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Chapter 1: What is the premise of 'I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life'?
Welcome back to Creepcast.
We are here with an exciting, dare I say monumental story called, I dared my best friend to ruin my life. He's succeeding. Now, why does that sound familiar, Isaiah?
Well, my dear friend Hunter, I think it sounds familiar because you and I attempted to read this story at one point. As a matter of fact, it is a story that we attempted to read, and I alluded to that attempt in a previous episode. And you immediately lost your mind.
Okay, first off, I was going to say, I thought you were going to be cute and say, like, oh, you're ruining my life. But we didn't have to go into... to me crashing out. I, there was a lot of factors to why I crashed out the first time it was, it was an accumulation of the work end of year stuff. It was us trying to wrap everything up.
And it was, it was just one of those days where you're exhausted, you know? And I think that I just wasn't looking at it through the right lens. So today I'm hoping that I'm going to, I I'm looking at it in a more positive light. That's all I got to say. And I've rested. I've, I've left the country. I've come back a new man and I I'm ready. I'm ready to tackle this bad boy. Eight parts.
Eight parts. Eight parts. So this story gets recommended to us a lot. Yes. A lot of people talk about it. It is written by someone on Reddit known as ZandSand90. Now, I don't think... Don't like that name. I don't like that name either. I don't think that it's the author's actual name unless the author...
named the protagonist of the story after themselves because the protagonist of the story is named Xander. Don't like that name either. So I think this is a throwaway account for the story. However, that would be fun in my attempt to find the author's real name. There is a website.
I don't know if this is the author or not, but there's a website called Zach.Fish, and it's a guy named Zach Fish who has this whole post where he says that, "...I dared my best friend to ruin my life is a massive online interactive misinformation awareness project accompanying the release of a 10-episode web series based on a story from r slash nosleep."
So this is like 50 different social accounts and a hundred places on the internet where apparently like I dared my best friend to ruin my life was like an ARG. What's some kind I, according to this, but it says based on a story from r slash no sleep. So did Zach fish, the guy who wrote the story is he's and sand or is Did he just make an ARG around the story? I can't tell. I don't know.
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Chapter 2: What are the consequences of the dare between Xander and David?
It's only a matter of time now, and I want someone to know what happened before I die. Is killing somebody ruining their life, or is that just murder? I feel like that's cheating. That's way too easy.
Yeah, I feel like ruining someone's life, you have to let them live, right? So they are in the misery?
Make sure we don't ruin their relationship, you don't lose their job, stuff like that.
But they have to live through that misery.
Yeah, yeah. It has to be very Job. Like, you can't kill him, but you can just hurt him a lot, yeah.
Yeah.
Job. Yeah. You know, the Bible character. Yeah. Leviticus.
Okay.
Steve, Joe, you're dying of cancer. Well, I better eat pears.
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Chapter 3: How does Xander's life unravel after the dare?
This has to lead to gay sex. Does it not? I mean, am I, am I, am I high? Am I high?
I feel like this doesn't go ahead that I'm having fun. So this would be the, that would be the more normal response. Like just,
like why don't you why don't you ruin my life why don't you come over here and mess this all up what i'm saying is would you consider ruining someone's life if you had a prolapsed asshole like some red cabbage okay okay all right that would be that would be ruining so my god what did you say what what are you doing what is that oh come on man little monkey brain popping out between your cheeks oh
come on man come on we're all adults here i'm just saying that i've seen many many a prolapsed asshole and i feel like that would ruin my life have a little have a little jellyfish pop out and kiss my haines underwear i don't know if i that i don't know if that would consider that ruining my life but that would be a good start oh gosh that hurts
what did you, okay. I, as soon as you said that I threw the headphones off, haven't heard anything you've said since I didn't, I don't want to hear whatever you've said since. All right. Just, Oh gosh, dude, that's, that would be, that would be a great way to start to run someone's life. I'd have to sit on a ring, like one of those little cushions.
Stop, stop, talk, stop, talk, stop, talk, stop talking, please. I'm begging you. Okay. Um, that you literally unlocked a repressed memory for me when you said that. What? What do you mean? Of something I read one time. Oh, my gosh.
Sure, buddy.
All right.
I thought it was just a good way to reiterate the start to ruin someone's life.
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Chapter 4: What strategies do Xander and Clark plan to use against David?
Mistakes, that's why. We all make them. You have the wisdom that comes with knowing the whole story. I didn't. Glass was all over around my car when I went down the next morning. It wasn't just the driver's window that was damaged. The front windshield and back windshield were deeply cracked. I spent some time looking at every car in the garage.
No one else had so much as a scratch on their windows. What the hell? If some random asshole was out breaking windows, he was targeting me. I noticed the note after I'd gotten into the car. It was a sticky note folded up and slipped it to the ignition keyhole. I opened it.
You have to increase your minimum required effort.
It said. The phrasing was intentional. David wanted me to know it was him. When I saw that phrase, I remembered our conversation. That fucker. I went into a total rage and drove out of the parking lot, trying my best to drive with the correct windshield. I still remembered how to get to David's house, and I ran a red light or two to get there.
Parking in front of his house, I slammed the door shut and marched to the front door, held the doorbell for much longer than necessary, trying to breathe and remain calm. David won't help me if I show up shouting and yelling. His mom answered after a few minutes. David's parents held off on having a child until they were much older.
As a result, David's mom was already 75, even though David was only 23. She said, opening the door and saw who it was.
Oh, it's Edgar. How nice of you to come over. I haven't seen you in weeks.
Yeah, it's been, well, it's been almost a year. Mrs. K, is David home?
No, sorry, dear. He's at work right now.
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Chapter 5: What happens during the police encounter regarding the break-in?
Stop, stop. Let him go. I have something to tell you.
Wait, hold on. If Clark is running down the street, why would you stop him? Because he only, or sorry, if David's running down the street. Yeah. Because David only said that Katie would die. If he dies, you would still get him arrested. You can still beat him up. Right?
Yeah, you could also, well, to be fair, I don't think they can prove anything yet. And then also, I think that if they beat the shit out of him, I think that he could probably just turn around and be like, oh, like they assaulted me.
or something I guess yeah all he's done so far is like love tap him on the back of the head or whatever he's like in my in my mind it's like they turn around for a half second they look up and he's teleported down the street yeah he's not running he's standing there I expected him to definitely do some kind of Naruto jutsu and like puff into like a uh like a cloud of smoke and be gone yes yeah that's why that's what happened in my head yeah
We made a quiet decision to avoid the cops tonight. We wanted to file a report with them on our terms, not having to explain what we were doing trespassing in the middle of the night. We jogged back to his car and went home. We sat on the living room couch as I told Clark about David's conversation. Clark was staring dumbfounded at me.
I thought you said he used to be your friend. He did. And he never acted like this?
No, not to me. This is insane! Clark said, standing from the couch.
He's kidnapped Katie so you'll just try to ruin his life and follow along with some stupid dare? Is he crazy? He's going to be caught!
Let's hope so. We should start planning. I'm not taking any chances while he has Katie. Okay, man. I want nothing to do with this at all. But... I also want to help you. If it was anyone else, I'd nope the fuck out. Then let's get started.
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Chapter 6: How does the story explore the theme of identity theft?
Okay, boys. Thank you for the tip and your inventories. We'll investigate this just like any other crime and give it our best effort. Gotta get copies of your driver's license and phone numbers so I can contact you if I have any questions.
Handed him our license and wrote down our phone numbers in the file. I'll be right back. He said, taking the license to make copies. We looked at each other for a minute, taking a deep breath.
He doesn't believe us. We'll find evidence.
Five minutes passed, then ten. Then the officer came back, two others at his side.
Clark Ulysses?
Yeah? You're under arrest for vandalism and trespassing on private property.
The officers flanked him and pulled him to his feet. I stared at the cop... I stared at the cops in bewilderment. Clark's eyes were wide.
When I went to cop your license, I checked it against our records. Last night, someone called and reported that you had been to their home and sprayed thief on their house and then attacked him when he came out to stop you.
Just the idea of a cop. Like you go to a police station and you're like, this guy stole my identity. He is, they haven't mentioned the kidnapped girlfriend, which is insane. He stole my identity. He has stolen all of my money. He broke into our house. And then it's like the cops like weird. It looks like last night, that same guy that they're saying did all this said these two were at his house.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the kidnapping in the narrative?
What about Katie? The kidnapping is going to get top priority. That's the one case that has a witness. You. I won't be working on it, but someone in a different section of the department will be. The other detective will want to interview you today and get started. Let's do it then. Hernandez steps out.
I returned a while later with the detective. Detective White came in and probed to me with hundreds of questions. Where did she work? Who were her friends? How long have we been together? When did I last see her? Do her parents know? Questions like that.
When I brought up David in the phone call, he leaned in and asked me the same questions about what I'd heard, what we'd said, and anything I could remember. Again, I didn't remember anything helpful.
I'll need you to bring David in for questioning. Your testimony is decent, but we'll need more evidence for conviction. I can't arrest him because I need more proof. If we arrest him without enough proof, he'll walk free and can't be tried again.
No, you can arrest him. No. You don't take him to court yet.
No. No.
You had enough proof to arrest Clark! Clark? I was just talking with an officer who said Clark called in and told you all that Clark graffitied his house.
alright, I just, I was just talking with another officer that said David called in and told you all that Clark graffitied his house and he had to do, all he had to do was call and he got arrested Detective White excused himself to go find out more about what had happened he came back five minutes later
David has more proof on that case. He just goes out in the corner and comes back. This is killing me. The guy who kidnapped this woman actually has more proof about you graffitiing his house.
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Chapter 8: How do Xander and Clark plan to fight back against David?
That's a good honor.
It was a shoe box with dust covering the top. A few spots were less dusty where someone had handled the lid. I opened it slowly and peered inside. It contained a quarter-inch thick stack of pages all bound together by a binder clip. The box was too small to let the pad lay flat, so I curled it in the box. The pages were old and worn. They'd clearly been handled frequently.
I lifted it out and noticed that it looked like research paper. The front page had a title in the middle of the page and an author at the bottom. Psychological Evaluation for David Edward King The bottom of the page had the name of the institute and psychologist that had done the study as well as the year. I did the math and the evaluation must have been done when he was 16. Jackpot.
That's so funny to be like, ha, I'm going to prove this killer who has kidnapped a woman and tortured me for years isn't mentally well. Like, wow, you're breaking crazy ground with that assessment. This is evidence. This is evidence. He was psychologically evaluated at 16. That'll put him under. Knowing this story, the police are going to be like, he's clearly a sociopath. We have to shoot him.
I stuffed it under my shirt as best I could hide its square form. The laptop was set back in its place as if it never moved. David would know something was wrong eventually, but not until he booted it up. I gave a last look around and wondered if there was anything else I should do. With no decent ideas, I left David's house. Mrs. K gave me a brownie on my way out.
On the drive back to Walmart, I tried to come up with a plan. I couldn't take this to the police because it was illegally obtained evidence and wouldn't be admissible in court. I knew that from a bunch of crime shows. We can tell. I had to get at the evidence myself and somehow get it into the police hands legally. When I parked at the Walmart, it still wasn't that late.
I walked inside carrying the flash drives and psychological evaluation with me. I used the demo computers to look at the contents of the flash drives. Looking back now, I'm amazed they let USB sticks work on the demo machines. First flash drive had old high school papers on it. Nothing useful there. Second and third were bootable drives that could boot Linux.
I don't expect everyone to understand what that means. It's not important. I don't expect you to understand what that means.
I have explained everything else in the fucking universe in this deal, but I'm not going to explain Linux.
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