The Wizard: Cyber-Tourney [Western Diamond]

A Story by Abishai100

A dioramic vignette about a video-game 'wizard' who illuminates/reflects the dazzle of modernism diaries.

An homage to cyber-imagination/modernism itself, inspired loosely by the very iconic American youth-film The Wizard. Thanks so much for reading,

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Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) is a guerrilla-intelligence infiltrations-operationalist with Interpol-relations working with underground world groups to destabilize blood-diamond piracy traffic in British Columbia and Northern Ireland.

He studied at a special Ivy League school in America where he learned about political paradigm parallels between the East and West regarding economics-grid reinventions during anticolonial struggles against British rule and developed a 'neo-classical' appreciation of modern governance imagination as it relates to socialization, education, and institutions.

As the Interpol-relations operationalist known as Storm-Shadow, Satan (Amlan) has developed an 'uncanny' ability to sift through the grid-matrix of diamond capitalism sullied by the modern piracy-highways between conflict-zones like Sierra Leone and Northern Ireland in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11.

STORM-SHADOW: Our inter-religious group of world-agents/agencies subverts baron-investments in blood-diamonds in Belfast.

Through this 'social matrix' work linked to the groups like Friends of Humanity (FOH), Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) has sharpened his special 'secret' life-hobby of cyber-wizardry and video-games, honing his skills at computation-languages like Pascal and developing his 'uncanny' skills with video-game synthesis of combat-scenario landscaping, making him an 'aficionado' of the Playstation in the West.

This secret hobby has brought Amlan outstanding cyber-tourney trophies for his video-game prowess with Mortal Kombat and Castlevania online-games and arena/conference tourneys. He's in fact earned a gold, silver, and bronze trophy set which he proudly keeps in his Boston apartment.

The new cyber-tourney Amlan is attending is in Colorado and will see many hot contenders in the modern era 'world' of video-game competition(s). This cyber-tourney will find Amlan pitted in online/arena games against the best players from around the Globe, and he'll have to be his very-best to stand-out in Castlevania at this level of competitiveness!

STORM-SHADOW (Amlan Satan): The media-marketing behind such a 'grand' cyber-event signals a high-mark in the West.

Yes, in fact, this Colorado cyber-tourney in a lit up arena will be broadcast on TV/Net and feature great consumerism marketing and hallmarks of old-school advertisements highlighting what makes modern 'overground' capitalism a thing of great pride/triumph, safe from the dark annals of piracy/terrorism, where Amlan works as an underground James Bond.

STORM-SHADOW: I'm certain in fact that this Colorado cyber-gaming event will remind folks of the allure of futuristic media.

He'll have to be really good to perform well and competitively at the cyber-tourney in specially-customized Castlevania games designed to determine who exactly is the 'finest' gamer in the modern cyber-net/world. This event is to be featured in a special 'fanzine' article/editorial featurette in the Globe paper Digital.

Storm-Shadow tears through the tourney-ladder and makes it to the Semi-Finals in a breeze with his swift and determined play of sword-and-evasion in Castlevania arenas and must now challenge the two greats in the cyber-world, Li Han (China) and Jan Heikennen (Finland). The stage is set for a great potential final two matches for this real-life James Bond.

DIGITAL (Magazine): It was remarkable to see Satan (Amlan) outlast Han (China) and Heikennen (Finland), creating fan-cheer.

STORM-SHADOW: The modern 'cyber-grid' of online-gaming and video-game arenas represents the best of capitalism.

He's now featured in a colorful punk-fanzine called Digital-Boston which will compare his adventure-stylistics in Castlevania with modern youth-marketed comic book 'avatar' marketing designed to promote a new era interest in 'virtual reality' fantasy characterizations symbolizing net-matrix dance.

STORM-SHADOW: I'm sure my buddies by Interpol will consider my newest cyber-trophy a marvel for my world-briefcase!

There's no doubt now that Satan's a wizard of the West (civilization), and it's ironic how video-game 'imaginariums' have facilitated new forms of anti-terrorism and anti-piracy intellectualism among new age consumers drawn into the 'virtual' world of imaginary design.

SATAN: This is a toast to modernism in fact.
ADVERSARY: Couldn't this promote 'envy' among anti-Westerners?
SATAN: I doubt cyber-networks will fail to create globalized thinking.
ADVERSARY: Isn't cyber-intelligence a new form for hacking?
SATAN: There's room for adversaries...as well as diplomats.
ADVERSARY: There's also a 'special' room for darkness!
SATAN: Well, me thinks we have great potential/scope for virtual politics.
ADVERSARY: Let's hope the 'mecha-dragon' of terrorism doesn't cloud this capital.
SATAN: Sure.