Death and Taxes. ... more>>

The two insurpassable laws of the universe.

So long as humans exist in this world, these things will remain.

However, there is a 3rd law which has always, and will always implement itself on people.

Suffering.

Reincarnated in a new world, five people are forced to learn this the hard way.

Placed on 'Nightmare mode' and being reincarnated as monsters, they are forced to survive under incomprehensible conditions.

However it is only through suffering, that we grow as people.

And it is only through suffering, that we truly become monsters.

"Nightmare mode.... eh? Tell me, what exactly was this mode supposed to mean again? Were our lives supposed to become nightmares?"

Without suffering, there is no change in anything.

"Or were we supposed to become the nightmares?"

This is the story of the antiheroes. <<less

Interactive, connected gender-bending tales. Ideally updated Monday through Friday with a new chapter. From March 25th, 2024 onward the update schedule will vary with at least one chapter a week on Wed due life changes and work.
1st Branch -“The Tall & Short Problems of a Cute Gamer Girl” - Jeremy and his wife, Rachel, work from home entertaining people on the Internet. Jeremy is a big man and chronically forgetful. When his wife buys a new toilet seat guaranteed to make him remember to put it down, their lives are turned upside down with multiversal consequences. [Contains minor sexual content and mild language]. 1st of the 'Flush With Pride' Arc. ... more>>

2nd Branch - “A Rock & Family Vacation” - Eliot and Brooke, with their three boys, take a trip to the coast. When their youngest finds a mysterious rock, secrets and truths will be uncovered. 1st of the ‘Mystery Rock’ Arc.

3rd Branch - "Close Encounters of the Bus Kind" - Paul Moore, a bus driver, ferries his former high school crush, now volleyball coach, Erin Reeves and her teams to meets. But an unexplained encounter will open their eyes to lives and possibilities both beautiful and terrifying. [Contains minor sexual content and language]. 1st of the “From Beyond” Arc.

4th Branch - "Transform the Dorm [A Brand New Goth Girl and Etc.]" - Taylor Lee, a frustrated young art student, finds himself and his college caught up in transformative events that shine a light on unexpected opportunities and inspirations. This story follows him and those around him as their lives change forever. [Contains some sexual content and mature language]. Only Arc Entry.

5th Branch - "Yuri Worlds" - Franklin Fowler, Guy Horner, and Dwight Chapman have been close friends for ages, but a trip to a world of living anime girls will leave them facing challenges and changes to their lives they never imagined.

6th Branch - "Mystery Lake" [Washed Away] - Six college students looking for a mysterious lake during spring break confront unexplained, dark forces trying to tear their lives and world apart.

7th branch - "See Yourself Be Yourself" [New Beginnings] - Brent Hollins' life shatters in an instant of betrayal. Can he learn to trust again? Who will he be...when she picks up the pieces?

More detailed plot link to be added when too long for description.
This is a connected, serial Interactive TG Fiction collection. Some are adult/mature and tagged such. Suggestions, especially for new branches, are welcome. Since many stories are inspired by prompts [unless otherwise noted], it is provisionally marked as creative commons.
====ARCS ====
Flush With Pride Arc - A mysterious site sells heavily discounted restroom supplies but they cannot be held responsible for whatever strange things might happen in the use of their products. All liability waved, buyer beware, and remember to read all included instructions...
Mystery Rock Arc - No one knows where it came from...
From Beyond - Some things were never meant to be known.
Transform the Dorm - College is full of changes.
Yuri Worlds - You can travel to any universe in reality, but you may not return home as who you were...
Mystery Lake - Mysteries await, just beneath the surface. How deep are you willing to dive?...
See Yourself Be Yourself - Who will you be when everything is lost?

Other/Forthcoming Arcs - Cute Gamer Girl 2, Revenge Rooms.

Cover art created by Canva and NovelAI <<less

WARNING: The Final Draft is up on SH of UE. It is on my profile works, so I suggest going to it.... more>>

Elinor is just a sixteen-year-old goth going through some abnormal teenage drama; her parents are involved in giving some 'unwanted' humanitarian aid to Venezuela, and they're dragging their daughter along to expand her world view ... much to her displeasure.

The jungle sucks and the bus has no air conditioning, and great, she's kidnapped ... The Oscillation happens, monsters attack ... she's a monster. Now, she's in a foreign world, fighting to survive. <<less

This is an Isekai story. The protagonist is a salaryman who is transmigrated into another world. Initially, he was captured and tortured a slave before gradually adds companions until he establishes a country.... more>>

Read if you can stand a weak protagonist with little fighting ability.

Unlike most isekai characters, he is granted limited abilities. <<less

When Peter suffers a too-close encounter with a truck, he finds himself reborn in another world. At first glance it is a perfect fantasy land. There's magic to play with, elves singing in the forest and a hyperactive catgirl neighbour. There's even a System that lets him earn skills and level up. But it isn't long before he notices that the world is far too perfect. Just why is everyone so nice? Can Peter accept the alien morality of this world's self-proclaimed protector, or will he seek to overthrow her?... more>>

Set after the events of A Lonely Dungeon, a few hundred years after the rebirth of civilization, this is a story about an earthling falling into Erryn's new world and the subsequent struggles of himself and Erryn to understand each other. It's a slow paced slice of life, and while there are pieces of action, don't expect any immediate grand conflict between Erryn and Peter.

Published here, royalroad, patreon and amazon. Two new chapters a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, early morning UK time. <<less

What happens after we die? Apparently we are shipped off to market to be reincarnated. In my case, I lucked out. I’ve been chosen to act as a beta tester for a whole artificial copy of the World of Warcraft, equipped with a moderately accelerated ability to learn magic and a collection of amulets that could condition their wearers to love me. No leveling, but I’ve got everything I need if I don’t do anything too stupid. ... more>>

Heavy on brainwashing, heavy on scheming, heavy on plot, modest on smut, and with far too many characters and far too many chapters, I proudly present this offering unto you, good reader.

Based in the World of Warcraft and drawing heavily from SwiftRosenthal’s Waifu catalog, this is a harem building, mind control heavy, extremely nerdy story that I started on and it just got really out of hand.

Note: I include the smut and gender bender tags for the sake of completion. They are in the story but they are only rarely the focus. <<less

Arimane Blade was a living legend. He had been granted many names. They were not all bright. Some hailed him as a messiah, others slandered him as the Devil. A man that was feared by all even as a simple mortal.... more>>

One day like any other, decades after his retirement, an old god informed him that he had been killed by mistake and offered him a chance to start a new life with a younger body. Where? A place where fantasies are reality and where everything is possible.

This is where the story of the most legendary human started. People couldn't find a name for such a controversial being. Instead, they began to call him by his first and most fitting title: 'The Kind Demon' <<less

Garth Daniels is a down on his luck handyman in a quiet little town in the middle of America when our universe is co-opted into a war between an unstoppable race of reality-hopping monsters that feeds on the flesh of living creatures, and a conglomeration of thousands of realities, nested inside each other like a matroska doll.... more>>

We're the new layer.

These monsters, the Kipling, can only be defeated in a reality with very specific physics, otherwise they are unstoppable, and so Earth's universe has been assimilated to give us a fighting chance.

Garth must set aside everything that he knows, and think fast to adapt to the new laws of nature if he wants to survive.
Cover by Asera, a cool, helpful dude, who doesn't get enough props. Go check him out!
https://www.patreon.com/asera <<less

The Cataclysm. ... more>>

The end of the world.

When one wakes up in a world destroyed with rot and overtaken by the undead, survival should be one's number 1 priority.

However survival is no longer an option.

As he awakens one day, Marcus finds that he is no longer alone in this world.

Ever.

[It is only through experiencing death and destruction... that you will truly know the meaning of suffering.]

[And the demented nature of humanity.]

[And what better place to experience such things... than in a world which has been ruined?]

This is the story of a man and a monster.

[Man and monster... are they not one and the same?]

This is the story of Number 7. <<less

Lia was walking between classes when the targeting on a wizard's lightning bolt went awry and the bolt struck Lia, killing her on the spot. And that would have been the end of it, had her best friend not managed to somehow preserve her soul and bring her back...as an entirely new species of monster called a Swarm Queen. And, apparently, she was going to be trying to take over the world, make everyone into part of her swarm. Eventually. When she got stronger.
Well...she already died once, so what harm is there in giving things a second go, right?... more>>

(Main character receives no gender bender. The genre tag remains there because gender bending does feature in the story, but there is no "minor" tag to properly illustrate that)

Series has a strict update schedule of "when it comes out, it comes out". That can mean two chapters in one day, or over a month between chapters. Both have happened in the past. This is something I write on the side while "turning my brain off", so just keep in mind that releases will be inconsistent.

If you want to be notified when this does update, check out my discord, I post notifications there: https://discord.gg/5TuC5ju

READ THE FOREWORD: I cannot stress this enough, this series is different from my usual fare and there come some caveats with it. In the foreword I address a lot of comments and questions I foresee people having. A lot of tags are also speculative, so there is also a brief explanation of them there as well. If you find yourself having questions about a tag, the foreword is the place to look/ask questions.

Also posted to Royal Road.

Cover image courtesy of Dev1325, go check out their store or instagram if you're interested in it: https://wildphototaker1325.picfair.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wildphototaker1325/ <<less

'...And it was believed Dragons came from fairy tales... who knew that they actually came from the sky and beyond our atmosphere?.... Alex Crawford is an average guy, average life, beautiful fiancée, starting an average day but he's targeted and kidnapped for some sort of experimental warfare programme involving Dragons. Next thing that Alex knows he or rather, she wakes up essentially in a prison, initially struggles to come to terms with her new body, which also subsequently has a condition that if kept unsupported will result in her death. Will her attempts to escape and gain her old life back succeed? Will she even want it back in the end? Time will tell as... more>> Alex, becomes a 'heroin' suppose you could say, that she never really planned on being. Things get rougher for her as the story continues, will she survive?...'

An action/adventure type story, with a bit of saucy romance to come later on. This picks up from exactly where my other story, 'The Shard', left off, which is a short prelude to this one, introducing a few of the main characters and their back stories, you may want to read that first to get acquainted.

(Side note: I use song titles as chapter titles (With the artist in brackets at the footnote of the chapter). These are either meant to represent the mood of the chapter or usually the song at one point or another has got me through some tough times and means a lot to me. SO... as a little disclaimer, I do not own the rights to any of these tracks, merely showing my love for them.) <<less

An original novel set in the Fallout universe, written to be accessible to all, featuring unique people and places.... more>>

Fallout: Vault X tells the story of John. A vault dweller, who spent every day of his twenty five years underground. Like his father, and his father before him. Proud to live in the last remaining bastion of humanity, all that survived The Great War of the atomic age. Hidden deep below the surface of the earth, toiling under brutal conditions. Year after year, decade upon decade. All to expand into the natural cave system the Vault occupied, building for the future. However, John knew what his forefathers did not, that everything he’d been taught was a lie. <<less

Binding herself to a monster was the only option Lyra had to save the woman she’d started to love. Worse, as part of the bargain it was ensured that Lyra’s magic, her soul songs, are cursed and sealed. To call on them without permission will inflict horrid pain that damages her soul.... more>>

Her new master is also the most gorgeous and terribly striking woman Lyra has ever laid eyes on, and this monster knows how to use that to break her new charge's will. Now Lyra must learn new ways to weave her magical songs into dark and agonizing melodies, else prove herself nothing more useful than a soul to be devoured.

What To Expect!

1. Reality is the dream of a dead goddess (NOT the MC) whose rotting mind can be felt at the edges of the worlds. Do not wake her up... please.
2. Matriarchal societies with tall and buff soul drinking Reavers, Beholder inspired mafia types, and song wielding shapeshifting Fae.
3. Sex is in this story, and serves to illustrate emotional growth, pain, and eventually the spark of hope for our heroine.
4. Trauma! D: Lyra is young and naïve whereas her mistress is cunning, cruel, and manipulative. Her affections are literally cultivated and used as tools to keep the young Fae bound to this monster's wills and whims.
5. Weekly updates, but also extra weekly updates because this writer has no self-control and needs help.

Lamentations of the Dead Dreamer is a dark adult fantasy story. It involves themes and topics of abuse (mental, physical, phycological, etc...), suicide ideation, sex, mild language things, slavery, and abandonment.

Cover Art done by the wumberful @Redsheis ! She is open to commissions! <<less

Gin, a regretful man in his late 20s, tragically passes away just as he discovers a newfound motivation for life. Filled with a desperate desire for a second chance, he beseeches the goddess of virtue to grant him the opportunity to live again in the same world, but with the ability to choose his own power.... more>>

“…Is it not possible?”

“No. It is not possible.”

To his dismay, the goddess reveals that such a wish is beyond her capabilities, leaving Gin disheartened. However, unwilling to abandon his dreams of living on Earth with extraordinary abilities, he formulates a different request: "Grant me the power to become a god."

Thus, embarks Gin's journey in another realm as he strives to return to his original world, driven by Faith, Lust, and the intertwined forces of Hypnosis.

WARNING: Will contain HEAVY Futanari, Gender-Bender (Male/Female to Futa), and Mind Control/Mind Break in later chapters (Read the tags) <<less

Lucas was your average college student until he stumbled into possession of a djinn's lamp. A few wishes later he finds that not only has he become (potentially) one of the most powerful beings in existence, he's found a new side to the world that he's not quite sure how to navigate.... more>>

And, to top it all off, he's become a woman. Now she has to find her footing in a world she's not fully used to, all while trying to avoid becoming a puppet in the battle for Earth's future.

Edited by Vongrak.

Release schedule is currently one per week on Sundays.

If you want notifications as soon as this updates, consider heading to my Discord: https://discord.gg/5TuC5ju

Currently in the process of being posted to Royal Road as well

This is a rewrite of this series (which has been kept up for archive purposes): https://www.scribblehub.com/series/36476/the-new-chimera/ <<less

In a time, now remembered only as myths and legends a great scourge threatened to consume the universe. It was an age of war unlike any fought before and since. A war of such fantastic scope, and extent that age-old enemies joined together in historic alliances. Entire worlds lay devastated, and vast fleets were raised to wage war across galaxies. For Millennia the ancient powers fought in a vast war for survival against an endless menace. The Victor? No one knows. The ultimate fate of the precursors and their enemy has been lost to time, but neither has been seen since the Great War of Legend. To this day relics of that great war can... more>> still be found. Among ruined worlds, and ancient battlefields. Mysterious and ancient worlds that still remain untouched even after being abandoned millions of years before.

A group of aliens desperately seeking technology to help them in their own war has found one such relic of this ancient war. An ancient battleship that lies dormant on the edge of their borders. Their very presence awakens that ship, and the ship soon finds itself confronted with the mysteries of the past and a mysterious power in the present. Join her as she seeks to uncover what happened to her creators, and the ancient scourge that had threatened to consume all. Even as she finds that the war she has been thrust into may prove more interesting than a first glance would suggest. <<less

Oh great hero! The evil Demon Lord has once again arisen to terrorise our lands, and we have summoned you to save our people!... more>>

No, we don't want you to fight the demon lord! Of course not; we're the good guys! What sort of good guys kidnap people from other worlds and force them to take part in wars that have nothing to do with them? That would just be plain evil! We'd be no better than the demons!

Katie, after her summoning by an excessively loud mage suddenly takes an unexpected twist, is sent off on a simple fetch quest, with a promise that she'll be back home in five minutes at most. She doesn't even need to leave the building. Alas, when a goddess' blessing causes her wish for an actual adventure to be taken rather more literally than she expected, she finds herself lost in a dark cave, far away from the sword she was supposed to acquire and far too close to a population of giant bugs. Still, at least she wished her life wasn't in any danger. Among other things.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

This is a dark litRPG adventure, both in terms of Katie accidentally wishing all the lights out, and also in that she loses as often as she wins, often with horrific and disturbing consequences. Luckily, Katie isn’t the sort of person to let a mere grizzly death or two get her down, and is prepared to try, try and try again to get her hands on the holy sword and finally complete her ‘simple’ fetch quest. Or perhaps—with a few resistance skills under her nightie—she might even come to enjoy losing. Not that she’d ever consider forgoing revenge, even if she did.

I’ve ticked all the content warning checkboxes for this one. Dark things happen to the MC, and she does dark things right back to everything else. There’s no explicit sexual content, but there are enough references to justify the warning, including to rape. Profanity happens rarely, but Katie isn’t averse to swearing when she gets particularly angry. As for gore, it doesn’t get much worse than the first few chapters, but there will be occasional chapters that have extra content warnings. There will be mind control.

Published here, royalroad, patreon and amazon. <<less

!!!THIS SERIES HAS BEEN REWRITTEN, AND THIS REMAINS UP ONLY FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES!!!
New series here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/269454/the-new-chimera/... more>>

Lucas was your average college student until he stumbled into possession of a djinn's lamp. A few wishes later and he finds that not only has he become (potentially) one of the most powerful beings in existence, he's landed himself in the middle of a clandestine war for the future of Earth.

And to top it all off, he's become a woman. Now she's got to find her footing in a world she's still not fully used to navigating, all while dodging persistent attacks from those dedicated to taking her power for themselves.

Currently on hiatus while I work on the rewrite. Edited by Vongrak from chapter 44 on.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5TuC5ju <<less

STUB Info: If you do not have KU, then all RR readers can message on Discord to discuss it more. Links to the discord are at the end notes of every chapter. o7 : https://discord.gg/NTY2CPqVFy... more>>

Elinor is just a sixteen-year-old goth going through some abnormal teenage drama, who is about to be introduced to a not-so-informative System of Undeath, a mysterious golden twin, and a struggle to keep everything she loves from falling apart.

Forced onto a humanitarian aid mission to Venezuela by her parents and grounded, much to her displeasure, this rebellious teenage girl is understandably pissed. The jungle sucks, the bus has no air conditioning, and great, if that's not enough, she's kidnapped! How much worse could it get?

The edited and more refined addition will be on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited (an Audiobook version will be pending when I release it on Amazon). Due to exclusivity for, as Rhaegar of 'Azarinth Healer' puts it, 'the infinite money glitch' that is Kindle Unlimited, I will need to make all the chapters, excluding Chapters 0-2, exclusive to Amazon.  I would like to make everything free, but that is the price for making money by writing. We always have to make it somewhere. Patreon will always be four chapters ahead, and Volume 2 is already underway.

Chapter released every Friday night/Saturday early morning MST (as the usual time), 12 a.m. to 3 a.m.

Artwork available for free dl on my Patreon

Patreon Master Index <<less

Light and Dark, StarBreakers and Demons,
Battling for their survival, and their beliefs.
Follow Yuri, our young adamant Starbreaker as she fights Demons, and unravels... more>> appalling secrets, all for her quest to seek the sacred Land of Light, where miracles reside. <<less

A 15 year old boy found himself in the middle of a school field trip. He was your normal everyday student, one among many you could find anywhere. Maybe some things about him weren't exactly like your average everyday student, he was a weeb or something once called an otaku.... more>>

During the school field trip there was an accident, the bus crashed and rolled down a hill and ending up ending the lives of twenty students, and among all twenty students one didn't reincarnate, and instead was sent into another world as a spirit.

Themes:

* Reincarnated as an X (Spirit) <<less

Long ago, the humans triumphed over the dragons, sealing them into human mortal bodies now known as dragonoids. The dragonoids became enslaved by the humans and use them as military weapons by the power of the Vesryn Pulse. With this newfound magic, mankind divided its empire to four and wages war against themselves for their own selfish ambitions.... more>>

A set of dire events occurred, pushing a single man to the limits of his sense of justice. Betrayed by his countrymen and losing his friends, lover, and honor; Xenon Wingate rises from the depths of hell and finds himself in a state of inner rage; a cemented resolve to kill everyone who has done wrong to him. He enters the Dragon Knight Academy with his dragonoid slave Serena Maizono and challenges the Five Pentagram Knights as a condition for acquiring an army. This will be the first step to execute his ultimate plan of revenge to satisfy the tingling sensation of his wrath.

Vesryn Pulse: Wrath of Xenon follows the action-filled story of a man who loses himself into his thirst for blood and revenge. However, he will soon learn that the payback comes at a far greater price than he could ever imagine.

©ArchlordZero

*All Vesryn Pulse novels are standalone, but they are all connected and might spoil each other* <<less

It seems to Aimé Deverell that there is very little point to life, except for what pleasures can be enjoyed before the grave. Life is short - thank God - but at least there's enough in the world to dull the senses in the meantime.... more>>

That philosophy shatters like glass when he meets Jean-Pierre, an angel. <<less

After the defeat of the corrupted monsters, everyone thought that peace had finally come. But, little did they know, lurking in the dark, a new calamity was born.... more>>

WARNING!!! NSFW!!!

P/S: The cover is not mine. If the owner is offended, please message me in the comment section, I will remove it right away. <<less

12,000 years in the future, in a world where mammals are mostly extinct and sea creatures have replaced them on land, the Inkling sibling duo Artemis and Orion (also known as Agents 5 & 6 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon), find a human laboratory being dug up by the Octarians in Octo Canyon. They are not remotely prepared for what they find.... more>>

Waking to a world he does not recognize, and a future without humanity, the robot known as 'X' has to find his own place in this new world, on top of finding himself already thrown into conflict.

Inky Future is a crossover fic between Mega Man X and Splatoon, with a scenario where humankind accidentally blew themselves up long before Dr. Cain ever was able to find X and create Reploids, and X is awoken by Inklings instead. Things get, well, interesting as a result.

[Icon art by VCampan.] <<less