FFO

A raiding guild's escape turns into a trap when the VR-game Forever Fantasy Online becomes a deadly reality. Twenty-one-year-old Tina, an invisible library sciences student in the real world, is Roxxy—a fearsome warrior and respected main tank in FFO. James, a college dropout burdened by debt, is a famous explorer who has conquered every game achievement. Both depend on FFO, but now wounds are real, monsters are cunning, NPCs are sentient, and death might be forever.

Stranded and separated across thousands of miles of deadly terrain, Tina and James must leverage every bit of their expertise and hoarded loot. Their gaming skills, once deemed a waste, are now their only hope to find each other and return home. As the stakes escalate, being the best in Forever Fantasy Online may no longer be enough in this gritty, battle-filled fight for survival. For fans of World of Warcraft and other life-consuming MMOs.

Arriving in Bastion, Tina and James expect safety, but find the capital aflame with chaos, players and non-players hunting each other, and a cowering king who controls the city's all-powerful artifact. James urgently needs to warn the king about the impending Once King's invasion, while Tina seeks royal portal keepers to return home. Their mission drastically changes when they discover the Royal Knights' captain is massacring low-level players, disguised as justice. Faced with the Once King's armies closing in, Tina and James must decide what's more important: the lives of their fellow gamers or the stability of this world's last great city. The wrong side could doom everyone to an eternity as slaves to the Ghostfire.

After the loss of Bastion, survivors cling to Windy Lake, their sole remaining haven, as the relentless undead armies of the Once King close in. This world faces annihilation. Players Tina and James face a personal crisis: their human bodies are dying back home. With time running out in two worlds, an impossible choice looms.

Should they desperately search for a way home before they have nothing to return to, or join the NPCs to fight for their new lives? Just as hope dwindles, James uncovers a secret that could change everything. But success demands confronting and defeating the one raid boss no one, not even Tina, has ever beaten: the Once King himself.