Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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Role Play, Privilege and Obsession

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The thing Ethan loved most about the game was that there were no boundaries as far as space or time. It was ongoing, wherever and whenever they wanted.

Geordie and Nicola invented it one afternoon. It took them about two weeks to finalize the rules.

The game, which would remain unnamed, combined their own secret society, a loose plot outline, guerilla LARPing, and a decent grasp of American History.

The closest they ever got to fighting over the game is when Schmidt suggested they sell the concept, monetize it.

They would go out to eat sometimes after they played and Ethan wouldn’t answer to his own name, so immersed he was in his character, Wulf.

The rest of the squad teased him at first, then just started calling him Wulf until Ethan and Wulf were just about the same person.

Nicola tried to not say that part out loud when the Barton County Sheriff’s Department was sitting in her parent’s living room,

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