of corporations like Angelico Industries, it was clear that Morei Tech would not survive much longer.
But something else didn’t sit right with 404.
And his name was Adrian Taivas.
It seems that getting revenge on sonic_shade14 would have to wait.
404 hadn’t thought about the adopted Morei son in a long time. Word was that he’d gone under the radar after his brother’s death– a decision that would later be deemed a wise one, as 404 couldn’t imagine the young man settling well with all the questions from reporters and the tabloids hounding him in search of answers.
404 almost laughed. They could almost picture in their head– some poor, stupid idiot with a microphone and a camera coming up to the himbo and asking all sorts of insensitive inquiries about his brother’s passing. And Adrian doing that dramatic thing celebrities did where they pushed the camera away and got in an exceedingly expensive vehicle. It was a humorous thought.
But Adrian wasn’t as much of a brash idiot as 404 remembered, anymore (He was still a brash idiot, but there's a difference between a teenage brash idiot and an adult brash idiot). Valo’s death was… sobering. And Adrian couldn’t have taken it very well.
No one did.
Morei Tech’s golden boy, discovered to be a vigilante and found drowned to death with all sorts of brutal markings all over his soft body. Sad, really. The world is a cruel place and it was an undeniable tragedy. The media could only focus on one thing for so long though, and after a while, seeing a Morei’s face on every tabloid lost its appeal. So the family was finally allowed to grieve.
404 leaned back in their chair, headphones blasting Passenger of Shit going down around their neck. The buzz of the whirring computer fans was more sobering than the death of some bright-eyed goody-two-shoes.
404 always preferred badboys, anyway.
There was more to Valo Morei’s death than the media and police spoke about. There was more to this mystery than meets the eye. Something was definitely off about the murder, but 404 couldn’t place their finger on it. Who was the armored murderer? What was the motive?
Who’d actually want Valo Morei dead? The boy was a saint.
And so young, too.
A more sympathetic part of 404 thought it was mildly sickening– a more chaotic part reveled in the unrest that followed. It was good for business.
Why did Valo Morei die?
Now that 404’s attention had been taken away from trivial matters like Minecraft, they couldn’t stop thinking about one of the city’s most tragic murders.
Someone had wanted to do a Netflix documentary on it, after the details of his death were made public, but there was too little known about the actual murder for anything substantial.
It was kind of sick that some film students sought to capitalize off the boy’s murder, but maybe it would’ve brought enough attention to the case to warrant further investigation.
Hmm.
Well, it’s not like it matters, now. You can’t un-kill someone, and even if you could, it’s not like 404 would’ve cared enough to prevent it from happening. There was too much on their plate at the time, and who were they to play God?
Oh wait.
They were God.
404 let out a snicker. Then a laugh.
And then finally decided to disable sonic_shade14’s Mojang account.
1150~ words
