The Trideo Depot was in the Overlake Mall, down near the Touristville region of Redmond. Not too bad as Redmond facilities go: most windows and doors still intact, few bullet holes in the walls, and a vacancy rate of under 50 percent. The Depot was a typical trideo-rental facility. There were two terminals-"industrially hardened," of course-running directory search software, and a half-dozen screens showing selected scenes from the top-renting chips. For a few moments I was distracted by a wall-sized array alternating between clips from Neil the Ork Barbarian XIV (dialogue sample: "Die, scum-sucker!") and Behind You All the Way (dialogue sample: "Oh, oh yes . . ."), but shook myself free of the trideo spell and made my way to the counter.