The Island

A post-apocalyptic LitRPG, transcribed under protest

> establishing link to the Father of Record …
> compiling the coming edition · twelve seats open
> active records located … 04
> sealed documents … 01
> reader, you are not on the list.
> read anyway.

Active records — open to read

Combatant · WarlockREC·01

Ikaika Ikaia

Filed on Day One and already over-resourced for it. Eats what he should have earned, and calls the reading strength. Two things are watching him; he knows about one.

Open record →

Lover · CivilianREC·02

Uriel Ryden

Won a lottery, then went to stone before the System finished filing him. Wakes into Year Eight bound by affinity, not by blade — a rare class in a world that pays for violence.

Open record →

Fire · ReforgingREC·03

Keahi Maximo

Lost a foundation it took years to lay, and is building it back from the ember up. Travels with two who don't yet know how far she means to climb.

Open record →

Inventor · ExileREC·04

Jaques Christophorus

Reads people the way others read weather. Exiled to the forest court, he watches the end of the world like a play he has already reviewed, and is rarely wrong.

Open record →

Sealed document

F Writ of Evaluation · Applicant Domain

The Father of Record's Commission

Twelve seats. One hundred applicants, each the author of a trial. One evaluator, asked to read a world correctly — not to win it. The seal is open. The reading is not finished.

Read the writ →

System reference

Codex · Rules of Record

The System

The rules everyone in the square is being graded against — Classes, Castes, Essence, and the conditions a Combatant learns to read, and to deny.

Open →

The records are the present. The story is the past.

Read the apocalypse as it happened — Day Zero forward — then bring what you find here back to the locked doors. Every record changes. What it changes into is the password.

Read the serial →

// System annotation

This archive should not exist yet, and neither should some of what it holds. It is transcribed under protest of jurisdiction and kept current regardless. Entries update as the subjects do. Nothing here is decoration; everything is evidence.

compiled by the Father of Record · kept by M.I.D.