Cory Doctorow/Little Brother/121
"I'm terrified," I said. "I think that it would be crazy not to be  > RULES FOR VAMPMOB
terrified." > You are part of a clan of daylight
"Yeah," she said. "Yeah." vampires. You've discovered the secret of surviving the terrible light of the
sun. The secret was cannibalism: the
Mom called us to dinner. Dad shook Ange's hand. He looked  blood of another vampire can give you
unshaved and worried, the way he had since we'd gone to see  the strength to walk among the living.
Barbara, but on meeting Ange, a little of the old Dad came back. 
She kissed him on the cheek and he insisted that she call him  > You need to bite as many other vampires
Drew.
as you can in order to stay in the
game. If one minute goes by without a
bite, you're out. Once you're out, turn
Dinner was actually really good. The ice broke when Ange took  your shirt around backwards and go
out her hot­sauce mister and treated her plate, and explained about  referee -- watch two or three vamps to
Scoville units. Dad tried a forkful of her food and went reeling  see if they're getting their bites in.
into the kitchen to drink a gallon of milk. Believe it or not, Mom 
still tried it after that and gave every impression of loving it. 
> To bite another vamp, you have to say
"Bite!" five times before they do. So
Mom, it turned out, was an undiscovered spicy food prodigy, a  you run up to a vamp, make eye-contact,
natural. and shout "bite bite bite bite bite!" and if you get it out before she does,
Before she left, Ange pressed the hot­sauce mister on Mom. "I  you live and she crumbles to dust.
have a spare at home," she said. I'd watched her pack it in her  > You and the other vamps you meet at
backpack. "You seem like the kind of woman who should have  your rendezvous are a team. They are
one of these." your clan. You derive no nourishment
from their blood.
Chapter 19
> You can "go invisible" by standing
still and folding your arms over your
chest. You can't bite invisible vamps,
This chapter is dedicated to the MIT Press Bookshop, a store I've  and they can't bite you.
visited on every single trip to Boston over the past ten years. MIT, 
of course, is one of the legendary origin nodes for global nerd  > This game is played on the honor system. The point is to have fun and
culture, and the campus bookstore lives up to the incredible  get your vamp on, not to win.
expectations I had when I first set foot in it. In addition to the 
wonderful titles published by the MIT press, the bookshop is a  > There is an end-game that will be
tour through the most exciting high­tech publications in the  passed by word of mouth as winners
world, from hacker zines like 2600 to fat academic anthologies on  begin to emerge. The game-masters will start a whisper campaign among the
video­game design. This is one of those stores where I have to ask  players when the time comes. Spread the
them to ship my purchases home because they don't fit in my  whisper as quickly as you can and watch
suitcase. for the sign.
> M1k3y
MIT Press Bookstore http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/  > bite bite bite bite bite!
Building E38, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA USA 
02139­4307 +1 617 253 5249 We'd hoped that a hundred people would be willing to play 
VampMob. We'd sent out about two hundred invites each. But 
when I sat bolt upright at 4AM and grabbed my Xbox, there were 
Here's the email that went out at 7AM the next day, while Ange  400 replies there. Four hundred. 
and I were spray­painting VAMP­MOB CIVIC CENTER ­> ­> at 
strategic locations around town. I fed the addresses to the bot and stole out of the house. I 
descended the stairs, listening to my father snore and my mom 
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