
Their crimes provide a constant flow of gold back to their real-world controllers: the power-happy governments plotting to take over AlterWorld's magic technologies and limitless resources. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Soon the first screams of pain fill the virtual world as its freshly minted slavedrivers and torturers indulge in the absence of law and order. Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. Some of Max's new friends crave power others become traitors and spies.


Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love, and justice.īut freedom and immortality are a poisoned chalice.

Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate, swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs.
