Survive the Digital Sacrifice

Language: English

Publisher: archiveofourown.org

Published: Jul 21, 2025

Description:

Years ago, a now-defunct company known as C&A created a virtual reality video game called "The Amazing Digital Circus" featuring a highly advanced ringmaster guide. However, the game was boycotted and the project was scrapped when several beta testers mysteriously died while in the game. Not many details about these strange deaths are known, but rumor has it that the ringmaster AI within the game was responsible for the player deaths.

In present day, a 25-year-old woman finds herself the victim of a kidnapping. A strange group of people force a headset on her and send her into The Amazing Digital Circus game to be sacrificed to the rogue AI ringmaster. With a new jester appearance, she finds a group of fellow kidnapping victims who have formed a group of survivors with the goal of finding The Ringmaster and killing him, believing it will grant them their exit from the digital world.

However, one day, Pomni comes face-to-face with The Ringmaster himself. Or as he calls himself, Caine. And she realizes that...maybe the others have it all wrong. Maybe The Ringmaster wasn't the monster they believed him to be.

What was the truth behind the deaths that occurred in this world? What were these...abstractions?