five | storyteller | 244 words
Updated: 8/18/2018
There's this story my godfather used to tell me when he was still around. It was about how he got zapped into a computer at his old job, ENCOM, and discovered that there was world inside of it. Programs looked like the people that made them, you could play all the games you'd play at his arcade like you were really apart of it. You could race on the Lightcycles, and there was this huge red faced bad guy called the MCP.
Programs treated him like he was God because he was a "User" and not a program like them, He made friends with two programs that looked like my parents, and fought a bad guy looked like his ex-co worker. Flynn called him "Sark". The three of them defeated Sark, and the MCP, and Flynn got sent back to the real world.
Just before he disappeared, Uncle Flynn started talking about how he created this replica world like the one in the ENCOM computers and made a virtual copy of himself to govern it.
Thinking back on all of this stuff now, I can't tell you how badly I wanted to believe this place was real, but my dad tells me it was just Flynn's way of coping with whatever problems he had after he became the boss of the company and lost his wife. Dr. Arnspiger certainly agrees with dad's take on things.
And who knows, maybe they're right? Maybe my godfather was crazy.