game is life 05 - shadows by Terry Schott

Author:Terry Schott
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Terry Schott
Published: 2014-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Harry chuckled. "So it is actually possible to shush you both? Nice to know." They could only nod dumbly in response.

Harry pulled over to the curb and put the car in park, then turned around in his seat to face them. "The long version is boring, so here's the condensed form. Sam, you were born when I was twenty. Tension between the Families was extremely high. I'm sure that your mother and I getting married didn't help things, but it was bad all over the world. You were only a few years old when your grandfather asked me to come back to work for the Family. Things got better, at least from the Thorne point of view, and the improvements continued for almost a decade. That was just as computers were going mainstream, and I started programming in my spare time."

"Computer programming in your spare time," Sam laughed. "That's what people dedicate their entire lives and working time to now."

"Yes," Harry shrugged, "but in the early days, computers were just toys that most adults did without. Even once computers gained respect for their usefulness as accounting and bookkeeping tools, games were still scoffed at."

"You changed that?" Dawn guessed.

"Not really," Harry said. "At first, for me, games were excellent ways to learn how to code, and that was all. Then, a few years after I had started fiddling around with them, I travelled to the now famous part of the world where all the emerging computer geniuses appeared to be gathering ."

"Did you hang out with any famous names we would recognize?" Dawn asked.

Harry smiled. "All of them."

"Really?"

"Yeah. We lived out there for a few years, which I know you both remember."

They nodded.

"Family animosity had become a real problem, and it was leading to more killings than usual. We allowed ourselves to get caught up in a bloody war that threatened to destroy all of us. I came up with an idea to stop it."

"The Game," Sam said.

"SHEPHERDS," Harry nodded. "I designed the concept, and the heads from all Families met. They decided to give it a try, and we all began to work together to build a game that would satisfy our competitive skills while allowing us to earn substantial income."

"How does that happen?" Dawn asked. "How is it possible for us to earn income from playing the game?"

"I'm sure you'll find out all about that during this visit. Let me know if you don't, and I'll tell you."

"Fair enough," Dawn said.

"I assembled a team, and then we spent the next few years building the game framework. It went live and we all got to work, spying and shearing and earning virtual money that was converted to real cash."

"I think you glossed over the last part pretty quickly there, Dad," Sam said.

"That's because I'm certain that your cousins, aunts, and uncles will fill you in during our visit." Harry turned around and put the car in drive. "We'll be there in a few minutes."

"Which house is it?" Dawn asked.

"None of these," Harry shook his head.

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