Ergebnis für "survival quest" in Fantasy

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.

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.

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?

Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: You can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard, or a legendary thief.

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.

Eine mysteriöse Gabe. Eine verborgene Akademie. Ein gottgleicher Mitschüler. Maddison James hat an Silvester immer zwei Dinge getan: ein Jahr älter werden und ihre Haarfarbe ändern. An ihrem 22. Geburtstag wird ihr Leben jäh unterbrochen, als ihr eine mysteriöse Frau erklärt, dass sie ein übernatürliches Wesen ist. Mehr noch, sie soll gewaltiges Potenzial besitzen und wird kurzerhand auf eine magische Akademie entführt. Dort weiß nur leider niemand, zu welcher Gattung sie gehört: Vampire, Gestaltwandler, Fey oder Magiewirkende.

I was the most powerful healer in my world—the best, having devoted my entire life to mastering the art of healing. And yet, for whatever reason, my brother feared that I sought to claim his throne, and he marshaled his forces against me.

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....

When my best friend and the only person who knows who - and what - I really am gets selected for the Mating Games, I know the only way to save her is to try and win her for myself. All I need to do is navigate three trials while not letting anyone know I'm a woman, or, and this might be even more important, that I have magic. Easy, right? Easier than slaving away for all hours of the day swinging an ax in the mines. Or so I thought. I certainly didn't count on the one man I've longed for, the one man who stirs feelings of femininity and desire within me, to enter the games as well.

Straight out of the West (or, you know, somewhere through a gloom portal), in a thunder of hooves (but they're kinda like giant turtle hooves, if you can picture it?), comes Montana Coggeshall, gun (sword) slinger. Sure, he's survived Fiends' Night and an all-out goblin war. But for his people in Coggeshall to truly be safe, Montana needs to go out and find the source of all these crazy attacks.

What would happen if a professional rock musician joined a virtual MMO in search of inspiration among its game world? What would happen if she decided to play as a biota bard, a brand-new race of humanoid flora as well as a new class? Whatever would happen, it would surely be fun....

A campy, cozy horror novel about a manager of a haunted campground just trying to get through the season, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison, and Welcome to Night Vale. I am a campground manager. I don’t have a list of rules because I’m trying to ruin your fun…I’m trying...

Insane cult trying to undermine the stability of society? Powerful mage whose very presence unmakes the world? John doesn’t care. He’s getting married. After rescuing Katrine, sealing himself into a manaless state, and defending against the most dangerous beast tide the world has ever seen, John only has one thing on his mind. Getting married, and going on a honeymoon. Oh, and trying to figure out a way to keep the world in one piece.

When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier "death waves" - gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations.

A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Booker Prize “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really...

‘An exciting new writer – sharp, compelling and original’ – Mark Lawrence Years have passed since the Vagrant journeyed to the Shining City, Vesper in arm and Gamma’s sword in hand. Since then the world has changed. Vesper, following the footsteps of her father, journeyed to the breach...