Field Dispatches
Recovered logs from inside the world of Overlayed Echoes by J.S. Warden.
Five friends · before, during, and after the first session · 2045 — and one log from later.
Same world, sixteen recovered logs. Five from the calm before the first session ever ran, five from the night after it did, five from mid-session when it turned dark, and one from later — when the thing they built started writing back.
Each dispatch is a first-person log pulled from the world of the novel — one voice, one hour, one thing its narrator couldn’t say out loud. They’re written to stand alone: open any of them and you’ll know who’s talking within a paragraph. Read in order, they trace the story’s first night — five voices in the calm before the first session, the same five after it worked better than anyone expected, and then the session where it stopped being a game.
The five friends: Kael, the game master who built it and narrates the novel; Theo, the guardian who counts the exits; Angela, the medic whose checklist is how she loves people; Marcus, the joker whose grin is load-bearing; and Lena, Kael’s sister, who sees everything and lets most of it go. Their character profiles are spoiler-light and written for readers who haven’t opened the book yet.
The dispatches are companion fiction to Overlayed Echoes, a near-future LitRPG by J.S. Warden — Book One of a planned five-book series, on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover, and free on Kindle Unlimited. Every log here is canon, and every one is written to deepen the world without giving the story away. Start with the book on the books page, or start with a voice below — both doors open into the same world.