Crafter's Passion (AKA Gleaners' Guild)

Self-Published

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Description

2038, California. Stan is doing his mandatory "volunteer" service years on a collective farm when he encounters Thousand Tales, a game that offers immortality to the super-rich. He can't afford to have his brain uploaded like those elite customers, but maybe he can turn a profit out of the game instead of just playing it. Not as a legendary swordsman or a brilliant wizard, but as a dealer in the junk no one else seems to want. If he plays his cards right, he can draw the attention of both the farm's supervisor and the game's ruling, meddling AI. Should he, though?

LitRPG. Part of the world of "Thousand Tales", a novel series on Amazon, though no knowledge of it is expected. This story is around 12K words long. I'd appreciate feedback to help write a much longer version! Updates every few days. Cover art from game-icons.net, by Lorc, CC-BY.

Update! This story was originally called "Gleaners' Guild". It came out on Amazon under the name "Crafter's Passion" and has many reviews there, thanks in part to the support of RR readers like you. Thanks! It even has a sequel, "Crafter's Heart".

Information

Status
Completed
Year
2017

Royal Road Stats

Rating
3.4/ 5.0
Followers
34
Views
20,885

Chapters(9 total)

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Community Reviews(1)

  • RznRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    This is marked as complete, but it cuts out rather quickly and then decides to switch gears and end, the next thing is the teasing of the sequel. This whole unresolved situation as to the game and the social credit system he was gaming just gets pulled out from under us just at the time it was getting interesting. A bunch of set up for no pay off. The issue with the world and then all the anthro-chars was not in focus until halfway through, but even that amounted to little. It was an interesting idea and it just seems to have been dropped as fast as possible.