Stage Fight! (WIP) - Modern Fantasy x Survival Show (95k words)

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Hi everyone - my name is Parivir/Adam, and Stage Fight! is my second Choicescript project. It’s set in a near-future world teeming with dungeons, where awakened combat is simultaneously humanity’s lifeline, as well as its most popular form of entertainment.

Inspired by hunter/dungeonverse manhwa (Solo Leveling, My S-Class Hunters, Kill the Hero, etc.) and Produce 101.

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version 1.0 | last updated 19 July 2026

Wordcount: 95k words (excluding command lines)
Content Warning for violence, exploitation, strong language, blood and injuries, harassment and bullying.

Premise

The year is 2045. It’s an age of monster-spawning dungeons, the awakened hunters who brave them…and those who set their eyes instead on the stage.

For as long as you can remember, it’s been your dream to become a stagefighter: awakeners who leverage their powers to put on high-stakes, televised matches to entertain the masses. The battles are fierce and the competition fiercer, and with the whole world watching, the stakes are sky-high. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted…

And one hell of a pipe dream.

As a trainee stagefighter from a struggling, no-name agency, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Never mind getting to the top of the Circuit, it’ll be a hard enough road just to stand on stage to begin with. So when you manage to get on Burnline–the biggest stagefighting survival show on the planet–what can you do but give it your very best shot?

Blaze a trail on the stage, outlast the competition, and write your name into stagefighting history!

(Oh, and never mind the world-ending threat currently brewing in the background. It’s only a matter of time until the real hunters sort that out for everyone…

Right?)

Features

  • Play as a man, woman, or non-binary.

  • Engage in high-stakes arena matches, using swordplay and magic to defeat opponents and dazzle the audience.

  • Develop your skillset from six available combat specialties: Bruiser, Skirmisher, Mage, Disruptor, Assassin, and Sniper.

  • Compete in the biggest stagefighting survival show in the world, and fight your way to glorious victory–or crushing defeat.

  • Navigate the court of public opinion, tracking the impact of your onscreen exploits and favorability among watchers and fans.

  • Find love from among five romance options, including your upbeat agencymate, the confident frontrunner, the charismatic pro stagefighter, the surly top hunter, and the responsible government operative.

Notes on Development

  • Stage Fight! is currently a side project, as I’ll be primarily focusing my development efforts on Book 2 of A Mage Reborn. As such, updates to the project will be irregular, though I’ll still try my best to put out content at a reasonable pace.

  • Currently I expect the project to be a two-book series, as the full outline seems impossible to execute in a reasonable 1-book length (my personal limit for this hovers in the 600k-700k word realm, and I expect the full work to easily exceed that). If I turn out to be wrong and the project can fit into that range after all, I’ll happily submit it as a standalone book.

  • Romance options listed below are for the entire project. For Book 1, the two principal romance routes will be with Jason/Jenny and Yuda/Yulia, though the other ROs may have romance content sprinkled in as well.

  • I don’t have a Patreon for Stage Fight, and subscribing to my Patreon for A Mage Reborn does not currently grant any advance access to this project. If this changes in the future, then I will update this post accordingly!

Romance Options

Jason/Jenny Wijaya

A fellow stageseed and your closest peer, generally considered to be your agency’s most promising (though whether that’s anything to write home about depends on who you ask). Relentlessly upbeat and hard-working, J is always up for a challenge, especially if you’re facing it together.

Yuda/Yulia Bachtiar

A stageseed competing in Burnline, and the clear frontrunner even before the program started airing. Wealthy, confident, and possessed of the talent to back it up, Y’s life has been a series of wide-open doors. And if their onstage exploits are of any indication, they might just be getting started.

Breaker

Arguably the best stagefighter in the world–and objectively the most famous, per the latest Brand Reputation Index rankings. Charismatic and easygoing, with a flirtatious streak that lands them just shy of sleazy. Following a baffling mid-season hiatus, everyone’s eyes are on them, even more so than usual–so now that they’ve signed on as a judge on Burnline, it’s sure to get the whole world tuning in.

Shin Seojin

The world’s top-ranked hunter is a curt and reclusive figure, with little known about them aside from their extraordinary strength and prolific dungeon-clearing record. Despite cultivating a reputation for being a misanthropic, dungeon-closing machine, they seem to have a curious habit of risking everything to save others from danger.

Pasha/Parisa Aslani

An S-Rank Hunter who passed over the world’s top guilds for the strenuous, unglamorous life of a civil servant at Indonesia’s National Guild. Powerful, genial, and reliable, P is widely adored–and therefore frequently paraded before cameras to reassure the public. It’s strangely been said, though, that many high-ranking hunters tremble at the mere mention of them…

Feedback is very much welcome and desired. This project is a huge departure from my usual prose and setting, so there’s bound to be weaknesses I’ll need to meaningfully address.

(And if you have questions about the world or where the plot’s heading, that’s very much welcome too!)

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy!

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Option for returning to the main menu screen. Right now if you click on relationships or skills you cant go back to the main menu

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I love everything about this.

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A hunterverse novel??? My prayers have been answered thank you so much authorr

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Thank you for giving us the option of tearing the biker a new one. You don’t know how cathartic it was for me

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Great so far. It was great to teach that entitled Nepo baby a lesson. Satisfaction from climbing from the bottom of the pile to being great. I liked the bond of our group with its colourful mix of personalities. Keep up the good work.

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commercialized fantasy battles is such a cool and underrated concept. this might be the first time im seeing one tackle it seriously, hope it goes well!

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This is truly wonderful.

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Small mistake here: I chose my looks as being “somewhat narrowly” fitting the beauty standard. So even if the cashier finds me attractive based on personal preference, my character shouldn’t be referring as themselves as uncommonly good-looking.

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Good vibe of underdog rising up, overall fast-paced story which is great, fun combat, and seems to be decently varied. I’ve enjoyed it a lot

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peak

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Another great WIP, looking forward to this one.

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Nah, you’re just glazing yourself

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Just finished Chapter 2. Really nice stuff so far- it’s still early of course, and we’re still limited to mostly skillset choices, romance options, and reading social media (which is actually really well done), but what’s here looks pretty good so far. Real interesting that we’re doing stagefights in a dungeonbreak-type universe, but hey, it’s all good.

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This is wonderful! I love the world building-- the stats and the social media and the choices you can make, it really builds together. Everything feels so real! And the characters are so lively and distinct. Thank you!!! I look forward to seeing more from you :slight_smile:

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Thank you for reading, and I hope you’ll look forward to future updates!

Thanks for catching this, will try to upload a fix ASAP. In the meantime, selecting to return to the game at top-left of the screen should take you out of the loop and allow you to proceed with the game.

Thanks for reading! Admittedly the whole dungeons-and-System aspect will be mostly a setting/backdrop thing until later in the project, but I hope you’ll enjoy nonetheless.

Very much the intended impression I’m trying to give. At its center the story is quite shonen-like, I’m glad it came across!

As a Southeast Asian (where motorbikes are very very rampant) I’ve fantasized a lot about doing this x)

Thanks! Kind of stumbled into the concept by accident, I think, by wanting to write an entertainment/fame story whilst being utterly unable to write anything without combat x) Quite happy with how it’s turning out so far, though!

Thanks for pointing this out!

As is the case with real-life idol industries, even those that don’t necessarily fit the industry’s stringent beauty standards are still commonly seen as quite attractive otherwise. This is what I meant by ‘uncommonly good looks’ here, in the sense that among people just going about their day-to-day lives, MC is perceptibly more attractive than the average.

I do agree that I could probably phrase this more clearly, though. Will look into it!

Thanks for reading! I am quite proud of the socmed system (though it was kind of hellish to code on the backend, and I’m still discovering formatting issues as we speak). The dungeon break aspect will gain more relevance as the story proceeds, but yeah, stagefighting is definitely front and center for the bulk of the project.

Thanks so much!

I’m a big fan of diegetic/epistolary storytelling methods, and an entertainment/fame centric story like this one seemed to be the perfect place for them. One of the early inspirations for this project is the gossip rag/Twitter-style passages in Slammed!, which remains one of my favorite CoG games of all time. Glad it had the intended effect of making the story more immersive. :slight_smile:

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I love love loved reading the comment sections on the social media posts, they were so real and the different vibes of each site added so much

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right on, i was just thinking about slammed. bringing pro wrestling kayfabe, commentary and promos into high stakes battles with actual monsters sounds stupidly awesome. kinda reminds me of thise megas xlr episodes with the modok elvis guy and t bot based on mr t

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I have a question are stagefight are just for low-level awakeners or we can have someone who fight in a dungeon and are we going to go in a dungeon in the future or we are focusing on just stagefights

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We are probably too weak to brave dungeons right now. We are just average right now which we had to reluctantly accept watching our friend fight. The game premise said something about some ultimate evil coming one day so probably later on exploring. I think the MC just wanted to be famous and use their power to have a better job than normal people working in a office etc…

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