By now they had reached the front door, it was a large slab of the same material as the house that was hung on three massive bars of metal that we’re fixed into the surrounding wall. For how heavy the door was it moved easily, you just had to be patient with it. Moving a several hundred pound door wasnt something you wanted moving quickly. It was like getting hit by a train, not very pleasant.

They were used to moving the door, and closing it was even easier. They pulled it open about 2 feet slipped inside and pulled it shut behind them. Inside the entry room was a simple concrete floor lined with shoes all along the edges, Paul’s Mom didnt allow shoes inside the house, she could be so picky about capeting that she replaced every year anyway.

Two servants appeared from a side door and greeted Paul offered to take the school bags from them, noone accepted. They had to ask each time, but they always knew the answer. Paul thanked them and then asked: “Is my Mother home?” “Im sorry sir, she is not. She left a message that she would be home next thursday.” and then anticipating an explanation “She left no reason why.” “Ah, i see. Thank you Dean.”

With that the servants left, heading back to their interupted poker game in the servants kitchen.

“Looks like the house is ours Gentlemen, lets get to it!” Paul said jokingly with a wry grin.

This was completely ordinary, Paul’s Mom was constantly leaving at the drop of a hat leaving nothing other than a message that she was gone, and when she would be back. But thats another story. Paul and his 3 freinds headed to the server room, each one going over the strategy Paul had thought up. They entered the room, which was just a simple room. A large table in the middle with 4 smaller ones surrounding it. The center table already had a hot combination pizza on it with a small refrigerator full of soda’s and energy drinks. The outer tables each had a 24″ flat screen monitor hooked up to a small black box. Paul had found these computers, he wouldnt say where. But the processing capacity was amazing, each one could handle the maximum graphical settings of any game the four could find, and the equivalent to a several terabyte storage capacity.

“Perfect” Paul said, as he headed for his computer. “Lets get this show on the road”