The Twenty-Fifth Post

How to begin… I got an email from “Atari 2600” stating something about sins and secret organizations, and can still scarcely believe this is anything less than an elaborate delusion on his part. However, given the desperate nature of his email, I decided to go see him. He wasn’t at home, and in fact, there was nothing at his home, which is an apartment he shared with the girl he mentioned in his blog entries.

According to his email, he was going to leave his laptop in some bushes outside the Mazzio’s he mentioned. I went there, and the laptop, one of the intriguing eee pc’s, was nestled in the bushes, so I retrieved it and brought it back to my home to have a look. These computers have a flash drive amounting to 4 gigabytes as opposed to a standard hard drive, and half of that space is used by the Linux operating system. But our friend 2600 had done some research through his travels, and not let out much of it through his blog.

He was honestly more interested in his confession than research. I’m not sure if his impending capture produced a change of heart or not, but sometimes, life or death situations can lead one to appreciate life just a little bit more. He had taken detailed notes on a great many things, and given me quite a bit to go on should I wish to research it myself.

I wondered why, of all the people could have chosen, why he chose to involve me. I can only guess he hoped my interest in all of the James Bond movies and books would lead me to check out this bizarre society right here in my hometown. I have to confess, myself, that I am completely intrigued by this whole story, and wonder how much truth there is to this, or if he had lost his mind to that extent.

This girl, whose name wasn’t Tara, did disappear without a trace in August. I check ed around and no one around where I knew her to go has seen anything of her since then, nor do they know anything about her. I pushed a little harder for anything anyone might know about her, and I was surprised to find that she had her life fairly secretive. Of course, they knew about her relationship with 2600, but again, little of her personal or family life.

There’s a lot more information he’s left me to go on, and I debated whether I should post anything on this blog of his to which he created a neatly closed, yet wide open ending. However, he asked me to continue the research and post what I could on here, so I will do so per his wishes, and one of my hopes is that I might find him alive at some point is case this group exists and did take him. So far, the evidence on the surface points to that end, but all of it could still have been engineered by him.

I know I am bound to find something that will prove this to me if I find something that does not exist in his notes yet can be verified by them. But if I am to post on this blog, what do I call myself? Based on his experiences, using my true name would be idiotic. I can appreciate his video game interest, and I think I will continue his tradition by using the next generation Atari console after the 2600 – the 5200.

So continuing Atari 2600’s research and blogs here, I will be Atari 5200, and I hope to do him some justice wherever he is.