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<p>Blurb:</p> <p>Silas--a scavenger living off the ruins of humanity--has spent his entire life fighting tooth and nail to provide for himself and his crew.</p> <p>But when a scavenging run goes awry and he's snatched up by an android patrol, he finds himself thrown into a cage and priced to sell as a pet.</p> <p>And when a suitor comes calling, he fears the worst: that he'll be turned into a Domestic, a human lapdog brainwashed into total obedience.</p> <p>Instead, he discovers an equally disturbing truth: that the creatures who stole his world have created a videogame the likes of which Earth has never seen; a sprawling, game-like theme park where humans are the Avatars and androids are the players who control them.</p> <p>And to make matters worse, his android guide is as hopeless as they come, having gotten all of her previous Avatars killed in record time.</p> <p>So if Silas wants to regain his freedom, he'll not only have to fight his way through a world that was specifically designed to murder him in brutal fashion--he'll also have to convince his android guide that he should be the one calling the shots.</p> <p>FAQS:</p> <p>Q: Who are you, handsome stranger?</p> <p>A: I'm Kyle Kirrin, the author of Shadeslinger, book 1 of The Ripple System, published by Portal Books, and I write crunchy LitRPG.</p> <p>Q: What is Wildling? And is it complete?</p> <p>A: Wildling is a crunchy LitRPG mash up of Fantasy and Science Fiction. And yup, Wildling is already complete at 64 chapters, or about 120,000 thousand words. You're looking at something like a third draft here--it's fairly polished, but it hasn't been picked over by a copy editor yet nor has my developmental editor seen it.</p> <p>Q: Upload schedule?</p> <p>A: 5 initial chapters today (2/15/2021) and one chapter a day for the next month. After that I'll probably slow down to 2 or 3 chapters a week until the story is complete.</p> <p>Q: How crunchy is it?</p> <p>A: It's pretty crunchy. I'd put it on the same tier as Ascend/The Land/RSSG, but it might be a bit crunchier than those three?</p> <p>Q: Is this the first book in a series or a web novel or what? And what are your plans for it?</p> <p>A: It's currently a standalone with series potential. Full disclosure: this story will probably head the way of my publisher eventually, but will be available on RR for quite a while. Likely several months after it's complete with plenty of warning before/if it's taken down.</p> <p>Q: What kind of build does the MC create?</p> <p>A: Sword and board!</p> <p>Q: Crafting?</p> <p>A: Plenty! Crafting isn't as center stage as it is in The Way of the Shaman, but it's close.</p> <p>Q: Base building?</p> <p>A: Two fully separate, distinct bases, both of which play a major role in the story.</p> <p>Q: VRMMO? Portal? Reincarnation or what?</p> <p>A: This one's a bit tricky. Basically an advanced race has created a game-like world that closely resembles a theme park. Think Westworld but with copious amounts of loot. And the MC has to fight his way through that to earn his freedom.</p> <p>Q: Permadeath?</p> <p>A: Nope! The MC gets 3 lives to play through the entirety of the game world, and death is extremely punishing, but not fatal.</p> <p>Q: Harem? Or romance?</p> <p>A: No and no.</p> <p>Q: Cursing? Blood?</p> <p>A: Quite a bit of cursing, yeah. There's blood, too, but it's not a gory book by any means.</p> <p>Q: How can I support?</p> <p>A: Eventually I'll get my life together and throw up a Patreon with advanced chapters (especially if the interest is there) but in the meantime I'd ask that if you enjoy Wildling, you consider giving my debut LitRPG Shadeslinger a chance. It's free on Kindle Unlimited and the audio is already out narrated by Travis Baldree. It's an epic fantasy VRMMO where the main character gets 3 days of exclusive access to a new game plus a snarky, talking axe to guide him through it in exchange for agreeing to become the target of a serverwide manhunt once the Head Start period ends.</p> <p>Q: How's it similar to Wildling? And how's it different?</p> <p>A. The crunch level is very similar, but Shadeslinger is a much lighter, epic fantasy take on the genre. It's also VRMMO, but without any real world components aside from the first chapter. The MC is very different--he comes off as a bit of a jerk early on and can take a bit to warm up to, especially before his backstory is revealed--but he's also got a talking axe that constantly puts him in his place. Shadeslinger's a much more humorous story in general, and it's a great deal more polished as well.</p> <p>Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy Wildling!</p>
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