Shaman's Call

Frank never planned for the afterlife — he didn't even believe in one, certainly not one controlled by an AI. After failing to read the small print in his contract, he finds himself stuck in a new world as an ogre shaman. Taken from his life to fulfill a role he doesn't understand, Frank suspects he's not in a game at all, but something far more dangerous. The ogres think he's a messiah; the humans think he's XP walking. All Frank wants is to explore and find someone worth talking to — instead he's caught between powers beyond him in a struggle for the fate of not just one world.

Life has thrown Frank one curve after another since he was killed and dumped into what he thought was a digital world. Now he has questions about what is real and what isn't. He must walk between the worlds of adventurers and monsters — both of whom want things from him — while trying to figure out what hybrid intelligences dream about and resist integration into the System by a mysterious AI that may not be an AI at all. First, though, he has some revenge to serve on a certain multi-legged pest in the frigid north.