[ WP ] You accidentally discover the sentence of death ( a sentence that kills anyone who hears it except the speaker ) when you say it over national television .

**Warning: Language** 
 
 Have you ever heard the sound of thirty or so bodies dropping all at once? What about the bodies of an entire nation and then some? Granted I didn ’ t actually hear the latter happen, the former is almost permanently imprinted on my mind. 
 
 It started as a normal news report, Sky news, broadcast globally. What a fucken great job, just brilliant. Everyone ’ s eyes on me, thankfully teleprompters exist otherwise my work would almost literally be impossible. But when the teleprompter stops working we have these little pages that sit in front of us, usually we shuffle them just to look professional and not like we ’ re reading from a giant scrolling screen, but in case the scrolly-screen stops working, these stupid fucking little pages act as a cue card, to help remind us and lead our comments on the current news. The important facts that need to be stated, but it ’ s not a script. So when my teleprompter broke, in the middle of this news cast, I started working from my cards, all going well. Banter between the sports bloke, Jerry, and the weather girl, Linda, was as lovely as ever. I ’ m not sure that the viewers really give two shits about what we had to say to each other, but sometimes it ’ s just better to break the minutiae. But then, in the banter I said a phrase, which I ’ m going to try my best to keep to myself, and everything stopped. Just. Done. Suddenly, a sickening wave of bodies hitting the floor, the sound is indescribable and would be almost impossible to replicate… Actually, now it would be impossible to replicate because there ’ s almost no one left. I think there ’ s no one left. I ’ ve walked down these Melbourne streets for weeks, and I haven ’ t seen a person alive. Surely I ’ m not the last and surely someone will read this. 
 
 So here ’ s how it got worse than what it started out as. At first, I said ‘ x ’ on tv. I hadn ’ t realised the gravity of my statement, until everyone dropped. Then, upon exiting the studio with the shock that everyone in the building apart from myself and a few spare people that had headphones in had just died simultaneously, I saw the panic that was ensuing. Sirens blaring and people rushing around the street, confused and lost as to what had actually happened. No one blaming me for pretty much killing a large population in one fell swoop. The initial panic was extensive, it was terrifying, and whilst a part of me felt guilty for what I had just done, the other part of me decided that it was more logical to think that this wasn ’ t my fault. How could something of this magnitude be caused by me saying a stupid fucking sentence? The panic died down, pun not intended, after a few weeks and no one had turned their eye to me. It was a medical and cosmic phenomenon that no one understood, and I was not to blame, I was in the clear. After a while, suddenly people were playing a new game. Who could survive the death broadcast? A video of the broadcast from someone who had captured it leaked online, and people were trying to prove their worth by watching my broadcast and showing that they could survive. Millions, potentially billions dead. I refused to watch it, I could n't do it. But that ’ s when the public eye turned to me, that suddenly this thing was happening again and it was my broadcast. 
 
 The police came first, and bust down my door. The demanded I do not speak, and I was going into custody, but as I opened my mouth to say words, they evacuated, retreated. It was the most confusing situation at the time, until the federal police came next. They brought with them heavy weaponry, armoured vehicles and ridiculously large headphones. They looked a little silly to be honest, but apparently I was the biggest threat on the planet, and my weapon was my mouth. It was true, but I was too dumb founded to even think like that. I was taken to a very isolated facility, gagged mind you. I couldn ’ t get a word out, but they thought they were safe when I was writing my responses. I thought they were safe when I was writing my responses, they couldn ’ t hear me say anything, and it was absolutely the last thing I wanted to do. I absolutely did not want to harm anyone. But boy were we both wrong. It came to write a statement, a statement to plead with people to stop watching the video, and that the phrase was detrimental to their health. No matter what, they should not watch this, it was all a large, unintentional accident and you ’ re a fool to dare. But, as I wrote the phrase on the page, it had no effect on me. I thought I was safe, it was great. I can write this and no one will come to harm, and then the people in the facility started to drop as they read my release. It was terrifying, this glass room ( unlocked mind you ) kept the sound out, but i was reminded of the first time I had said this. It was sickening, but just seeing the phrase, intimidation litigation situation…-
