Office Maxi

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Description

Maxi’s first week in a groundbreaking gamified workplace is disrupted by a snarling, drooling printer with large, pointy teeth and a murderous disposition.

After nearly becoming the red toner liquid refill during a killer inkjet’s afternoon snack, Maxi decides to investigate the mysterious company that’s more associated with slimes, zombies, and dragons than office work.

Luckily, she is equipped with an interface that is similar to her favorite RPG-style video games. For once, being a gamer will be good for more than just getting a couple bucks during her live streams.

Maxi normally enjoys LitRPG Urban Fantasy adventures, just not the dying part. Hopefully she can max her levels before the end is nigh and the beasties devour humanity.

Information

Status
Ongoing
Year
2024
Author
Dragontears

Tags

LITRPGACTIONFANTASYADVENTUREMAGICFEMALE LEADCOMEDYSTRONG LEADGAMELITLOW FANTASYURBAN FANTASYPROGRESSION

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.1/ 5.0
Followers
168
Views
12,890

Chapters(18 total)

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Community Reviews(5)

  • AsteridsRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Easy to read, relatable protagonist.  One chapter in, and I'm hooked!  Wish chapters were a little longer?  Gonna jump in and read more!
    One quibble is that the dialogue at the beginning seemed very workmanlike, like a first pass.  Wish I had a better understanding of their relationship other than just nagging her for money.
    Lots of chapters to read already!  Heck yeah, I'm headed in to read more!
  • TelRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Office based Gamelit that is just a little capitalist, okay a lot capitalist........okay fine they have micro transactions for how much soap you use in the bathroom.
    And it just gets more absurdly fun from there, boss fights, loot rolls, and office pot lucks all take on a DnD flair as the quest for post-its and good performance metrics are suddenly deadly serious.
    Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    Livin la vida Gato!
    (You will know it when you get there)
  • YkikamucowRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Photocopiers are evil. They smell fear and will attack at the slightest hint of a paper jam. But!, our heroine is on the case. Hopping around town, from elevator to board room, through anti-trust lawyers always just on this side of not needing the janitorial crew. At the end of the day she might have accumulated a debt the size of a small countries GDP but she will have saved civilisation as we know it.
    A rollicking good read that has shot to the top of my reading list.
  • phenebeansRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Updated title at chapter 32 ...yeah it's actually starting to get into political economy stuff now lol
    Original review at chapter 20:
    I'm finding it very entertaining and surprisingly compelling so far, and it's pretty funny too, with a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle digs on corporate culture. There's an interesting backstory emerging on top of the SCP-foundation-meets-gamified-corporate-slavery setting, which is weird but works somehow. The main character looks like they're on the path to becoming disproportionately powerful as MCs are so often wont to do...but so far it's happening in a creative, satisfying way, sans murder-hobo-ing.
    It's well-written and well-paced, and doesn't get bogged down in the details. I recommend it.
  • jadecriminalRoyal Road
    ★★★ 2.5
    Edit: The review sounds harsh. I like the idea but I believe it has two major flaws:
    -We don't get to know and like the protagonist. In fact the opposite. She's a brat with no foresight or love for family.
    -Feels like protagonist has no agency and just gets tossed about to get to the plot in a hurry. And it is pretty immersion breaking that no one knows about the death company. (The EULA roofie is perfectly believable and I would not be surprised it's also a confidentiality agreement. )
    End Edit.
    We meet a young woman who doesn't wanna work and wants to play game. Understanable.
    The same woman apparently understands overdraft fees and still bought  the equivalent of mountain dew and some snacks worth 30 $ for 400$ (said overdraft fees)
    That same person finds her mother, letting her live rent free obnoxious for asking her to help pay some bills. As in 20$
    Which she would have from her vtube or whatever if she understood delayed gratification and skipped the snacks for a day or two till she got paid.
    With no attempt to make her at least a little sympathetic she then walks into a temp job (which she plans to quarter ass) that turns out to be literal death game that won't let her leave unless she pays thousands of dollars an hour for vacation time.
    The office work is basically litrpg with office politcs overlay and swords.
    The experience is exactly like being in an MMO complete with people calling her a noob.
    Since that's not enought stakes this "I can't believe it's not office version of SAO deathgame" but IRL has a "low performance gets you terminated" which is literal. As in you get murdered. This is ok because it's in terms and conditions.
    I get that it's meant to be tongue in cheek satire of office and corpo bullshit but it isn't entertaining.
    I gave up because it's neither amusing nor intriguing and the protagonist is basically a cardboard outline of whiny teenager with any positive traits or thoughts removed and replaced with "haha good at vidyagames"