Son of Reason: Sometimes I Like To Play With Dirt

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Recently, a group of campers found a book in a secret chamber near Zeus's Fist. There are 12 chapters in the book, each one written in a different language. This is a translation of one of the chapters. ====== Kyle was frightened. Apparently, his best friend Fred was a satyr, he was the son of an ancient Greek God, and his least favorite teacher was a snake woman. And this snake woman was about to eat him.

"Kyle!" Fred shouted, rushing towards the snake woman with a lamp. Ms. Coluber turned to face him, hissing. He slammed it down on her head, and she fell to the ground, unconscious. "Come on Kyle, we don't have much time! She'll get up soon!" With that, Fred grabbed Kyle's hand and they ran out the school door.

Along the way, he explained everything in detail. Kyle was confused and scared, and just wanted to cuddle with his girlfriend.

Fred stopped moving. He started sniffing the air, as if there was some sort of faint smell. His eyes widened with fear and he started running faster. Kyle couldn't keep up. Kyle felt something grab him from behind. And then blackness.

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I took off the headset. It took me a moment to adjust to the lights.

"Your beta is over," Ricardo Ryden said. Ryden was the lead developer of the gaming company, Hyperion, and he had worked on many popular VR games, such as Hunger Games and Divergent. I looked forward to the 2412 release of his next game, the one I was just testing, Camp Half-Blood.

"Where the xQanto do you get the ideas for your games?" I asked.

"You see, about 400ish years ago, before the Great Resurgence, and even before the Great Disaster, people wrote down stories, like we do today. All of my games are based off of these Pre-Disaster books. The Hunger Games was a book, Divergent was a book, and Camp Half-Blood were several series of books. Recently, archaeologists discovered some of these books in Site N.Y.  However, they were low on funding, so they made an agreement with us that they would get half of the profits from a game based off of the books.  The original books will be released, for free, as a promo for Camp Half-Blood."

"That's so cool! I'm glad my money is going to a good cause."

"Yes yes, now anyways, what do you think of the game so far?'

"It's great! The graphics and sound effects were amazing!  Plot needs a bit more work though.  And there was this weird glitch that caused Fred's shoes to change colors."

"That isn't a glitch. We put that there intentionally." He grinned as if he knew something I didn't. "Well, nice meeting you, see you next week!"