Summary of chapter virtually true
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This is the story of a boy named Michael who is crazy for computer games. His father also likes to buy the new gizmos and gadgets. So, on a trip to the computer fair they purchase many computer accessories and a couple of games.
Michael plays many games and finds them different from those he had played earlier. In each of these games namely ‘Wildwest’, ‘Dragonquest’, ‘Jailbreak’ he has a companion who gets killed in the end of the game. This player sends messages on Michael’s printer asking for help to rescue him.
Initially, Michael feels that this is a part of these latest games. But later a news report of a ‘Miracle recovery’ of a boy helps him find the truth. The picture of the boy in the news resembles his gaming companion and Michael is intrigued. Upon reading the news he comes to know that the companion is a boy named Sebastian who had met with an accident while playing the psycho drive game. As a result, his memory got trapped in the computer’s memory and he was in coma.
Michael had purchased these games at the fair and these were the same games that had been stolen from Sebastian’s car at the time of the accident.
Michael helped his companion to escape from the game named ‘Warzone’ and hence, his trapped memory was retrieved.
So, the boy in coma, Sebastian regained consciousness and thanked Michael for rescuing him from the virtual world.
HOPE IT HELPS ☺️
The story starts with a boy named Michael who reads an article in the newspaper about a “Miracle Recovery.”
A boy, whose condition was critical but stable, had recovered from coma. Michael recollected that the boy who was mentioned in the newspaper was in fact Sebastian Shultz whom he had met weeks ago while playing. This all started at the Computer Fair, when Michael’s father who was nutty about computers, bought him a new computer preloaded with games.
When he played the game ‘Wild West’, he became a Sheriff and was challenged by “Black eyed Jed” to a duel. He then met a Second Sheriff whom he was asked to go with. Unfortunately, the Second Sheriff was shot by the villains and the game ends. Later on, he got a printout which read “I ‘m Sebastian Shultz. Try playing Dragon Quest”.
In Dragon Quest his task was to save Princess Aurora from the wicked dragon and collect the wicked creature’s treasure along the way. He had the help of the second knight who was revealed to be Sebastian. Later on in the game,
Sebastian was killed. The game ended with the printer displaying a message asking him not to give up and to try playing “Jailbreak.”
In Jailbreak, his mission was to escape with the prisoner, and he knew that it was Sebastian again. They broke out of jail, and ran to the roof as the doors shut behind them. The helicopter arrived as they reached the roof. They got into the helicopter. As they took off, Sebastian fell off the helicopter and the game ended. Later on, he played the game many times but the printout did not come.
Then one day, the printer showed a message telling him that the helicopter was a better choice, and to try playing “War Zone”, Sebastian had also promised not to trouble him again if this did not work out. He jumped right into the game. He found himself in some kind of a city scarred by battle wounds. He knew he that had to save Sebastian. They ran together to an abandoned jeep they found amidst the rubble. They went towards a helicopter as a tank chased them. As soon as it came to their view, Sebastian stopped the car.
The jeep went into a spin and Michael leapt into the helicopter. Sebastian did not enter the helicopter at this point. Michael waited and yelled at him to come into helicopter but Sebastian did not move. Moments later, the tank collided with the jeep and Sebastian was thrown into the helicopter. They flew into clouds and the game ended, saving him. When he removed his visor he came to know that he had got the High Score. The narrator wanted now to cross-check the facts.
He surfed the net for some details. He found out what he was looking for. Apparently at the time of the accident, Sebastian was using his laptop to play one of the psycho-drive games that the narrator had bought.
The narrator realised that Sebastian’s memory had been stored on disk because the computer had saved Sebastian’s memory, when Sebastian had banged his head in the accident.
But how did it end up in the narrator’s computer ? This was also solved later because the narrator came to know that when Sebastian had been in the hospital, someone had stolen the games and sold them and the narrator had ended up buying them. There was a message from Sebastian that said, “DEAR MICHAEL, THANK YOU.
I’M NOT SURE HOW IT HAPPENED. BUT YOU SAVED MY LIFE. LET’S MEET UP SOON, CHEERS. SEB. PL. KEEP THE GAMES. YOU’VE EARNED THEM”. This was a real and direct message from Sebastian. It was clear that by reliving the accident, something wonderful had happened. But then again, what can someone say about miracles. And what is true or what is virtually true - no one can say with finality. The narrator had undergone an experience that had proved to be virtually true.