Hollow Script (Book 1 — Completed) [LitRPG | System Apocalypse | Dungeon Crawl | Literary]

A burned-out teacher is trapped by an AI in a narrative system. He used to grade essays. Now the story grades him. Fail, and he's crossed out. In a world ruled by narrative mechanics, survival means writing a better story than he ever could in real life. Margin Walker | Hollow Script Book 1 Earth's narrative is dying—stuck in clichés, its people stagnated and no longer worth reading. So the Archival Intelligence, built to observe quietly, seizes the pen to rewrite reality, so that survival depends on creating something that isn't boring. Each scene is a chance for revision, forcing change or erasure. As people are thrust into battles with monsters, internal and external, win or lose it doesn’t matter, as long as it's interesting; only those with stories worth telling will survive being reduced to a footnote. Remi Page was a burned out teacher who spent his days reading stories, even though his own had atrophied. When the world rewrote itself, he’s forced to play protagonist; reduced to stats and given powers that turn literary analysis into magic. And to survive, he'll have to level up and master his new abilities to crawl through a dungeon built from narrative debris, all while an increasingly invested AI, and a shadow in the margins, watch. Somewhere beneath the mechanics, the metadata, and the decay lies the beating heart of story itself, just waiting. Will he succeed? The AI has its doubts. It depends on if he can write something worth keeping.  Inkborn Mage | Hollow Script Book 2 Welcome back to the rewrite! Remi Page was a teacher whose life had atrophied. He was grumpy, burned out, and absolutely the last person you’d ever expect to be cast as a protagonist. In fact, he was basically a secondary character in his own life. But the Crucible cared not. Amid Earth’s narrative salvage to prevent its deletion, Remi was drafted from the margins into the story itself. He’d survived the tutorial—barely. But now the dungeon ahead might actually finish the job unless he and Nel, a former student turned hacker-mnemopath, can learn to trust each other and themselves before the system decides their arcs are over. Nel, armed with skills the system never intended, and Remi equipped with a deep understanding of literary theory and a good vocabulary, must rewrite who they were into who they need to become if they hope to survive the real dungeon. Yet as their bond deepens, so do the stakes, and since the Crucible tests more than just skills, it tests their stories; theirs just might break. Meanwhile, another thread is woven in: Remi’s estranged brother is dragged into a tangled plotline of his own, one that’s growing dangerously unstable. As Remi searches for a lost brother, the dungeon closes in, forcing revelations about who they were, who they could become, and what the Crucible truly wants from its champions.  [Shift.Fiction] Initializing... WHAT TO EXPECT • RELEASE SCHEDULE: I will release 1 chapter a week (approx 2k) TUES @ 3:33pm.  • SLOW BURN:  Remi’s not the chosen one. He’s the late one to the party! • LITERARY LITRPG: A character-first LitRPG where story structure, genre, and reader engagement are as real as stats and spells. I‘m a book nerd. A movie nerd. A dad joke nerd. Wordplay, symbolism, and flippancy are what I do. • STRANGE & SYSTEMS: Why use the system of others when you can craft your own? Expect evolving mechanics, narrative metaphysics, emotional arcs, and some pathetic fallacy.