I’m Jon Auerbach, a fantasy author and comics writer from New York and welcome to ARC Worlds, the new serialized home of my fiction and comics.

I’ve released books 1 and 2 of the NYC Questing Guild series, Guild of Tokens and Guild of Magic, for free on my Substack.

The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginable.

Jen Jacobs’s nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up.

Except Jen isn’t playing a video game.

It’s all real and happening right in New York City.

After a particularly harrowing quest pairs her up with Beatrice Taylor, a no-nonsense and ambitious mentor, Jen hopes she’s on the path to becoming a big-time player. But as she dives deeper into the game’s hidden agenda, she realizes Beatrice has her sights set on the Guild, the centuries-old organization that runs the Questing game. And the quests Jen loves are about to put both of them in grave danger.

Will Jen survive the game before powerful forces cut her real life short?

To those of you who have already signed up, thank you for becoming the first members of the Guild! I’m excited to launch this newsletter as a new way to deliver my stories and writing to you.

So how is this going to work?

If you’re new to the series, you can read all of Guild of Tokens and Guild of Magic for free.

To start your reading Quest, read the prologue of Guild of Tokens here, and most importantly, tell your friends!