When the President said to immerse ourselves in the project, this was NOT what I had in mind!

I really should've taken the publisher's employment contract more seriously…

Rachel and her best friend Nora never imagined their first job at a publishing company would catapult them into the heart of their favorite fantasy web novel. Five years after the story's abrupt hiatus left fans in limbo, they seize the chance to help the enigmatic author complete the tale that had captivated their hearts during their high school days. But what begins as an exciting creative endeavor quickly spirals into a quirky, unimaginable adventure when they're whisked away without consent into the very story they longed to save. Now, the two will get firsthand experience dealing with the destructive demon lord who betrayed and banished the heroine during the story's original cliffhanger.

But what if he isn't the card-carrying villain everyone else seems to think he is?

2024-06-21: Book 2 Now Posting (Book 1 Complete, also still available on RR) In Book 2, Holy Order of Gold, the hero's party, now reunited, learns to work together again as they journey towards the Holy City of Chairo.

Additional details:

Genres: Main: Satire - a genre in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Other Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Tags: Female Lead, Magic, Portal Fantasy / Isekai, Progression, Reincarnation, Soft Sci-fi, Supernatural

Content Warnings:

Disturbing content: This includes, but is not limited to, the slavery of fantasy humanoid races (uncelebrated and fought against by the protagonists), along with the MC's thoughts and actions stemming from past trauma, self-doubt, and unequal relationships, with humor (including self-deprecating humor) used as a coping mechanism.

Graphic Violence: physical harm (protagonists and antagonists alike)

MC Key Descriptors: Amnesiac, caring, female, reincarnated, reluctant, flawed, straight, slow growth (but increases over time with some backward progression)

Story/Plot Devices:

Author as Goddess

Banter

Breaking the fourth wall (some Author's Notes contain Post-Chapter Omake/Extras)

Broken, ill-defined, and unfair world system

Emotional disparities between obligations and motivations

Enemies to friends? Friends to enemies?

Evolving character relationships

First Person POV (MC)

Impending world threat

Possession (temporary possession of MC by past lives)

Relationships span a variety of romantic and platonic connections

Self-care techniques (both successfully and not so successfully executed)

Systematic improvement

Other multiple tropes (both straight and satirizing)