Well, you’ve now been introduced to a few things that are going to be with us for some time. The first is the Smoking Gun restaurant. As you may or may not know, I have written three “books” as a teen that never were published. They were mostly from my imagination at the time, having the characters working through different situations in real time. Well, in each of the three books the characters end up back at the Smoking Gun restaurant re-enacting this Western scene again and again.

The other thing that was introduced in this latest chapter is the whole concept of “the game.” This will be a feature in all of the books, but is the primary story device for this book. I don’t know if it strictly came from the idea of a holodeck from Star Trek or is something more than that– it definitely can do more than a holodeck (it will mess with time at one point, and actually is like the “bad” holodeck in that it can kill.

Other than that, here is where I think the story started to become interesting as that anything could truly happen and Adam starts to look at his relationships in different ways. You’ll see it more as the story unfolds.