Restart

Have you ever let your character lose a game on purpose, just so you could start the level again? That question opens Restart, and it is the key to everything that follows. A student walks back onto campus after a fall nobody thinks he could survive. Not a scratch on him. Rumour says he has lost his memories. His old rivals stare. His old friends are not sure he is still a friend.

The campus is RIEL, the Royal Institute of Elite Leadership, a college for the children of generals, politicians, old aristocrats and business dynasties. The crest on your uniform tells everyone where you stand. The elite students are the Heads. The scholarship students, only fifteen percent of each class, are the Commons, nicknamed the Lice. Their job for four years is to serve a Head well enough to earn a signed contract and a future with that Head's family company.

Our hero was somebody's louse once. Now a former Head offers ten million to buy him back, and every faction wants to know which side he will pick, because in RIEL a secret is power and nobody knows how many he is carrying.

He has a different answer. This time he is not choosing at all. This time he plans to break everything. Everyone around him has a theory about what really happened on the day he fell, and nobody fully trusts the answer he gives. Uff, this restart is going to be anything but quiet.