"Cory Doctorow - Andas Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

the way that the Clan leadership kept all the mummies and daddies from going ape-poo about it was by
enforcing a long, boring code of conduct that was meant to ensure that none of the Fahrenheit girlies
ended up being virtual prozzies for hairy old men in raincoats on the other side of the world.

"What?" Anda loved how Lucy quacked What? It sounded especially American. She had to force herself
from parroting it back. "No, geez. All the executives in the Clan pay the rent doing missions for money.
Some of them are even rich from it, I hear! You can make a lot of money gaming, you know."

"Is it really true?" She'd heard about this but she'd assumed it was just stories, like the kids who gamed
so much that they couldn't tell reality from fantasy. Or the ones who gamed so much that they stopped
eating and got all anorexic. She wouldn't mind getting a little anorexic, to be honest. Bloody podge.

"Yup! And this is our chance to get in on the ground floor. Are you in?"

"It's not -- you know, pervy, is it?"

"Gag me. No. Jeez, Anda! Are you nuts? No -- they want us to go kill some guys."

"Oh, we're good at that!"

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The mission took them far from Fahrenheit Island, to a cottage on the far side of the largest continent on
the gameworld, which was called Dandelionwine. The travel was tedious, and twice they were
ambushed on the trail, something that had hardly happened to Anda since she joined the Fahrenheits:
attacking a Fahrenheit was bad for your health, because even if you won the battle, they'd bring a war to
you.

But now they were far from the Fahrenheits' power-base, and two different packs of brigands waylaid
them on the road. Lucy spotted the first group before they got into sword-range and killed four of the six
with her bow before they closed for hand-to-hand. Anda's sword -- gigantic and fast -- was out then, and
her fingers danced over the keyboard as she fought off the player who was attacking her, her body
jerking from side to side as she hammered on the multibutton controller beside her. She won -- of
course! She was a Fahrenheit! Lucy had already slaughtered her attacker. They desultorily searched the
bodies and came up with some gold and a couple scrolls, but nothing to write home about. Even the gold
didn't seem like much, given the cash waiting at the end of the mission.

The second group of brigands was even less daunting, though there were 20 of them. They were total
noobs, and fought like statues. They'd clearly clubbed together to protect themselves from harder

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players, but they were no match for Anda and Lucy. One of them even begged for his life before she ran
him through,

> please sorry u cn have my gold sorry!!!11!

Anda laughed and sent him to the respawn gate.