Afraid of the Dark

Pre-Story Author's Notes

Feel free to skip this chapter to get on with the story. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

Summary and Warnings:

The Insomnia Gaming Festival is a gaming convention held in Birmingham, England, and for the first time in its history, American celebrities have been invited to take part in the various stage shows. Markiplier (Mark), LordMinion777 (Wade), muyskerm (Bob), Tyler Scheid (Tyler) and CrankGamePlays (Ethan) agree to meet up with a fellow YouTuber and friend jacksepticeye (Seán) so that they can all travel to the convention together when the day comes, excited for its arrival. However, it quickly becomes apparent that things are not going to turn out how they expected, as one member of the group is struggling to contain a dark secret that only seems to be getting worse, and fears that if released it will threaten not only his life, but the lives of everyone around him. For sometimes, reality can be darker than fiction.

This story has no "professional" association with any of the YouTubers in this story. In other words, they had no input in this story.

The people of this story are in no way accurate representations of the people they are in real life. They are nothing more than characters adapted for a story setting, based off of a fictional scenario presented in the video in which Anti appears at the gaming conventions "PAX East 2017," along with jokes made during horror game play throughs from the real-life YouTubers.

This is not based of real-life events, only off of a fictional video. Do not try to recreate any events from this story.

The Ego Sickness Trilogy:

This is the second book in the trilogy "Ego Sickness" BUT you do not have to have read the first book at all. This story was written in a way that lets it work alone, without any of the other books in the series. In a way, it's sort of a "spin of". It does contain references to a certain event that happened in the first book, but you the only details you need to know about that are explained in this book through brief character conversations. You can go into this blind and it will still make sense.

Characters:

Every main character that doesn't belong to me, including most of their nick names:

· Markiplier (Mark).

· LordMinion777 (Wade).

· muyskerm (Bob).

· Tyler Scheid (Tyler).

· CrankGamePlays (Ethan).

· jacksepticeye (Seán, Jack).

· Antisepticeye (Seán, Jack, Anti).

Note: a lot of the time, if there are two characters in a scene together, I refer to them as 'older' or 'younger'. Here's the list of the characters, oldest to youngest:

· Tyler.

· Wade.

· Mark.

· Bob.

· Seán.

· Ethan.

Writing Notes:

I know that a lot of people use italic writing for different reasons, so here are the four things that I use it for:

· The first time I use the name of something that isn't a person or nickname (like a company name, a game name, etcetera).

· Sound effects.

· An empathised word.

· A thought (a general thought of a character, or a character reading something in their head).

Something to remember: This story is set in 2019. The age and appearance of characters may vary slightly to what they are in the present day.

Disclaimers:

· Censored Explicit Language.

· Scenes of Violence.

· Scenes of Gore.

· Implied or Actual Character Death.

· References to Mental and Physical Disabilities.

You have been given your only warning. Continue at your own risk. Enjoy!