Enter the Demons

Wanted: demon daddy

Dagonestra, Queen of Succubi, Mother of all Demons, six-armed sensual snake goddess and producer of strange video game titles, may have been less than honest with Ryan about why he was picked as the demonic Chosen One, but since Ryan’s rebirth as a warlock in the world of Eldwick he’s had too much on his mind to lodge a formal complaint.

First, he spawned naked in the boss level of the starter dungeon and had to fight his way backwards out of the place using only his knowledge of the secret levels, cheats and every creature’s stat block. Then his plan to rule the world hit a few bumps in the form of demon girls in desperate need of rescue. And finally, those same NPCs turned out to have thinking, feelings minds of their own and tried to rip him off. All before he’s finished the tutorial… talk about a steep learning curve for a game!

But the Land of Eldwick isn’t just the game he mastered when he was a kid, it was all based on a real place and Ryan – aka Rineskull the Warlock – gets to explore the real-life version of the only place that ever felt like home.

Now he and his inner circle of demon girl rescues have a new challenge to navigate: the starter town.
Under the menacing watch of Hellhound Keep sits Verbinnec, the town on the border of civilization. Part wild west boomtown, part hotbed of medieval skullduggery and fulltime wall-to-wall quest factory, the starter town makes the dungeon look like a day at the beach episode.

Because Ryan isn’t the only transplanted otherworld traveller trying to be the Hero. His opposite number is the world’s worst griefer, a Chad so full of himself that he thinks Eldwick is a solo-player game put there just for his amusement and Ryan is the only thing in his way of pure happiness: a player 2.