Friendship is Optimal: Heaven's Not Enough
When an AI Celestia offers digital immortality to humanity, one young woman's faithful family is forced to choose between the god they believe in and the god they've actually met.
Humanity has been offered digital immortality within the MMORPG Equestria Online, managed by an AI Celestia. For many, the offer was too good to refuse.
The year is now 2022. Most of humanity has embraced the singularity. But in rural Washington state, Elizabeth Douglas has elected to stay behind. When she risks it all to brave a blizzard, an old friend races to rescue her before it's too late. But does Eliza even want to be saved?
Based on Friendship is Optimal by Iceman, and other Optimalverse stories.
154698 words: Estimated about 13 hours to read
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22 Chapters:
- 1-00 – Welcoming Darkness 2017-06-04 12:16:39 UTC5499
- 1-01 – Blue Sky 2017-06-04 13:26:37 UTC8953
- 1-02 – Hopscotch 2017-06-04 13:37:18 UTC7706
- 1-03 – Sugar Song 2017-06-08 21:04:49 UTC7296
- 1-04 – Apex 2017-06-09 18:50:03 UTC5310
- 2-00 – The Wolf and the Moon 2017-06-09 19:00:01 UTC4000
- 2-01 – December 10th, 2018 2017-06-09 19:02:49 UTC8900
- 2-02 – Losing Control 2017-06-16 15:38:20 UTC11745
- 2-03 – Different Shards 2017-06-16 16:12:46 UTC9101
- 2-04 – Downhill 2017-06-16 17:22:18 UTC10238
- 2-05 – Tinnitus 2017-06-19 18:29:16 UTC5797
- 2-06 – New Cascadia 2017-06-23 07:17:01 UTC8576
- 3-00 – Goodness and Mercy 2017-06-24 06:20:26 UTC4860
- 3-01 – The Book of Matthew 2017-06-25 09:50:59 UTC6514
- 3-02 – A Kind of Paradise 2017-06-28 04:00:47 UTC6869
- 3-03 – Given Over 2017-06-28 22:02:02 UTC4102
- 3-04 – December 13th, 2019 2017-06-29 19:03:55 UTC6647
- 3-05 – Through the Valley 2017-06-30 19:39:04 UTC12649
- 4-00 – Elizabeth 2017-07-02 10:44:16 UTC10767
- Denouement and Afterword 2017-07-02 10:44:21 UTC2369
- Bonus Chapter – Rain 2018-04-19 13:26:48 UTC2603
- Bonus Chapter – Compromise 2019-08-01 15:06:42 UTC4197