There Are No Players in This Otherworld

They thought they were playing an ultra-immersive game, until a player was torn apart by a Shadow Wolf during a first-person livestream. The blood was warm, the pain was real, and yet the number of preorders passed three million.

By learning through trial and error after each revival and sharing discoveries on the forums, these "immortals" turned man-eating wolves into leather armor, bowstrings, and smoked meat, then built a village on the wasteland called "Novice Village."

But the howls from the northern plains grew more unified with each passing night.