{I think you have misunderstood me, Cain. That is the money SPQR have made since you played and since you became sexually active as a group. You are the most watched group of players in the world, ever. For example, the least number of times any action that SPQR have streamed or recorded of your fighting or sexual antics, is 1.369 billion times.
The sex recording you all made so you could break the bank. People have watched and watched again the recordings over 26 billion times, and they have purchased 3.728 billion downloads of the action. All that in the space of ten earth hours. You have all made the news, the press is trying to find out just who are, Joseph and the DreamBabes.Between you and the Babes, you have each made a smidge over 746 million, tax free.} Enoch informed Cain.
Cain stopped walking as they were about to search for a way into the terminal. His Babes all went to kneeling shooting poses.
"What's wrong Joseph?" Toni asked and grabbed his hand pulling him down to his knees. "What's wrong? You don't just stand there not moving with a stunned expression on your face."
Toni, I know about as she is living with me, as we are an item, I hope for it to become permanent but that is up to Toni. Some things worry me, I want Enoch and Rahab to do some checking for us.
There is nothing wrong with me, so don't look like that Toni, and you will be more than pleased when you find out what I've found out. So, if you would like ladies, can we have your information? It is vitally important. C>
The mobsters hijacked the vehicle and shorted the EI, driving it through crowded streets, I was one of many who they ran into. My parents lawyers told me a group of Russian mobsters had hacked the EI and were trying to use the car to kidnap young women returning from the Sorbonne. They were chased by the police, hence them driving through a crowded pedestrian area. I think but can't remember, but I'm in a hospital somewhere in the 14th Arrondissement, Paris. I am a single female and have no partner, lover or children. >
What with all the messaging back and forwards they had reached the tramway tunnel and were walking slightly downwards towards the end of the line. It pleased Toni the lights were on in the tunnel, although darkness didn't worry her, being underground normally wasn't a pleasant feeling for her in the real world.
They soon reached the end of the tunnel and helped each other climb onto the platform. Cain showed off by hopping up the four-foot height, and gave his hand to his women, pulling them up two at a time.
"Somebody told me we should find the staircase around this area," said Toni, relaying information Rahab had given her. Bethany was the one who found a single door marked with several red warning signs. Keep Out High Voltage, Bio Hazard, Danger of Radiation, Warning Death from Falling Objects and Warning Death from Rabid Rabbits.
They walked in single file down sixteen flights of stairs before they reached the bottom and a long corridor. The corridor ended in a large vestibule of one thousand six hundred square feet of space. It looked like someone had laid the area out with large comfy looking chairs and settees, and two 3D projectors at either end of the area.
The programmers had covered the floor with a mix of light grey and dark grey marble tiles. There was a strange geometric design around the outside edge of the floor. While in the middle of the room was a design built around regular polygons, such as a triangle, squares and hexagons.
The simple pattern of tiles caught the eye as soon as a person entered the room. Each connected tile joined at its point with another tile, the spaces between the tiles had been filled with a pristine white grout. In the room's centre was a large single hexagonal tile, five feet across.
Chapter 36
Going Down
[Toni, can you slowly walk around the edge of this room? I will use your eyes and see what the outer edge pattern is whether there is something beyond a pattern.] Asked Rahab.
Toni walked around the room slowly, her eyes fixed to the floor as she walked the perimeter. Once she reached the beginning, Toni looked up, noticing Cain had his eyes on her. She noticed her sisters, her DreamBabes, looked at her even though they sprawled in chairs and settees, while Cain just stood watching her, with a satisfied smile on his face.
[Someone has written the pattern around the edge of the room in a number format. With every third number equating to the letter in a message. These are the numbers I found:] Rahab told Toni, which made Toni shake her head.
How can I work this out, I assume it's a simple randomised A to Z against a 1 to 26? If I use my pad and a pencil, I can work it out, in say ten to twenty minutes. Thanks, Rahab.
[Sadly, the person who wrote the code used a scrambled number allocation rather than 1 = A, 2 = B, and so forth. There are three hundred and twenty-five permutations, it would take over two hours to find the correct permutation. Because I have access to your higher functions and my processing power, I took less than half a second to work the message out. Did you realise just how fast your brain is in doing computational work? Never mind, these are the letters.] Rahab told Toni. [And these are the correct letters you need to read, ] Rahab added.
[The letters spell, the centre tile hides a stairwell, It looks like we found the entrance to the portal.]
Rahab informed Toni, who let out a tiny squeak once Rahab had finished telling her about the centre tile. Going over to Cain and giving him a long and passionate kiss, Toni said
"we need to go down more. Rahab found a message in the numbers around the edge of the room."
Centre tile?" Cain asked Toni, she pushed her hands against his chest.
"How, how is that even possible? Did, you know who, I mean Enoch, did he work it out?" Toni asked.
"No," replied Cain and lifted his eyes to the ceiling. There above the centre tile were three metal lugs for fastening rope on. "I only just worked it out, you were a large but pleasant distraction, I couldn't take my eyes off you while you walked around the edge of the room. Your walk is rather enticing, seductive even, well for me anyway."
"Don't forget us, we were watching, she sure walks seductively," said Sophie. Smiling up at Cain, Toni said, "That's nice. I think you deserve a treat for that… later, alone, maybe."
{Cain, just to let you know, you are no longer being streamed as a group. I checked all the Forsaken gaming feeds, and you disappeared as a group when you entered terminal 1, though the system tracked your movements. Once you entered the stairwell in terminal 1's arrivals hall, the system stopped tracking you. Your walk down the tramway followed by the staircase, you have no recordings made; you are free of watchers.
Also, John got back, and yes, he can do what you asked. There will be two teams on each location although the prison one will
take a touch of adaptive planning.} Enoch informed Cain. Taking Toni's hand, Cain dragged her towards a settee next to where the other Babes were lounging.
"So, Toni, Lesley, Bethany and Sophie. I'm glad we're all sitting. I think you ladies are inadvertently in grave danger," Cain said holding up a hand to forestall questions. "We have not, should I say SPQR have not streamed us live since we entered terminal 1 and the tramway to get down here, so we can talk freely. Although I'm not sure, we can fully trust it, but Enoch says we can.
From the attempted assassin's attack earlier, I think Jason is intent on killing both Toni and me. Once he finds your names he will more than likely come, send others for you, too. Well me and Enoch believe as Jason works in such a manner.
Enoch and Rahab have been reading the forums and social media, especially a group on TwitFace called Ass4U. From the messages posted in code and encrypted the group is the globally game banned Assassins4Hire. Enoch believes they are also an assassin group that carries out similar activities in the real world under the title, A4U. Should you want to leave the group then you can, and no hard feelings. We, (squeezing Toni's hand) understand if you want to leave. We still have another player to find so we can access the unique item…
Oh, shit. OK, the other stuff I'll tell you about later, but we need to find both the portal and another female to join with us, so we can port ourselves out of this zone. That is if you still want to stay with us?" Cain said.
Lesley, Sophie and Bethany, looked at each other, smiled then they dived onto the still seated, Cain and Toni. It was like a scrum, a free for all, where they groped, kissed and gently slapped each other. As they all said,
"how could they, he be so stupid in their thinking, believing they would want to leave them behind."
So glad the talk went better than I hoped, for now anyway. All I need is for John to put security in place and him to create AIs for my other DreamBabes assuming they want one.
{Tell them about the money, or some of the amount. Rahab wants to tease Toni, so get your say in now.} Enoch said.
"I'm glad you all want to stay. Because I'm the leader of our little clan, I have some good news for each of you. When we finally get out of the game, I have received a payment from SPQR, based on our fighting and sexual activities. Toni knows I have money, not how much but she knows I am not without means. You all are, well once we leave the game not without means. I wanted you to be sure you stayed for the right reasons." Cain said
"Come on spit it out, you will buy our bodies won't you. You going to give us a three hundred thousand, I bet," said Sophie.
"Nah, more like half a million," laughed Bethany
"A million, I hope," said Lesley.
"How about five million," said Toni with a knowing smile on her face. The other DreamBabes laughed at her high guess.
"Nope, not even close. Hurry sit down, then I can tell you… Right, all good guesses without any information to go on. I have the information, how about seven hundred million each," Cain said
All of his DreamBabes including Toni, screamed, rushed off their seats and tackled him to the floor, a large hug and cuddle ensued.
You told me I'd hit the jackpot. I should never have disbelieved you. Toni told Rahab.
[You have seen nothing yet, trust me. Keep your life fastened to Cain, he would give you everything to keep you happy. You know money is a burden don't you?] Rahab said.
That is exactly what Cain said. How can 700 million be a burden?
[You will find out, just keep close to Cain.] Once everybody had calmed down, they looked for a way down, out of the room.
"There is no way apart from explosives for us to move that marble tile, if it is where the stairs are," said Lesley.
Cain got on his hands and knees and tapped on the marble looking for a cover protecting equivalent lugs like those in the ceiling.
His DreamBabes joined him in tapping the floor. Bethany found the first cover and broke the tip off her combat knife levering it up. Sophie found the next, it came up easier than Bethany's. Toni found the last one, it popped up when she hit it.
"It's a good job we have rope still," said Cain. He fastened three lengths to three lugs in the marble tile. Looking up, he realised the only way he could get up to the ceiling, fifteen feet above their heads was for them to make a pyramid.
Cain easily took the weight of Toni, who knelt on his shoulders. Bethany, who was the tallest apart from Toni of the Babes, stood on Toni's shoulders. She stood upright and had to bend her neck or else her head touched the ceiling.
Looping All three lengths of rope through the ceiling lugs, Bethany climbed down Toni's body, stopping to give her a kiss and a playful squeeze of her breasts. Jumping to the floor, Bethany then helped Toni climb down Cain's back. Toni then returned the favour, leaving Bethany gasping for breath.
Watching the others fasten the ropes through the ceiling lugs, Lesley leant back against the wall and felt something move. She turned around and noticed a shallow alcove that wasn't there before, inside was a bookcase on the right filled with a variety of books. On the back wall was a curtain, covering a plaque.
"Cain, I've found another of those plaques in here," Lesley said, "and some proper, real printed books."
They all gathered around the alcove looking while Cain opened the curtain. Like the three previous plaques, this one had a message written by Michael Cameron Durie. The plaque's information said.
'This room is off-grid, I helped my good friend Vince design this and other rooms, here and beyond. If you push the button, you will find information about Harmon Cooper's books. You will find them in alcoves like this.
Pressing the button also gives you access to a unique item, something Vince and I think will help you greatly. It is not a ray gun to kill all your enemies, nor jewellery or a never-ending box of condoms. Open the box that appears below, use it wisely. Michael Cameron Durie, a friend of Vince.' A pop-up flashed onto everybody's HUDs.
As the curtain and plaque dissolved away, there behind them were three other lugs set above a button.
"Can I?" asked Toni as she leaned past Cain and pushed the blue button. They all turned as they heard a loud click followed by the whirring of gears as a smallish box raised slowly out of the floor, atop a white marble pedestal.
Standing back as the pedestal rose, Bethany noticed around the wall of the room, were several more small alcoves appeared, they each held what looked like posters displayed above small plaques.
On closer inspection of the nearest one, Bethany looked at the poster of a young good looking and bespectacled woman, with her fist raised as though she is ready to fight. Behind her two other women, armed with swords and scantily dressed, looking over their shoulders towards a threat. Bethany shivered at the poster, these women sure look capable, I wonder if people will think such of us here. Bethany's eyes read the small plaque to herself.
'After Chase Knowles downloaded the illegal Monster Hunt App, he inadvertently became the Alpha of two powerful Huntresses. In this second book, you can read that the Monster Hunt app definitely did a number on Chase Knowles' life. With two incredible Huntresses and his band mate, Iris, his group had taken New York City by storm. There is more to the Monster Hunt app as an exclusive world known as EverLife presents new challenges, a new adventure, and a mystery that none have been able to solve. Read the second book and see if you solve the mystery.'
I must see if that and the first one are among the ones on the bookcase, I'll borrow them if they are. Bethany thought. Cain opened the box and lifted a note out of the box then read it. As he worked his way down the note, it dissolved in his fingers. The package looked to be no longer than Cain's forearm, no wider or deeper than a hand span. It was a nondescript colour, made up of thousands of different coloured pixels. The only thing that stood out was a blue button, gently flashing.
"This will be of help, not so much in this small area of this game zone. But for the ones to come it will be of great help," Cain said as he lifted
the package out of the box. He received a pop-up message of his own, telling him the mobile housing unit now allocated to him. A PS was added on the note. Members of your clan can use the unit too.
Putting the item into his inventory, Cain said,
"I think we need to find out what is under the tile before we open the unique item we can all use and share."
Once Cain ran extra lengths of rope across to the newly found lugs in the wall, they were ready to lift the marble tile. Cain pulled on one rope, Toni and Lesley pulled on another, while Sophie and Bethany pulled on the last rope.
Working together they lifted the marble tile two inches proud of the floor, then it stopped moving. They tried again, but it still did not move. Cain let the tension off the ropes, but the tile still stayed proud of the floor. In frustration, Cain jumped onto the tile and thrust down hard with his legs.
Cain had forgotten just how strong his legs were. The marble tile gave a loud cracking sound and split into three equal pieces each held in place by the ropes. Together they moved each piece out of the way, revealing a wide circular staircase. Although they were not being recorded, they still were careful as they descended the stairwell weapons at the ready.
Hidden Below
Everybody was now on the spiral staircase, what was a poorly lit stairwell, now shone like midday, as automatic lights came on. They all exited the stairs and entered a small twelve by twelve room, with a single door, much like a hatch set in one wall. Cain tried the handle, but it would not move. Then everybody had a try free the solidly locked handle.
What did Vince's letter say, did it tell us how to open this door? Enoch can you help
{Yes, the letter said you have to be kissing from behind, backwards to be inside.} Enoch replied to Cain.
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