INTRO (to anyone who doesn't know about Catghost and sees this Pastebin out of context):

Catghost is a creepy webseries cartoon on Youtube that seems to blend your average CG-animated comedy with actual deeper underlying horror. The first video in the series had a download link to a game, and I decided to look through it's code with a hex editor.

Just watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RJQEIrxtrU

for context.

LINKS:

http://www.catghostshow.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwdmPCVOhTW2u_fKpxRLMdA

::STUFF FROM GAME 1::

SEEMINGLY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS OF THE KEYSTONE (FIRST SET):

Ask your question.....who am i.....gideon......who is naarah.....Proselyte......who is elon.....Temptress......who is beth.....Widow......who is the council.....The keepers of balance......who is gideon.....Judge......who are you.....Key......what happened to gideon.....Vanished......what happened to naarah.....what happened to elon.....what happened to bethany.....We dont know......what happened councel.....Lives......when did naarah die.....1650......when did elon die.....when did gideon die.....1672......where am i.....Dark forest......where is gideon.....a dark place......where is elon.....in a jar......where is naarah.....Immersed......where is bethany.....with you......where is councel.....I can not divulge......why did I die.....It was time......why did naarah die.....She was evil......why did elon die.....Because of the councel......why did bethany die.....She did not die......why am I here.....You are not allowed to pass......why did they die.....They all die someday......how did I get here.....Because of the temptress.....how do I pass.....Resolution.....I don't understand.....You will......what is cake.....a test.....am I asleep.....Yes.....am I dreaming.....No.....am I dead.....how do I escape?.....The Proselyte is the key......Help.....Let us reunite......are you real.....no......what is dark forest.....A place for those judged......what is catghost.....A connection......murder.....

NPC DIALOGUE?:

(in red text (we can assume it's therefore the red skeleton:)

It burns! I cant feel my skin......str_plus.....Trapped like a fly in a jar......I have taken on my new form.

(in blue text:)

.Its cold here. I cant breathe..%...I have to save him, he waited for me!.....She lured me into this place

I also found bit of ?code? with an url in there:

processing.....intercepted.....raw_sesson_id.....raw_message_mode.....load_msg.....last_message.....current_active.(...http://www.catghostshow.com/201706-beth/.....server.....http_post_string.....responce.....undefined./...[color=c_lime][speed=.5][music=snd_eft_m3_talk].....status.php?key=.....message.php?session_id=.....&message=.V...------------------------------ USER HAS JOINED THE ROOM ------------------------------.....sprite_get_width.....spt_wid.....get_ai_responce.....id.....async_load.....ds_map_find_value.....status.....result.....server_raw.....json_decode.....result_map.....session_id.....active.....real.....message.....save_msg.T...XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX USER HAS LEFT THE ROOM XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

However, I'm not tech-savvy enough to tell what might the significance of any of these, so anyone smarter is welcome to try to try to interpret the above. However, "json" implies Javascript - a chatroom in Javascript or something like that?

And that's all folks! That's all the text that was in the file.

Perhaps this chat feature might account for the weird responses that Nick saw - maybe they were actually typed by a real person? That'd explain why this would only happen sometimes.