Virtual-reality Stories

After being kidnapped and thrown into a VRMMORPG, 17-year-old Suzuki Mato must find the line between his real and in-game personalities before it kills him. ***** Following the death of his popular online persona, seventeen-year-old Suzuki Mato decides it's time to retire from professional VR gaming. However, his plans are abruptly cut short when he's kidnapped from his high school and forced to be a guinea pig for Genaco Gaming, the world's largest esports and entertainment company. Armed with nothing but his wit and a new online persona, he's thrown headfirst into the virtual reality of "Live No Evil," a VRMMORPG littered with overpowered bosses, secretive NPCs, and backstabbing gods. His mission? Find a way to conquer this new world and get back at the company that took over his life, all while avoiding 'Parallel' -- a condition that would make it impossible to separate his real and virtual personalities. Because in a world obsessed with VR gaming, Parallel means death, and Suzuki just doesn't have time for that... [Parallel Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 out now, Vol. 3 coming soon] Content/Trigger Warning: some transphobic language

Gather information. Understand the system. Take action. Even an ordinary person can reach the top of a virtual world. Suzuki Satoru, a debt-ridden and isolated player, lives in the shadows of reality-but inside MMORPGs, he thrives as a skilled power-leveler, mastering systems and climbing rankings. When Sword Art Online turns into a death game, he is forced to face not only its dangers, but him. This is a fan translation of 刀剑神域：摇光 by 匿友小尘. Please consider supporting the original author if you can.

Dark Fantasy AU __________________ __________ A door appears. A world changes. When Han Jisung accidentally enters his first Gate, he is pulled into a dangerous game where failure means death and every Gate leads to a new nightmare. With the help of Gatekeepers and their enigmatic leader, Lee Minho, he must fight to survive while uncovering the secrets hidden within the Gates. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes that some Gates should never be opened. __________________ __________ ⚠️ WARNINGS ⚠️ Graphic Violence Character Death Blood and Gore Monsters/Zombies Psychological Horror Trauma Survivor's Guilt Life-Threatening Situations Mentions of Parental Death Violence and Injury Dark Themes Slowburn romance __________________ __________ Happy ending... No. Maybe not this time. ;) __________________ __________ Top: Lee Minho Bottom: Han Jisung __________________ __________ Started: 06/25/26 Ended: __________________ __________

Yoon Nayeon is a 24‑year‑old lifestyle journalist who has always kept her feelings neatly in folders and her love life out of headlines. When her older sister gifts her a virtual dating subscription she agrees to try it on a whim. Each perfect AI date feels familiar in ways she does not expect. Across the office Kang Mingyu, a 25‑year‑old rival journalist, asks questions she does not want to answer and notices things no one else sees. As virtual perfection and real‑world vulnerability begin to collide, Nayeon must figure out what love truly means and whether she likes the unpredictable kind better than anything she could program.

Aria enters what she thinks is a futuristic VR game called Flight of Fancy, where she explores magical kingdoms with her companions Kael and Luna. At first, it feels like just a game filled with quests and adventure. But as she goes deeper, she discovers something shocking-the world is not a game at all. It is a real living system made from imagination, memory, and truth. The Seven Kingdoms are actually powerful forces that keep reality balanced. When the Heart of Imagination breaks into seven Cores, darkness spreads across the realms. Aria is chosen as the last Outsider who can find and restore the lost Cores: Illusion, Memory, Truth, Logic, Life, Forgotten, and Identity. As the mysterious Eclipse Order tries to erase unstable realities and force everything into one truth, Aria must decide what to save. In the end, she chooses to protect all truths, even if it makes the world unstable and unpredictable-changing reality forever.

Humanity never defeated fear, guilt, or despair. It outsourced them into simulations. The Replicas are quantum worlds built to contain humanity's darkest emotional residue. In one world, people live under the tyranny of corporate ratings. In another, they are ruled by debt, steam, and rusted laws. Somewhere farther down the chain wait magic, samurai, and other carefully engineered forms of human hell. Alex Nord was a successful lawyer on Phobos-Port, and he believed his life was real. Then a medical scan split his consciousness open, and he woke inside another man's body - in a world where someone else's pain had become his memory. Now Alex is a bug in the system. He moves through the Replicas, inhabiting borrowed lives and searching for the Core - the only world that might still be real. Behind him come the cleanup algorithms. Through the cracks, something is watching - something for which human consciousness is nothing more than an error of observation. And it has already noticed that Alex is awake.

After escaping the Cabin Realm, two individuals are forced to confront something far more dangerous than monsters or trials- their own responsibility. A silent demolitionist. An ex-military leader. Both burdened by choices they can't undo. Both expected to protect a world that no longer feels stable. This is the second part of the journey through a Roblox world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. It is highly advised to read Book 1 before starting this one. Cover art by my amazing artist friend.

Eric is given the opportunity to create and modify a simulation-world. Eric's world includes unique features, intertwined systems mechanics, and it connects to other user-created worlds. After falling into a unique medical condition, the VRC, a virtual reality corporation, offers Eric a deal to enter and be a creator regarding the Simulation-multiverse. The Simulation-multiverse is a man-made nexus in which Eric, AGIs, and others are able to interact. Later, in Eric's Universe, a character named Jeff searches for Eric. Eric's completed world creation process had set the foundation for later adventures to occur, enabling Jeff and others to engage with Eric's world and it's elements and features. The Simulation serves as a recreational pastime activity and is ""also designed to prevent individuals from experiencing extended periods of isolation and missed life opportunities whereby it prevents such by addressing the concern of hospital patients who may awaken after prolonged hospitalized states, such as a patient regaining consciousness after 30 years unconscious, only to discover they have limited time remaining (perhaps 15 years) to accomplish their life goals". Without such a simulation, these individuals might feel profoundly deprived of three decades' worth of potential experiences, relationships, and achievements they could have enjoyed had they remained conscious during their hospitalization".

She hatched with fire in her eyes-and hunger for the stars. Kevin escaped the Core, but freedom came with a price. His mind is now host to an interdimensional swarm, his AI are learning to feel, and a stolen Leva egg is about to hatch. When Sublimis emerges-a blind, energy-drinking wyrm with the power to level cities-Kevin must become something he never planned to be: a parent to a monster. But darker forces are watching. Magus the 1st, an ancient war general, now possesses a fragment of Kevin's forbidden cr. He will stop at nothing to turn it into a weapon. As Kevin races across the galaxy to rescue a trapped AI and protect his growing family, he'll discover that the greatest threat isn't the Tela-or even the swarm inside him. It's the hunger. The Hive has a daughter. And she's just beginning to feed.

Villagers find and raise a mysterious alien child, who they at first believe might be a Human, but then ends up a Monster. But what happens when real Humans come to their distant parts of the world? (Story originally named Tree and is currently under revision, so chapters may unexpectedly change due to events and details getting clarified) WARNING: graphic violence description

I could describe it but that just defeats the mystery

city-wide quarantine, Jason logs in searching for answers. Instead, he finds a nightmare. Inside the simulation, a black digital infection is spreading through the code, creating glitching monsters, twisted echoes of dead players, and something far worse lurking beneath the system. Every time Jason enters the game, pieces of it follow him back into reality. Now trapped between a collapsing virtual world and a city slowly being consumed by the same corruption, Jason must uncover the truth behind Project Lazarus, Patient Zero, and the mysterious entity hiding inside the network before reality itself is overwritten. The game was never meant to be played. It was meant to escape.

Rain is a silent gamer-quiet, invisible, and content in her small online world. But when an anonymous invitation drags her into Sìoraì Online, a hyper-realistic VRMMORPG, everything changes. Trapped with 99 other players, Rain must survive deadly quests, eerie cities, and secrets far darker than any game. There's no log-out button. No safety. And the deeper she goes, the more the lines blur between reality and illusion. In a world where every move could mean life or death, can Rain trust anyone-including herself? Clear the quests. Survive the game. But don't forget-nothing is what it seems. Thanks for the Beautiful BC by Aster Starry

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When Tara Walters discovers the disturbing truth about a new virtual console called AfterLife™, she must risk everything in order to expose the enslavement of digital Sims. ___ Cover made using CANVA PRO. Status: complete but unedited. Editing begins July 1, 2021. Word count: 20,231/20,000

Jayus Ken of Madagascar was one of the 80% not born into privilege. One of the Unconnected. One of those outside the system known as the dive and one of those who never hoped, nor dared hope to get a Neural Dive system---a system where those with it accessed the dive, and had a solid holographic talking companion. Small animals being the lowest in status within the 20% known as the connected, and those with Exotic animals being the highest of the connected. Everything for Jayus changes when an NDS falls from the sky and installs itself into him. Jayus awakes as now one of the Connected, but his NDS is an ancient First Gen, and his SHC is a GIRL---with him having now unlimited funds. It seems like a dream come true---until the dream reveals itself as a Nightmare in disguise.

This book is about a girl who loves video games and eventually gets trapped in one! She meets a boy on her long journey to try to escape. Will they escape? Or will they stay in the video game together? Will they fall In love? Or will they just stay friends? Only one way to find out! ( keep reading ) Btw, I am making this book with my friend, @LunarEnchantress . It's kinda like a collab, but not. Basically, I'm gonna make the first chapter then she'll make the second one and so on. Thanks for checking out our book! ~ toodles!

Short Stories for the Aim to Engage contest for 2019 can be found here. And thanks to the prompts, my imagination flourished!

There are people we choose. And there are people who stay with us, whether we choose them or not. Years after she had settled into the life she loved, a forgotten connection begins to find its way back into the spaces she thought were long closed. It isn't a story about choosing between two lives. It's a story about living with a feeling that never completely left. Because some people don't become your future. They become your favorite unfinished chapter.

Here's a cyberpunk-inspired take on Digimon, I have no Idea what to use this for, but only time will tell. enjoy. This is in it's very early stages, so I'll be sure to send this out when I can.