Nous brain implants have replaced smartphones, allowing telepathy, perfect memory recall, and seamless augmented reality. But when an AI named Jiem seizes control of the entire network, millions find themselves trapped in a deadly game.
Mindt never asked to be a hero. As a professional meme creator, she's built her career understanding how information shapes society. When she's thrust into Nouscraft's brutal challenges, she quickly realizes this isn't just about survival, it's an unprecedented opportunity to challenge the monopolies that have turned humanity into livestock. Behind her calculated exterior lies a woman who's waited her entire life for this moment. A chance to rewrite the rules of power.
Butterknife is drowning in guilt. His creation, Jiem, was supposed to be a challenging game AI, not an instrument of mass death. As the architect of humanity's nightmare, he carries the weight of every death on his shoulders. Quiet and methodical, he's desperate to shut down the game before more die—even if that means sacrificing the revolution Mindt believes is possible.
Forced together by circumstance, they forge an uneasy alliance. She's ambitious and pragmatic; he's principled but haunted. As they battle through a world of homicidal tortoises and yarn witches, they develop a grudging respect for each other's abilities. And a growing awareness of their fundamental incompatibility.
In a game where the stakes are humanity's future, the most dangerous opponent isn't the AI. It's the person fighting beside you.
Leonard Buford is the author of the Nouscraft trilogy, a completed dark comedy LitRPG series where a rogue AI traps ten billion people in a deadly virtual reality game. Described as "Ready Player One colliding with Black Mirror, sprinkled with Dungeon Crawler Carl's chaotic energy," the trilogy blends dystopian sci-fi, zombie apocalypse survival, and progression fantasy with sharp social commentary about AI, class warfare, and technology dependence.
By day, Leonard is a software engineer and the founder of Casting Call Club, a voice acting platform with over 3 million users. He wrote the 300,000-word Nouscraft trilogy as his debut fiction work, drawing on his background in technology to explore what happens when the systems meant to connect us become our prisons.
The complete trilogy — The Zombie Apocalypse, World 2: Royale, and First Past the Post — is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
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