NPC Market: A YA Contemporary Video Game Corporate Thriller [The Tourism Board Multiverse]

Alex likes playing online video games with his friends, his team wins awards, trophies and scored top of the leaderboard frequently. But when his friend’s brother disappears without a trace he finds he landed a recent trainee job at one of the top NPC building companies on Belphus, Synapse Systems. Next-Generation NPCs are the latest craze, realistic and challenging for all levels of player. He and his friends need to discover the truth behind the money, influence and corruption. They need to enter the Belphus NPC Market. *** What to Expect: - Friends playing Video Games - Corporate Secrets - Next-Generation NPCs - Video Game Design - Fates worse than death - Corporate Espionage - Slow burn progression -Average chapter length: 2500 [Welcome to The Tourism Board Multiverse. Loading...]   *** Please note this is a Work In Progress. Serious editing/revision will be done when the book is finished, so there may be confusing parts and errors. Please feel free to point out mistakes! Chapters will be edited and altered accordingly. I will attempt to keep all readers updated on alterations. Updates according to my writing schedule. All Tourism Board books will be finished! Eventually. Copyright © Nicholas A. Ostheimer, 2026 All rights reserved.This story is fully human written. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. You do not have my permission to feed this story and its contents into a large language model. All characters and events in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. NPC Market is only posted on Royalroad and my Patreon, any other publication is stolen and violates my copyright.