475 Views 7 Favorites 8 Chapters 1 Chapters/Week 9 Readers 0 Reviews 19.3k Words Jun 23, 2025 DreadFae Past the boundary buoys, past the final warning buoys, past an expanse of cloaked mines, past the 24 deep space bastions, past two defensive satellite constellations, past the orbital habitats, and past the orbital ring, lies Pandora. An endless blue surface of water broken only by a single, artificial, super continent and, connecting it to the orbital ring, a space elevator.
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A world like no other, Pandora hosts the Great Game. Every cycle, millions of players step foot onto her lush pastures ready to fight to the death. Some are dangerous criminals, but many more innocents, noble and lowborn alike, all whom have volunteered. Out of their number a scarce few thousand will leave her embrace. Yet even with these deadly odds, ever more volunteer every cycle. For in the Great Game, one can obtain personal power, fame and fortune. By climbing the Stairway to Heaven one can even claim a seat in Heaven and along side, might akin to a god.
On Pandora, a man wakes with no memories, not his name, nor his home, nor his people. Thrust unwillingly into the deadly jaws of the Great Game, he must keep his wits about himself to survive. A man, he sets his sight upon the final step of the Stairway of Heaven. To leave the place and enjoy his new lease on life. But even before he even steps upon the Stairway of Heaven great forces conspire against him. Against an original sin, a crime he had never committed. And so, as he climbs to survive, to thrive, he finds only ever more baleful gazes, as more gods and empires turn towards him. Marked for death. He rages against the Heavens.
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This book is heavily inspired by cultivation/martial arts/xiaxia/xuanhuan/murin/holy fuck how many of these are there/wuxia, LitRPG Apocalypse, and Tower Climbing. In particular, much of the inspiration comes from Reborn: Apocalypses and Defiance of the Fall.
The mc's memory loss is irreversible, he will retain no other personal memories. This is to say that if he doesn't remember something there will be no point at which he will regain those memories (He can still learn about his past, but he just won't remember his own point of view).
There will definitely be smut in this work and it will be clearly labeled and fully skippable. It won't be the focus of the work and its purpose it to be fun rather than overly dark or visceral. It's also something that will mainly come later on as I am inexperienced with writing adult content. I'll need to do some research... Ow... Wait. Babe it's not what it looks like, it's for research... Ow... I'm only watching it for the plot... Ow... ow... babe... trust... me...
English is my 69th language so I apologize for any grammar mistakes.
Also, I am not a native of Earth so I will make a lot of mistakes relating to cultures and stuff.
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