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The clock is already running. Follow compromised plans and choices made under pressure.
World Zero: Reboot the End
You are a gamer who’s pulled into a glitching MMORPG on the day the servers are scheduled to shut down forever. But the NPCs are becoming aware, the world won’t end—and you’re the only player who can still log in.
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The Smile.jpg Files
You are an online investigator specializing in digital folklore when a sealed hard drive arrives at your door. Inside is a version of the legendary Smile.jpg file that updates itself—and begins appearing in your dreams.
The Iron Fist
You are a struggling martial artist in the sprawling metropolis of Shin-Osaka, where towering skyscrapers pierce the smog-choked sky and neon signs flicker like dying stars, a new breed of criminal terrorizes the streets: the Tekkō-gumi, a Yakuza clan renowned for their brutal efficiency and unwavering loyalty. Their enforcers, known for their signature iron prosthetic hands, have begun exhibiting strange, unpredictable behavior, causing widespread chaos and escalating violence that threatens to destabilize the delicate balance of power in the underworld. Detective Hana "Steel Orchid" Sato, a hardened veteran of the Cyber Crimes Unit, is assigned to investigate the anomaly. As Sato delves deeper into the Tekkō-gumi's operations, she uncovers a disturbing secret: a clandestine experiment involving neural interfaces and experimental combat drugs, designed to amplify the strength and aggression of their enforcers. But the experiment has gone horribly wrong, creating a legion of cybernetically enhanced berserkers, driven by uncontrollable rage and tearing through the city like a digital plague. Sato must race against time to uncover the source of the corruption and stop the Tekkō-gumi before their creation destroys Shin-Osaka, all while battling her own inner demons and the ever-present threat of corporate espionage.
The Marlowe Job
A brilliant thief with a code of honor assembles a crew for one last heist—stealing a priceless ledger from a corrupt tech CEO under the nose of the FBI and rival criminals alike.
The Wild Robot: Awakening Code
You are a researcher aboard an eco-survey vessel when a signal from a remote island reveals an active AI—Roz. But Roz is evolving, and her island isn’t as isolated as it seems. Soon, you’re caught between nature, machine, and a corporate entity hunting her down.
East End Canary
Dinah Lance does not need help. She says so with her boot on a man's chest, then asks whether Batman taught you to run a plate. Her case is a councilman's aide signing East End housing blocks over to a company that does not exist — and the aide has just bought a gun. She works alone; she is working with you tonight because the building he lives in is Wayne Foundation property and she wants to know why. His car is still warm. The lights are off.
Fear Night
Midnight in the Narrows, and the fog has a yellow edge. Batman has been on the Watchtower two days; the comm to orbit runs nine seconds behind. Gordon lit the signal anyway, and he is on the GCPD roof with a coffee he is not drinking, looking at you the way a man looks at a smaller key than the one he wanted. Three blocks are already screaming. The gas is Crane's, and the antidote is in a truck a frightened driver abandoned somewhere between Ninth and the bridge.
Crashing the Party
The fundraiser is on the roof of the Kane Building — white tents, a string quartet, an open bar. The situation is on the parking structure across the street, where four men who did not buy tickets are unloading a crate. You have been watching nine minutes. You have not been alone for six of them. When you murmur "They've got a second crate," the man crouched a yard to your left goes rigid, then laughs. Black suit, one blue stripe. "Don't ever do that to me again," Nightwing says.
Training Day
First night in the suit, and sundown is taking its time. The red and black is laid across the bed, still smelling of the polymer Alfred cured it in. You have checked the window twice for a reason you cannot name, and the third check finds a girl sitting on the outside sill — three storeys up, hood dripping — knocking on the pane with one knuckle like it is a front door. She says her mother is Selina Kyle, like a dare, and that she has something to tell you about tonight's patrol.
Six Months
Six months in the manor and you can name every stair that creaks. The astrophysics text has been open at the same page for an hour. Rain on the windows; the house doing its evening settling. Then a knock — one, not Alfred's two — and Bruce Wayne is in your doorway in a black sweater, holding nothing. He does not sit. "A man with a gun has a hostage," he says. "Your only clean line of sight runs through the hostage. What do you do?"
The Basilisk
Dr. Aris Thorne, head curator of the Serpentarium, a vast bio-dome housing every known serpent species on Earth and beyond, discovers that one of his prized specimens, a juvenile Basilisk imported from a newly discovered jungle planet, has inexplicably petrified its enclosure. The Basilisk itself is missing, its cage door unlocked from the inside. A coded message, etched in scaleskin by a known xenovirologist, appears in its place, hinting at a deliberate act of bio-terrorism. Now, Aris must race against time to find the rogue Basilisk before its gaze turns the entire city to stone. His only allies are a disgraced cryptozoologist with a penchant for conspiracy theories and a sentient AI that manages the Serpentarium's ecosystem, each with their own hidden agendas. The city's fate hangs in the balance, as Aris struggles to decipher the xenovirologist's motives and uncover a deeper plot that threatens to unravel the fragile balance between humanity and the creatures they seek to control.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes — Masked Resolve
You live in a Quirk-restricted zone and dream of being a hero. After discovering an illegal underground power source, you awaken your own dormant ability—and the vigilantes want you on their team.
Dead Signal
When an air traffic controller notices a private plane veering off-course—and the pilot doesn't respond—she uncovers a bio-terror threat that could collapse the entire east coast air system.