What doesn't kill you...kills someone else and leads you down an ethical rabbit hole. In the near future paying users can rent the "virtual experiences" of other people. These "feeders" sublet their own bodies at the risk of their own lives so that customers can safely enjoy extreme potentially self-destructive vices like binge eating cliff diving or worse.

"Rent-a-Vice" is a 150000-word interactive cyberpunk-noir mystery novel by Natalia Theodoridou where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast unstoppable power of your imagination.

You're a private investigator with a bad habit an ex and mountains of debt--troubles so deep that you stand to lose custody of your kid. When a mysterious client asks for your help finding their missing lover in the seamy world of virtual experience it's up to you to gather evidence experience the technology for yourself and solve the case.

Delve into the darkest corners of the clandestine Rent-a-Vice industry. If you believe the etho-politicians VE compromises the well-being of society and normalizes vice and disorder. But what are users after? Is it entertainment or something deeper? And is there anything in it for the feeders other than profit?

As for you will you resist your own vices or go all in?

• Play as male female or non-binary; gay straight or bisexual.
• Fight or embrace your personal demons struggle against the machinery of power and find friendship in unlikely places.
• Save those in trouble or extort them for your silence or go rogue and burn the entire industry to the ground.
• Expose corruption or exploit it for your gain.
• Test your skills as a PI while you share other people's experiences of life and death.
• Trade favors to retain custody of your child; reunite with your ex or find romance with someone new.
• Become a champion for the marginalized usher in a new ethical standard or step on corpses to climb to the top.