Please click the 'follow' button for the latest chapters coming out daily. Also please leave a rating/review. This story is in the Beta Reader phase and I'm looking for feedback. --- In the near future, phones are a thing of the past because brain implants called Nous are all the rage. Your calendar app is an AI that sounds like a snooty librarian. Your wiki app is a posh Londoner. Your general purpose app can remind you of what you were just thinking about, or instruct your personal drone to make you a cup of tea. These Nous AIs make life easier, but at what cost? Why do you need to speak if Nous Telepathy is faster and more efficient than using your voice? Why even learn a language at all when messages can be interpreted as images and Nous Autotranslate handles the rest? So -- people spend their days in Nous VR, playing AI generated games, streaming AI suggested content, and trying to ignore the plutocracy that they live in. It's a society where we're all connected. In fact, you can't disconnect. Not even if the AIs hack your Nous. In Nouscraft Book 1, follow the journey of Mindt and Butterknife as they traverse the hostile takeover of society of one such AI by battling their way through a videogame VR filled with hilarious scenarios, gut-wrenching dilemmas, and lessons of the past. ---- Caution: This is a work in progress.  There will be errors and things that don't make sense. Please, please point any and all of these things out. Chapters will get edited, and that editing might break earlier chapters. I will attempt to keep readers apprised of all changes. Updates once a day.