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After a great deal of preparation, Danika begins her new digital dragon's life in a very small way.

They say the "Living Jade Empire" creates individualized quests. They say it can read your mind. They say you can find your heart's desire. They say that there's never been a game like it, and they're right but… they're also wrong.

The game is a data mine, built to retell the old tales that humans have been telling each other since language was invented. It doesn't read your mind, but it reads your search history, your favorites, and your blogs. The "Living Jade Empire" is literally crafted from fables, legends, fantasies, and maybe just a bit of stardust.

But in the end, will the game be able to figure out what Danika wants most? Will the desires of other players take priority? Or, will playing it change her, until she desires what it can give her?

A journey is always made up of many small steps, and this game has still only just begun.

Data Dragon Danika

I started a random, completely unrelated, dragon story reflecting the current virus-pocolypse today. No posting schedule. No guarantees. And no cats, or romance in sight... yet? 😂


As some of you have noticed, I'm also currently posting a chapter a week of the first of the two stories in the timeline of my animephile universe. Warning, it's a much more adult topic sort of story than Data Dragon Danika, although not more so than Kiri to Shinkiro, I think.


Tentatively scheduling for a summer release to my novel sites, but available to my patrons as I slowly write it: A genetic space opera, and a very old tale retold.


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