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Fayroll #6
Under the Black Flag
Hoist the sails! Full speed, sailors, we’re at the start of the new Adventure!
Welcome back to the virtual world of Fayroll! Another quest sends Kif to a brand new location where no player’s foot has trodden before. He’s the first and only one there. As soon as he falls off the portal, he finds himself in the middle of pirates’ problems, faction’s wars, sea battles, boardings and corsairs’ intrigues in the rough waters of the Tigali Archipelago. Being unable to leave the place, or to contact other players or to reveal his location, Hagen, the warrior from the West, joins Captain Daisy Englend’s crew to finish his quest. Under the black flag of the young but furious Captain Daisy, he has to gain a reputation among corsair’s fractions, discover new islands and items, deal with sailors and bearded captains with sharp rapiers and cunning traders, find vivid allies and deadly enemies, reveal dodgy traitors and meet the Great Kraken itself. Where will the line of Archipelago’s quests lead our hero? Batten down the hatches, a storm is coming!
You thought you knew enough about the game-world of Fayroll? Well, so does Kif, but the developers still have something up their sleeves! Just getting along with his position at Fayroll world, logging-out, he finds himself at the center of another big Game between Raidion and the Consortium, and this one is bigger than anything humankind was up to before. Both powerful real-life fractions need him to cooperate, and both of them are not what they seem to be at first sight. Most daring thoughts and guesses of Harriton are confirmed now. The real world doesn’t seem to be as simple and usual as it used to seem. No more sneaking around and playing games, it’s all serious now. Cheer up, Harriton, your soul is at stake… or that’s just his tired of the game and office issues mind and a tricky move of opposing fractions?
“Fayroll: Under the Black Flag” is the 6th book from fantasy litRPG series by Andrey Vasilyev. Creating an epic story, he gets recognition for his talent. The first book of the Fayroll series “More Than a Game” was voted as new fantasy book of the year 2014. Later it was adapted and translated for English-speaking readers and found it’s fans all over the world!
LitRPG is a young genre, but it has already got its fans. The Fayroll series is an excellent example of a well-written and breathtaking story. Gaming fans will be pleased to find references and familiar details as quests and achievements, experience and NPC’s, but at the same time, people far away from gaming won’t be entangled in terms and game features. The book does not overdose with “in-game” as a large part of it contains real life. In total, we get a nicely proportioned mixture of the fantasy world and the real one. The whole setting is catchy, so the story gets the entire attention of any reader till the last page.
You have unlocked Masks off
Task: Read book 6 Fayroll, find all easter eggs and reveal the truth
Reward:
+100 to wisdom
Accept?
Welcome back to the virtual world of Fayroll! Another quest sends Kif to a brand new location where no player’s foot has trodden before. He’s the first and only one there. As soon as he falls off the portal, he finds himself in the middle of pirates’ problems, faction’s wars, sea battles, boardings and corsairs’ intrigues in the rough waters of the Tigali Archipelago. Being unable to leave the place, or to contact other players or to reveal his location, Hagen, the warrior from the West, joins Captain Daisy Englend’s crew to finish his quest. Under the black flag of the young but furious Captain Daisy, he has to gain a reputation among corsair’s fractions, discover new islands and items, deal with sailors and bearded captains with sharp rapiers and cunning traders, find vivid allies and deadly enemies, reveal dodgy traitors and meet the Great Kraken itself. Where will the line of Archipelago’s quests lead our hero? Batten down the hatches, a storm is coming!
You thought you knew enough about the game-world of Fayroll? Well, so does Kif, but the developers still have something up their sleeves! Just getting along with his position at Fayroll world, logging-out, he finds himself at the center of another big Game between Raidion and the Consortium, and this one is bigger than anything humankind was up to before. Both powerful real-life fractions need him to cooperate, and both of them are not what they seem to be at first sight. Most daring thoughts and guesses of Harriton are confirmed now. The real world doesn’t seem to be as simple and usual as it used to seem. No more sneaking around and playing games, it’s all serious now. Cheer up, Harriton, your soul is at stake… or that’s just his tired of the game and office issues mind and a tricky move of opposing fractions?
“Fayroll: Under the Black Flag” is the 6th book from fantasy litRPG series by Andrey Vasilyev. Creating an epic story, he gets recognition for his talent. The first book of the Fayroll series “More Than a Game” was voted as new fantasy book of the year 2014. Later it was adapted and translated for English-speaking readers and found it’s fans all over the world!
LitRPG is a young genre, but it has already got its fans. The Fayroll series is an excellent example of a well-written and breathtaking story. Gaming fans will be pleased to find references and familiar details as quests and achievements, experience and NPC’s, but at the same time, people far away from gaming won’t be entangled in terms and game features. The book does not overdose with “in-game” as a large part of it contains real life. In total, we get a nicely proportioned mixture of the fantasy world and the real one. The whole setting is catchy, so the story gets the entire attention of any reader till the last page.
You have unlocked Masks off
Task: Read book 6 Fayroll, find all easter eggs and reveal the truth
Reward:
+100 to wisdom
Accept?
464 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
About the author
Andrey Vasilyev
64 books147 followersAt times, I feel I was meant to be an innkeeper someplace on the outskirts of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. However, in real life, I am a much-celebrated Moscow-based author, as well as one of the originators of the relatively new, yet insanely popular, LitRPG genre that blends cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy.
I started writing in my late 30’s and only “because there was nothing handy to read,” but after my first two books gained nearly instant acclaim, I had to give serious thought to changing my current banking career to that of a professional writer. Fortunately for my readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game (link) the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” I never looked back after that.
Over the next few years, I continued work on the now-bestselling Fayroll series, maintained a blog, and participated in various multiple-author projects. I am also the author of The Raven’s Flock and The Arch series, which will soon be available in English.
I started writing in my late 30’s and only “because there was nothing handy to read,” but after my first two books gained nearly instant acclaim, I had to give serious thought to changing my current banking career to that of a professional writer. Fortunately for my readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game (link) the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” I never looked back after that.
Over the next few years, I continued work on the now-bestselling Fayroll series, maintained a blog, and participated in various multiple-author projects. I am also the author of The Raven’s Flock and The Arch series, which will soon be available in English.
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November 24, 2017
Well, I'm disappointed.
First off, I'll start by saying that I really enjoyed fayroll in general. But this book doesn't have the charm of the other five books. I found myself skimming most of the chapters, and noticing that I actually didn't miss anything important. It seems the author is cycling too many plot points at once. While leaving some of the interesting plot points (The burning legion, the Thunderbird clan rivalry, The Hounds of death sailing off, the global update) are not even really mentioned. The main NPC, Captain Daisy, is a very unlikeable character. This book was basically 'filler' and was better off as a side story.
First off, I'll start by saying that I really enjoyed fayroll in general. But this book doesn't have the charm of the other five books. I found myself skimming most of the chapters, and noticing that I actually didn't miss anything important. It seems the author is cycling too many plot points at once. While leaving some of the interesting plot points (The burning legion, the Thunderbird clan rivalry, The Hounds of death sailing off, the global update) are not even really mentioned. The main NPC, Captain Daisy, is a very unlikeable character. This book was basically 'filler' and was better off as a side story.
June 16, 2018
Book six
I only want to give this book a 3.5.
When you start hinting that the game is a battlefield between heaven and hell I tend to start losing interest, luckily their are only hints and they are blown off as silly.
Personally I think heaven and hell fighting for souls in a fantasy game is silly and lazy writing.
Come up with a better idea.
Now as a red-herring it is an excellent idea, as it throws both the reader and the MC off track.
I'm off to find book 7.
I only want to give this book a 3.5.
When you start hinting that the game is a battlefield between heaven and hell I tend to start losing interest, luckily their are only hints and they are blown off as silly.
Personally I think heaven and hell fighting for souls in a fantasy game is silly and lazy writing.
Come up with a better idea.
Now as a red-herring it is an excellent idea, as it throws both the reader and the MC off track.
I'm off to find book 7.
April 13, 2023
For me the worst of the series so far.
The inGame Action couldn't get my interest. Minimal progress in the big overall arcs. New characters that will most probably pay no role later on, no clan interactions ... What is the point in soloing in an MMORPG?
On the real world side we have some unbelievable mystic background and our MC is a spineless creature in his relations with Vika and his work crew.
I really hope the series gets back to its strength with the next episode. Not sure if I would read on if that is like this one.
The inGame Action couldn't get my interest. Minimal progress in the big overall arcs. New characters that will most probably pay no role later on, no clan interactions ... What is the point in soloing in an MMORPG?
On the real world side we have some unbelievable mystic background and our MC is a spineless creature in his relations with Vika and his work crew.
I really hope the series gets back to its strength with the next episode. Not sure if I would read on if that is like this one.
March 1, 2026
Ďalšia vata/filler v sérii. Kopa postáv, dlhé diskusie o geografii pirátskych morí, ktorá nikomu na nič nie je. To sme rovno mohli čítať o presune z bodu A do bodu B. Vzhľadom k tomu, že ma zaujíma uzavretie príbehu, tieto epizódne knihy mi prídu ako naťahovanie série. Už dve knihy sa vlastne neudialo nič podstatné. Pomaly aby sa "civilný dej" mimo hernú linku stal obohacujúcim mainstreamom.
March 10, 2018
I was really excited about the pirate setting in this book! It makes a cool and interesting spin to a series I already love. The plot is really engaging, it seems like it's constantly full of action and something new is happening. I can't wait for the next book!
October 25, 2019
Wonderful
Sail the seas... complete quests... make friends in the most unlikely places... I’m loving the series... definitely should read in order... how much is the pod messing with your brain, is it a good vs evil in the real world... who are the “spies” working for...
Sail the seas... complete quests... make friends in the most unlikely places... I’m loving the series... definitely should read in order... how much is the pod messing with your brain, is it a good vs evil in the real world... who are the “spies” working for...
November 26, 2017
Great addition
This is a great book, in a great series. The Characters are bexoming more and more real every book. This may be my favorite so far.
This is a great book, in a great series. The Characters are bexoming more and more real every book. This may be my favorite so far.
June 22, 2018
Lot's Better
Well I rather spend more time in the fantasy world than that crazy realtime drama the series is very interesting I'm just not ready for love time aliens???
Well I rather spend more time in the fantasy world than that crazy realtime drama the series is very interesting I'm just not ready for love time aliens???
August 14, 2018
Как и локация, так и повествование выпало из серии. Единственное, что подогревало интерес — события в реальности ГГ.
March 23, 2020
Sliktāka nekā citas daļas sērijā.
Galvenais iemesls, tas, ka nebija sadarbības ar citiem spēlētājiem.
Galvenais iemesls, tas, ka nebija sadarbības ar citiem spēlētājiem.
September 10, 2024
Nice change of pace, in a way, but in a way it also felt like filler
June 28, 2021
I was about halfway through this book when I started to think that I would probably give up on the series after this. It was feeling a bit too Russian, with the amount of power that corporations seem to have in the world (who knew that "capitalism run amuck" would end up synonymous with Russian?!?).
But, then, there was the meeting with the opposition. And, wow, that was a bit batshit. So now I'm interested to see which side is telling the truth - the completely nutso theory or something else entirely? And if the nutso theory, who are the third party people?
So, end result, at least one more book... if not all of them.
PS - made it 14% of the way through the next book (June 2021), really wasn't into it. Figured out that it seemed unlikely for the continuation of the series beyond book 11 to get translated, so this will be the last full book of the series I've read.
But, then, there was the meeting with the opposition. And, wow, that was a bit batshit. So now I'm interested to see which side is telling the truth - the completely nutso theory or something else entirely? And if the nutso theory, who are the third party people?
So, end result, at least one more book... if not all of them.
PS - made it 14% of the way through the next book (June 2021), really wasn't into it. Figured out that it seemed unlikely for the continuation of the series beyond book 11 to get translated, so this will be the last full book of the series I've read.
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