Heist

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In an argot obsolete long before their time, NESSET would have been the owner, who designed the con. Opel was the roper, who brought the mark in. (“Outside man” was more common in the days of the Pigeon Drop and the Greek Return, but Opel wasn’t a man.) Threely was the cooler, who stuck around after the blow-off to keep the mark from tipping off the authorities.

Bill Martin was the mark.

Guillaume d’Artiman flew past the turquoise Realms of Daelemil hills and out toward the Aloquen Sea. A leviathan’s waterspout crested in the river delta below, and simulated sunlight flashed on its iridescent lavender scales. More proof of how badly the Daelemil economy had crashed. At the peak of the game’s popularity a leviathan lasted an average of one minute forty-one seconds from spawning until being killed for the scales and venom it dropped, but now the gold farmers had moved on to Bushido Online and Pulsar.

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