The System Is A Clown
By @Tomis Jame
Elara Vance, a struggling office drone, yearns for a life beyond spreadsheets and her soul-crushing commute. Her wish is granted when a glitchy System descends, promising epic quests and untold power. The catch? It's hilariously incompetent. Instead of slaying dragons, she's tasked with 'optimizing office plant growth' or 'resolving inter-departmental snack disputes' – all with escalating, absurd 'catastrophic' penalties for failure. With her unique ability to accidentally exploit any System loophole, Elara finds herself the reluctant champion of the mundane, constantly bumbling into high-stakes, low-threat scenarios. Can she navigate a world where 'epic' means convincing Gary from accounting to return her stapler, or will the System's sheer buffoonery be her undoing? Her only real danger is dying of embarrassment, or perhaps, laughter.
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