A Conventional Boy
A Laundry Files Novel
Reeks: Laundry Files
Charles Stross
- In
- this
- new
- Laundry
- Files
- adventure
- the
- fate
- of
- the
- world
- will
- literally
- depend
- on
- the
- roll
- of
- dice...
- twenty-sided
- dice,
- that
- is.In
- 1984,
- Derek
- Reilly
- was
- just
- another
- spotty
- teenage
- dungeon
- master
- growing
- up
- in
- middle
- England.
- But
- then
- a
- secret
- government
- agency
- tasked
- with
- suppressing
- magical
- intrusions
- received
- a
- tip-off
- –
- and
- one
- midnight
- raid
- later,
- his
- life
- was
- turned
- upside
- down
- by
- the
- Satanic
- D&D
- Panic.Decades
- later
- Derek,
- now
- middle-aged
- and
- institutionalized,
- is
- a
- long-term
- inmate
- at
- Camp
- Sunshine,
- a
- center
- for
- deprogramming
- captured
- Elder
- God
- cultists.
- He’s
- considered
- safe
- enough
- to
- edit
- the
- camp
- newsletter,
- and
- he
- even
- has
- postal
- privileges
- –
- which
- he
- uses
- to
- run
- a
- play-by-mail
- game.
- After
- 25
- years,
- Derek
- finally
- has
- reason
- to
- escape:
- a
- nearby
- D&D
- convention.
- While
- Derek’s
- D&D
- games
- were
- full
- of
- fictional
- elder
- gods
- and
- world-ending
- threats,
- a
- LARP
- game
- at
- the
- con
- is
- a
- dread
- ritual
- designed
- to
- summon
- a
- great
- evil
- into
- our
- world,
- and
- it’s
- up
- to
- Derek
- and
- his
- players
- to
- stop
- them.The
- fate
- of
- the
- world
- may
- depend
- on
- the
- contents
- of
- Derek’s
- magic
- dice
- bag.At
- the
- Publisher's
- request,
- this
- title
- is
- being
- sold
- without
- Digital
- Rights
- Management
- Software
- (DRM) applied.
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