"How about Military?" Pete suggested.
"Military? Or you serious?" Judy asked incredulously. "You mean marching around and playing soldiers? Or answering trivia questions about what battles happened where?"
"Hey, military history is pretty cool," Eugene responded. Looking at Pete, he made a motion with his right hand over his chest, then pushed his hand out. "Strength and honor."
Pete grinned as he returned the salute, repeating "Strength and honor."
Pete added, "Ready your breakfast and eat hearty." Eugene joined him as the two said in unison "For tonight we dine in hell!"
"Okay, that last movie wasn't real," Judy retorted. "It was based on a comic book."
"Graphic novel," Lindsey corrected her. "And it's actually based on a real life event, the Battle of Thermopylae."
Lindsey closed her eyes as she recited:
Ō ksein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tēide
keimetha, tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.
She then translated, "'Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their words.' It's what on the stone marking the burial mound of the Spartans who died at that battle. Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing what this Military mode is like. If it's ancient military history, I'm a big fan of Archimedes and Boudica. Or maybe the immersive game is playing Risk or Diplomacy."
"Did you see that show where Archimedes invented the first death ray?" Pete asked Eugene. The two began relating to each other the details of the show in question.
Judy wasn't surprised that Pete would pick military. He was a big fan of military movies that weren't too realistic, and had the requisite amount of violence in them. And she knew that one of the few things he and Eugene would watch together were the shows about Military History. But the fact that Lindsey knew things like that, or knew about military board games, surprised Judy. It was easy to think of Lindsey as an empty headed cheerleader, or a geek girl caught up in her own world, because Lindsey seemed to enjoy floating between those two personas at random. But then Lindsey would demonstrate that she knew things that didn't involve either one of those personas.
Judy found Lindsey to be a riddle wrapped up in an enigma tortilla, then deep fried in mystery batter.
"Fine," Judy conceded. "We can play the Military choice."
"Cool," Eugene said, typing in the group's choice, then asking, "Which mode are we going to play in, traditional or immersive?"
The four talked it over, and decided to choose
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