This is a Repost and Revision of Some Warpunk in Cybercraft by Den B, and yes I was Den B.
Ryan Crestwood is snatched away from death, and given a chance to matter.
Given Powers, from games he doesn't understand. (Warcraft among others)
Thrust into a World he doesn't recognize. (Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners)
Can he achieve the impossible and fix the Broken Future?
Or will he meet a horrible end lost and alone?
What to Expect:
03/31/25 - Revisions are done! New Content Ongoing. Anything past Chapter 70 is new.
First off a !!WARNING!! - First, this story is told from a limited first person perspective, you know only what the MC knows. This means that things can seem to happen out of nowhere at times. If you can't handle that, please don't read. My intention is not to upset people, just tell a story I'd like to read myself. Second due to the nature of the MC's perspective and the World, a lot of plot threads seem to be forgotten or ignored, they aren't, it just takes some time for the MC to get the answers. Third and perhaps most important, there is a moment of Rage Inducing Reset and Mind Manipulation. The issues with the mind don't last long and I promise the story is better for it, and that I'm not doing it just to be cruel.
All tags and warnings clicked will be used. So, please, look them over.
Tags are by no means complete, and will be added to as needed. Please help with that.
The MC will have little if any knowledge of the Games involved. The MC will start from his normal existence in our World and have to adapt, not only to his new situation but to the Hostile World he is sent to.
I will be using this story to explore writing further, please bare with me.
This story is for my own amusement, so all elements are going to be from expanded Alternate Universes.
Book cover image is from Easy-Peasy AI
Edited with BeFunky
Cyberpunk 2077 belongs to CD Projekt Red and Mike Pondsmith
Cyberpunk Edgerunners belongs to Studio Trigger, CD Projekt Red and Mike Pondsmith.
Cyberpunk 2013, 2020, and RED belongs to Mike Pondsmith and R. Talsorian Games.
Warcraft and Starcraft belongs to Activision Blizzard.
Rifts belongs to Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Games.
Warhammer 40K belongs to Games Workshop.
All other Games belong to their respective owners not to me. I only assert ownership of my own Original Characters.
This will be on Scribblehub and Royal Road.
This story can be summed up as the phrase "Two steps forward, three steps back." but on crack.
Example. You know what happens every time the MC even starts to get ahead, or starts to get a real grasp on things, or (apparently heaven forbid) things start going a little too well? The author comes in to slap him down.
And I'm not talking about doing so in a "Oh, I need to learn to use what I have the right way." kind of thing. No, that would be... ok maybe not fine, it would still be damn annoying with the sheer frequency he does it, but it would at least be somewhat understandable. No, we're talking a full blown "Hey, f**k you in particular." slap down. And he does this Every. Single. Time. anything starts to go well. Without fail, you can absolutely guarantee that if something good is happening and/or has happened to the MC, that something else WILL happen to him to either remove what made him happy or erase it.
Like, I understand the idea is to build drama and find a way for your MC to not turn into a full blown power fantasy, but holy God...I mean, at the point I gave up reading, while this fic hadn't yet fully turned into outright misery porn, it was well on it's way.
Right befor chapter 60 is the warned mind rape/soul f**k that in turn hard f**ks the MC and does similarly to the entire flow of the story. Everything the MC had, be it skills, allies, land, powers, people, or anything else, is stolen from him by a knock-off Wifu Catalog type "evil entity". And the next few chapters are a perfect example of why editors who stop writers from going down "Wouldn't it be cool if I did (blank) " rabbit holes exist.
All I can say is that even after an apparent full rewrite and a separate revision... to anyone who braves this story? Read the warnings. And read the tags. Cause if you're here to read a happy story? You're in the wrong place.
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I want to say this story has an interesting start but instead of we get a faceless reincarnation organization that takes up an entire chapter.
I want to like the story because I love Warcraft and StarCraft, especially the nonhuman factions, but he doesn't actually use those he has one talking wolf and two trees as Allies and then humans from the other factions. I kept reading because they stayed in the games he drew his power from...... And then he got a person completely unrelated to his power and was human so I gave up.
I don't care for the MC. He contemplates killing characters over miner announces. One stares at him angrily and the other called something he likes ugly. If you like stories where the main character is 50% pity party and 50% A$$hole this is for you but I'm going elsewhere.
In the end all I can say is it's very human of the main character to steal the Kaldori's ability to regrow Forest and ignore anything else about them since there not human. Same for the Protoss he takes there PsiCrafting So he can make better armor.
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