After High School my life went downhill I was the popular guy I had lots of friends and was a three-year varsity basketball and football player everyone loved me and a lot of people had high expectations for me but after not taking School seriously and getting declined from every college that I applied to I realized that it was time for me to start taking life seriously after breaking the news to my parents They kicked me out of the house I remember my mom packing my bags for me and saying how can you be this stupid honey
he has a path my dad interjected I would always hear my dad trying to side with me a path what kind of path he's a failure she said crying throwing my suitcase onto the porge and don't come back until you're richer dead she said said slamming the door I didn't try to argue cuz at the end of the day it was my Fault I stared at the slam door gathered my thoughts and I was on my own a few days after I had gotten kicked out of the house my dad got in a terrible car
accident and died immediately it was my mom's biggest regret to have me cut off from my dad a days before he passed and being brok and homeless I found myself couch surfing with the few friends that stayed in town for college it started to set in on me that I needed Income but more importantly a place to sleep I began job searching online es scaring the category of jobs with housing I found many jobs for things such as a park ranger a nanny and a flight attendant but one ad stood out like a sore thumb
it was an ad for a security guard position on a cruise ship I clicked on it and it's sad two week security guard position one way from Honolulu to Sydney what I thought to myself I Clicked on more info and it said it was paying 5,000 plus a free flight back it also said that nobody would be abort except for two security guards and the captain I scoffed yeah right too good to be true I clicked apply and it took me to a page asking for my infow I typed it in and then it said
to expect a call within the next couple of minutes and sure enough I heard my phone ring I picked it up and a man with a Deep voice started speaking to me hello is this Santiago um yes I applied for the security guard position I said nervously well yes we had a last minute cancel and are in desperate need of one starting tonight tonight it's almost 5:00 p.m. I said confused yes tonight 11:00 p.m. at at redacted Port make sure to bring clothes to last 14 days water and food will be Provided along with all
other Essentials any questions no 11:00 p.m. I'll be there I said hanging up I mean I had all the questions in the world why was there a security guard for a cruise ship with nobody on it why was the position suddenly needed and why did it start tonight I sat with the strange feeling in my gut I wasn't in any position to reconsider so I started Packing after packing I announced to my friends that I would be gone for 2 weeks as a security guard on a cruise ship and that I wouldn't be in contact
they were happy for me I didn't include the empty cruise part because they' probably tell me not to go but I had already made my mind up I decided to take a nap until it was time to go I had a dream about me getting in a car accident and my dad saving me and dying in place for Me I woke up hyperventilating on my friend's couch you good my friend said pausing in the doorway to the living room yeah bad dream I said getting out of the couch I went to take a shower but
that image of my dad wouldn't leave my mind him Burning Alive reaching out to me his charred hand and Searing flesh kept penetrating my mind I packed the clothes up that I had and I said my goodbyes I waited with butterflies in my Stomach and I got in my car I rolled into the port in my Audi and On Queue I saw the ship docking and thousands of people leaving the vessel it stood above the ocean like a skyscraper in a cornfield how could something so massive float in the water I exited my car locking
it as I walked towards the ship yeah there's no way there's only two security guards here I thought to myself while looking at it what was I doing Here anyway I mean what was my job I made my way through the crowd of people leaving and I entered the boat I walked aboard and saw a bald man with a black suit and glasses waiting for me with a briefcase hello you're Santiago right yeah I'm here for the security guard position yes right this way sir he said turning and walking and we went through a casino
and walked up the stairs to the middle of the deck There were two sides and both had hotels and either one and at the half that I would be staying and had a mall a water park into curated man-made park on the other side from what I could see it had an identical looking Hotel area arcades casinos amusement parks and shopping centers we walked between the water park in mall and into a hotel lobby he escorted me into the elevator and pressed the top floor floor 31 the doors closed and the elevator was moving at
normal speed however feeling awkward in the silence I asked a question that I already knew the answer to do I have any co-workers well yes there's another security guard that you will keep in contact with during your stay there is also a captain but I bet you probably will not see him he said in the same deep voice as before as still professional as Ever the elevator door buzzed and we stepped out it looked like an average carpeted hotel hallway except that there was only one room there at the end of the hallway that said
security we walked in and I found myself in a hotel room with a bathroom TV bed fridge closet into desk with cameras an AC into window that covered the whole wall with a row of blinds you have enough food and water in the fridge to last you a whole month in here he said Setting the briefcase down on the bed this is your 5,000 don't lose it he said heading for the door good luck he announced a slamming the door and good luck for what I said laughing to myself what this is a cakewalk easy
as 5K of my life I started unpacking and putting my clothes in the closet I sat down at my security desk and saw a bunch of papers explaining my job it basically was telling me when where and how to do my patrol and I got very familiar with It 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 400 p.m. 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. not too shabby I read out loud and then all of a sudden I heard a crackling from inside my desk into voice I scurried to open it and I took out the walkie-talkie hello stranger my name's
Alex and I'm your fellow security guard at the other end of the ship if you ever need anything just give me a call hey my name's Santiago what do you mean by the other side of The ship like you have one half I asked confused H yes she said laughing robotically I look over the amusement park casinos and the shopping outlet over here on my side of the ship on your side is the water park the mall and the park oh okay thanks also I did your 11: p.m. round for you so get some sleep
she said hanging up sick I don't have a bad coworker I thought to myself looking through the Drawers in the desk the second to last drawer contained a piece of notebook paper perfectly spread out with blue pen on it titled rules for surviving the faceless man and it read as follows hello my fellow security guard I'm the person who took this job before you if you're seeing this and just know that I either quit or I'm dead I'm writing these rules for me and you so take them as seriously as possible these are the rules
to survive the faceless Man rule number one every day for the 14 days that you'll be here do your rounds at these same exact time every day is in the timestamps in these sheet that the staff provided you with exit your room at the time listed and you'll be okay failure to do this will make him more hostile towards you rule number two if you ever for some reason see the faceless man while doing a round check pretend you didn't see him walk away Subtly and once you think that he can't see you run back
to your room and lock the door if you're walking away or running and he skittering behind you surround yourself in salt and close your eyes clutch your Bible and pray rule number three avoid the other side of the ship as much as possible if Alex says that she needs help but tell her that you're busy the only exception for this rule is Rule Number Four and Rule 13 rule number four if you're ever doing your rounds outside and see the faceless man staring at you from the window of your room or come back to see
that your room door is open run to the other side of the ship and don't look back I've left you a list of rules in the first stall in the boy's bathroom in the arcade rule number five if you ever hear a scrp scratching at your door while you're in bed don't be fooled it's Already inside your room if this happens you must stay calm and confidently tell it that you don't scare me the door will open and close once you hear the footsteps dissipate to get out of bed and cover the door with salt
lock it and go back to sleep rule number six close your blinds before you go to sleep or you'll wake up to a tapping on your window don't look run up the stairs and get on the roof Sleep here until your next Patrol rule number seven if at any point you wake up in the middle of the night to a voice in your head counting down from 10 get out of bed turn on all the lights and turn on the TV and cameras and go into your closet I have made a makeshift lock for you
for this exact reason so lock the closet door once in the closet try to be as quiet as possible hold your breath and don't Move rule number eight if you're looking outside your window for any reason and see the faceless man as staring at you call Alex and tell her that there's an intruder and that you need help then close the blinds lock your door and put a line of salt at the entrance to your door however if Alex for some reason can't come to help run to the roof rule number nine I provided a
Bible in one of the drawers and you will have to keep it by the window window under The Moonlight this will make the Bible visible if you're sleeping if you wake up and blood is splattered all over the Bible get out of there immediately you'll hear the most terrific things chasing you you'll see things out of the corner of your eye that you couldn't have imagined but ignore it run to the emergency room in the basement and don't look out any Windows no matter what during this Time lock the door and pull out the switches
on the panel stay in this room and till the sirens stop and no matter who or what you hear do not open that door rule number 10 don't answer a call from your phone or your walkie-talkie from 12:00 to 6:00 a.m. no matter who it is you however May walkie Alex if necessary rule number 11 scan your cameras once after every Patrol If you see the man looking at you through one of the cameras I turn that camera off Make a line of salt at the entrance of your door and wait until to your next
Patrol to leave your room rule number 12 if the man is ever in your vision and also in the camera follow rule 11 and rule 8 at the same time however if Alex doesn't respond jump from the window and land in the pool under you and follow rule number four rule number 13 this rule is only happened four times In my 3 years of being here but if you ever see an unfathomably huge huge boat in the distance go to the other side of the boat while following the rules in the arcade and go to
the captain's office located in the basement of the hotel you have to tell them what you see and know what to do this will in Turn end your two weeks on this boat early and you'll get to go home you might figure out more rules yourself but these are all the rules that I've stuck by for 3 years and I still haven't died PS as you go further on in your two weeks day it'll get more and more hostile also the roof is your best friend what the hell I thought out loud no way this
is real life right now I have to get off of this boat and that's when I heard the horn and suddenly we were moving no no no no no this can't be happening I said walking in circles and pulling at my hair I looked at the clock 11:30 p.m. okay maybe this isn't real And I cut myself off no you have watched too many horror movies to know that this is how they die you're not dreaming I said panicking I closed my blinds but I could still see a little bit through them the moon was
bright and full next to my bed was a desk that was almost glowing in the moon's light I got the Bible from the door and I set it there I reread the rules twice to make sure that I wasn't missing anything and Sure enough I was okay I fell asleep quite quick and nothing happened that night I woke up to my alarm at 8:50 and got dressed and ready for my first round I left my room at exactly 9:00 a.m. and I followed the map it led me down the elevator through a mall into a
park into water park after I got back to my room I started getting curious so I walked Alex hey how's things going over there a great same old same old I've been Working here for 5 years you know you been following these rules for five whole years what what rules oh nothing just wondering about the rules about the round tracks oh never mind I know what you're talking about yep every day at the same time for 5 years I never missed it I take pride in it let me know if you need any help and
I'll do the same the guy before you never even showed his face I hope you're not like him I'll try to Help I said a blatantly lying well thanks at least you might be different she said ending the conversation the rest of the day was pretty easy I made sure to leave my room at the exact time that it told me to and did my rounds pretty regularly this actually stayed the same for day two and day three before I thought that I saw something on day 3 at night I was looking through the cameras
per usual after my 11:00 p.m. Patrol When I thought that I saw something in camera 8 camera 8 shows the entrance to the hotel and is the only lit by the Light Inside the Hotel however I saw it there was a skinny man with a black suit and black shoes and no face looking at me from the entrance to the hotel rule number 11 scan your cameras once after every Patrol If you see the faceless man looking at you through one of the cameras I turned that camera off Put salt at the of your door
and wait until your next Patrol to leave your room oh hell no I stood up and got the salt and headed to the door and poured salt all over the entrance to the door there was around 10 big pints of salt in the fridge so that was generous with how much I was putting knowing that I had a lot more I stepped away from the door and realized ah the camera I sprinted to the camera but what I saw was Something that I still think about to this day looking back at the hotel entrance I
saw myself it looked like me as a kid and I was smiling from ear to ear the dim light unsettled me even further what is that I said trembling but I couldn't look away I was in some sort of hypnosis that was when the faceless man came back into view to the camera he looked at the camera and even though he Had no face I felt that he was smiling and what happened next will haunt me to my grave he looked at the kid and got on all fours and lunged it in with his claws
he ripped my child version of me to shreds I didn't even try to fight for my life instead I smiled until he ripped that off my face a tear fell down my face stop it stop it please just stop I said in a Shaky voice this can't be real my eyes were glued to my mangled corpse on the ground my God I said looking at me why do I feel like it's still smiling I said putting my hands over my mouth I shifted my view to the faceless man who began to jolt abruptly his limbs
snapping bones breaking and in only a matter of seconds he had morphed into some creature that walked on all fours his head turned towards the camera Almost confused and crawled in human fast into the building I grabbed the Bible praying that it wouldn't get me I heard the snapping and skittering steps in my hallway as it made its way to my door the bone snapping filled my ears and through my sobs I prayed that it couldn't get in I glanced at the camera that faced my room watching The Faceless man as he tried as hard
as to claw out the door And Bash it in and break it down but for some reason I couldn't hear him hitting the door I only heard its four legs constantly hitting the ground over and over again in a rhythmic pattern I shifted my attention to the door and suddenly the Ruckus that he was causing had seized I looked back at the camera to my room and he had disappeared what the hell I said putting My hands to my face I started sobbing realizing that I would probably die here I was crying for around 30
minutes when I heard my phone ring I took my hand hands off my face and looked at my phone and the number 911 was calling me ah you can do better than that I said out loud a laugh to the stupidity that laid on my phone I'm in the middle of an ocean why would the police be calling me I said looking at the time it was 12:46 a.m. I started getting more annoyed than Scared or sad that 911 kept calling me so I put my phone on do not disturb and kept it like that
for the rest of my St say I hopped out of my chair and hopped in bed at doing my nightly routine of closing my blinds at checking the locks and putting the Bible on the nightstand I got tucked into bed and I couldn't sleep trying to get my mind off of what had happened today I started playing games on my phone it was around 2:00 a.m. when I Finally decided that I would try to go to sleep and I plugged my phone in turned off the light and put the covers over my shoulder I looked
into the pitch black room and started thinking about how I would survive here hey only 11 more days you got this I said out loud my eyes adjusted to the darkness and now I could see everything clearly for some reason I felt the air change somehow like something was telling me that someone or Something was watching me it's just your imagination go to sleep I said to myself forcing my eyes shut but I was now wide awake I opened my eyes to scan the room to try to tell my mind that it was okay and
that I could go to sleep and wouldn't die when I saw it standing in the corner of my room next to the blinds was the faceless man he was camouflaged by his black outfit and was so tall that his head hit The ceiling he was standing still and I could feel them watching me my mind started racing this wasn't in the rules I didn't come back from a patrol I didn't hear counting in my hat and I didn't hear scratching at the door what am I supposed to do it would have killed me if it
already wanted to I started panicking pretend that you didn't see it like in rule Number two I looked away and slowly went on my stomach facing my head away from the man pretending that I didn't see him after about an hour of me in this position I heard foot steps at the foot of my bed I closed my eyes shut and held my breath pretending to be asleep when I heard the door open and closed shot I started softly whimpering again in my bed praying that this would be over soon I turned on my back
Double-checking to see if the man was gone and felt relieved when I looked at the corner into wi that's a new rule I thought to myself I got the piece of paper and a pen and I wrote rule 14 if you ever in bed and see the man in your room in the middle of the night pretend you didn't see him and try to go to sleep I wrote it in the last margin of the piece of notebook paper put it on my desk and I fell Asleep day four and half of day five were
pretty minimal I kept thinking that I saw the men in the corner of my eye but when I would look he would be gone I would also get calls at night but I knew not to pick them up until I saw that my dad had called me I looked at the phone and almost passed except before I knew it was fake I used to call my dad every day before what happened I would send him voicemails too and seeing that on my phone now really crushed my Heart I got to know what's up with this
cruise ship I told myself I stood up from my bed and walked over to my desk and picked up my walkie-talkie and I called Alex to my surprise even though it was well past 12 she picked up instantly hey do you need help no I stuttered surprised about her cheerful demeanor just got a couple questions about the job yeah for sure what do you need what's the purpose of all This listen here okay I'm only ever going to say this once and only once the man is always watching he's waiting for you to break the
rules so don't break them and you'll be okay hey she then hung up in the room fell in an eerie silence he's always watching me I thought to myself well at least I know that he can't get me if I follow the rules can he I started panicking thinking that the Rules weren't 100% and almost missed the voice in my head counting rule number seven if at any point you wake up in the middle of the night to a voice in your head counting down from T get out of bed turn on all the lights
and turn on the TV and cameras and lock your closet eight what I didn't think that seven no no no I went to turn on my cameras six I turned on my cameras and Got the remote and tried pressing the on button five a stupid piece of junk turn on I said slamming the on button as I kept trying to turn it on four it finally turned on three I threw the remote onto the bed and slammed the closet door open and hopped inside two I closed it and locked it from the inside and sat
down in the corner under my clothes One I closed my eyes and as it said one I heard the lock and my front door turn and the man stepped inside my room I held my breath as I heard him skittering around my room making those bone cracking noises everywhere that he went I felt like I was holding my breath for an eternity before we got to the closet and just scratched at it for a second it was like he was taunting me knowing that I was in there like he Could kill me at this instant
but wanted to toy with me he was scratching at the door for about 5 seconds before he scootered off into the hallway closing the door behind him I made sure that I couldn't hear his footsteps at all before breathing I had almost passed out due to the lack of ey oxygen and started hyperventilating as I was hyperventilating I started crying again in my closet wanting to stay here Forever dreading the thought of even leaving this temporary home but I had to I had a future after this I would go to Community College and make myself
a happy life I can't die here after about 5 minutes of crying I got up and opened the door the room was exactly how I had left it spot on like it wasn't ever there I looked at the closet door and realized that there weren't any scratch marks either it was around 2 a.m. at this Point so I hopped into bed and fell asleep quickly nothing happened on day six except for the usual phone calls at 12:00 a.m. and the occasional Whispers that I would hear while on patrol day seven came around and this was
my first encounter face to face with the man I was walking and doing my patrol as usual when I thought that I saw something I was in the water park making My way out through the exit when I thought that I saw the man looking in my direction inside of a food truck right next to the exit I almost looked before I realized that it was real this time and not out of the corner of my eye I didn't make direct eye contact with it but I felt that it knew I had noticed it I
walked past the wooden gate of the water park and after I knew he couldn't see me I ran to the hotel I felt like I ran 100 miles before making it to my Elevator and spamming the button I kept spamming it until it finally opened and I hopped inside I spammed to close before I heard the faint noise of Bones cracking in skittering coming my way I quickly surrounded myself in the salt that I carried with me in my Bible every time I did patrols and I clutched it tightly luckily it didn't get to me
before the elevator closed but it started slamming against the door door and that's when I heard it skittering up The steps and banging on the door every floor up to my floor knowing that it would catch me if I got to my floor I surrounded myself with salt in a little circle and when we got to my floor I didn't dare open my eyes I prayed that I would be okay and sat calm in my circle of salt I felt hopeless I felt stupid for believing that some little salt would actually save me from the
horror that beheld in front of me I felt that presence I felt when I saw The man in my room like something wanted to kill me so badly it wanted to rip me to shreds and feast on me like a lion looking at its prey but it couldn't I prayed to every got imaginable and eventually the feeling went away and that's when I heard that bone cracking walk away from me never until now did I realize that it was basically face to face with me waiting for me to open my Eyes I didn't open my
eyes for like 5 minutes I squinted them open and then exhaled in relief I was safe I stepped out of the salt and headed back to my hotel I got back and accidentally fell asleep due to the events that had just transpired I woke up at 5:00 p.m. realizing that I skipped my patrol when I heard a small scratch at my door for a second I was confed confused but then realize the horror that I was in this Was a rule I pulled out the rule in my pocket and scanned it rule number five if
you ever hear a scratching at your door while you're in bed don't be fooled it's already inside your room if this happens you must stay calm and peacefully tell it that you don't scare me the door will open and close once you hear the footsteps dissipate get out of bed and cover the door with salt lock it and go back back to sleep the man was inside my room I thought I sat up in my Bed looking at the 90° angle of my wall hoping to catch a glimpse of the man when I saw the
edge of a claw on the floor I got shocked and then I said you don't you don't scare me I screamed feeling a sense of fight inside me the scratching got louder and faster until I thought that it was scratching through my door this went on for about 15 seconds before I heard heard the door open and Clos and skittering footsteps softly Getting quieter with that God awful sound quickly realizing that this happened probably due to me breaking role number one I got out of bed and put saw at the edge of the door however
this happened during the day so how would I go back to sleep like it said to do on the rules that didn't make any sense I came to the conclusion that I would just go out at my next shaft it felt like an eternity before my next shift started I had my ear to the Door for like 2 hours and I could hear shuffling throughout the hotel like it was waiting impatiently for me to come out I was looking at my phone and clenching my salt and Bible sweating that if I left the room it
would be my demise it turned 8:00 p.m. and I looked through the people and I didn't see anything it looked normal so I opened the door quietly and tiptoed through the hallway to my elevator I got to the elevator and Pressed the down button and it opened immediately for reference the elevator doors are glass so you can see through them going down the floors I kept seeing the man look at me at the end of the hallway getting closer and closer with each floor that pass I did the calculations and knew that it would be
at the door by the time that it got to the elevator door so I stepped in the ring of salt that I had made earlier and squinted my eyes open looking at the man Getting closer and closer this is impossible I thought the man would have to move at the speed of light there's no way that's real I said out loud I came to the realization that it was my mind playing tricks on me but I didn't dare leave that circle at the floor right before the lobby the man had disappeared not feeling safe still
I didn't leave the circle but when I got to the hotel lobby I felt a voice in my Head say for every Patrol you miss it goes down a floor I shivered and not accustomed to my thoughts not being mine but I pondered on what it's at if it goes down a floor for every Patrol that I miss that means that I have one chance left that piece of garbage missed almost 30 patrols that's probably why you quit I said angrily out loud I stepped out and did my patrol as normal the 800 p.m. and
11: p.m. patrols Are the worst since you always think that you see the man duee to the darkness that consumes the ship sh until the moon comes up I have to Ed the light of the mall in my flashlight to see anything I finished my next two shifts and got back to my hotel room usually exhausted by my 11:00 p.m. shift I don't check the cameras to my fullest extent but something told me that I would need to today I checked each camera fully until I got to camera 14 standing in the park was the
man however he wasn't staring at the camera he was looking towards the hotel crap I said out loud scared to look out the window there is something about this in the rules right I pulled out the rules and they're wise rule number 12 if the man is ever in your vision and also in the camera follow rule 11 and rule 8 at the same time however if Alex doesn't respond jump From the window and land in the pool under you and follow rule number four learning from last time I I turned the camera off and
quickly walked Alex while getting my salt yes Alex said groggy there's an intruder I exclaimed excited that Alex had picked up on my way Alex said with more energy and hastily I thought that I had forgotten to do something when I realized that I forgot to close the blinds I got to the Blinds and started closing them when I thought that I saw my dad looking at me where the man was supposed to be he looked at me frowning crying tears of blood and missing his eyes I started getting te eyed looking at it but
I closed the blinds and I hopped in bed while trying to sleep I heard commotion outside but I knew not to look it was in a language that I didn't know but it was spoken like they had razor blades in their Throat thankfully the night was peaceful it was day eight and I only had six more days to go I told myself that I had made it this far in the it was somewhat easy so far I did my 9:00 a.m. patrol as regular thinking nothing was out of the ordinary I was at the water
park heading towards the hotel when something told me to look up towards my room standing there in my room was the faceless man he was staring into my soul With those empty eyes my heart dropped and I almost gave up my legs felt weak and I started whimpering I pulled the rules out from my pocket ET and I read them while running rule number four if you're ever doing your rounds outside and see the face of this man staring at you in the window of your room or you come back to see that the room
door is open run to the other side of the ship and don't look back I've left you a list of rules In the first stall in the boy's bathroom in the arcade I ran through the water park and didn't follow my usual route running straight through the opposite exit through a door that went into a building and into a casino looking area I ran through the door and I was greeted by smooth jazz it was also hypnotizing me it echoed through this Mass expanse of what was supposed to be a Casino but instead I was
met with an endless expanse of tan carpet and beige walls that Rose hundreds of feet into the air only the weak fluorescent lights lightly Illuminating the place gave any sign of a ceiling at all however in the middle of the casino there was a chair with a noose above it that came from the Shadows what the crap I said out loud my voice echoing I ran through the building admiring what I was looking at it felt like the building didn't have an end it Felt like an eternity before I got to the other side of
the casino and that's when I heard the door that I came through crash with it falling off its hinges even though it was probably a quar a mile away from my position I could hear it clearly and hear the skittering bone snapping behind me inching close closer echoing throughout that large space I got to the door that seemed so far away and ran through it to Find that I was now in an arcade I entered it and there was pop music playing and all the machines were running however it was a lot smaller than the
casino bathroom go to the bathroom like it said in the rules I said to myself scanning the arcade quickly I saw the boy's bathroom and I made my way over to it I entered and I got to the first stall on the toilet paper dispenser there was a folded up piece of paper That said rules to survive Alex's place I yanked the paper from the tape and unfolded it and this is what it read you're most likely in a rush so I'll keep it nice and sweet there are only sixish rules rule number one do
not trust Alex she might try to lure you or tell you that she needs help but I promise she'll be okay rule number two if you ever hear smell things see or feel any presence that isn't you run to the arcade for Some reason Alex's Patrol map doesn't go to the arcade so you'll be safe here rule number three if you're doing the patrol and the roller coasters ever start and you hear screaming coming from them run if you don't make it out of the amusement park before the ride ends it's too late for you
rule number four never even look towards the hotels if you look you'll die rule number five if you're in the casino or the outlets and you hear the music Change to static and you hear breathing coming from the speakers run to your side of the ship no matter what you see or hear this means that they are here and that you must run to your side to press the button in the basement when you go back through the face this man will be more hostile than ever before and you must follow the rules rule number
six to get out of here other than rule five you must do a full Patrol for her her patrol has no set Direction so just go to the casino amusement park into Al there without stopping after your Patrol you got to call her and tell her that you did a patrol for her and she'll thank you she'll know if you're lying to her and tell her that there's an intruder on your side and she'll go to your side and take the faceless man away for 5 minutes while she's doing this you must sneak past them
to your room you cannot go to the other side until this unless you Want the face this man to kill you rule 6.5 the arcade becomes unsafe after a couple of hours of being in it since she randomly checks it once a day I was contemplating just giving up there after reading the rules if I just give up and let them take me it'll be a lot easier than fighting it I sat whimpering I felt a pit in my heart like I was really about to die I really would just be another number a person
forgot Gotten about I started talking to myself trying to give me encouragement I gave my phone screen which had my family on it to kiss and decided to head out and try to get this Patrol over with I stepped into the arcade into the exit door I stepped out into a fake Brick Street with arrows poin in Saye which place LED where I looked at my phone and it read 12 p.m. Alex was probably out on her patrol right now I got to hurry before she could catch up to me I Sprinted through the outlets
and through the empty casino and back into the amusement park however when my foot went into the amusement park it was like my body froze up I felt something almost Godlike something that rained over me something that I would have to kneel to I knew that it wasn't close to me but maybe an eye view but I was frozen I wanted to run so bad but I was stuck with my foot suspended in the air trying to take a step Oh hello Santiago I Heard a Voice that boomed throughout the entire ship why don't you
come over here and let's ride some rides together it sounds fun you're not doing your Patrol are you I wanted to just run but I knew I couldn't trust it just off of her voice I knew that it was pure malice and evil the embodiment of everything bad run get out of here the voice in my head said to me and just like that boom my foot Planted on the floor and I use all the muscles at their fullest to run as fast as I could to that arcade oh you don't want to play what
a shame I heard a Sinister voice say behind me smiling but I ignored it and ran even faster I got to the arcade and fell on the ground out of exhaustion wheezing I walked over to the bathroom to get some tap water when nothing came out my mouth was dry and I was sweating I started drinking the toilet water out of Desperation and Betty hasn't thought of this before I said laughing in my own pity I stood up and I threw up in the trash can I felt like a new man this time I would
start in the amusement park and go from the outlets to the casinos I made my way down the fake brick streets to the amusement park looking at my phone making sure that she wouldn't be out on patrol it said 2: p.m I patrolled the park and nothing happened I felt very alone unlike Nothing has ever been there it was almost like the roller coasters were Rusty and hadn't been rode in years feeling very uncomfortable I headed for the outlets I went past the roller coasters and the kid rides they were spinning teacups with faces on
them fastly walking past them I physically saw their eyes following me what the hell I took a few steps back and I noticed that a couple of them were following me Yeah that's my queue to go and that's when I made a Sprint for the exit seeing the fake Carnival horses staring at me too the outlets had all the Big Brand stores but it had a lot of stores that I had never heard of before that looked out of place like it wasn't there the previous time weird I didn't remember seeing a M's surgery or
the human Diner the thing was is that their lights were on every other store's lights were Off off except for those two yeah this definitely isn't in the rules I thought to myself I walked over and I checked them out sure enough there were actual people inside my heart dropped in M's surgery there was one operating table with a person on it but it was more like a corpse now their organs were Sprout out everywhere on the operating table I almost puked looking at it next to the corpse however was a Red hair nurse who
had bloody gloves and tools in each hand looking away towards the diner I saw pigs sitting at booth and tables I couldn't contain myself I rubbed my eyes and looked to see if they were still there yeah another cue for me to leave I said to myself not looking back and seeing a pig walking to a table with a suit or carrying a tray with a corpse of human on it leaving the area I made sure to pay attention to the LOI Jaz just in case it decided to change I made my way out of
there and towards the casino but for a second something subconsciously told me to look at the hotel I started moving my gaze towards it but I stopped before I realized what I was doing yeah that was way too close I said to myself now looking in the opposite direction it was still really bright outside and I made my way to the Casino I entered it to find the same scene as before there was an empty tan casino with a chair maybe two football fields away from me in the middle of the casino with the noose
right above it why do I even Patrol here everything's already in view I thought to myself I went ahead anyway and decided to make one big circle around the place the LOI Jazz that played in the Background made it a lot more relaxing to do this but the thought of it turning off always lingered in my mind as I headed towards the middle of the casino relaxing to the music as I walked curiously I went over to the chair I inspected it and it was just any regular old wooden chair my legs were hurting from
all that running so I decided to take a seat I let out in ahwe find me feeling some relaxation in this Place but then I realized that something was wrong I didn't feel relaxed anymore something was missing and that's when I heard breathing coming out of the speakers ah I said standing up and looking for the exit I gazed upon it and then the lights went out for a second what the the light came back on and now there were chairs and nooses everywhere like it was copy and pasted throughout the entire casino however where
I was just sitting There was a corpse of me hanging from the news I screamed looking at myself hanging lifelessly from it and started running towards the exit I heard the entrance door open and I looked behind me it was a pale woman her hair was extremely greasy and frail and she had sockets for eyes she looked to be in her 30s and had a gown on but she was really fast like inhumanly fast I booked it to try in my hardest to Avoid all the wooden chairs that blocked my path by the time that
I made it to the exit she was around 50 ft behind me and closed was in quick and so I booked it out of there running through that door my surroundings soon turned into nighttime I looked to my right and there was another boat not unfathomably big like it had said in the rules but just another cruise ship almost identical to the one that I was on coming towards us I've got to be dreaming I said out Loud smacking my face the moon was full a blood red tint washed over the ocean or maybe not
not I said to myself here in the exit door baring behind me I ran through the water park using a small shortcut that I had found and went behind all the concessions until I got to my hotel don't look around just focus on the basement yes keep running I heard Alex's voice in my Walkie-talkie however I also heard her behind me say that oh come on just give up it'll be quick and painless I swear I got to the hotel lobby and had a split decision whether to go in the elevator or take the stairs
when I decided that the stairs were more inviting running down them I saw the door and looking through the small box window in it I realized the lights were off and I turned my phone light on all of my senses were heightened all The way and I had never felt like this before I went down the stairs into the basement and realized that it was very quiet I could hear my footsteps and my heavy bre breathing echo in the pitch black basement I made it to the door that said emergency room staff only I opened
it and inside there was a desk with cameras on the back wall and a big panel with a bunch of switches on the right wall I quickly turned on the light locked the Door and walked over to the panels I pressed them all and the sirens blared immediately and then my body gave out I collapsed and I was cramping all over while on the floor I thought about everything that had occurred and despite the horrors I was fairly proud of what I had accomplished I looked at my phone August 25th 1227 a.m. it read what
wait a minute I said looking at it I had Entered the ship on the 13th today was to be my e8th day it was supposed to be the 21st what is this place I sat as starting to laugh out loud I laid down with uncontrollable laughter on the floor I knew that I looked crazy but I didn't care I mean maybe I was my laughter was abruptly interrupted oh please let me in Alex's voice said outside the door frantically shut up you literally just Tried to kill me why would I let you in that wasn't
me I swear they're going to get me if you don't let me in she said now banging on the door sorry but you'll have to go somewhere else because I'm not budging oh Santi let her in come on I heard my father's voice say now that's not fair you can't do that I said in a shaky crying voice it's me Santi your pops no it's not you're some hideous creature that Wants to kill me oh you're right let me in I swear it'll be quick okay it said now in a demonic voice I just stopped
responding and the creature also stopped after that the sirens had stopped but I still was on the floor I was on that metallic floor for around an hour before I checked my phone it was now 136 in the morning I decided to get up and head back to my room I was in better spirits now when I went to my Room and decided to get something to eat and I headed to the roof of everything with a foldable chair that I found in the hallway I went up the stairs to the roof and I opened
up the latch unfolded the chair and I sat down I admired the Stars yeah this might be hell on Earth but that doesn't mean it isn't pretty I looked around the roof and saw a little Hut at the corner of it I got up and headed over to it it was a little Room with a desk and chair and there were papers splattered everywhere there were drawings of the man and pictures of the man before for me he was a black guy with a muscular build had short hair and looked very clean he had a
picture of what looked like to be his family on the desk with a camera next to it I opened the drawer and found many pictures taken presumably trying to take a picture of the man but every picture looked like a Lial Space I tried to turn on the camera but it was broken the lens was shattered and so was the control panel that would flicker every time that I tried to tap it I went back to my foldable chair and not long after I passed out thankfully by some miracle I woke up at 8:30 so
I wouldn't be late for my first Patrol I got up and headed to my room and I went inside and stood next to the door waiting until it was 9: yeah this is my last 9:00 a.m. patrol I thought to myself I looked at my phone to confirm my suspicions and sure enough it was the 26th I took the elevator and my 9:00 a.m. patrol and 12:00 p.m. Patrol were fine I would see things out of the corner of my eye like normal but I didn't look and I just kept going I got to my
4 P.M Patrol and I made it to the lobby and strolled into the water park keeping my eyes forward As usual I saw the man and I didn't Flinch though I just turned around nonchalantly and went around the fence and sprinted to my room I checked the cameras per usual and looked out the window to see the man looking at me from the water park he wasn't in frame of any cameras and so I called Alex Alex I waited but she didn't respond ah screw this I got to go to the Roof I looked back
out the window and saw the face of this Man's Bones break and him crawl on all fls skittering towards the hotel lobby I basically ran my door over and ran to the stairs I opened the door and heard the echoing of bones crack cracking and it heading up the steps I screamed in my head and ran to the latch and pulled on the ladder it felt like an eternity climbing the ladder hearing the skittering getting closer behind me I got to the top of the Ladder and heard the monster right there I was pushing myself
up when I felt it grab a hold of my leg I screamed and kicked at it until its grip went loose however while its grip had loosened it clawed my leg the entire way down I screamed out in pain close in the latch and then clutching my leg it wasn't anything deep but he had gotten me pretty good and there was a lot of blood I hobbled over to the booth and got the medkit and WRA my leg up I then Screamed at my walkie-talkie calling out for Alex Alex Alex where are you it's at
my floor my God I'm so sorry Santiago I heard from her instantly I knew she was messing around with me so I just said come over as quickly as you can all right on my way she said in that playful cheery tone like she didn't know what was going on I could still hear the scuffling below me but I kept all my Focus on the pain in my leg I dealt with him sorry about that one I heard come from my walkie yeah thanks I said annoyed I hobbled out of the booth and went down
the latch into my room it felt weird at being down there again I went downstairs at Aid and did my patrol as usual and nothing happened I came back up and saw the man on camera one I turned it off and got the salt and put it at the edges of the door I am Kind of getting the hang of this I told myself Patty myself on the back I looked at the camera seeing the man trying to break through the door in the camera but nothing could be heard like last time it eventually went
away and I went back out at 11:00 p.m. as I left the lobby I could see Sydney in the distance getting closer I felt a sense of relief that I hadn't felt in forever I hobbled around my side of the cruise as quickly as I could while Following my map and I got back as soon as possible I walked into the hotel lobby with a sense of euphoria I went up into my room turned off the lights closed my blinds and put the Bible on the nightstand and turned off the cameras last time doing this
I thought to myself I then got in bed elevating my leg on some pillows because that's what I thought I should do and I drifted off to Sleep I woke up to the sound of scratching and still being drowsy I kind of ignored it for a little bit until I heard it 10 in my head oh come on not again the scratching got louder and he was now combining rules wanting to trick me which one do I do first get out of bed and turn the lights on or I tell her that I'm not scared
and then do what but I don't know if I'll have enough time for both nine my mind was racing I could feel the sweat begin to lubricate my Palms eight the scratching became more insistent unrelenting and I could feel his blood lust you don't scare me seven the scratching ceased and I glued my eyes shut six it opened the door and skittered away five I got out of bed as quickly as I could I reached to turn the TV on and set my sights in the bathroom four I turned the camera on and ran towards
the Bathroom three I turned the bathroom light on two I reached and flick the main light on one I dove into the closet closing it but not having enough time to lock it my leg was hurting so bad and I wanted to Wi but I heard the Door Creek open and I held my breath and closed my eyes I heard bone cracking footsteps right next to me and heavy breathing it was like he knew that it wasn't locked he walked around the room slowly waiting for me to breathe so that he Could kill me but
I never did he was rhythmic and methodic with his steps like it was a dance of some sorts I counted 40 seconds before he scurried out of my room opening and shutting the door and moving down the hallway I puked out of pain and exhaustion and let's just say it definitely wasn't pretty I hyperventilated and Wist holding my leg that I sacrificed to hide from the Monster I grabbed my clothes and used them to help myself up I made sure that my door was locked and I hopped in bed and then looked at my grave
mistake I had left the blinds open no I closed them the faceless man must to have done it I said out loud realizing that he had opened them and then I heard the Dreadful tapping on the window and forgot what to do I pulled out the rules she didn't read rule number six close your blinds before You go to sleep if you fail to do this you'll wake up to a tabing on your window do not look if this happens run to the stairs and run to the roof sleep here until your next Patrol I
got up wincing still and ran to the lat I then heard the same sound behind me but I was faster getting to the latch this time and got up before he could catch me I crawled onto the roof shut in the latch behind me and I fell asleep right there on the Spot the rules were right the room felt comfortable it was like home up here I felt safe I could hear the faceless man but I didn't care I fell asleep and I slept like a baby I woke up to the sound of these ship
horn blaring I looked at my phone and it was 10: a.m. I got up and looked over the roof and saw hundreds of people entering the ship I had never felt so much Glee in my life Looking at people I hobbled down the roof and into my room that packed all my clothes into my suitcase along with my $5,000 and then I heard Alex's Voice come through the walkie-talkie bye Santi hope to see you again she said now in a Sinister voice yeah seea I said putting the rules and Bible in the same drawers that
I had found them in I put the walkie-talkie and laugh pass I hobbled as quickly as I could into the elevator I pressed Lobby And I checked my phone a finally Service as the door shut I felt something in the air change I looked up to see the faceless man staring right back at me only the glass elevator doors separated us now my heart dropped and I started whimpering no no no you can't get me now it's all over it got closer and closer with each floor I started praying it got to floor two and
he was still there please no Please I said closing my eyes the elevator dinged and I squinted one IE open looking at me dumbly was a grandma and her grandkid hello the grandma said in a warm tone while the kid looked at me crazy I exhaled a huge breath hey I said hobbling past them I made my way to the casino and went through where everybody was coming from looking back at my room I saw the man looking at me I gave him the finger and Hobbled to the exit of the ship I exited the
ship with no plan other than to get to the airport and go back home I didn't even care about how I smelled my leg or how I looked I just wanted to be home I looked at my phone and saw from an anonymous number that my flight was at redacted airport at 6:00 p.m. inter Terminal A 26 with the ticket I sent back the middle finger and blocked them saving the picture and going to the Airport I'm now back home in Honolulu and plan to turn my life around my leg's fine and I'm planning on
going to community college to get a degree in computer science but I swear every now and then out of the corner of my eye maybe in the tree line or peeping behind the house is that faceless man staring at me with those empty eyes sockets
