Stardoc 04 - Shockball by S. L. Viehl

Author:S. L. Viehl [Viehl, S. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Adventure
ISBN: 9781101563427
Google: w-lT7NLisYkC
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

“I see.” Looking even more bewildered, he went back to studying the charts.

“I see.” Looking even more bewildered, he went back to studying the charts.

“They almost were.” I recalled Reever hadn’t spent much time on Terra. “These players were all penalized during the game. The sphere they use to score points is controlled by a computer system, which monitors the plays. Whoever commits an illegal motion while in contact with it triggers the computer to register a penalty. The player then gets a nice, automatic bioelectrical shock.”

“It sounds barbaric.”

“Yeah, but it packs the arenas, I’m told.”

“I was at the game,” Hawk said suddenly. “I saw what happened to them. They knew what they were doing.”

“Which makes them idiots, as well as injured,” I said. Hawk shrugged. “The Night Horse won.” Damn men and their damn stupid games. “The Night Horse are going to end up crispy little piles of ash if they keep getting that many penalties per man.”

“I will so inform the chief,” Hawk said, then departed without another word.

Two weeks passed without incident, during which I got a lot of work done. I continued followup maintenance on the hybrid players, finished the last of the antibiotic therapy with the outcasts, and even got Juliet fattened up a bit.

I also spent considerable time trying to figure out how to get out of Leyaneyaniteh. Kegide willingly escorted me around the outer tunnels, but he refused to disarm any other traps or proximity fields. He didn’t understand any of my arguments as to why he should help me and Reever escape, so there was nothing I could do about that.

Joseph had intensified his efforts to find us, and we often heard distant, muffled sounds of glidetrucks taking off and landing on the surface. The village had been searched again, according to Hawk, and this time the inhabitants questioned at length.

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