A next-generation MMO, where levels don't come easy and there is no fast travel. Ken finds himself trapped in the strange world while asleep in a coma. Just when things can't get stranger, he is approached by the AI that controls the game who comes to make a bargain. In this world, Ken must help beleaguered NPCs find ways to provide better side quests that players actually want to do. Failure to do so could mean his status of Awoken being revealed to doctors who want to experiment on him.

While this story does have an MC that becomes a female avatar when he enters the game world, there is nothing sexual bout it. For this reason, I have decided to ultimately not to use the Gender-Bender tag. The reason this exists in my story is to highlight some of the stereotypes that occur for female characters in MMOs.

[participant in the Royal Road writathon challenge]