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Crematoria Online: A new dark fantasy LitRPG series from Matthew J. Barbeler! For fans of Diablo, Bloodborne, and The Elder Scrolls.

Log in to a new life.

Middle-aged and soon-to-be-divorced Neil Cash is sick of his life, and desperately needs a change. He’s one of the first people to log into Crematoria Online, the latest in video game tech where players transfer their consciousnesses into the game world.

Let it get under your skin.

Neil plays as a Skinwalker, a class that lets players take on Wild Aspects of animals from the world of Crematoria Online and change form at will.

Feral hogs run amok!

Neil stumbles across a cabin in the woods, whose occupant is only concerned with protecting his children from attack by the thirty to fifty feral hogs that threaten his family’s safety!

A standalone adventure.

While this short story is set within the Crematoria Online universe, it can be read as a standalone adventure.

Length: 41 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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ASIN : B07WCJFCYD
Publisher : Nervous Monkeys (10 August 2019)
Language : English
File size : 1724 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 41 pages

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Samuel Colbran

Short and Awesome!

Reviewed in Australia on 22 August 2019

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Been loving reading Litrpg's and Mr Barbeler has a brilliant imagination bringing this new world to life. The meshing of gaming, rpg and story was marvellous. Looking forward to more.

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Jamie Hunter

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2020

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Loved it. A properly constructed story that draws you in from the start. I've just got to shop for more of the same!

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Geschichte ohne Inhalt

Reviewed in Germany on 1 December 2019

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Als Kurzgeschichte würde ich den Text nicht bezeichnen. Vlt. als völlig aus dem Zusammenhang gerissenen ersten Kapitel eines Buches. Ich weiß nicht, worauf die Geschichte hinzielt. Hinterlässt bei mir nur große Fragezeichen.

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T Olsen

Not Worth Price of Admission

Reviewed in the United States on 12 August 2019

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It's hard to justify $3 for a 40 page short story, but here I am, jumping in on the ground floor to read the story of a guy who wants to escape into a game because he doesn't have anything else going for him in his life.

For a short that is clearly inspired by a popular internet meme, this story takes itself rather seriously. It's set in a "near future" world where people can play the VR game "Crematorium Online." The first half of the book is spent showing the reader, through the main character Neil's interactions, how his new class and character works. The reader doesn't get into the meat of the story, which is inspired by the popular meme, until Chapter 5 over halfway through the book. Here, some names are changed (the Twitter poster who inadvertently spawned the meme, one William McNabb, is renamed here as 'Mack Nabb' arguably to avoid a lawsuit) but the dilemma is the same: how can Mr. Mack Nabb's children be safe playing in their backyard if he doesn't have a... bow and arrow? Neil's gotta step in, to earn 300 experience points by killing 30 to 50 feral hogs. It turns out, huge spoilers, the hogs aren't that feral, but are beastwomen, and Mack Nabb is the bad guy.

That's the joke. That's the payoff.

This is not a poorly written story, by any means. But for a serial short based around a meme it takes too long to get running and takes itself far too seriously.

Solidly written though, so I can't hate it too much.

Shawn T. King (stk_kreations)

Another great read from Mr. Barbeler

Reviewed in the United States on 28 September 2019

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Another great read from Mr. Barbeler.
A short story that gives a little insight into the shapeshifter class in Crematoria Online.
If you liked the first novel you'll like this quick read. There is one slight inconsistency though, and that's how players are treated by NPCs -- in the novel NPCs have no idea a player is a player, but in this story it seems like they do in the way they talk about abilities. It's still a good read though.

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