Why?

Ok, first things first. Most of you want to know the details of my trip. This is the most difficult of the topics to speak on. I will do my best to be as clear as I can with this.

I’m not going to go over the events that got the Gamem8kers attention. All of that can be read here. I was posting every step I took as I was taking them.

Now onto the phone call and why I was forced to keep my involvement under wraps. The first thing she told me was that this all had to stay a secret. I was then told the message that I was to give to the colony. Once I had delivered the message the phone rang again. This time it was a gentleman. I was told a driver would pick me up at my front door at 5am sharp on May the 5th. I was told that everything was prearranged, and plane tickets would be waiting for me at the airport. After a long flight (My first,) I landed at LAX. As I was leaving the airport I was greeted by another driver who tossed me into the limo and rushed me off to my hotel. This is where my instructions end. I was told to make a call to my “handlers” in LA. I believed that they would know what I was to do next. I was to find out that this was only partially correct.

I placed a call to one of my contacts there. She informed me that I was to make my way to the first “event” by 3pm. I made it to the Roosevelt Hotel with a half hour to spare. So I began to search out my two contacts. Maybe they would know just why I was there. I was soon to discover it was more of a mystery to them than it was for me.

I soon discovered that no one at this first event had any idea of why I was there. They didn’t know that my being there had been arranged. There were other “winners” at this event but they had no relation to the colony. They had been invited by my second contact. As soon as he and my other contact arrived I pulled them both aside for a little game of twenty questions. Basically, all they had been told was, to place my name on all the guest lists. The first event was mostly marketing stuff. It was meant as a chance for a few of the LA area gamers to meet and give interviews. These interviews may or may not show up on XBOX.com. (I had some pretty bad jetlag so if I rambled in it. I’m sorry.) I was asked to do only one thing outside of this group of winners. A photo shoot of me out on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Wow I felt like a rock star for like three hours.)

As the time came for the second “event,” I found myself with even more questions and NO answers. I then was taken to the second event. While approaching the Avalon Spider Club, I felt my first wave of fear. Fear that I didn’t truly understand my mission and would fail the colony.

Upon entering the club it suddenly dawned on me what I had to do. I was sent with the goal of representing the colony. That’s just what I intended on doing. I spent a little while mingling with the celebrities. However I just couldn’t allow this or the open bar to distract me from my goal. I do believe I was successful but the details of this will have to wait for another time.

In conclusion:

I am left with many burning questions.. Why was I chosen? Why was I handed such a huge responsibility? Why was I left out in the cold from the very beginning.

This leads me to my current mission. I will uncover Gamem8ker. I will have the answer to my question. “Why?”