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“Fable 9was dead the whole time.”8
“Fable 10will beHalf-Life 3.”
“So,” asked Steff, when they’d finished laughing, eating, and insulting an innocent game designer, “what are we doing this afternoon?”
Drew was having fun, but part of him really wanted to get back toHeroes of Legend. It was kind of important to make a good impression on a new guild, and a little part of him was hoping Solace would still be online. But if he ditched his real-life friends for an MMO, they’d never let him hear the end of it.
“Well, I don’t know, Smidge. How about what we do every Saturday afternoon. Go back to ours and play board games.” Sanee grinned at them. “We’ve just got Space Alert.”
Tinuviel clapped her hands. “Brilliant, I played that with my parents at Christmas. We had one game where my dad went the wrong way really early on and spent the rest of the game walking into a wall, trying to launch missiles.”
Drew finished the rest of his pint. “Sorry, your dad did what? What game is this?”
“Space Alert.” She thought for a moment. “It’s like RoboRally on a timer in space with sound effects.”
“Oh, why didn’t you say? I’m in.”
One game of Space Alert led to another, and then another, and eventually—when they’d all got bored about being blown up by space amoeba—into pizza. Then they ended up watchingDrive Angry, which Sanee had bought for £2.99 in the HMV closing-down sale.9
“Well,” said Drew when they finished, “that wasn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen.”
Andy had claimed the beanbag in the corner. “It wasn’t even the worst Nicolas Cage movie I’ve ever seen.”
Which inspired a long and heated discussion about what the worst Nicolas Cage movie was, and whether the badness of a Nicolas Cage movie could be rated at all because, as Sanee pointed out, sometimes Cage at his worst was Cage at his best.10
With one thing and another, it was after midnight by the time Drew rocked back to his room. He should probably have gone to bed so he could get up at a reasonable time tomorrow and do some work on his project, but he wasn’t feeling that tired and he wanted to get in a couple of dungeons before the weekly badge limits rolled over. He logged into his bank alt and checked hisauctions, about half of which had sold and about half of which had come back to him because some git was flooding the market with cut-price gems. If he was really lucky, one of the other gem crafters would buy them out and repost, but he couldn’t be arsed to do it himself. He hopped onto Ella.
[Guild][Orcarella]: Hi
[Guild][Morag]: wb
[Guild][Solace]: Evening
[Guild][Heurodis]: yo
[Guild][Morag]: how’s it going?
[Guild][Orcarella]: good, just been hanging out
[Guild][Heurodis]: we just knocked over bloodrose
[Guild][Orcarella]: anything good drop
[Guild][Heurodis]: maidens ring from BR
[Guild][Morag]: everybody lol *sigh*
[Guild][Heurodis]: woeful gauntlets from CoT
[Guild][Heurodis]: and the net from Vilicus
[Guild][Caius]: *does happy dance*
[Guild][Caius]: I’m a proud Retiarius from a long-line of orcish warriors and I’ve been fighting with a dildo in my off-hand since Rimefrost11
[Guild][Orcarella]: myrmi used to be my main but I never went ret
[Guild][Orcarella]: anybody up for a dungeon
