BEN BUTCHER

GAME CREATOR

I was in the navy, on deployment on the USS Michigan on a transit from Hawaii to Guam, when we got a mysterious transmission just a few miles south of where we were. We took a detour to record the strange sound, when the boat was jerked down deeper, deeper into the abyss. The change in atmospheric pressure caused all of us to pass out. It is only by the grace of god that the boat was not crushed from the weight of the immense pressure. When we came to, an eerie glowing green mist had permeated the air throughout the forward compartment. Little bolts of rainbow colored lightning danced their way down the passageway until they gripped me like a lost and lonely child; and all of a sudden, a great vision came upon me. Blueprints of a long forgotten game overwhelmed my feeble mind, reminding me of something long forgotten in the history of my people: a style of battle currently unparalleled in the girth of my experience. It permeated my mind until I could stand it no longer. I knew that I had to quit the navy, go to art school to learn the skills necessary to create this game, and return it to the world that had forgotten it so long ago...