Preview, Clouded Ambitions, Gamer Mystery Novel
Woeful WasteWorld: Within a hundred miles of
You see, vampires being dead, after all,
were not easy to kill—until you learned to buy silver bullets.
And while werewolves were far and few between,
when one did attack, it could do a lot of damage before you got off the four or
five rounds needed to kill the thing.
But Bernard discovered a trick, and it
was a delightful one:
Among the various supplies players could buy with their “coffers”—the virtual money they collected in the game—he noticed among such things as dynamite and bazookas and shoulder-fired missiles, were inexpensive bags of live kittens.
And sure enough, even if a werewolf was
already pouncing at you at full speed, even if the beast could taste
your blood in the back of its throat, all you had to do was press a few buttons
on your controller and your avatar would throw a cute, furry kitten in the
air—and the werewolf would go nuts chasing after the poor thing, and never return
to attack you.
This was the sort of thing Patricia would
complain about. She would say it was cruel to throw innocent kittens about as
weapons.
But on this morning Patricia couldn't complain. On this morning his cellphones were silenced, his door was bolted and
blocked by a dresser, so no one could interrupt him. And his virtual pockets
were loaded with silver bullets and adorable yet tasty kittens.
Tragically, neither would be ample
weaponry to handle the first avatar he came across, not an AI but one
controlled by a real person, or so the game indicated.
“Stay out of the way or die!” Bernard
challenged the intruder.
“Log off and come to room 2202,” the
avatar responded in a voice that clearly was Patricia’s. “Or I’ll shoot you.
You wouldn't want to lose all this progress you made, would you?”
How the hell had she gotten this far? How
had she found him?
Read more in Clouded Ambitions, the sequel to Flying the Coop: The Video Game Mystery Novel.
Read more in Clouded Ambitions, the sequel to Flying the Coop: The Video Game Mystery Novel.
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