Teasers: Upcoming Releases
Becoming Real
Sean Fenian
Status: RELEASE PENDING
Michael Hagerty—known to his fans as GhostRayder—reviewed video games and made game videos for a living. He was very used to virtual worlds. They were his bread and butter. He was quite certain he understood very clearly the lines of demarcation between game and reality, between what was real and what was not. What was physical, and what was virtual.
Then one day, not long after he reviewed a newly released game, a mystery person sent him a modified version of the game, and asked him to go back in and try it again.
Michael would soon find out that the question of real or virtual, human or not, was far more nuanced and less clear-cut than he had ever believed.
Godthief
Sean Fenian
Status: In development
The Prophecy of Tendarrion—or at least, one likely reading thereof—said that the time was coming for the goddess Jirilis to die.
Jirilis, understandably, was rather unhappy about this. Her plans for the future did not involve dying yet. But, a prophecy is a prophecy.
Prophecies, however, are notoriously fickle about exactly what precise interpretation of them turns out in the end to be correct. The possibly existed of finding an exploitable loophole. But Jirilis could not exploit it herself. That was, to greatly oversimplify the explanation, “against the rules.” Prophecy and the powers of gods didn’t work that way.
Jirilis needed a champion. Not one who could win battles for her, not one who could slay mighty enemies for her, not one who would spread her word or perform heroic deeds in her name.
No, Jirilis needed a champion who could subvert a prophecy. And she had an idea that she knew just who that might be.