Goblin Mode: A LitRPG Adventure

Goblin Peon No. 49 was a disposable NPC—until his script glitches and he wakes up. Soon he gets a character class, attributes, a user interface. He even gets a name: “Rook.” Stalked by a mordant AI—the god-like “System”—and guided (sort of) by a giant, pot-bellied rat with delusions of grandeur, Rook stumbles onto a hidden quest: recover three memory shards with the power to turn an NPC into a player character. Along the way, he’ll run a deadly gauntlet. Goblin-sized blenders. Malevolent (and chatty) ancient artifacts. Demons repurposed as transportation hubs. Hallucinatory giant mushrooms. And trolls with a very specific skincare routine. If Rook wins, he gets to level like a real person. If he loses… well, some outcomes are worse than death.