Catecholamine Web

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2021

Author

Flenser

• 6 – Second Sword
  Apr 12, 2021
• 5 – More Than Can Be Chewed
  Apr 7, 2021
• 4 - The Missing Foundation Stone
  Apr 6, 2021
• 3 – First Sword
  Apr 4, 2021
• 2 – Homecoming
  Apr 1, 2021
• 1 - Proving Ground
  Mar 30, 2021

Reviews

Community Reviews(2)

• Leahcim ZanathaxRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The authornonly has 2 chapters out, but I am impressed thus far.  Good grammar, threads of an interesting plot, decent spelling... it looks good!
  Spoilers follow.
  The MC is in a future setting where VRMMOs have their own cryptocurrency.  While playing the game, the part of your brain notnused to play the game, or for life support, are mining cryptocurrency for you.
  The player can control the rate at which the mine, and over a certain amount it can actually cause short term damage to your brain!  People do it anyway, because it gives them more money, though, and many of these people are junkies just using it to get their fix.  Meanwhile, the elites of the game make even more money playing the game as intended.
  The game the MC played until the day before the story begins was shut down due to a player convincing the two biggest player organizations I n the game to make him the simultaneous head of them, put them tonwar with each other, then liquidated every asset they both had, making himself an enormous amount of real world.money even while simultaneously crashing the game's economy and forcing it to shut down!
  Now the MC, one of the elites of his former game, is forced to start from scratch again in a new game.  The society he lives in basically lives online, so his relationship with his two online girlfriends has taken a hit because of all this, since his avatar had been reduced to a basic one as well.
  The shenanigans have been impressive thus far. Highly recommend.
• Probably_an_authorRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I'm going to start off by saying I don't enjoy reading sci-fi. However, I did enjoy reading the 'Sword Art's Online' manga and watching the film 'Ready Player One'. I never thought it could be translated easily into a traditional book format. It seems I was wrong, because this author has not only done an excellent job of it, but also made it look effortless.
  Reading this, I get the familiar feeling of a gamer who was incredibly good at one game, only to find that the game has shut down or gone out of fashion, and then forced to play another game in which his skills don't quite translate as well as he first thought. It's a very intriguing basis on which to form a story, and like I said before, I never would have thought it works. But it does.
  I have some small gripes with the first chapter, in that it feels more like a third or fourth chapter. It almost feels like the beginning of the second book in a series, where the reader is expected to already know certain things. However, the more you read, the more it becomes clear that the author chose this stylistic approach to convey the main character's experience. We are not beginning at the start of his adventure, but rather at a significant turning point in which he must rediscover himself.
  Again, though this may not be my preferred genre, I'm quite sure I'll stick around to read the rest.