Code Jumper: A GameLit Novel by Zachariah Dracoulis

Author:Zachariah Dracoulis [Dracoulis, Zachariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

PTS-FROGGER

Jesus Christ!” I shrieked as I came about an inch from getting absolutely demolished by an eighteen-wheeler.

I was on the side of a highway, an insanely busy highway, and I was back in my regular Re.Gen clothes.

“Oh thank God…” I muttered thankfully, “I was starting to wonder when we’d…”

That’s when I discovered that I wasn’t actually in the base game. No, no instead I was in some kind of Hell where cars appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared when they hit a certain point.

“Am I… am I in a glitch or something?” I asked with genuine fear in my voice.

“No,” Quinn replied, alleviating my stress for maybe a second before I realized that it potentially could be something far worse, “it appears that you’re in some kind of minigame.”

A small sigh of relief escaped me, “Good. So, where’s the portal then?”

“This one’s actually pretty simple,” Quinn said happily, “it’s on the other side of the highway.”

“Well… that’s great.” I replied as a dump truck came dangerously close to removing my nose, “What can you tell me about the code?”

“Basic stuff, runs using solely assets from the base game. It was also clearly made by a human, so that’s good for you.”

I didn’t appreciate the jab, but I suppose coming back from reading a language at her level to something so people-like would’ve been pretty annoying.

Also, I was glad to be back in familiar territory and took the opportunity to focus on the code for a moment, which led to a little smile crawling across my lips as my brain wasn’t quickly turned to mush.

“Alright then, this seems easy enough,” I said confidently, “and I’m not picking up on any security, you?”

“Nothing at all. You should be in the clear, provided you don’t break the game of course.”

“Puh-lease, like I’m gonna-” I said then stopped with a snap of my fingers as something thoroughly unexpected happened.

“Hey, Eddie?” Quinn asked while my mouth opened and closed uselessly for a few seconds, “Did you intentionally give all the vehicles pink and purple checkered paint jobs?”

“I… I… I think I’ve screwed up the texture data…”

Now, I hadn’t done something like that since before I started high school, and back then it’d been deliberate because it was one of the few things I actually knew how to do.

Then though? It meant that I didn’t actually recognize the code as well as I had thought, which, in turn, meant that snapping my fingers again could potentially make things much, much worse.

“Alright, so… um, maybe don’t do that again?” Quinn suggested with what sounded like genuine concern but came across as mockery, “What happened?”

“I-I don’t know. I mean, I… It was supposed to…”

“Maybe the code’s too basic?” Quinn said while I continued to stammer, “Look, again, just don’t do anything, alright? Play the game as it’s meant to be played, and save us the trouble of you potentially turning all these cars invisible.”

That was the thing that snapped me back, “Wouldn’t you still be able to

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