UPDATED:

Okay so this massive interactive shrinking adventure book is now complete! It's available on my Patreon in eBook format (https://www.patreon.com/rbashton), 01/08/23, and from all major retailers (https://books2read.com/u/4EpAXY) in eBook and paperback.

***Also I posted the wrong link in my earlier posts, and appreciate a bunch of people might've got the book for free. Which is a big downer for me if you intended to buy it. Please consider a purchase if you did; a lot of work went into this!***

I thought it'd be fun to share parts as a live group read. We did one read-through on my Patreon (they made it 8 chapters before dying), and a first read-through here (5 chapters before a handcrush!) – so now I'm starting a second read-through.

What I'll do is put up a chapter and you can vote for the choice at the end by commenting. I'll tally the votes next time I get around to adding a chapter, and we'll get a complete story arc. (If I don't get any votes, eventually I'll just choose one!)

But a bit of background:

You’ve been shrunk in the office by you’re ambitious manager, and it’s up to you to escape her evil clutches. In the complete story, you have to make the right choices to navigate a whooping 215 chapter entries (which average about 400-800 words a piece), clocking in at 105,000 words total. Mostly you have two options after each entry, but naturally this branches and branches into all sorts of possibilities – in some places you’ll have minor variations on similar themes, but in other cases your journey can go in wildly different directions. The common threat, though, is your giant coworkers, either willingly or obliviously capable of killing you in an instant. There’s 90 different ways to end the story badly (mostly by dying!) and only 1 correct solution.

This is a literary maze of epic proportions, where it’s possible to see every major character treated as a giant or shrunken, with tons of grabbing, a bit of crushing, and a great many ways to get eaten. We’ve got arcs such as cat-and-mouse chases with your manager; perilous creeping through the bustling open office; encounters with a dangerously beautiful coworker, a mad scientist, the rough-handed cleaner and more; and even possibilities to get out of the office into the terrible clutches of your boss’s family. All this comes in the pursuit in enlisting your one true friend’s help in restoring your size.

It’s all written in an ungendered second person, so can be read as you playing yourself, or your choice of imagining a male or female protagonist. And while this office is principally populated by seemingly giant women, there’s also a couple of men in there if you want something a little different (or if you don’t, to add some extra threat!).