| Author: | James Carmichael | ISBN: | 1230000741606 |
| Publisher: | Ishum Stories | Publication: | October 26, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Carmichael |
| ISBN: | 1230000741606 |
| Publisher: | Ishum Stories |
| Publication: | October 26, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
"Truly brilliant...a vivid, snaking, crazy ride."
- Jack Thorne, co-author of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, creator and writer of Glue and The Fades
"Emmeline Kim stands with Sarah Manning, Sarah Connor, and other heroic Sarahs in the pantheon of ordinary but fascinating heroines…Even if you're not a gamer yourself, you'll find yourself itching to quest into Erra, even knowing that doing so might trigger a disaster across the world... or right next door."
- David J. Schwartz, author of Superpowered and Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic
"*Erra's Throne* strengthens YA. Quick and quirky, it submerges its reader into the world of young gamers, the angst and latency of teen years, and language saturated by immediacy and sincerity."
- Lonita Cook, Kansas City Examiner
This is Column 5 of 7 of *Erra’s Throne, the story of Emmeline Kim's battle against an ancient god reaching into our world. To follow Emmy’s story from the beginning, you can get Columns 1, 2, 3, and 4 right here: just search for “Erra’s Throne”. *
And if you haven’t yet read those, hey lookout: spoilers below!
Okay let’s do this. Emmy Kim: funny kid; Stang: QA tester, body mysteriously broken; Erra's Throne: popular new MMO, probably magic, catastrophic; earthquake storm hole-in-the-world Shedu bloodmagic “The Prominence” GO.
What?
Okay okay.
Everyone's trying to reach a mysterious place called “The Prominence”, Erra's Throne's first big world event (and load test). It's hard to get there: like everything in this game, the good stuff doesn't come easy. It promises big battles, player-vs.-player factional warfare, good times.
Stang’s been fired from Gephyr Studios for using his QA knowledge in personal play. Then, immediately & mysteriously, enlisted by Delilah Mays--the game's creator--to keep playing, "doing what he's been doing": fighting the strange bugs that seem to appear only to him and making big things happen in-game. He's teamed up with a chatty but skillful crew in order to reach "The Prominence”, defeating his most bizarre challenge yet: the glitchily infinite Gnarl.
Meanwhile our hero, Emmeline Kim, was out of commission for about 40 hours, after the night in which her mysterious glitch guided her to a hole torn in the game that led back to, apparently, New York City--like, in fact, New York City. Into which she (or Fehns, her character, rather) jumped and then she (Emmy; Fehns is probably not diabetic) had a hypoglycemic fit that nearly killed her. Emmy wound up in the ER, babbling in tongues, and woke up kind of um feeling the game.
Then, some sh- stuff happened involving blood, lions, and video games.
TL;DR: Emmy and Rich are on their way to “The Prominence”, riding a flying great cat called a Shedu. They need to...they’re not sure what they need to do. But they’re pretty sure it'll be bad news for everyone, everything, if they don’t do it.
Game on.
"Truly brilliant...a vivid, snaking, crazy ride."
- Jack Thorne, co-author of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, creator and writer of Glue and The Fades
"Emmeline Kim stands with Sarah Manning, Sarah Connor, and other heroic Sarahs in the pantheon of ordinary but fascinating heroines…Even if you're not a gamer yourself, you'll find yourself itching to quest into Erra, even knowing that doing so might trigger a disaster across the world... or right next door."
- David J. Schwartz, author of Superpowered and Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic
"*Erra's Throne* strengthens YA. Quick and quirky, it submerges its reader into the world of young gamers, the angst and latency of teen years, and language saturated by immediacy and sincerity."
- Lonita Cook, Kansas City Examiner
This is Column 5 of 7 of *Erra’s Throne, the story of Emmeline Kim's battle against an ancient god reaching into our world. To follow Emmy’s story from the beginning, you can get Columns 1, 2, 3, and 4 right here: just search for “Erra’s Throne”. *
And if you haven’t yet read those, hey lookout: spoilers below!
Okay let’s do this. Emmy Kim: funny kid; Stang: QA tester, body mysteriously broken; Erra's Throne: popular new MMO, probably magic, catastrophic; earthquake storm hole-in-the-world Shedu bloodmagic “The Prominence” GO.
What?
Okay okay.
Everyone's trying to reach a mysterious place called “The Prominence”, Erra's Throne's first big world event (and load test). It's hard to get there: like everything in this game, the good stuff doesn't come easy. It promises big battles, player-vs.-player factional warfare, good times.
Stang’s been fired from Gephyr Studios for using his QA knowledge in personal play. Then, immediately & mysteriously, enlisted by Delilah Mays--the game's creator--to keep playing, "doing what he's been doing": fighting the strange bugs that seem to appear only to him and making big things happen in-game. He's teamed up with a chatty but skillful crew in order to reach "The Prominence”, defeating his most bizarre challenge yet: the glitchily infinite Gnarl.
Meanwhile our hero, Emmeline Kim, was out of commission for about 40 hours, after the night in which her mysterious glitch guided her to a hole torn in the game that led back to, apparently, New York City--like, in fact, New York City. Into which she (or Fehns, her character, rather) jumped and then she (Emmy; Fehns is probably not diabetic) had a hypoglycemic fit that nearly killed her. Emmy wound up in the ER, babbling in tongues, and woke up kind of um feeling the game.
Then, some sh- stuff happened involving blood, lions, and video games.
TL;DR: Emmy and Rich are on their way to “The Prominence”, riding a flying great cat called a Shedu. They need to...they’re not sure what they need to do. But they’re pretty sure it'll be bad news for everyone, everything, if they don’t do it.
Game on.
