User Unfriendly is a novel by American author Vivian Vande Velde.
The story is about a teenager by the name of Arvin Rizalli who, along with his friends, hacks an advanced virtual reality game by Rasmussem, Inc. to avoid what they believe to be ridiculous prices and limitations. They arrive in a small town in the middle of nowhere, and the adventure begins.
The game is set in medieval times, although some characters are a bit out of place (for ex...
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User Unfriendly is a novel by American author Vivian Vande Velde.
The story is about a teenager by the name of Arvin Rizalli who, along with his friends, hacks an advanced virtual reality game by Rasmussem, Inc. to avoid what they believe to be ridiculous prices and limitations. They arrive in a small town in the middle of nowhere, and the adventure begins.
The game is set in medieval times, although some characters are a bit out of place (for example, one of his friends becomes an Indian). The story seems at first to be your basic "defeat-the-evil-thing-killing-all-the-people-rescue-the-princess" book, although soon it gets rather complicated.
The first thing they discover is that the game is rather glitched: Talking about the game as a game will cause computer characters to mess up, and in one part they find a room which they are not meant to ever see and completely disappear. This would never happen in the real game, because the programmers at Rasmussem would be monitoring to...
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