Ethan is sick, very sick. In fact, he is dying. The mysterious wasting decease that’s infected an ever-growing percentage of the Lunar population has sunk its claws into his body, and he is withering away. Ethan had resigned himself to his fate, retreating into his tiny apartment with his VR games and refusing to replace his deteriorating body parts with the state-of-the-art prosthetics available to those with the wealth to afford them. Wealth, he didn’t have access to, until his estranged baby brother Mark found out about his illness. Aborting his dungeon delve on one of Jupiter’s moons to rush halfway across the solar system to be with his older, more inept, brother. He was ready to do anything to make his brother more comfortable. In hindsight, Ethan probably should have accepted his brother’s attempts to make his end easier. That way, the lunatic might not have kidnaped him aboard his tiny spaceship and whisked him away to the far edge of the solar system, chasing rumors of a rift leading to a new world. A world rumored to be filled with dungeons and the magical healing energy provided to those who kill their creatures. Mark is determined to save his brother. Dragging him, and his reluctant adventuring team, into the unknown. Yet more rumors about the rift have made their rounds, rumors of war that Mark steadfastly refused to listen to. Will Ethan find salvation at the end of the journey, or does only death await him out in the void of space? What to expect: Asteroid Dungeon has elements of a dungeon core novel with some gamelit elements thrown in, but it is not a traditional Dungeon core where the core is the main character. Neither does it take place in a game. The gamelit elements are heaviest in the first few chapters, so if you enjoy the story but not the mechanics don’t worry, it doesn’t overwhelm the whole story. It does not shy away from the darker, grittier aspects of human nature and violence, but there is also nothing explicit in here either. Any overly explicit material is done fade to black. Asteroid dungeon is a simi-completed work with an open ending that has the possibility to continue. It is currently 19 chapters long and has just over 103,000 words with an average word count of just over 5,000 words per chapter. I prewrote the whole story before I uploaded the first chapter, so despite an open ending, a whole story arc will be told.