Kaiju for Dummies by Nicholas Knight

Author:Nicholas Knight [Knight, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D20 Kaiju LLC
Published: 2018-11-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

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Three words come to mind when I think of Dr. Warden. Soft, round, and sinister.

This man is the world’s most evil teddy bear, with a curly beard and pudgy figure dressed in a tweed suit lacking any sharp edges. If it weren’t for those eyes of his he’d look like everyone’s favorite professorial uncle. All sweet, congenial, and trustworthy. But those eyes of his are like someone fashioned them out of obsidian shards and somehow managed to keep the cutting edges. He could slice a Thanksgiving turkey just by glaring at it.

He’s the man who offered to let me play the game in exchange for getting out of jail for free. He’s the man who offered me an in-game mission that gave me the money to care for Mom. He’s also the man who didn’t tell anyone that his “game” was in fact real and that me, along with over a hundred other beta testers, were actually committing mass murder. He’s the one who made me keep playing even after I realized this, threatening to ruin not just my own life, but Mom’s.

My fists clench at my sides and Taisaur’s growling rumble deepens. I can feel my entire body actually shaking with it. For his part, Dr. Warden seems completely unperturbed. I might as well be sitting across from him in his psychiatrist office explaining to him how seeing him here makes me feel. I think the snarling kaiju towering over me might be a giveaway.

“What are you doing here?” I demand.

He has a habit of appearing unexpectedly, but always in person. I’ve never seen him in the game before. Actually, I’ve never been in the game as myself before. Always it’s been as Taisaur. Seeing another human being here is weird. Weirder still that we’re standing in Taisaur’s shadow. The fact that he’s so calm is disconcerting. If someone who I knew hated my pudgy guts as much as I hate his was standing in front of me with a giant city-destroying monster I would not stand there with a pleasant smile and a smug look in my too sharp eyes.

“I helped to create this game, Mr. Moretti,” he says. “Is it really so hard to believe that I can step into it whenever I please?”

I really should have thought of that. Taisaur’s tail thrashes behind him in agreement with my frustration if not my thoughts. When it impacts the all-white never-ending ground, there’s not so much as a shudder from the impact.

“What is this place?” I ask.

Dr. Warden shrugs. “You’ve discovered a feature of the game that we weren’t ready to unveil yet. Congratulations, that’s actually more of an accomplishment than you might think.”

Sure, it is. He still hasn’t answered my question. “What is it I discovered?”

“You’ve got a lot more questions this time around,” he says, chuckling. Chuckling. Like he finds me amusing.

Taisaur falls to all fours, forelimbs bracing against the ground to either side of Dr. Warden, bringing his head only yards away. Taisaur opens is jaws and bellows a roar that sets the man’s tweed coat and curly beard fluttering.

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