Are you part of the empathic class?
Do you ever listen to a song, see a breathtaking scene in nature, or experience a perfect moment in time, where something inside you revels at the moment with rushes of chills, surges of energy, and tingling all over?
For reference, search the term "Musical Frisson."
This is a story of a young man who learns the deeper truth about this ability to feel that which brings so much more color and intensity to his life.
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Warning!! This is a realistic fantasy that reflects a deep respect for the atrocities in life, is tinged with dark humor, and builds upon honest feel-good moments. This story is not for the faint of heart, casual thrill seeker, or bored reader. Read at your own risk of self-discovery.
*Advertisement scene is in Chapter 2*
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Intro:
In the early stages of WWIII, a young brother and sister are forced apart in the fallout of a new munitions test from a terrorist organization. Living at the very edges of their small remote village, they are the only living survivors of a previously untested and ignorantly harnessed magical compound.
Resulting from the violent devastation and consequences of magical fallout in a mundane world, the sister was unwillingly drawn into the far future of an alternate reality and chaotic world. Her lone brother, remained on their origin Earth to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Each adrift in their different realities and split time-lines, they desperately strove to establish themselves and reconnect.
42 years passed on origin Earth before they achieved their desperate desire to reach each other across the tides of time and space. However, the resulting discoveries that each made in their own era, revealed that their origin Earth was in for another terrible tragedy. A budding transformation, whose resulting fallout would make the devastation of WWIII feel like a light appetizer, was bearing down with creeping inevitability.
Together, and with the aid of otherworldly powers, they designed and created a stable passageway between realities and time-lines. Under the guise of a Virtual Reality, and overseen by the global medical and scientific empire of Millennial Enterprises; they paved the way to train and sensitize the ignorant world, in preparation for the impending fallout.
Andrew Matherson, a young college student and patient care technician, who is haunted by a past mistake, unwittingly joins the throngs of participants in this exciting new "Virtual Reality" adventure. Most participants were the result of chance and happenstance. Only a small few, like him, were hand-picked by the brother and sister pair to stand as budding protectors in a world on the brink of a magical Armageddon. However, as man plans, the heavens dispose.
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Additional tags: Apothecary work, animal companions, deep character growth, emotionally stimulating scenes, dungeon exploration, and more.
This becomes a Truer Lit-RPG at the start of book 2, but I won't ruin the surprise.
Monday/Wednesday/Friday releases as of 6/17/2024 due to my increased backlog and improved writing pace. 30 Advance chapters on Patreon!
Seeking an editor from someone interested in free early access chapters. If I start making enough from Patreon then it could become a paid position. I know I mess up the correct tense usage sometimes among other things. It's nice to get an outsiders viewpoint.