by Tom Wrath
Book 1 is FREE this week on Amazon! Link below! Vol 1 has been stubbed. The first three chapters of Vol 1 are still up as a sample and Vol 2 onwards is here for your reading! Find volume 1 here: Amazon.com: SCAPE: Volume 1 eBook : Wrath, Tom: Kindle Store Peace and Love! Vol 2 Stubs June 14th! One minute, Tiller is a regular family man. The next, he wakes up in a blank white void wearing nothing but swim trunks and running from a hungry dinosaur. It gets worse: a disembodied narrator is describing his every move... and Tiller can hear the snarky commentary loud and clear. SCAPE , the bizarre world Tiller’s stranded in, runs on RPG rules and twisted logic. If he ever wants to see his family again, he’ll have to play along and grind for it. Farming? Check. Monster slaying? Check. Awkwardly figuring out a mysterious bracer full of glowing sigils? Triple check. Level by excruciating level, Tiller must claw his way up from rock-bottom (literally, his class rank is “Stone”) toward god-tier power. Because the only ticket out of SCAPE comes with an eye-watering price: 10 million gold coins! Oh, and did I mention Tiller isn’t even the only isekai-ed protagonist who needs to earn a fortune to pay for his ticket home? Meet Cutter, a walking murder-problem with trust issues, and Reader, the kind of guy who could weaponize a library card. Three heroes. One world. Zero clue what’s really going on. What to expect: A sarcastic, fourth-wall-breaking narrator who won’t shut up. Farming as progression. Sigils, class ranks, and lite-RPG-style grinding. Dinosaurs, leprechauns, ogres, and godlike shopkeepers. Three protagonists (Tiller, Cutter, Reader) covering dungeon crawling and "adepting" as well as farming. Meta twists, attempts at absurd humor, and occasional emotional gut-punches. Characters with a clear organic ultimate goal and motivation WARNING: There is a LOT of profanity at times and at least one substantial side character has an explicit death wish in case these are triggering!
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