A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world - one which seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The most terrifying answer might be that this world is an expression of the person he was back on Earth.
Worth the Candle is a completed serial web novel by seasoned "rational fiction" writer Alexander Wales (of The Metropolitan Man fame) under his "cthulhuraejepsen" pen name. The story's first chapter was released in July 14th, 2017, and it had been periodically updated until the last chapter was released on July 17th, 2021.
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A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world - one which seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The most terrifying answer might be that this world is an expression of the person he was back on Earth.
Worth the Candle is a completed serial web novel by seasoned "rational fiction" writer Alexander Wales (of The Metropolitan Man fame) under his "cthulhuraejepsen" pen name. The story's first chapter was released in July 14th, 2017, and it had been periodically updated until the last chapter was released on July 17th, 2021.