Dead Blessings
Written by Kyle Zayne
Volume One, Chapter 0
Dead Blessings.
A game released back in 2017. A game far ahead of its time.
People said you could play it on practically any device imaginable. Its player count surpassed even platforms like Facebook and Twitter combined. Though honestly… calling it a "game" almost feels wrong.
Inside that world, you could do nearly everything you could do in real life.
Some players even made a living from it. They traded in-game items for real-world money. Massive live events allowed players themselves to participate directly. The map was absurdly huge, almost like a mirror of reality itself. Entire cities were recreated from famous real-world locations, though under different names, of course.
And somewhere along the way, the connections between players became real too.
Even the NPCs and bots felt disturbingly natural. Some people grew so attached to them that they treated them like actual companions.
It was more than just a game.
It was history.
Me?
I'd been playing since launch.
Back then, I was considered one of the few legendary players still roaming the game. Not bragging or anything. If anything, it just proves how spectacularly unemployed and directionless I was.
Still… that's another story.
November 22nd.
That was the day everything began.
The day tied to the story everyone became obsessed with.
Strange, isn't it?
That was the day I learned something impossible.
I learned that I was someone who could truly survive inside a fake world.
Yeah.
I'm a survivor.
Someone better than most people at clawing his way through hell just to stay alive.
One of the rare few who accepted the challenge this world threw at them…
…and survived it.
Dead Blessings Volume One marks the dawn of a brave new world.
And this…
is where the story of a survivor begins.