検索キーワード： 著者 "Vasily Mahanenko" すべてのカテゴリー

Twelve players set off through the online world of Galactogon, lured by the game owners' promise of an enormous payoff. The question is, who will survive to tell the tale? Which of the 12 is a potential hero - or a traitor in the making? Which of them will defend the weak, and who will become the ultimate evil overlord? A knight or a coward? Each of the 12 will have to choose his or her path.

This fast-paced collection of novellas and short stories from leading Russian LitRPG authors sheds new light on their signature worlds. You're in Game! features works by Vasily Mahanenko, Andrei Livadny, Alexey Osadchuk, Michael Atamanov, Pavel Kornev, and Andrew Novak. Expect your favorite heroes to play second fiddle to an array of new main characters, once-minor plot lines to lead you in unexpected directions, and familiar story events to take surprising new turns.

Surviving in a tough situation is not always the best option; sometimes dying is much better than staying alive. The Academy showed Paladin Yaropolk what makes the world go round: pragmatism and personal gain. Restart was set in motion, but it only makes players more frantic. Now everyone plays only for themselves. Yaropolk faces the same dilemma: be like all of them, or keep his humanity and be known as an odd duck. Because there is only one rule in this world: kill or be killed....

The Game is in turmoil. All the players' strength and resources are invested in preparing for Restart: only 20 percent of the players will make it to the next era. Murders are becoming commonplace; bribes and nepotism are at their height. Betrayal is becoming an inherent part of everyday interactions. The Game has spread its perfidious influence to the farthest corners of the Universe, affecting every sentient being. Will the Dark Judge reach the right verdict? Will he follow the ideals of his class to the end or will he reject them, becoming an ordinary player?

Not long ago, Daniel Mahan, known to everyone as Shaman Mahan, thought that he had taken his sixth and final step in the Barliona gameworld. Yet life has other ideas. The Corporation decides to resurrect the Lord of Shadow and his entire host. The Corporation's CEO personally pushes the reset button. Geranika and his Dragon of Shadow spring back to life as, meanwhile, the Corporation makes an offer the Shaman can't refuse. 

Is it easy to survive in the game world? You could say yes, if you didn't know what the additional conditions were. They are unusual: it's the real world in which you have lived all your life. The enemy, craving to destroy you. Your own class who couldn't care less about you. Are you still sure that survival is easy? Then welcome to The Game! It will prove you wrong.

Daniel Mahan, the legendary Shaman of the Barliona game world, has served his sentence in virtual reality. Eleven months of adventures and battles in exchange for eight years in prison isn't a bad trade-off. And yet Barliona refuses to relinquish its grip on the Shaman so easily, erasing the boundary between his two realities. It turns out that it's not so simple to leave the capsule - the Way must be completed....

Es ist noch gar nicht so lange her, dass Daniel Mahan, allen bekannt als Schamane Mahan, fest davon überzeugt war, in der Spielewelt von Barliona den sechsten und letzten Schritt hinter sich gebracht zu haben. Doch jetzt funkt ihm das Leben dazwischen. Das Unternehmen entschließt sich dazu, den Gebieter des Schattens mitsamt seiner Anhängerschar von den Toten auferstehen zu lassen. Der CEO des Unternehmens persönlich ist es, der das Spiel per Knopfdruck zurücksetzt.

Die Abenteuer des Schamanen setzen sich fort. Daniel Mahan, der legendäre Schamane aus der Spielewelt von Barliona, hat seine Strafe in der virtuellen Realität verbüßt. Elf Monate voller virtueller Abenteuer und Schlachten statt acht Jahren in einem sehr realen Gefängnis, das ist kein schlechter Tausch. Aber so schnell lässt Barliona den Schamanen nicht wieder los. Die Grenzen zwischen der realen und der Spielewelt verschwimmen mehr und mehr. Und schon bald stellt sich heraus: Der Kapsel zu entkommen ist nicht so einfach, wie man denken sollte.

Mahan ist bereit für neue Abenteuer - und das ausgerechnet, als die Spielewelt von Barliona sich gerade darauf einstellt, in denselben alten Trott zu verfallen. Die Aufregung der Ereignisse im Dunklen Wald hat sich endlich gelegt, Altameda hat seinen neuen Eigentümer mit offenen Armen aufgenommen, und Geranika brütet neue Pläne für eine globale Vernichtung aus. Ob Mahan sich wohl mit seinem vorhersehbaren alten Leben zufriedengeben würde? Doch ganz sicher nicht! Neue Szenarien, neue Monster, neue Dungeons - und ein neuer Status.

Was ist ein Klan in einem Computerspiel ohne eigene Burg? Die Antwort liegt auf der Hand: gar nichts. Deshalb ist es eines der Hauptziele jedes Klananführers in der Welt eines Spiels, eine solche Basis für alle Aktivitäten in die Finger zu bekommen. In genau dieser Position befindet sich auch Hochschamane Mahan, Anführer des Klans der "Legenden von Barliona". Deshalb nimmt er den Auftrag des Imperators von Malabar und des Dunklen Lords von Kartoss an, die Armee der Phantome zu besiegen, die Altameda bevölkern, die Phantomburg.

Die virtuelle Welt von Barliona ist ein Ort, der zum Entspannen und zur Unterhaltung gedacht ist - aber nicht für jeden... Daniel Mahan wurde zu acht Jahren Haft in diesem virtuellen Gefängnis verurteilt, und nun kämpft er um sein Überleben. Nach der Welt der Kupferminen, wo Knochenarbeit ebenso angesagt ist wie andere Häftlinge, die ihm in den Rücken fallen, wird er, unter Beschränkungen, auf Bewährung in die Welt der freien Spieler entlassen. Was mehr könnte er sich wünschen?

Ein Computerspiel als Gefängnis? Längst ist es möglich, sein ganzes Leben in Onlinespielen zu verbringen, während der Körper in Überlebenskapseln versorgt wird. Daniel Mahan wurde zu acht Jahren in solch einem Spiel verurteilt. Er glaubt, dass ihn dort nur öde Quests erwarten, doch er merkt schnell, dass das Spiel einige Überraschungen für ihn in petto hält. Und bald ist er nicht nur Herr einer Goblinmannschaft, sondern auf den Spuren eines weltumspannenden Komplotts.

Längst ist es möglich, sein ganzes Leben in Onlinespielen zu verbringen, während der Körper in Überlebenskapseln versorgt wird. Sie lassen die Spieler fühlen, was der Charakter im Spiel fühlt: Hunger, Müdigkeit, Schmerz - nur gedrosselt durch sensorische Filter. Für Daniel Mahan gilt dies nicht. Er bekommt alle Empfindungen in voller Stärke übermittelt. Denn Mahan wurde zu acht Jahren Haft in dem Spiel Barliona verurteilt, wo er Zwangsarbeit in den Minen leisten muss. Jeder Tag ist eine Qual, bis er von der ultimativen Queste erfährt, die ihm erlauben würde, von der Mine ins Hauptspiel zu wechseln.

These were dark times for Tailyn Vlashich, the 12-year-old alchemist. He'd been banished from the empire. The academy had summarily dismissed him. A deadly killer had been dispatched to hunt him. He'd been dropped all the way down to level one. But while there weren't many adults who would have been able to cope with the litany of problems Tailyn was facing, they weren't him. And he had help - two mentors, his girl, and a friend.  

To make a clan does not necessarily mean to make it successful. First you have to walk the hard path from the foundations of your castle to victory in interclan conflicts. Only then will you be recognized. Only then can you be listed among the location's top clans. Your adversaries, however, will not be sitting around twiddling their thumbs. No dominant clan needs yet another wannabe competitor. Or its two founders. Which is why Kvalen and Eradani are being hunted down. Bugles sound as players sharpen swords and draw arrows. Bring on the show!

The Magic Academy...an institution shrouded in mystery and secrets. People from all over the different empires want nothing more than to enroll, get their hands on the knowledge stored there, become those most respected in the world - mages. Tailyn Vlashich was one of the lucky few admitted without going through the entrance exams.

Is there anything better than a quiet life? Well, there's a quiet life surrounded by people you care about, people who love you in return, of course. But Tailyn Vlashich knew nothing of the kind. His parents had died years before, the townspeople stayed well away from the god's favorite, and his guardian just wanted to be rid of him. That was the setting when Tailyn was again placed on the road to uncertainty, beset by terrifying lixes, and hounded by a harsh trainer it was impossible to please.

There are whole anthologies of stories out there about what humankind does when a game enters their world. But what about when they're living in one where a game arrived thousands of years before? What if they're the survivors of a bloody struggle, having fought for and earned their place on the planet? Tailyn Vlashich was a young nobody far away from all those grander issues. All he cared about was one thing: making his way through a harsh world where the emperor, evil foes, and an impartial god held sway.

The World of the Changed, still going strong! A sister kidnapped, a powerful enemy right around the corner, and Earth under the thumb of the monsters. What else is it going to take to become a true hero and save humanity? The only problem is that Mark Derwin has bigger problems, focused as he is on finding Squirrel, his sister. And he has to make sure she's still the same person she always was rather than a chunk of noa. He's prepared to do anything, go to any lengths to make that happen, including working with the game.