Every time a Round ends, humanity gets five days to breathe.
Then thirty more people vanish.
Taken at random from the real world and thrown into the Realm of Evil, they are forced to survive live on every screen on Earth while killers hunt them through twisted maps built for death. Escape, and you return home alive with currency to spend on one permanent trait from the silent Merchant waiting across the world. Die, and you die for real.
Joshua Ivante Santino, a 20-year-old Dominican American freerunner and thief from the Bronx, gets taken in the middle of robbing a Manhattan predator who thought money could protect him. Inside the Realm, his first trait, Runline, turns movement into survival instinct. But in Killers Playground, surviving one Round only makes the next one worse—and every five days, the world has to watch it happen again.
Hey, Arthur here. This story has been in the works for a long time, and I’m proud to finally bring it to you. I wanted to make sure it was something I could stand behind before releasing it, and now that time has come. Chapters will be released daily. Thank you for being here at the start.