The Wave. A terrible phenomenon that washes over the Earth every year. The only evidence of its passing is the children mysteriously marked with a Crest vanishing with it. For Callum Lowe and many others, this is their year. What is the Wave? What is its purpose? What awaits those cursed with a Cres...

After the defeat of the Galactic Emperor, the children GF Commanders went on to be envoys between Gotcha Borgs and the Human Race, using their advanced technologies to explore the galaxy, colonizing new planets, and ultimately finding a new world for gotcha borgs to settle on. Three decades later, t...

After having endured great loss and then great betrayal on that loss, a certain person became extremely socially anxious.  However, not wanting to give up, he decided to start a new life for himself by taking part in the launch of a new VRMMO Fantasy Game, entering and joining with a whole new chara...

She is a young girl with hopes and dreams.  She hopes to claim the name she has chosen on her 10th birthday, she hopes to get away from the cold and hostile family she was born into, and she dreams of using the system to make herself into the person she wants to be. Will she get the chance to follow...

Rather than die a slow cold death of age, Brooke volunteered to die a quick experimental death of upload into a virtual world. Good news!  The upload took! But when she chooses to participate in a game on Beta.Earth, things start to go weird.  First she gets swept into a minor rebellion against an A...

In the world of Tesara, danger lurks around every corner and only the strongest survive. When Inan, a young man with a dream of rising above his station, is chosen to break a curse that is devastating his people, he knows that he must level up fast and become a formidable force to be reckoned with. ...

In this world, everyone starts with no memory and no recollection of their past life. In this world, you have nothing — even your limbs are rented, and you'll have to pay up every day. In this world, you must complete tasks assign¬¬ed to you by the System or be fined and stripped of everything, incl...

COMPLETED Jonathan, along with his pirate crew, embarks on a three-month voyage in search of the legend of an artifact that can kill an immortal. When the journey ends, he is quite literally stabbed in the back, shot and left for dead. But not even death could keep him down!...

Edward Hill was an old man, content with his lot in life as a godfather, preparing his retirement when an unexpected ambush ruined his plans… Stepping through a portal of light was dangerous and foolhardy; stealing the destiny of a young man was tasteless; but when the choice was between that and de...

A story about the fifteen year old teenager named Will who was somehow reincarnated as a spirit wisp in an unknown and mysterious world after dying from drowning by a mysterious entity. Come and join Will on his journey of discovering who or what was responsible for his reincarnation as a spirit wis...

Star, Starts his first day as a hunter mage. What he thinks to be his first-ever hunt outside the village, gradually turns sour as he realizes the existence of those 'things'.  The things that take away villagers, the things the elders hide from everyone.  The dark secret of the village....

Ari has been fighting in this twisted game for as long as he can remember, so long that the individual rounds are starting to blur together. When humanity loses, and he has to go back to the start as the final survivor, he knows he can't be strong enough to carry the human race on his own. He's goin...

Harton Springer is a minotaur with a decade of planetary survey work under his belt and another two solidly ahead of him. When his pod's warper breaks halfway through his most recent launch, however, he finds himself crashing down on a planet unknown. Atmospheric engines are busted, navigation is fr...

The System's Descent is only 7 days away. Its coming will herald rapid mutation for wild animals and the appearance of blood-thirsty monsters. Drew Wright is a progenitor, one of a thousand random selectees forewarning of the approaching apocalypse, and now he has the delightful task of somehow conv...

As the King of Harverkan tries to become an [Emperor] before internal strife and mismanagement destroy his rapidly expanding Kingdom, Sara Haymaker a [Weather witch] and lowly peasant from the small community of Brightwood tries to evade the country’s mobilization order by any means necessary. Be it...

Souls. The soul is a magical incarnation of the human body. If those souls were to get reincarnated those souls will be reborn into an identical version of themselves. The souls of the unworthy get sent to Hell. The worthy get sent to Heaven. Sometimes there are anomalies where the unworthy can reem...

Sean wasn't expecting to die. He wasn't expecting to be raised as one of the undead, tossed down a trash-chute, and left to fend for himself against the oversized monsters of this new world and the relentless ambitions of the evil necromancer who summoned him. He definitely wasn't expecting to be ea...

Brayden Hawthorne woke with a jolt, his bed shaking so violently it threw him to the floor. Rubbing his bruised head, he stood up, legs unsteady. An explosion and another tremor brought him to his bedroom window. Brayden lived in a loft above the library of his mentor, James. Looking out his second-...

[This is a Contest Entry for the Royal Road Magazine] A rapture-like apocalyptic event has transported players of the NeuReality (Neurological Reality) game CONQUEST through a portal to an alien planet inhabited by the Leviathan, a loathsome creature whose insatiable hunger until now has been fed b...

A wish upon a shooting star was all Aiden thought it was. An innocent, selfish and admittedly silly prayer for something more in his bedridden life. Perhaps too selfish. What he gets in return? Exactly what he wished for in the most twisted way possible. A wish upon the world's destruction, when sta...