Let's learn about Even if You Got Dropped In A Ghost Story, You Still Go to Work AKA "Ghost Story Work" The latest novel by the author of Debut or Die, available now on Kakaopage (Visual aide is cover of the novel)
The premise: Kim Soleum is a wiki contributor for a Creepypasta wiki/SCP Foundation wiki pastiche. While visiting a pop-up shop, he's sucked into the universe of this horror wiki to be recruited by the evil corporation faction. The problem? He is a born and bred coward, and the only way home is buying a wish ticket with his company credits. Which means participating in high-fatality horror stories. The solution? Speedrunning the horror stories before anything super scary happens. (In summary: SCP Isekai. Ghost Story Work is a horror comedy where creepypastas are treated as escape rooms with increasingly dangerous stakes, and the main character has to carefully design a work persona around insane suicidal gambits he learned from the wiki.)
THE SETTING: Daydream Inc. - A pharmaceutical company that uses the essence of creepypastas in their potions. Exploration squads are expected to die, and people are willing to risk it to have a wish granted. Uses their animal masks as codenames. Disaster Management Bureau - A government agency tasked with paranormal harm prevention, using traditional Korean shamanism. Slowly moving towards a 'kill one to save five' approach. uses noun codenames. Church of the Luminous Unknown - A mysterious cult obsessed with being acknowledged by the world, gladly immersing themselves in the supernatural to achieve meaning.
Even If You Got Dropped In A Ghost Story, You Still Go To Work: A visual primer
(AKA Ghost Story Work EXPLAINED)
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