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Real Fantasy Online. The flagship product for the latest generation neural-interface headset. Touting: "The Best NPC AIs", "Better than Life Realism" and "Total Immersion", RFO promises to be a virtual world like no other. But when the line between one's real self and one's digital identity becomes blurred, and the "Gods" have their own agenda,whois the player, and which is the game?
Marcus has played any number of VR games, beta-tested dangerous and unstable systems and lived to tell the tale. He even has a certain amount of fame and influence within...certain circles. He usually disdains the idea of pre-orders and their respective "perks" as blatent commerical exploitation, but this time the bonus is too tempting to pass up. The ability to craft your character's backstory and have it integrated into the game's lore is enough for him to sign up for the Early Access program. He isn't interested in being all-powerful. Frankly, he's been there and done that enough to be bored of the whole thing. Instead, he opts to make a character purely for the purpose of having fun. Things aren't quite what they seem however, and his "backstory" and character class have implications he never would have imagined.
Author Note: First time posting a story online, and I'd appreciate any feedback. Updates may be slow, as each "chapter" will likely be in the 10,000 word range and I tend to revise several times before being (tentatively) satisfied. If people seem to like this I'll try to establish a regular post schedule.
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2017
- Author
- pyrowind
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.6/ 5.0
- Followers
- 3,036
- Views
- 310,636
Chapters(7 total)
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Community Reviews(10)
- prajit3Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0note: this is for the author and not readers.
u are doing a great job dude and while I have a standard policy to not give a 5* unless I think what I am reading is good enough to be sold as a masterpiece and has a lot of chapters among other things....................................
if this does not deserve a 5* then nothing does.
f**k the "standard policy" I say.
I will be waiting for the next chapter I loved and am loving this.
keep it up,
ignore the bad comments and ratings.
anyone who says this is bad is a troll/fool.
and most of all................
DON'T GIVE UP.
u have a great novel here and don't let anyone tell u otherwise.
heck even if no one else likes it(0% chance of that btw) I will be here reading. - BlueBugRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Style: Doesn't distract (+3), Adds to the story (+1), Feels like I'm the MC (+2) 6/5
Story: Interesting take on LitRPG, Scifi and VR (+3), Huge plot (+2), characters focused on plot (+1) 6/5
Grammar: Doesn't distract (+4), One mistake in 321 pages found which could easily be fixed (+1) 5/5
Character: Entirely believable (+1), Makes me relate to them, care for them (+3), Feel like I've become them, along with the fears and such (+2) 6/5
Pls...finish the story... There's a void in my heart I can no longer close... - KaskadeRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I just found this site and this was the first novel i came accross. I was looking for good virtual reality novels, and this was the best one i have ever read. I didnt check the chapter count before I started and im extremely sad that it has not continued to be updated. I will continue to check this weekly in hopes of recieving new updates on the novel.
I love the Concept and the execution of this. Hope to see more!!! - MarkParkRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I won't be going into any detail about the story and I will only say one thing, WORTH THE DAMN READ!! I really enjoyed the story thus far ch.7, and I think you would too.
- Nicholas CameronRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Spoiler: Spoiler
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Pretty damn good 👍 👍 👍
Too bad there haven't been any chapters in a while, worth the read as it is though - NoideaRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Very interesting story and progres. Somethig little "diferent", i like it very much. Want more....but it looks like end... sad.
- ScooteerrRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0One of the best stories I've read on here. The biggest flaw I see is that the story is in HIATUS! Give me more chapters!
On on a side note, Grammar is a little lacking here and there with some sentences that seem to be missing words. Other than that, the story has been very immersive - TilaztRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Spoiler: Spoiler
This is not an advanced review, simply because I cannot find anything to blame in this story. It is not perfect, mind you, and I am not saying it is, but it simply blew me away so hard I simply wish I could forward time to read the rest of it.
Very good descriptions, points of view, internal speech, and extreme level of creativity and writing.
Powerful, Hard, Touching.
If you can, read this. Now. - averykRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I really love this story, one would think that it was all sex or something after the MC chose to become Half Elf/Half Incubus, thankfully no. It doesn't shy away from the sex or anything, it is just thankfully not limited to, or majoritized by. Which I was afraid of happening in the beginning.
The story is rather immersive, and I love all of the characters. - A Talking RockRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5ive been reading this story since the first chapter came out(if u look at the time of this review that would be 41 days) and i do think i recomend this book. the release time might seem a little slow but that might also be me considering i read super fast and the chapters might last slow readers like 2 or 3 days. sadly i read them in like 15 minutes(which kinda sucks, meaning that i look for books more than i read them). im posting this review because i feel the story is far enough for me to tell that it should be pretty good and intresting,especially considering i hate sao and this has crazy references to it. and for people who read(red idk)
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world seed this goes in that direction