The Map of a Goodbye

For the past four years I've played a sandbox game called Garry's Mod. It's really fun and I love to play it. But my opinion on it is besides the point. My story about what happened in it is a bit more important. Before I tell you that, let me just say a year and a half ago my mom died unexpectedly. She never got to say goodbye until....Well....That's what I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you my creepy but also touching experience with the afterlife....

It was a snow day on February 12th, 2014. I was out of school, and of course I got on the computer. I loaded up Garry's Mod, and loaded my save which I titled A More Welcoming Hell. Yes, I'm a bit weird. As I was updating the save, a map randomly began downloading. It was called gm_goodbye, which was weird since I hadn't downloaded a map since December. I let it download, not thinking much of it. It was quite a big one, too. "Better be a fucking good map if it takes this long," I thought. It finally finished. I updated my save, quit out of it, and loaded gm_goodbye. It took an HOUR to load.

When it finally did, my once pink Physgun was now purple. "A glitch, apparently," I thought. I couldn't noclip, so I just decided to explore. I had spawned in a narrow hallway, and I proceeded down it. The textures were none I recognized, but I shrugged it off as custom textures. Eventually I come out of the tunnel into the hallway of a small house. I looked around, and nearly shit myself. It was my house. "What the fuck?" I said aloud. I pressed escape to quit out, but the menu wasn't loading. When I tried Task Manager, I was automatically put back in the game. I gave up and decided to head down the stairs.

I nearly flipped my desk when I saw what was downstairs. It was my father and I, pulling my mother off the couch. I looked away. After a while of the horrible "flashback", my player was teleported to a metal version of the living room, and all that was there was the couch, and my mother, who appeared to be glowing a bit. I walked up, and she looked up. I used my mic, and this is what was said:

Me: MOM?!?!

Mom: Jarod! Uh...did you get a sex change?

Me: .......No. Don't you realize you're appearing to me in-game?

Mom: ...Oops. I was wondering why it took less energy. Anyway, that's besides the point...

Me: Why are you appearing to me like this?

Mom: To say goodbye. I was never able to in the past, and I just came up with appearing to you in a way that won't make you shit your pants.

Me: ..............

Mom: Tell your dad that I love him, and that I have gone to Heaven.

That's when the game crashed and quit out. I loaded it back up, but gm_goodbye was no longer there. I cried for several minutes, pulled myself together, and realized she's in a better place. After minutes of doing nothing, I resumed my gaming, happy she went to Heaven. And I even told my dad what happened. At first he didn't believe me, so I took him upstairs, and there was a video playing, like I had been recording. He seemed so happy. He walked out of the room, smiling. We finally got a goodbye...

Killroy Freeman (talk) 21:35, February 20, 2014 (UTC)Killroy Freeman