Critical Hit

Critical Hit A Gaming Mystery

W. M. Akers2021
How do you win a game that's trying to kill you? A twenty-nine year-old clerk at a games store in the Appalachian hamlet of Jett Creek, Tennessee, Callie Myles lives for the weekly RPG sessions run by her beloved brother and gamesmaster, LB. Under his watchful eye, she and her friends wage war, harness magic, and battle evil. When the dice are rolling, they are heroes, and all of Callie's anxieties slip away. The fun stops the night LB burns to death in a bizarre fire.Asked by her friends to keep the weekly game alive, Callie does her best to set her grief aside. She puts on the monocle LB wore during sessions and finds herself sucked into a life-sized recreation of her brother's game. Inhabiting the body of her beloved character, the legendary Arabeth, she thinks she has found the ultimate escape. Her paradise is spoiled when she discovers that something inside the game killed LB-and one of her fellow players was in on it. To save herself, to avenge her brother, Callie Myles must pull on her armor and beat LB's game from the inside out. If she gets killed along the way, well, at least she's having a great time.A fast-paced hybrid of mystery and adventure, CRITICAL HIT captures the breakneck joy of tabletop gaming, where life and death depend on the whims of a plastic die.
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