Jm Coombs

Richard Struggle - Evacuate the Masquerade Jm Coombs

Every secret society fears discovery. That's why they're a secret society. When a prophecy declares that the hidden community of mages is soon to be discovered, they decide not to wait for nuclear annihilation and instead leave Earth for the brand new world of Creakylid. Unfortunately for the mage's leaders, discovery wasn't the only thing the prophecy foretold, and now every mage with a smidgin of ambition is blindly competing to be the ambiguously defined 'chosen one'. Into this barely controlled free-for-all walks Richard Struggle, a prospective hero who decided that his heroic competitive edge would be damn good logistics, because, as he told the first pretty girl he met on his journey, "What's the point of striding heroically off over the horizon if you run out of food and have to heroically stride all the way back?" Lighthearted adventure with a touch of humour - that is what the Richard Struggle series is. Dark, depressing, overly serious - Richard Struggle is none of these. Richard Struggle was born from the belief that heroes should be heroic and that winning is fun, even if the path is arduous and the fight, intense. Contains dragons, heroes, deities who may or may not have a couple of loose screws (it's hard to tell), woodworking, and may at some point in the future contain princesses, but for the moment you can make do with beautiful, kick-ass heroines.