128 Inventing the Trebuchet

It was the summer of sophomore year, and Frank was in the middle of playing a video game on his computer, alone in his parent's house. His sister was off partying as per usual. As for his mother and father, they were on some beach in Thailand for their second honeymoon. Thus, Frank, who had come home from college for the summer, had the house entirely to himself.

Naturally, this meant he ordered a meat-lover's pizza, along with a few energy drinks, and was in the middle of a gaming marathon. Though not a popular streamer, Frank, or as he was known in cyberspace, EducatedFool was well known for going on twenty-four-hour gaming sprees whenever he could manage.

Today was special, why you might ask? Because he was playing a real time strategy that had just been released. The appeal of this game was that it had the political features of the most popular medieval grand strategy series, with the intense simulated battles of the most popular real time strategy series.