Present Day
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BAM! WHAM! DING DING! "Let's go! The iconic Sun Tzu(1) strategy! You actually fell for it! "'All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.' Haha!"
"Ugh, I don't like this game, James. You always win." "Haha, Sophie, you should read The Art of War sometime. Then, you might have a chance of winning against me."
"Hmph, Let's play Call of Duty, I'm good at that," said Sophie
"No thank you Soph,. Call of Duty is just fighting and no strategy."
"James! Sophie! Your friend is here!"
"Got it Mom!" hollered Sophie.
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"Oh! It's Rickie! He said something about a new arcade or something," said James.
They run downstairs and into the living room to see Rickie. They saw him and waved, "Hi Rickie!"
He replied "Yo yo yo, what is up."
James ushered, "C'mon, lets go into our room, you said you had some news."
They ran back upstairs and into their gaming room. Rickie plopped onto a beanbag chair while James and Sophie both sat on their gaming chairs.
Rickie whispered, "Okay, so I heard some news. There is a new arcade that opened up a few days ago just across the street. What's strange is that all of the games are difficult strategy games."
James's face lit up. "That's amazing! I wanna go!"
Rickie stopped them, "Wait, Lemme tell you something else. There is legit anything that you think of! From Tvs to candy. Everything!"
"Ugh, you know those things don't interest us. They are just possesions."
Rickie said, "Do you think I didn't know that? The biggest prizes are weird rings!"
James and Sophie looked up in confusion, "Of course they're rings. Rings are very expensive."
Rickie sighed in exasperation, "No, they aren't diamond rings or rings embedded with precious gems. All eight of the rings look like animal skin!"
This perked both James and Sophie at the same time, "What are you waiting for? Let's Go!"