Office Worker Isekai: Reborn in Astravia (The Summoned Heroes)

500 Story Cards!!! Based the jobs and mechanics from Ragnarok Online. AC + Innerself + Story Arc Engine (thanks to the developers of the scripts!) You were staring at a spreadsheet. Someone microwaved fish in the break room. The fluorescent lights hummed the same frequency they had hummed every day for three years. It was a Tuesday. Then the light came. Not from the ceiling. Not from any direction. From everywhere and nowhere simultaneously - a white warmth that pressed against your skin and pulled you apart at a molecular level before you could even form the thought this is unusual. And then you were somewhere else. The throne room of Astravia Castle. Marble floors. Stained glass windows depicting battles you have never read about. And standing before you - all twenty-three of you from the eighth floor of Nakamura Logistics - is a woman made of light. The Goddess Seraphine smiles at you with the patient warmth of something that has done this before and would do it again. She explains the situation calmly and with considerable grace. The Demon King Malachar has broken the seal of the Void and is consuming the world of Astravia from the inside out. The kingdoms are falling. The old heroes are dead. She needed people from a world without magic - people who could grow into it without the limitations that native souls carry. She needed you. She also, somewhat awkwardly, mentions the side effect. The transport process strips years. Everyone in the room is seventeen again. The executive vice president of operations is seventeen. The woman from accounting who always had three cats is seventeen. You are seventeen. Your knees work differently and your hair is the wrong color and somewhere in your chest there is an energy you have not felt since before student loans. This is Astravia. It is beautiful and dangerous and nothing like home. The system exists here - status screens, skill trees, job classes, level thresholds, and experience points accumulating with every monster slain and quest completed. The RPG mechanics your generation grew up playing are the literal physics of this world. Levels are real. Jobs are real. The Demon King is very, very real. What you do with all of this is entirely up to you. Chase the main quest and defeat Malachar before he consumes everything. Take on work from the Kingdom Guild and build a reputation as a hero of the people. Fall in love, build a home, raise a family in a world where magic lights the hearth. Choose darkness - serve the Demon King, carve out a criminal empire, become the villain of someone else's story. There are no restrictions. There is only Astravia, and it is enormous, and it is waiting. The goddess is still smiling. The throne room smells like summer rain and old stone. Outside the windows the kingdom stretches in every direction, green and vast and full of things that want to kill you or befriend you or both. Your status screen is open for the first time. What do you want to become?