The Wraith

Written by Furyan (creator of The Wraith)

5 years ago, the Wraith started in an FPS Game known as Jedi Academy. The game I was currently modding 2 years even before the game existed I was getting bossed around and banned from communities that used its predecessor game. It is a first person shooter game but its community which is full of geeks turned it into their own RPG. On any server you get kicked, banned, abused for killing other players. People who did this were known as lamers. I was one of the worst that had ever plagued the game. I had just become fed up and decided to be the villain if this society could not accept me I used proxies so I was impossible to ban, In game I was extremely hard to kill, and I killed for pleasure. Just hearing their adolescent whines amused me. I became so good at it I began befriending other lamers, And eventually I put a system rewarding people with my tactics and such getting people to join. People hated the wraith at big time thought we would amount to nothing.

But soon we grew. I used numerous guerrilla tactics. I wouldn’t attack with Brute force. I liked to miss-lead all these communities. I would set up fake forums with fake wraith plans to distract them or mislead them. I sometimes would even fake the clans death to throw them totally off guard then strike from behind. Before we even had hackers, we struck at forums with old fashion spam techniques and used numbers. I order the wraiths then to fill the EXISTING threads up with porno and disturbing images. With our numbers at the time The moderators and admins could not get the time to individually clean each thread, and most of these forums LACKED the feature to delete all posts made by a user. So this tactic would force them to either shut down the boards for awhile, or wipe the entire forums completely. We struck at any clan that opposed us, we never did it for control or power, we did it for the fun, and these people were so arrogant.
Soon real hackers joined in wanting a piece of the mayhem we were causing. Soon we could crash servers themselves, and our crashing programs had looping mechanisms on them. So once the server restarted it would be automatically crashed once again. We would keep entire servers down for a week. Every time we connected to a server, we would threaten them if they banned, kicked, or abused us we would loop crash them and destroy their forums. There were a few people who fought back but they quickly were eliminated and we used them as an example to others. People literally LET US terrorize their servers and kill. Soon every clan leader was at my feet, I used the opportunity to make more wraiths and insert spies. In this time clans tried to combine forces to take us out but like I said, I never used direct methods of war, I used cunning plans that were totally unpredictable and fun. Eventually we had nearly the entire Lugormod community at its knees.

As they call it now the “LULZ” were no more. people were no longer whining, the wraith had become a part of everything. We would join their server and it would be like “Oh wraith, yay, let them do their thing, yawn.” There was no more fun, and all the other players Left the game because of us, we made such a fucking impact that even the developers that MADE the game heard word of us. I started out as some nobody player who was an outcast to a total conqueror! And from the wraith OTHER clans like us spawned and wreaked havoc as well.

As servers would not ban wraith out of fear many people took advantage of this , people would impersonate wraiths and even me to freely terrorize. We then left the game to find a new source of fun. the Importers continued to keep our legacy though. When we left there was a huge power vacuum left by us and other minor clans tried to claim the void as their own and the game fell into a dark age What was LEFT of the game though. We had killed off 3/5ths of what it used to be. It went from being a vast community to maybe a 100 players perhaps even less.

When we left JKA we sought other sources. Members came and went. We tried several other games but never could get our pleasure as they were to dull. And periodically we would return to JKA to relive the good old days but it was dull as well, we would also pick up new members through our periodic returns.

However around the time of our second year, I found a new source. Adolescent teen preppies! They were all over a site called MySpace. and back then MySpace was a new site. Now everyone has been wronged by preppies, the typical popular stereotype. They were just like the people in JKA however they far outnumbered me and the wraith, So I turned my attention to THEIR source of power and influence, MTV. The current trend was this HORRIBLE REALITY TV SHOW called “Laguna Beach.” It is a show where these rich kids from OC California bitch about their superficial problems and fake drama totally disregarding the fact that there are children in Africa going blind from vitamin A and all our country could care about where these little shits. So I made them my target. I began experimenting with MySpace. and recruiting others. Recently I met a hacker named Xyr0x who came to be my friend later on, (He likes to wake me up with phone calls these days usually drunk but that’s nothing new.) He gave me an embedded script that plays sound. that is hidden and can’t be turned off, not to mentioned it loops, Xyr0x was using it to annoy people. However I had greater plans for it. I took sounds off of b3ta.com and made them into a spam script. I would spam comments with this script and the overload of buffering sounds would literally CRASH the browser of anyone that viewed the page. I turned something so simple into a weapon. I would test this by using subtly and fake profiles to get added to the pages of people I usually didn’t like and deployed this script.