by Minstil
On a stratified island where the poor live in the upper slums and the wealthy enjoy the shore, eighteen-year-olds are selected annually through a lottery rigged against the impoverished to serve as "sacrifices to the Gods" sent through a teleportation platform into an unknown wilderness from which none have returned. To fight for a war unknown. Fay, the son of a fletcher, whose dad was sacrificed years prior, is chosen alongside nineteen others. Sleep-deprived, apathetic, and armed with nothing but blunt dagger and basic leather armor, he approaches his own death with the resignation of someone who never learned to fight for anything. Before departure, each sacrifice receives a randomized skill, Fay draws "Stop Momentum," a common-tier ability universally regarded as worthless, which allows him to freeze the motion of any object he touches for just a moment. Rather than arriving in the expected hellscape, the sacrifices are scattered across a seemingly ordinary forest teeming with deceptively dangerous wildlife. Allowing Fay and his useless skill to potentially thrive if played correctly.
