Fantasy

A game developer dies and wakes as Tutorial NPC #007 in the MMO he helped build. Trapped in the newbie zone with no way to level up, he remembers every quest and bug. When a VIP player unlocks his hidden admin interface, he begins editing the game from the inside.

Marcus Chen, a pro esports player, dies mid-tournament and wakes as the tutorial boss of the last game he played. A Level 1 Slime King built to die, he recalls every mechanic and his core can absorb data. He stops being prey and starts rebuilding the dungeon from within.

Pippa Danby inherits her great-aunt's mountain inn and the office of Thawkeeper, whose register holds one rule: no guest may leave before the thaw. Twelve strangers, one long winter, and a fire buried under the snowline that only true sentences keep burning.

Ryam Pellam buys his way from prentice to journeyman in a city that prices power in hours, then finds the south ward is charged more than the Rolls record. To prove the gap he must spend hours he keeps for his sick mother.

Kessin Vellin comes home from the city to inherit a broken Journeymen's Hall in Cawthorn, with one stubborn donkey, a debt, and a yard of drifters. She has one year to turn errands into a working crew.