Respawn: Lovers Lost by Arthur Stone

Author:Arthur Stone [Stone, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781728982601
Google: dfUfxAEACAAJ
Amazon: B07J2RHCJF
Goodreads: 42190655
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

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Cheater squinted at the light as he stepped down from the elevated porch. The sun was high in the sky now. Noon was coming.

As soon as his eyes had adjusted, he looked around. According to March’s stories, the place was near abandoned, but maybe that was just because of the no-eyes thing. It was a small street with little buildings lining either side, positioned in no particular arrangement. And apparently built with whatever was on hand. Each motley one-story cottage could feature logs, bricks, concrete blocks, bars, shingles, and steel sheets. Some of the windows were glistening and clean, while others were barred and reinforced. The roofs were adapted for better defense and connected by bridges in places. As for the street itself, it was passable, but along the roadside and in the alleys Cheater could see barriers wrapped with barbed wire, which if necessary could be deployed to slow the progress of an invading enemy.

Cheater at last began to recall his memory of entering the village. Along the edge ran a wall, not visible from here, made of the same motley mix of construction materials. It had firing points and towers built into it at intervals, and all sorts of obstacles to prevent approaching enemies. No one could attack unnoticed. Unless you had artillery or an air force, the only way to hit the town was a frontal assault, with heavy casualties. And once you got in, you had to deal with resistance from defenders taking refuge among the town buildings and assembled barricades and traps.

Cheater saw the nose of an armored personnel carrier sticking out of a nearby alley, and many other defenses beside. March and the healer had lousy opinions of this place, but that was surprising. It was pretty well defended.

Everything was relative, though. Perhaps its defenses were weak by this world’s standards. Cheater had nothing to compare these defenses too.

Alert: Your pleasure meter has fallen below critical. Your stats are reduced and will continue to be reduced further. Do not allow your pleasure to fall too far, or you will be in a weakened state. When your meter falls to a dangerously low level, do something enjoyable to help raise it.

Something enjoyable? Well, what could be more enjoyable that a delicious, filling breakfast? A lot of things, actually. But eating was one of the simplest ways to boost his pleasure meter. Maybe even the simplest of all.

Cheater looked around at the variety of signs and billboards. Only two of the options interested him, both of them concerning food. Just a Restaurant and the Cheery Pub. He didn’t like the sound of the second place, and the first probably tried to rob you after disarming you with its name. But he picked the restaurant.

The pub likely leaned more towards drinking than eating, and that wasn’t Cheater’s current leaning. He felt like he could eat a raffler. Indiscriminately inhaling hydrocarbons with minimal chewing. His brutish appetite was obviously unhealthy: Perhaps he was just experiencing the consequences of such a wound.

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