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Library, Sunday

"So... where are the eggheads?"

Dante'd been fighting something out of a Japanese schoolgirl's nightmare out there. He'd been hoping someone was close to a solution. Instead the door was still closed, and... "Eight AM. I stayed up fighting shit until eight AM."

He nudged against the door and found it open. "'Kay then," he said, wandering inside. "Maybe there's some eggheads after all."

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Kathy shook her head. "I need a map of the island to compare it to and I haven't gotten one yet. Do you have one handy?"

There were almost certainly a slew about the library itself, but maybe Gratuity had one at hand?

Tip shrugged. "I'm sure there's one in here somewhere," she said. "But I meant the website there." She pointed to the localhost address.

Kathy shook her head. "Haven't had a chance, I was going to try to hunt down the third piece." She held out her chunk. "Do you want to take a crack at it?"

"Sure." Tip peered over her shoulder and quickly jotted down the address, then went over to one of the library computers. "It looks like it's on a local network, so not having the whole internet shouldn't be a problem."

She typed the address into the browser, then bopped her head for a few moments while the computer made the connection and loaded an image.

"That map. It looks kind of like Galactica Point, right?"

So did her image. A small horizontal sketch of it, to be precise. And arrow pointed to a particular rock formation, and there was some text added in all caps. "UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B-SHAPE A-SHAPE," Tip read. "Sounds like trying to teach someone to drive Slushious."

That was what happened when you had your family car repaired by someone who only vaguely understood the concept of one.

"That's the Konami code," Kathy said, blinking at it. "What's going on at Galactica Point that requires the Konami code?"

"Konami code? Is that . . . Japanese?"

Tip was not a gamer, no. Having to deal with actual alien invaders kind of took the fun out of digital ones for her.

"Yeah, sorta," Kathy said, peering at the computer screen like it would explain itself any minute. "It's an old video game reference. Putting that code into old Nintendo games would unlock new abilities and stuff."

"Huh." Tip looked at the sketch again, and the group of rocks it indicated. "I wonder what it unlocks out there."

"That's what we're going to have to find out," Kathy said. "I mean, send folks to find out. Send."

Doing it herself smacked firmly of heroics and she was done with that for now. Yes.

"Not the type for field work, huh?" Tip guessed.

"I've heard there are giant octopuses hanging around in trees out there," Kathy declared. "I'm way too East Asian for that nonsense."

Because it was that or saying 'not anymore' or maybe 'trying not to be.'

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