Dark Lord, sysop of Dark Force BBS, tries hard to keep his users engaged. Yesterday for April Fools’ Day, he surprised them with a fun prank.

He changed the board’s logon sequence to make it look like a powerful AI calling itself “The Wraith” had taken over the board. But that wasn’t all. The BBS would display comments from “The Wraith” after almost any user action at the main menu.

Anyway, here’s a short video showing one of my sessions on the BBS yesterday. I called Dark Force using SyncTerm and its new VT52 mode (with a custom color palette).