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When an overpowered NPC goes off the rails and starts killing players � even in safe zones � Coral, Daniel, and their friends accept an impossible quest: Stop him. At all costs.

Coral joined the immersive MMORPG Travail Online because her waitressing job, like so many other jobs, was automated by a growing robot workforce. She starts the role-playing video game as a Seamstress, hoping to craft useful clothing in-game to sell for real life cash. The game, however, has other ideas. What starts off as job replacement quickly launches an adventure of epic proportions through a virtual reality world filled with magic, intrigue, and betrayal.

Daniel has played for longer, but the game changes him to a new class that doesn’t actually seem to exist. How can he maximize his skills when his class is completely uncharted? How can he avoid dying at the hands of a madman and losing all of his inventory and gold? Can he, Coral, and their friends stop the murderous NPC before Travail comes crashing down, taking the world economy with it?

TRAVAIL ONLINE is a new LitRPG series that follows players and non-player characters through the virtual reality world of Travail Online � complete with elves, magic, and mobs galore.

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I had to die.

Ripcord was a revolutionary new product that launched people into a virtual reality world just moments before death, sparing them their painful end-of-life memories and allowing them to live in a video game utopia for all time.

At least, that’s how it was advertised. No one ever came back to say whether Ripcord lived up to its promise. It was a one-way ticket for those lucky enough to get in.

Well, maybe “lucky� isn’t the right word for it.

My wife had been in Ripcord for two years. I was finally ready to go find her. When I got there though, it was nothing like I had expected and she was nowhere to be found.

Oh, and did I mention something is killing everyone off? “Griefing� players that were already grieving.

If I ever wanted to see my wife again, I’d have to get a lot stronger, learn how to level up in this strange new world, and hope she found a way to survive this long…]]> 262 Brian Simons Brian 0 litrpg 3.58
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Strange things are afoot in Travail Online. People like Coral who couldn’t find jobs offline joined Travail so they could grind away at the virtual reality video game and sell in-game items for a bit of real world cash. Travail, however, has just launched new content that turns that premise on its head. The game resurrected a dead god and is using it to brainwash players into pouring their life savings into the game, ruining their livelihoods and threatening to destroy the game’s economy worldwide. Coral can’t stand by while the game mind-hacks players and siphons away their gold, but will getting involved cause more harm than good?

Meanwhile, Daniel has his own concerns. The head of the Assassins� Guild is still trying to recruit him, the Regent of Travail’s human city wants him to start a war with the dwarves, and the elves seem to be hunting him and his friends. The game just keeps throwing roadblocks in their way, not to mention the mess it’s making of their minds�

Welcome to Travail, where hard play makes fun work!

RESURRECTION is the second full book in the TRAVAIL ONLINE series. Find out whether Coral and Daniel can keep their wits about them long enough to save Travail from the brink of world war and psychological destruction.]]> 338 Brian Simons Brian 0 litrpg 3.94
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To learn more about what Science Fantasy or LitRPG is, or if you are interested in submitting your works for consideration in a future issue, check out our website at SciFanMagazine.com.

Here's our lineup of Short Stories:

Control Alt Sadit by Alfonso Alonso
Most stories follow characters who are trapped in a VR-MMO and how they escape. Meet Sadit. Getting trapped in a VR-MMO was how he escaped.

Farmy of One by Brian Simons
When Bronwen logs on to Promise Online, she expects to harvest her enchanted tomato crop and go about her business. Instead, Agricultist Bronwen accepts a quest to identify and eradicate a strange new plague infecting all of the Kingdom's farmlands, though she's hardly equipped for battle...

Tris the Tinker by Isaac Winter
The perfect heist goes awry when monsters attack. Now Tris must choose: the game's most powerful item, or the lives of those around her.

Unreality by Bethany McTrustery
In Unreality? Anything is possible. So when a hacker called Magic invades, he takes that possibility and runs with it.

Casus Belli by Jared J. Fleming
Enter a game unlike any other. Truly, fully immersive. Pain, fear, death, all are real in this world. Can you survive?

Augmented Insomnia by Richard M. Mulder
Law enforcement officer by day, gamer by night. Detective Matt Richards is baffled by a case he can't seem to solve. As he starts leveling up in the newest augmented reality game however, he stumbles across a series of clues that help him discover the answers he seeks for his case... but these answers leave him wishing he had never discovered the truth.]]> 340 R.M. Mulder Brian 0 litrpg 3.50 2017
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