The Gatekeeper

Doom: a game with so much replay value. I can't tell you how many times I beat the first two Dooms. But Final Doom I never got around to playing it because I got in to Quake and left Doom in the dust. But recently I was cleaning out my computer's hard drive making room for more games. I came across my Doom folder. It had the three classic Doom games. I was ecstatic that I could finally beat Final Doom. I said "Screw cleaning out my computer!" I double clicked the file and was ready for the Doom experience. The menu came up and the nostalgic music started playing. I didn't have a game save so I created a new one. I jumped into the game and it was the normal first level .I had the pistol as usual. The only thing that seemed off was that the screen was tinted green. I thought it was odd and tried messing around with my monitor's color settings, but it still didn't fix it. I figured since I had gotten it off a torrent website, something like this was bound to happen. The green went away ten minutes into the game. I had been playing all day and had finished the main missons in only 2 hours. The rest of the time I was messing around with Mods or as the Doom community calls them; Wads. Now the * last Wad I downloaded had the Doom 2 final boss as every enemy in Final Doom. It made the game difficult on any difficulty the wad was a copy and paste of Final Doom but with all the enimes replaced with The Gatekeeper. The Gatekeeper was scary even though in Doom 2 he was stationary the modder made it so he movedaround land and shot firebals that killedyou instantly. The wad was really creepy the music would occasionally stop and a creepy whisper could be heard. It sharpend the graphics making the Gatekeeper look slightly real. I only made it half way through the game when I got a message from my anti-virus software saying I had a virus. I clicked on the message and it said I had recived a vicious Virus from this Wad, so I clicked on 'remove virus.' It was going to take an hour and I hadn't the left the house all day. I got into my car and went out to a local restaurant and ordered a burger and fries. About a half hour later I finished eating and had a half hour to kill so I went to the small arcade in the back of the restaurant. It didn't have very good games, there was a broken Mortal Kombat cabinet and a Pac-Man cabinet. I obviously picked the Pac-Man cabinet. I stuck my quarter in and started playing. The first few games I had no problems and came close to beating the high score but, under pressure got mixed up and ran into the damn red ghost. I had one quarter left so I slipped it into the machine. It took a minute to load up witch was odd as the game usualy started right when I pressed start. When it started Pac-Man was the Doom 2 boss (The GateKeeper). The second I saw it my heart skipped a beat. I couldn't move my hands and a ghost came up and killed the sprite. I wanted to pass it off as my mind only being able to relate things to Doom and everything Doom related. I just walked away trying put it out of my mind. I don't know why it scared me so much but I had just played a strange Doom mod that had replaced enimes with The Gatekeeper. It had been an hour so I got back in my car and drove home. When I got home I went straight to my computer only to see... the virus wasn't gone. I was a little pissed off that I was probably going to have to take the computer to a PC repair shop. Thank god the Virus only messed up my internet. So I deleted the Wad... or I thougt I did. As I left clicked on the file, I heard a noise echo in my headphones. As I clicked "delete" I heard the noise, and this time I made out what it said. "We have seen you lately." Holy shit, I was freaked out but, I was thinking about what it could be, my mind was racing. Then I breathed out and when I remembered the virus, I was relived and proceeded to get on Final Doom. I thougt it was going to be normal and not have the Wad, but I was wrong. As I clicked on the file it said it needed an update to run properly, so I did the update. It took a good half hour. After the update the game started up and my save was still there but renamed to Pac. I thought the mod fucked up my file so I clicked it. The game started up... it loaded me up on the last level Final Doom. In the bottom corner the Doom guy's face was The Gatekeeper's Face the enimes were all Gatekeepers. I tried shooting but I lost health not the enemy. I was even more weirded out. Hadn't I deleted the Wad? I checked the files for for Final Doom. The Wad was still there but... it was renamed to GaTe.exe. I tryed to delete it, clicking delete over and over again, but still nothing. I was pissed off, I restarted my computer. The shut down sound was the whisper I heard just before. "We have seen you latley..." I was scared now. There's no way a virus could do this. When the computer was shut down, I unplugged it and brought it down to the computer repair place by my house. It was late but I knew the owner, he lived in the back room of his store. He was sitting at his computer. I knocked and he signaled me in. I dropped my computer on his desk and said "I got a nasty Virus from a Doom mod." He replied "Yeah, it's an easy fix. Come back tommorow and I will have it ready." When I arrived home I got on my Playstation since my computer was a goner. About anhour of playing I got a call from Mike (The guy fixing my computer.) He said the computer didn't even work. It had a fried Hard Drive from the virus. He was able to recover a text file, he said he would email it to me I told him he couldkeep o he computer for parts. I played a bit more Playstation until I got a notification on my phone, it was an email from Mike. It had an attachment  FROM; Michael Phillips Subject| text file  Heydude this is the file I found on your computer  Keep playing Doom, Keep playing Doom, this is the gatekeeper. I know you can read, get on Doom I see your lazy ass playing Call if Duty. GET ON DOOM  I was freaked out now. It could have been Mike he was on my Playstation friends list so he could see what I was playing, but I never told him how the Wad was fucked up. I went back to Call of Duty. I was playing a bot game because I wasn't in the mood to have my mom insulted by a 12 year old. The game got laggy. I was lagging across the map. My Playstation glitched and the screen turned black. It was black for a while then the .Final Doom music started playing. I let out a sigh of anger and just went with it, I stared playing but it wasn't the normal Final Doom it was the Wad with the gatekeeper. It was laggy at first but the controls got smooth and I was accualy glad this happend it was a pretty experience playing Doom in HD. Until I died. When I died in the game. A message appeared. "1256 Burton Ave." That was my adress. I stood up to look out the window. Standing by my car was The Gatekeeper.