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The Heart is a Void: Ashes to Ashes

The Heart is a Void: Ashes to Ashes
For Karel, the search for power erodes the sense of mercy.
When a bug traps players in a new, immersive VRMMO, and begins to undermine the system that protects them from experiencing pain in combat, the players scramble to avoid becoming victimised. Some seek to hide or gain protection in Guilds, others seek power at all costs. Rumours of torture and possibly even real death begin to spread.
Many would-be heroes strive to protect themselves and others by becoming powerful mages, mastering the power of the elements, or training at combat with large weapons. While Karel had begun by trying to enhance his mage powers as far as possible, he eventually becomes disillusioned with this as he sees the power of others who use unconventional and amoral means to take advantage of the bugged game. As he explores this new, Free-For-All world, he must turn to cunning and ruthlessness to get ahead.
Chapter List
- Chapter 49: Raptor
- Chapter 50: Fog of War
- Chapter 51: Throne of Blood, Crown of Thorns
- Chapter 52: Disapproval is the Real Spoils of War
- Chapter 53: No Rest for the Wicked
- Chapter 54: Bestiary
- Chapter 55: In the Court of the Crimson King
- Chapter 56: Bat Signal
- Chapter 57: Shadow of the Bat
- Chapter 58: Throne Room Mystery
- Chapter 59: Coal Canary Robin
- Chapter 60: Boss fight! A King With No Crown
- Chapter 61: The Night Grows Pale (Queen Boss Fight, Part I)
- Chapter 62: A Damned Kind (Queen Boss Fight, Part II)
- Chapter 63: The Invocation (Demon's Gate)
- Chapter 64: Will you forgive me for living?
- Chapter 65: The Mask
- Chapter 66: The Trigger
- Chapter 67: Sherpa
- Chapter 68: Alice in Hell
- Chapter 69: A Charming Fairy-Tale
- Chapter 70: Gadsden Rattlesnake's Venom
- Chapter 71: Schoolyard Ghosts
- Chapter 72: Edgecator
- Chapter 73: School of Rawk
- Chapter 74: Lutye
- Chapter 75: The Man Who Laughs
- Chapter 76: Re-Write, Now More Exciting, Short and Attention-Grabbing
- Chapter 77: Ite, mouse est
- Chapter 78: The Mysterious Courtier Appears
- Chapter 79: Out of the Den
- Chapter 80: The Road Less Travelled
- Chapter 81: The Mink Shall Inherit the Earth
- Chapter 82: The Approaching Curve
- Chapter 83: Burial Plot
- Chapter 84: Leap of faith
- Chapter 85: House of the Rising Sun
- Chapter 86: So sad, her eyes
- Chapter 87: Doorway to the Heart
- Chapter 88
- Chapter 89: Candlemass
- Chapter 90: Only the Vultures Will Come to See Me Hang
- Chapter 91: Disturbing the Priest
- Chapter 13?: The sound of the demon bell (I)
- Chapter 13?: The sound of the demon bell (II)
- Chapter 92: IH8
- Chapter 93: John
- Chapter 94: SO MUCH I
- Chapter 95: End Transmission
- Chapter 96: The Impassive Eye
