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 Echo Gate
Author:Jane Franklin
When my best friend vanished, he left me only one thing: an antique wooden box. He called it a gate to another world, a promise of ecstasy or damnation. I thought he was losing his mind. Now, a cryptic poem is carved into the wood, and I feel an irresistible pull from within its depths. The box is calling to me, whispering secrets of what happened to him. To find the truth, I have to step through the gate... even if it means I might never come back.
The Nexus Retribution
Author:Katherine Carroll
He built their digital empire from scratch. He was the god in their machine, the sole architect of their success. When they refused to reward him, exploiting his dedication and casting him aside, they forgot one crucial fact: the one who builds the system also knows all its secrets. Now, with a single keystroke, Kai Sterling will unleash a data-driven reckoning that will bring the corporate titans to their knees. They should have paid him his overtime.
Chasm Runner: The Aetheric Interface
Author:Mattie Prescott
In the neon-drenched underbelly of Veridia City, a sarcastic master thief named Haven lives by one rule: trust no one. But when a heist goes wrong and she witnesses a grotesque, reality-glitching demon attack, her world shatters. She discovers she possesses a unique 'Aetheric Interface'—the power to see and manipulate the code of magic itself. This ability throws her into the path of Asterias, a cold and dangerously handsome agent from the secret order that polices these demonic incursions. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they must unravel a conspiracy tied to her father's mysterious death, a conspiracy that will drag them through high-tech heists and demonic cults, blurring the line between justice and revenge.
The Engineer of Inconvenience
Author:Mildred Baker
When bureaucratic incompetence creates a fifteen-second hell on the highway, a retired systems engineer is pushed to his limit. His wife's life depends on him getting home on time, and the state won't listen to reason. Armed with a plywood sign and the personal phone numbers of the men responsible, he decides to make the problem personal. He will dismantle their comfortable lives, one phone call at a time, until the gears of the city grind to his will.
The Thaumaturge's Gambit
Author:Elias Thorne
A cynical 21st-century detective is murdered, only to awaken in the body of a nobleman investigator in an alternate Victorian-era world. In this Anglo-French Empire, magic is a rigid science controlled by the Church, and his new partner is a powerful, by-the-book sorcerer. Tasked with solving impossible locked-room murders, he must use his modern forensic knowledge to reinterpret the very laws of thaumaturgy. As he untangles conspiracies that threaten to drag the empire into war, he finds himself in a deadly game of wits against a beautiful, ruthless sorceress from a rival empire, where one wrong move could shatter both his cover and his new reality.
The Blackwood's Ledger
Author:Evelyn Cinder
Forced into the eerie, Victorian-era Blackwood Apartments, Willow discovers her new home is a sentient deathtrap with a bizarre set of rules for survival. Tapping at her fourth-floor window is the least of her worries. A shapeshifting elevator, a clown with an axe, and hallways that rearrange themselves are just the beginning. To stay alive, she must master the building's deadly game, where breaking a rule means becoming another ghost in the walls, and survival means sacrificing a piece of her own humanity.
The Restoration Protocol
Author:Kaelen Ashworth
Greg believed his dream job was about saving nature. He was wrong. As a project manager for a clandestine government agency, he discovers that 'Restoration Projects' aren't about planting trees—they're about feeding people to the ancient, hungry earth. When his insubordinate coworker becomes the latest 'project,' Greg is forced to watch a livestream of his gruesome end. Now, the new director knows he saw everything, and Greg is trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare where diversity quotas are met with blood, and every new assignment could be his own death sentence.
The Silent Stage
Author:Darrell Richardson
A man's playful game of 'house' with his niece turns into a nightmare when she vanishes after he breaks a simple, chalk-written rule: 'Don't leave the door open.' Four years later, a terrifying Mime appears, revealing the niece is trapped in an invisible world of silent horror. To save her, he must master the surreal rules of this 'Silent Stage,' where imagination is reality and every game is played for keeps.