u/thesluglife

Players wage war for unimaginable wealth in the world's most brutal VRMMO. That's until the Sludge wakes up...
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Players wage war for unimaginable wealth in the world's most brutal VRMMO. That's until the Sludge wakes up...

Classic Hardcore. Real Life Death.

They said MMOs were dying out, but they were just missing one horrific ingredient...

Welcome to a world of endless war; dungeons, monsters, and perma-death, streamed live to a doom-crawling future where cruelty is currency and survival is pure entertainment.

Players risk their real lives for obscene wealth.

Chat screams for endless blood.

Billionaire tech-feudalists rule the game as gods with stock portfolios.

But they didn't account for something going terribly, terribly wrong.

Deep in the filth of a backwater bog, the long forgotten bones of a dead, glitched-out mage rotted into the mud…

...and the mud woke up.

As player-driven kingdoms butcher each other for views, coins, and clout, SLUDGE crawls, slithers, then shambles its way toward sentience—learning to wear flesh like armour and wield stolen souls like steel...

…to become the KNIGHT they need to tear it all down.

—Starts as a monster evolution LitRPG before opening up into a grand-scale MMO with classic hardcore vibes.

—It's Venom meets World of Warcraft with a dash of Diablo, Cyberpunk 2077, and Game of Thrones.

[SLUDGE KNIGHT will see new episodes released every Tuesday and Thursday]

Having an absolute blast writing this, hoping the odd person on this sub might like it too. Apologies in advance for the AI art—planning on getting an illustrator on board once I've got some spare cash.

Link here:

SLUDGE KNIGHT

u/thesluglife — 2 days ago

I took a month of from posting and I'm having more fun with SLUDGE than ever before

I've posted a few times here before (self-promo included cough) about how I'm a huge noob to royal road but I'm loving the experience.

Well, I'd read a lot of horror stories about taking a break etc and the consequences, so was kind of dreading that I was taking off the whole of April while I acclimatized to life as a new father.

Turns out it had the complete opposite effect. Sleepless nights means I got more writing done than ever before, allowing me to build up a backlog of nearly a month's worth of writing ready for the Volume 2 launch of Sludge Knight.

I've no ambitions to reach rising stars or what have you, but it's allowed me to set up a major POV that is vital to Season 1 as a whole, and the views and followers keep slowly trickling up. I also got my first ever 3 star rating, after only having 5 stars so far, but hey, you gotta take the rough with the smooth.

If you're keen on giving SLUDGE KNIGHT a try as I push into Volume 2, I'd be very grateful. Cheers.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150482/sludge-knight-vol-1-2

Edit: I AM SO SORRY FOR THE SPAM I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED

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u/thesluglife — 5 days ago