Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
The Lord of the Castle watched us with delighted interest, like a kid shaking an ant farm.
“Think, little Author,” he called, voice echoing from everywhere. “You’ve written endings a hundred times. What happens when a house is very, very angry at being edited?”
Panicking wasn’t going to help.
Story logic might.
The world was reshaping itself around a central axis: the throne, the Lord. Each piece of damage we’d done earlier had loosened its structure. Now, the system was trying to shake us off like fleas.
In my drafts, big bosses like this always had a pattern. Phases. Vulnerabilities.