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<p>Everyone else on the street that day saw a lunatic wearing strange brass goggles, swinging an invisible sword through the streets of downtown Seattle. But Jacob recognized what the man was really doing—playing a game in augmented reality.</p> <p>The game is called Panmachina AR, and Jacob is offered a job by the game's creator. Putting on his own goggles for the first time, Jacob enters a city he thinks he knows, but the skyscrapers have been replaced with towering monuments to Victorian architecture. Airships float between the buildings, and enemies ranging from steam powered bunnies to clockwork werewolves lurk in every shadow.</p> <p>When the game's creator, I.M. Montebalt, announces a quest to the three hundred testers playing the early release, Jacob sees an opportunity to rewrite a dark chapter in his life. Some enemies, however, aren't creations of the game at all. Jameson and the Glitch, two disgraced ex-employees, will use every means at their disposal to make sure Jacob doesn't succeed. But Jacob has help in his Journey. Jeni, a purple-haired werewolf with temper issues; Trick, a loyal summoner who hopes to one day conjure something bigger than a breadbox; and Banjo, Jacob's talking synthetic monkey, help Jacob tackle every obstacle thrown at them. For Jacob, failure is as good as death, but victory means a new beginning, and a stake in the heart of the game--a place called Steam Whistle Alley.</p>
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