Fantasy. LitRPG. Inebriated fiascos.
WELCOME
TO THE
TAVERN.
The rules are being written on the fly.
And the admins are still drunk.
[ CORPORATE APPROVAL ] Pending.
THE SYSTEM
HAS BEEN
DRINKING.
Meet The Drunken SystemAlien administrators discover booze.
Earth gets the hangover.
The Skarn usually give civilizations a carefully tailored RPG System. This time, they’ve discovered human alcohol—and rushed the job.
Now humanity is stuck in a mandatory tutorial built from questionable modules and even worse decisions. To get home, everyone must clear the final raid dungeon while the people in charge keep changing the rules.
The next patch will fix everything.
Probably.
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While humanity tries to survive, the Skarn scramble to rebuild Earth and hide the mess from Corporate. Each fix introduces another problem. Each new problem demands another patch. A bawdy sci-fi LitRPG comedy where humanity’s biggest obstacle may be the people running the System.
Fixed: sober administration.
Known issues: literally everything else.
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PREFER YOUR EXISTENTIAL
CRISES SOBER?
A little less tavern.
A lot more fate of humanity.
[ ADMIN ASSESSMENT ] These admins appear to know what they’re doing.
THE ASCENSION FRAMEWORK
One man’s plan to transform humanity becomes a planetary test of survival, growth, and responsibility. Explore a more ambitious, more serious vision of life inside a System.
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CARDINAL VELOCITY
A soldier. An athlete. A cybersecurity specialist. Three versions of one man, each facing a System in a different universe.
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The man behind the Systems
FROM BUILDING STEEL MILLS
TO BREAKING SYSTEMS.
Lucent Steele writes speculative fiction about the possibilities—and consequences—of transformation.
Before the books came steel, cars, and international businesses—including a concept for a renewable-powered steel mill. It turns out building a world is another way to ask: what could we do differently?
Sometimes the answer is humanity’s next evolution. Sometimes it’s drunk aliens with administrative privileges.
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