It was believed that “fires of the Earth” referred to demons such as Ghast, but after this point in the game players reached a chamber behind where the tape recorder is located and found a furnace where the coal was turned into coke. “The fires of the Earth had risen up in their defense and flowed into the hearts of the decrepit, pre-revolution equipment they used and awakened them to avenge the workers.” Supposedly the code was only solved when someone named “Porto881” posted the cipher online, which allowed Porto to make a tape recorder wherein a male voice said: The player must collect a series of iron axes that contain a complex code which the players must decipher. Art showing Porto in the mine, created by Captain-Coffee of DeviantArt
Some claim that the story was supposed to be a critique of Soviet-era industrial tactics that were sometimes utilized.
This prompted the Sovatik Corporation to send inspectors, which caused numerous incidences of torture and there were graphics of men in red coats inserting small knives into the joints of workers whenever production slowed. The story was supposedly extremely complex, telling of how the foremen were pressured to increase coal production and had to begin making excuses to explain the low output. Meanwhile, the mine itself is being attacked by demons similar to Ghast, as well as coal-golems, dead foremen, and demonic inspectors from the Sovatik Corporation who wore red robes, the only color used in the game. Porto ascends the many levels of the mine attempting to escape, discovering throughout the mine the bodies of dead mine workers who used to be her friends. Porto awakens in an abandoned coal mine where she used to be an employee, and discovers wounds on her elbows. This meant that everyone who played the game did so as Porto, a human woman whose only ability was the random expansion and contraction of her size. However, he was totally invisible, which made it impossible for players to gauge jumps or tell where Ghast was on the screen. Ghast was a demon that had the ability to breath fire and use a coal steam attack, making him the more powerful of the avatars. The game allowed players to select one of two avatars named Ghast and Porto. To help set the mood, slowed down versions of Czech folk songs were played as the game’s soundtrack. It was a monochrome game, in which grey and white shapes were set against a black background. The game Killswitch was supposedly released in 1989 by the Karvina Corporation, a company based out of Czechoslovakia, although some sources incorrectly identify it as a Russian company.
One of the more popular video game-centric creepypastas, or scary stories shared on the Internet, revolves around an old and extremely obscure video game called Killswitch.
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