SKYE is the Limit

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SKYE is the Limit

By: Phenomenal Pen OngoingFantasy

Language: English
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THE ONLY WAY OUT IS AWAKE. Eighteen-year-old Rafa Cruz has aged out of foster care and is living on the streets. He’s a busker and a petty thief. By a strange quirk of fate, a smartphone that he has stolen wins him a slot as one of the few beta-testers of a revolutionary technology called “SKYE”. OmniSys, the world’s largest technology company, has discovered a way to combine lucid dreaming with the experience of RPG. They select five young adults from across the globe to take part in the trial run of SKYE: a backpacker, a veterinary student, a fitness motivator, a brittle bone disease survivor and… Rafa, a pickpocket. The Astralblazers, as they’re fondly dubbed by the press, will journey through the highly unpredictable environment of their collective dream to meet a mystical character known as Atom the God of Creation. The Astralblazers must learn to harness their imaginations and innate mana, which take the guise of guardian spirits called Anima. Along the way, they’ll encounter unicorns, dragons, Orcs, Goblins and a host of other fantastic beings. With each monster battle they face, they earn XP, stats and equipment, becoming powerful and hardened survivors. The game designer, however, has been keeping secrets from the Astralblazers. One of their teammates, in the waking world, has suffered hemorrhaging in the limbic region of her brain. If her character dies inside SKYE, the other players will become trapped in the game.  

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Chapter 1: The Island in the Sky
The mystical island of Lemnos levitated off the coast of Erebus’s northernmost tip. On it, a field of beautiful but deadly poppies stretched and beyond it stood a cave fitted with two chimneys; one made of polished ivory and the other made of buckhorn. Inside the cave, the white wizard Somnos the Sandman sat in his workshop concocting dreams. He brewed them in a cauldron after trickling invisibly from jars labeled with the most curious names: Nest of Snakes, Unfaithful, Freefall, Pursuit, Tooth Fairy, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Icarus Wings, Back to School… Somnos placed the best fusions on the topmost shelves where they softly projected their contents against the wall like brief and cyclical shadow plays. In the current iteration of Erebus, which had a very high frame rate per second and was more coherent, less surreal but more deceptive, Somnos had in fact become obsolete. Out of habit, the wizard carried on crafting the dream episodes all the same. Somnos watched over the entire
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Chapter 2: The Daily Grind
When he was busking was when Rafa felt happiest. Jamal and Eman would laugh their butts off if he ever told them his dream but he thought he could be a professional dancer someday; maybe a backup dancer to some famous celebrity or something. Rafa couldn’t blame the other guys. Looking at where they were now, becoming a professional dancer sounded as realistic as riding a rocket to the moon. Rafa lassoed his wandering thoughts back to what they were doing. Needless to say, the game they were playing was very dangerous. One wrong move and they could end up in juvie. They were changing MRT cars at Cubao Station. Between the four of them, they had a dozen Beep cards, which translated to unlimited time mingling with the sheep and fleecing them. The golden time was the panicky seconds of boarding and exiting the train. People were so focused on watching their steps and getting to where they were going that they forgot to pay attention to the constant pressure around their wrist, which was
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Chapter 3: The Launch
Rafa took in the dim lights and the muted sounds of the city that acted like a baby – little by little quieting down but still refusing to fall asleep. The stores were shuttered and their footsteps rang hollow on the sidewalk. The only people still awake were in it for the long haul: security guards and call center agents on night shift. The cars in these parts were mostly taxis, and getting fewer and farther in between. The sound of their tires gripping the asphalt crescendoed and then decrescendoed perfunctorily, their passengers eager to get home to a warm meal or a soft bed, neither of which he or Eman had. They passed by a 24-hour diner that was empty except for a single customer. The overhead TV was broadcasting a talk show interview in the US. Eman grabbed Rafa’s arm in tightening excitement. They stopped to peer through the glass wall of the diner. “That’s Alex Chase!” Eman squealed. Alexander Chase was the world-famous general manager of OmniSys, which had produced OS Athen
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Chapter 4: Dream God
By default, the world was auto-populated by sheep, but every once in a while there came a remarkable individual like Alexander Chase who moved and shook it. At the young age of twenty, he changed the world when he took OmniSys to new heights of greatness as the inventor of OS Athena, the world’s first AI operating system. Sixteen years later, he changed it again by introducing SKYE to billions of astonished televiewers across the globe. The projection screen in the studio of American syndicated talk show The Sofa became a literal window into the mind of host Beverly Stanton. Scenes were broadcasted live while being perceived from a first-person perspective: Stanton’s. The feed fully captured the memory or dream but it had none of the jarring and alienating quality of a First-Person Perspective game, which was a common genre of VR. It was like found footage recorded by the steadiest and yet most mobile camera. The global audience felt it was too good to be real but they couldn’t stop
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Chapter 5: Dream Come True
They were back on the empty streets. Rafa tucked both his hands in the pockets of his hoodie, looking a bit shackled from the way the lower front of the hoodie was bulging. He hung his head. Meanwhile, Eman looked shaken after hearing the announcement of the winners. There had been two girls, one British and one Nigerian, and two boys, one French and one Brazilian. The gender of the last was still unknown but his nationaliy had already been announced. The last winner was from Rafa’s and Eman’s own country: the Philippines. “Can you believe it?” Eman muttered. “A Filipino actually won the lottery.” “Yeah, mind blowing,” Rafa said with a rather contradictory blasé expression. “It was a bit embrassing for OmniSys though when they couldn’t verify the Filipino’s identity. I mean, is that the perfect, most pathetic example of an only-in-the-Philippines moment or what?” “No, this is actually good news,” Eman said as though thinking aloud, with burning impatience. “I can work with this. The
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Chapter 6: School of Hard Knocks
Their celebration was short-lived because a blacked-out van screeched to a stop at the mouth of the alley. Three figures got off. All of them were wearing balaclavas and black jackets. “Anyone here order a beatdown?” one of the men called out and then laughed. Rafa recognized the voice of Saul, leader of the Red Domino. “I didn’t want to believe it,” Saul shouted. “My protégés stealing from me. From me. You remember what you were like when I first found you? You two were fresh out of foster care. Green as grass. The streets were fixin’ to eat you alive.” “Whatever we owed you,” Eman shouted back, “we paid back a hundred times over.” There was just the slightest tremor of fear in his voice. “You ingrates,” Saul said. “Thanks to this li’l stunt of yours, now I gotta make an example of you to the rest of the kids. I’m gonna teach you a lesson you’ll never forget. You won’t be able to walk for days after the beatdown I give you.” Rafa slipped his right hand behind his back and
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Chapter 7: Game Over
Rafa grimaced on his back. A bare face was floating over him. He could see it through his one good eye. His whole face felt raw. He recognized the face, looming and large, as Saul’s. At the moment, the gangster was peering down at Rafa but Saul’s own eyes were puffy. {You’re not gonna be parading us to the other kids today,} Rafa blustered in a remote, detached section of his brain. Just behind that section, another panicky voice was asking: {Where’s Eman? Is he okay?} He attempted to lift his head from the hard concrete but was met with almost electric pain so he gave up. Instead, he focused on Saul’s face above him. Saul’s eyes were nearly closed and there was a largish hole in the front of his jacket where the pillbox had exploded. Rafa thought he could see all the way through the hole to the shirt Saul had on underneath, which was also blackened with soot. Like Clark Kent in mid-transformation into Superman. Rafa grinned at the thought but even that simple effort brought a worl
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Chapter 8: Extra Life
The American, Alex Chase, was highly efficient. It appeared there was no wrinkle he couldn’t iron out. As soon as he had established that Rafa was indeed the adopted son he wanted, he started fixing everything up. It still wasn’t clear to Rafa and Eman how Alex Chase could know that with such conviction, but as long as it led to a Forever Family for Rafa, who was now close to aging out, all the orphans of Señora Inmaculada Concepcion boys’ home were going to be the good little angels they were advertised to be and not ask so many questions. Rafa couldn’t explain it but it was as though destiny was working on Alex Chase’s side too. It felt like God had been saving Rafa in the boys’ home for exactly eighteen years. Like a dog in the shelter, he had been passed up and rejected countless times just so he could finally meet Alex Chase. All orphans hated that feeling – well, at least those old enough to understand. It was the fear of being picked last, or not being picked at all. Of not de
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Chapter 9: The Narrative
“There were no CCTV cameras at the scene of the incident,” Krystal whispered conspiratorially. “The public thinks you’re a law-abiding citizen that got mugged. You fought tooth and nail against the mugger to keep your Omnifone and killed him in self-defense.” “Mugger? Are you talking about Eman? Is that Saul’s version of what happened?” “No, the idea came from Ate (Big Sis) Hazel… She…” Rafa opened his mouth to ask more questions, but speak of the Devil and she would appear with impeccable timing. “Ah! The medical miracle is awake,” a woman in her late twenties greeted as she sauntered in looking like a fitness motivator more than anything else. “I’m Hazel Garcia. Please just call me Big Sis Hazel. I figured you were much too young to know any lawyers so I came here to volunteer my services.” Rafa didn’t need the introduction. Attorney Hazel was a household name in the Philippines. She was a social media personality who rose to prominence through her YouTube channel called "Ask A
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Chapter 10: The NPC
“Now that I’ve told you this,” Rafa continued speaking to the livestream, “I can feel you judging me even through the screen of this smartphone. I can almost hear you labeling me, branding me. Good-for-nothing. Scum. A child of the dregs and undesirables. Not a legitimate citizen of this country. Not like you. “It’s all true. Now I’m wearing clean hospital clothes but I used to wear dirty rags. Now I smell of the flowers you sent me but I used to reek of sweat and grime. Now my stomach is full of the food that this hospital serves but it used to be empty all the time. “If life was a computer game, then you’d be the players and I’d be a mere NPC. I don’t have a say in the things that happen to me. My first ever memory as a kid was being in Señora Inmaculada Concepcion boys’ home. I never knew my parents. They didn’t want anything to do with me, just like none of you ever wanted anything to do with me. “For eighteen years, I waited for nothing in the boys’ home. Eman and I waited for
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