Chapter 34 - Legal issues, real issues

Saachi had to talk long time to get a lead into Law department related to games. He wanted to clarify few details about contract inside the game. They were legally blinding, the breach would cost more than gaming avatar and its contents but a lot more in real life....blah ...blah...blah.....he knew, every one knew. Moderator had explained it in the beginning.

He had come back to past, he knew few things which were made well known. He knew the renowned cases which proved that the gaming company was not spouting nonsense. But, there bound to be other cases, where the company lost and thus not many knew of it. He wanted to the pits, boggy marshes and more of legal field.

He wa specifically seeking clarification about patents, copy cats, disclosure of information in any form, breach of contract and related things.

While he was talking, he was multi tasking. He was searching for details of Nilipt stone and void seed. The game was so huge. Possibly someone somewhere must have heard of it or knew some more details of it. Just by name, he knew these items were difficult to obtain. He wanted to know conditions where chances of getting them was more.

He knew sometimes timing would be very important. One of the ingredients of high level potion of rare kind, levitation potion, needs just bloomed Morphila flower, which grows in wild cliff edges as the plant needs constant moving wind as stimulus to grow. But the flower itself is another headache as it would bloom only when Tarin and Kirin met each other in sky, so near 3 or 4 times a year, in dead of the night most often. To get a single flower, 3 guilds exhausted their resources completely. Bad thing was, by the next flower bloom, the contenders had raised to 10 guilds.

So he wanted to be prepared for such 'timed' forage.

The lawyer on other side hemmed and hawed but did not answer fully. This was taking more time and after explaining everything to each person, he was getting more and more irritated

" You do realise that my call from the beginning has been recorded? I wonder how the company would feel about wishy-washy behaviour of your department when I release this audio. Would they approach another agressive company or still continue to use your company services."

The lawyer apparently got angry at getting caught of trying to escape. That was not the car but it certainly looked so. Even the lawyer knew it. He retorted angrily, " We are working in the company. We are not contracted people."

" Then all the more reason for the company to abolish your department and secure outside help. If you, in house legal services, can't manage my small problem, how can you manage many others which will sprout later? I can promise you that all sorts of people are playing your game and many will have odd questions."

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Some more talk.

Some other person.

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...Talk and repeat. ..... Finally, he found someone else who was impatient and ready to decimate the whole issue.

Somewhere in a different city,

Inside a luxurious office,

The legal services department were not just stalling Saachi for heck's sake. In front of Miss Sonja were two files, their collective effort , the details of caller in real life and in game and all the questions he had asked from the beginning.

Miss Sonja was a rare breed even among lawyers. She was headhunted even before she graduated, that kind of genius she was. After a stint, she found her footing and she never looked back. She was troubleshooter. Now she was akin to CEO.

It was based on her capabilities that the company made such boastful claims.

Her opening statement showed her behaviour and priorities clearly. " Two minutes or less, explain why we should answer your far fetching questions!" It was an order.

Even the secretary and the assistants standing trembled at her order.

In normal situations, Saachi might have behaved same way. Even a month back, it would have been his reaction. But....

Saachi was changing. In immeasurable way, in impeccable way. And that was the real issue. Unfortunately, even he had not noticed or realised it.

The game....the power inside the game.....it was changing him. No, the accurate term would be, the game was accelerating his development. He was a man who suffered physically and mentally for so long and still survived. He was a dreg who was not willing to die. He was more like a persistent cockroach which could even live beyond to see the world after atomic blast.

The tenecity.

The bullheadedness.

The sheer will to move on and on....

Saachi had changed from a boy who was happy to get wonderful newbie bonus and dream of having better future to a man who would fight tooth and nail for a single coin because that was his reality.

Two minutes or less....

A confrontation.

Who would back away first? Who would acceed?