Rendering Nirayel: Stepping On Arbitos - Book Two (Electronic book text)

Sarah Hoffman is introduced to the civilian, somewhat nerdish computer scientist, Doctor Orval B. Kwibee, who has been disavowed by his military employers following the accident that led not only to Sarah's husband's and brother's having entered a catatonic state, but also to the similar entrapment of a quarter-million other role-players, who, the Doctor predicts, will remain trapped until the IBOT program is allowed to complete whatever mysterious internal objectives it has set for itself. Sarah reluctantly accepts Kwibee's seemingly ridiculous account. Even more reluctantly, she volunteers to participate by making an unauthorized entry into the now militarily controlled project.