BASE Status: Online [An Unlikely Hero's Journey]

EEngberts | sci_fi | Complete

2042-04-02 The Next Generation VRMMORPG will be released: Helheim Fallen!Sign up NOW and win the chance to be a beta-tester! Willow's life hasn't been easy. She was diagnosed as autistic at a young age and she's been on the 'enough to survive' track for all her life. The only place she feels normal is when she plays VRMMORPGs on the BASE platform with her guild and close friends.That is, until her best friend Violet gets a beta-invite for the new VRMMORPG Helheim Fallen and suddenly disappears.Now, Willow has to follow the clues Violet left behind to find her and save her. Willow has to face her biggest fears and struggles and accidentally stumbles into a dark side of the BASE platform that she never realised existed.Can she save Violet before more people go missing?

46.18 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:03

Abnormal

Millie | comedy | Complete

Millie is a 17 years old girl, she attended Peri high, an Unordinary school in an Unordinary world. Where almost everyone is born with a quirk and a rank, but not everyone, 0.004% of the population are cripples, a non magic folk, kinda like muggle in Harry Potter. Peri High is a popular school known for their powerful students and...where high tiers look down on low tiers, thinking they're better with a higher level and more important (It's actually really normal in this city) Millie kept herself on low profile, lying about her quirk and rank, she pretended to be a cripple, wanting to make real friends who doesn't care about her rank and quirk. While hiding a dark secret, trying to hide and forget her past, she stayed hidden. A new kind of Unordinary.

30.22 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 11:31

Forest Trickster

Elizabeth Tschereda | horror | Complete

Deep in a tangled forest spilled out from a sleeping god live our protagonists, Cassie and Angus. Cassie lives a normal village life; Angus lives a life filled with evil cultists, gods, and magical powers. When their lives collide Cassie is forced to flee the only home she has ever known. Can they work together to make up for the mistakes of the past, and defeat the evil cultists once and for all?

19.17 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:00

Kaleidoscope Book 1: Night has Fallen

Minasharpwrites | mystery | Complete

Marie was spending her time researching a magic circle when a case falls into her kitchen. As a Guardian, she can't pass this up, especially since this involves vampires, the largest group within her territory. Taking this case on might provide her with valuable information as long as she doesn't end up revealing her own secrets. Can she save Mark, a young vampire framed for murder, or will her mutual distrust with his Master cause their demise?

30.44 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:03

Bridging The Gap; The Final Records In Unova: An Autobiography

QueensBorough | psychological | Complete

The sequel to A New Life Through The Eyes Of Kanto: An Autobiography, picks up two years later. Beginning with June helpinga physically and mentally recovering Gary (no relation to Pokemon Professor Gary Oak) escape his overprotective mother's house, the two end up on a plane to the Unova region with more than a little help. Unaware of the horrifying futureawaitingthem there, an unbelievable connection to their previous adventures in Kanto, slowly unveils.

291.29 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 12:12

A King's Bargain (Legend of Tal #1)

jdlrosell | drama | Complete

The legend of Tal Harrenfel is sung across the Westreach  and with each telling, the tales grow taller. But though he's declared a hero by his King, Tal has never claimed to be more than a man... After three decades of fighting warlocks, killing mythical beasts, and hunting enchanted treasure, Tal has had enough. Running from the deeds of his past, he retreats to his home village under a different name and meets an unlikely companion: Garin, a village boy who dreams of making a name for himself and seeing the world beyond their sleepy town. When Tal receives a mysterious visitor, both he and Garin find themselves thrown into a sojourn across the kingdom. Soon, they become embroiled in the plots of monarchs, on the frontlines of an ancient war, and at the mercy of a fabled sorcerer. Now Tal must live up to his legend, and Garin discover his own power, to survive the forces pitted against them& Name of the Wind meets Witcher in A King's Bargain, an intertwining sword and sorcery adventure and coming of age tale. If you like The Wheel of Time, The Dragonbone Chair, or The Stormlight Archive, you'll love the captivating world of Legend of Tal!

2.00 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 13:00

The Pale-Black Maiden

SRTudor | contemporary | Complete

Martin, longing for excitement in his monotonous life, decides to drink at a local pub. There he meets a strange woman who promises him an escape from mundanity. But at a great price.

1.53 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:11

Blood for Wages

Joe Coates | drama | Complete

Fia McCrae looked past the ancient oak with its brace of blood-stained bodies spinning peacefully in the slight easterly breeze. The light was seeping out of the evening sky, leeching the colour from the yellow gorse that covered the southern hills in such profusion. "Where's the ruddy comfort in dyin'?" the slumped man bleated miserably at her feet. "Well," Fia said over her shoulder as she walked away, "you've a fine evening for it." Exiled and grieving, Fia McCrae has spent the past eleven years wandering the island nation of Fallaros, with its numerous seperate tribelands, trying to atone for a mistake that has come to define her life. Raised in privilege. Fallen into disgrace. She rides the lands trying to redress those small wrongs that she can, using her innate ability to find that which is lost. Torsten Gunn is the most infamous outlaw to ride the roads, valleys and hills of Fallaros. Unencumbered by the notion of law, and accompanied by his loyal crew of bloodthirsty longriders, he has made it his merciless mission to make the lives of any Counts and Countesses that ride the roads of Fallaros a living hell. Chafing impatiently as he waits for his mother, who sits the High Seat of Fallaros, to die, Redmond Marr plots on how he will be the first man to subjugate all five tribelands. It is a feat that has never been attempted before, but to accomplish it the ambitious Marr has made a deal with an unknown power from across the sea. A power who has more than the dominion of a single island nation in mind. As Fallaros falls into chaos, witches are burned in the streets, longriders roam the roads, and dissent amongst the peasantry begins to boil over. As the threat of war from across the seas draws nearer, an unwilling Fia soon finds herself coerced back into a life she'd thought she'd left behind. What starts as a simple hunt for a wanted man quickly escalates as hidden truths start to emerge. Before long, Fia is confronted by a revelation that might bring her to her knees, even as the people of Fallaros need her to stand and fight. "You can't try do good without rubbin' someone up the wrong way," Fia said. "Folk'll do some truely disgustin' things for pride. Only thing they'll do worse things for is pay."

51.37 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:32

Sun Baked Soil

aspwil | horror | Complete

[Warning: Disturbing Content]A short story about a man and his children. as the crops whither, and the ground turns to dust.Reworked from a short story i wrote in an afternoon ~6 months ago.

0.32 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:33

BIOME

Alto Watson | horror | Complete

In the aftermath of an alien invasion, Jia and Gerard must navigate a world ravaged by destruction and infectious spores. With Jia's extraordinary healing abilities and Gerard's scientific expertise, they embark on a mission to restore the rainforests and save the planet. Together, they face challenges, discover hope, and shape a future filled with promise and rebirth in the novel BIOME.

14.99 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:36

A Hundred Years of Polishing a Godlings Broken Heart

Cetonia | psychological | Complete

Anxious and apathetic, the godling Aquari locks himself away in a vault where he stays for an untold number of years, held captive by nothing but his own mind. Then, bit by bit, things happen to make Aquari break out of his self-made purgatory and learn about happiness and pain. This is an introspective story about depression and change with a Greek mythological-like setting including gods and marble temples. A short story that means a lot to me. Nothing graphic but includes themes of depression, family rejection and anxiety.

1.11 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:47

Convicted

RyderZavianBailey | romance | Complete

Sentenced to the sea for a crime he didn't commit... Wrongly convicted of killing his lover, Li is sent off to serve his sentence in the privateer fleet of Mahlon, where he finds himself somewhere between a sailor and a pirate. He supposes it is a better way to die than wasting away in a prison cell for a crime he didn't commit. If it isn't the sea or sailing necromancers that threaten his life, perhaps it is his assigned partner, an unfriendly man named Ardlac who seems to want nothing to do with a stranger sharing his space. Li doesn't know that his unfriendly exterior masks a wounded soul suffering from a loss Li can understand far too well. But that is only one of the many secrets lurking around him and one of the many threats to uncover. CONVICTED is a low-stakes story about healing, recovery, and comfort. Originally posted on Tapas, I am now cross-posting this story on Royal Road, Wattpad, and Neovel.

27.86 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 14:57

Essokinesis

The Thaumaturge | contemporary | Complete

The fourth entry inThe Thaumaturge series. Jackie, a 17 year-old girl in Nevada, 2023, finds that she suddenly develops pyrokinesis. Kineses are potent superpowers that an extremely small amount of people around the world have developed. Her friend, Paul, who she meets in a government protection program to protect these few superpowered individuals, has a rare kinesis; dimensiokinesis, the ability to open gateways between dimensions. This draws the attention of Phineas, the owner of an extremely rich weapons company, who also secretly harbors a kinesis. This story follows the duo as Phineas attempts to kidnap Paul and utilize his powers for his own mysterious purposes. None of this goes unnoticed by Leviticus. The return of The Thaumaturge is imminent.

4.96 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:36

The Gray God

Matthew Thorne | fantasy | Complete

This is the sequel toThe Gray Mage, however, reading it is not required to understand this story. Three centuries after the god Rynovar claimed Earth as his own domain, ending the Fourth Age of Magic, he ruled the world from a floating continent. Deciding to allow humans a chance at having a wished granted or a question answered, Rynovar created a quest fifty years into his reign. Upon completing the quest, those who undertook it would be granted an audience with him and permission to make a single request or ask a single question. However, two and a half centuries after he issued the quest, none had succeeded and the quest was believed impossible, several stages of it having never before been completed. When nineteen-year-old Cyrus met Lyda at a restaurant, he broke the norm of his life cleaning up his brothers' messes and keeping them behaving to avoid causing issues for the public. Upon hearing her desire to earn enough money to attempt Rynovar's quest, Cyrus chose to help her complete what was believed to be one of the quests' impossible stages, revealing that he himself had a question for the god he wanted answered...

48.41 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 15:50

The Protector and the Peacemaker

ThisAdamGuy | romance | Complete

The secret war between the Slayers and Mythics is secret no longer. Porter the Slayer and Sarah the sphinx have, through their unlikely love, become the bridge between the human and Mythic races, and together they hope they can find a way to end the fighting without one side destroying the other. With incriminating evidence against the Master Slayer, Drake Mortoph, there may be a chance that they can disband the Slayers before the two armies reach each other. Mortoph has more secrets than Porter and Sarah realize, though, and he will stop at nothing to keep them from being revealed.

71.49 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:19

In New Dimensions Everyday

K.R Webber | one_shot | Complete

Equipped with superpowers like strength, speed and ability to make it rain whenever he pisses his pants, Roderick is set to step in different dimensions.Roderick doesn't want to travel dimensions but he has got no choice. If he sleeps, he dies. And if he wants to survive, the bizarre world has got tasks for him. Everyday&

30.06 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:37

Descent of the Dragon Prince

ElasticDotLine | comedy | Complete

A dragon prince turned human must come to terms with rewriting events he has never faced before. How does it feel to get beaten up by the gods? Novus argues that the feeling is terrible, especially when the gods send him to another world, in human form. Despite starting in the worst fighting shape possible, Novus gradually resolves himself of one thing: He'll revenge kick some divine ass. So anybody, especially that damned Hidden Shadow organization, better get out of his way; After a couple of tears and a failed spell. But wait, I can revive? And why does that person seem so familiar? And why can't this system answer any of my damn questions!? This story is currently only available on Royal Road & Scribblehub. Any other sites that provide the story are not allowed to, and should not, have my story available for reading.

88.16 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:53

Y-Labs Experiment

DrpyCatty | contemporary | Complete

Down on his luck, Louie Sen found a job offer after visiting his friend at the local cafe. Desperate to make ends meet, he takes this strange opportunity, and comes out a new man. [Commissioned Work]

1.51 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 16:55

Time-Leap With Certain Possibilities

DemoloRD | romance | Complete

This story is of a Certain Boy whose life changed drastically after an attempt of Time Travel which caused him to jump in Another Dimension and who would have thought that this boy was the one who was going to save the whole world.

10.25 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:30

Encapsulation - FIRST DRAFT

ArgyleInsect | sci_fi | Complete

This is the first draft of the story. The edited and expanded final version is available free for KU subscribers and for sale on Kindle. Planet Dirt: Remnant of an exile world, ground down by governmental and megacorp warring.The Accident a generation ago erased what its inhabitants had not already forgotten.Their brightest scientists vanished without a trace, leaving only the icy Wasteland.Carrick, a gangster, chooses Wasteland exile rather than betray the Family. Intelligent and loyal, he determines to bend the frontier's prisoners to his will.After all, when people won't choose what's best for themselves, they must beforcedto choose.But the Wasteland conceals impossible scientific phenomena that force Carrick to realize how little he understands.And when an officer of humanity's ancient, starfaring empire crashes into the Wasteland's heart, he reveals Planet Dirt's coldest secret.The Accident was only the beginning of a bitter end.

23.62 Ten thousand words | Updated at 2024-03-25 17:44