Fuck, this is something I never thought I'd be posting about. Let alone at the start of the year. Anyone that may have watched some of my destiny videos may have noticed someone named Zertagh that we would play with. We had known him since the D1 days. Contact was usually sporadic, but Kep and myself really clicked with him. Since June we really started to play with him more. Mostly because he was out of work at the moment and I had all the time in the world as well from being laid off as well. So, we at least had a third to do most activities with and and he was able to pull us into another group to do some of the raid activities. It was kind of nice to have someone to play with reliably again. That and it was always hilarious when him and Kep would get into their fake spats with each other.

In October I felt like we all were really starting to connect and I did start to consider him an actual friend at that point. We were discussing a lot more personal things and not just screwing around in game. October 21st was the last time we all played together and I didn't hear from him after that. He had been getting stressed out since he said his money was running out and he really needed to find a job. But nothing was coming up. I figured he found a job finally and was dedicating all his time and energy to that. He's done that before. Along with he did explain how he just has a tendency to take off and go radio silent. Him and a friend would do it and then they'd just pick up with each other a while down the road. Though with how things were going I could usually still get him to respond somehow if I sent him something on discord or xbox.

Yesterday I got a bug up my ass and decided to try and find another way to try and contact him. He has his real name on his xbox account, so I started looking that up online. First thing that came up was a obituary from October 22nd. I got concerned, but figured it was a coincidence. I know names match up a lot of times, so I took it with a grain of salt. But reading through it a lot of the details matched up. Age, location, occupation, what he did in his free time, he had an ex wife and a cat. So it got me verry worried. I spent the next several hours trying to find more information, other contacts, someone I could contact and verify things. I just had to find something that mentioned this specific person and my friend's online name together. I ended up hitting a dead end to a degree except for finding an aunt/great aunt on facebook and sending her a message.

Later on I tried to do some more digging. Trying to find his home address to hopefully have it lead somewhere. I managed to find an address and found out that the dad in the post lived there. So, then it was a matter of trying to find out, assuming this was my friend, if he was registered at this location as well. Which I found out the person was and at the bottom of the page it showed an email linked to this person and it had his online tag tied to it.

I don't know what happened, but Zertagh died on October 22nd. I'm still in the process of trying to get a response from someone that lived near him to tell me what happened to him. The only thing I can imagine is that there was some sort of an accident, but I don't know.

I'm still just in shock from everything. I got all the original group together last night to let them know. Because I felt like they deserved to know. Even if we haven't all played Destiny together in a while. For the bit that I knew him Zertagh was a good friend. We always had a good time when we all played together. Either getting through difficult content or just the stupid jokes and crap we would say. One of the last times we played together we all laughed so much that we got headaches from it. He was pretty reliable, which is something that's hard to come by. Even if we constantly joked about how he deleted all his other two characters in D1 so that he could have 3 hunters.

I'm sorry Zertagh, this shouldn't have happened and you should still be here. We'll miss you.