[The Survivors 01] • The Masacre

Thorrin Hammerfist is one of The Damned, players of the VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) Taereun: Battleground of the Damned. Along with tens of thousands of other players, in a world other than Earth, his mind and soul have been imprisoned in the body of his character. Tasked by The Nameless God with freeing his own body from the dungeons beneath the city of Have, they have searched and fought for nearly twelve years. Along with everyone else, Thorrin has lost more people he has considered friends than he wants to count. Like many of the other Damned, Thorrin is close to burning out.

After their long struggle, The Damned have reached what they believe to be the zone where they will find Haven, but Haven is nowhere in sight. Never a unified force, The Damned are on the edge of fragmenting, and groups have already set out on their own in search of Haven.

As the remaining Damned rest and prepare for their final march toward Haven, unknown to them, an orc horde of over half a million warriors is fast approaching. In the coming battle, with their very existence on the line, how many more friends will they lose? What prices will be paid for a chance at survival? Who will survive the massacre?

WARNING: For Mature Audiences Only. This story contains profanity andrather graphic descriptions of violence, gore, and sexual violence.