System Stories
Explore our collection of 80 amazing stories tagged with system. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The High Desert Reaper's Temp Job
Author:Quinn Ledger
When laid-off warehouse worker Eddie Ramirez takes a temp job to pay the bills, he doesn't expect his new boss to be the Grim Reaper. His assignment: catalog the increasingly bizarre deaths in California's High Desert. The perks? He can't permanently die, respawning at a Circle K after each fatal incident. The catch? He's forbidden from intervening. But as ancient evils crawl from the sun-scorched earth and cosmic horrors start eyeing his hometown, Eddie decides some rules are meant to be broken, even if it means generating a hell of a lot of paperwork for the afterlife's most overworked middle manager.
The Concordance of Concrete and Chaos
Author:Clarence Roberts
Corbin Pierce, a disgraced mage hiding as a community college professor, just wanted a quiet life. But when he leaps off a skyscraper to save a mystical raccoon, he's dragged back into a world of magic and murder. A secret cabal is sacrificing souls to awaken a sleeping god beneath the city streets. Armed with a cryptic System interface and a burgeoning apprentice, Corbin is the only one who can stop them. But to save his city, he may have to sacrifice his own soul.
Apex Lycan: The Primal Path
Author:Eva Henry
Leo’s life is a cycle of dead-end jobs, meaningless hookups, and waking up covered in blood after every full moon. He’s a werewolf, and his curse is winning. Then he meets Julian Vance, a charismatic alpha who offers him a key: a metaphysical System to control his inner beast and dominate his life. As Leo levels up, gaining power and confidence, he sheds his old self and his old friends. But when Julian's plan for a new world order reveals a monstrous final step, Leo must decide if the power of the apex predator is worth becoming the monster he always feared he was.
The Plastiphage Legacy
Author:Peyton Parker
Anya isn't just a girl; she's a First Soul, a fresh spirit in a dying world choked by the sins of humanity. Her father, a desperate scientist, searches for a cure in labs and data, blind to the miracle living under his own roof. When Anya unconsciously summons the 'Plastiphage'—a luminous, plastic-eating fungus from her forgotten home realm—she becomes the planet's last hope. But her miracle paints a target on her back. Alistair Khem, the titan of Khemia Oil, will burn the world to protect his toxic empire. Anya must master her burgeoning power and survive his assassins, all while trying to win the love of a father who only sees the problem, not the solution.
The Mime's Door
Author:Lillie Snyder
They say it's just pretend. A silent act. But when my friends vanished through an invisible door, I learned the horrifying truth: a mime's game is real, its stage is our world, and its prize is your soul. Now, twenty years later, the silence is breaking, and he's back for an encore.
The 75-Cent Revenge
Author:Digital Dime
When a single dad on a tight budget gets cheated out of a toy wagon by a mysterious, bot-like bidder, he doesn't just get mad. He gets a System. Now, armed with an uncanny ability to read the digital battlefield of online auctions, he'll turn his petty grudge into a full-blown war. He won't just win auctions; he'll dismantle the empire of the man who wronged him, one 75-cent victory at a time, proving that the best revenge is served at the highest possible price.
Charmaland's Captive Star
Author:Zack Moreno
A snarky B-list actress is yanked from reality and forced to star in a magical, retro-futuristic sitcom where low ratings mean literal death. Armed with only her wits and a System interface that demands she 'stay in character,' Alice must exploit every TV trope she knows to survive rogue commercials, rival starlets, and the omnipresent Network. To escape this glittering hell, she'll have to break the script—or become the show's biggest star.
The Spectral Analyst of Slakterquay
Author:Silas Blackwood
In the rain-slicked city of Slakterquay, where forgotten magic bleeds through the cracks in reality, disgraced detective Aggie Thorne sees the ghosts of the past. Gifted with a mysterious System that translates spectral energy into hard data, she takes on the cases that terrify the rich and baffle the police. Her first case: a malevolent entity in a billionaire's mansion, a haunting tied to the city's blood-soaked foundations. But by solving one mystery, she may unleash a darkness that could consume the entire city.
The Aethelburg Anomaly
Author:Cole Vance
For Officer Kaelen Vance, the world was a predictable grind of bad coffee and worse criminals. But a routine welfare check on a remote farm shatters his reality. Instead of a missing person, he finds a blood-soaked nightmare and a creature of bone and shadow that shrugs off bullets. His first kill in this new world brings not relief, but a shimmering blue screen congratulating him. The System has arrived. Now, monsters crawl from tears in the sky, the city is a warzone, and Kael's only law is the level-up. He’s not a hero, just a cop with a new, impossible power, and his beat is the apocalypse.
The Ash Wizard's Contract
Author:Wulf Ashwood
A powerful but broken wizard, drowning his grief in cheap booze and reckless magic. When the legendary Mordred offers him a final chance—join a secret order to police the decaying realm of Avalon—he's dragged into a conspiracy as ancient as Camelot itself. A rising darkness feeds on his personal tragedy, and to save the future, he must confront the ghosts he's spent years running from. But in Avalon, legends are forged in fire, and some souls are meant to burn.
Echoes of the Merlin
Author:Lisa Steward
Kai is a history nerd, obsessed with deciphering forgotten texts with his brilliant partner, Velma. Their quiet academic life shatters when a reality-tearing sound brings a crashing blue box and a terrified man warning of a coming storm. The storm has a name: Merlin. A dangerously charming man wielding a staff of captured starlight, he hunts for the same ancient scroll Kai holds—a map not of land, but of reality itself. Now caught in a war between forgotten legends, Kai must learn to rewrite the rules of existence before Merlin erases his world for good.
What Liora Keeps
Author:Vesper Thorne
To find his missing sister, Elio must use his volatile psychic ability—a power he can only access when blackout drunk. His desperate search attracts an old shadow from his past: the enigmatic Liora, who offers him answers at a terrible price. Pulled into her world of sensual depravity and occult horror, Elio discovers the truth about his sister is tied to a monstrous secret Liora keeps in her gothic mansion—twin entities that feed on souls. He must master his power before they consume his sister completely, but some doors, once opened, can never be closed.