KARMA'S GAME:
a sort of murder-mystery.

 ❛are you ready, listeners? ❜

IN A WORLD FILLED WITH CRIME AND CHAOS, superheroes can only do so much.

Sure, the Avengers saved the world a couple dozen times — but past kicking intergalactic alien warlords' asses back to whatever planet they came from, they do very little for the citizens they supposedly 'protect'. They take care of bad guys but wipe out a couple dozen city blocks for the trouble, or uproot thousands of lives for the price of one, or just plain out don't think about the consequences are when they swing fists or swords or godly magical hammers.

There aren't a lot of heroes that work for the people, either. Past the friendly neighbourhood super-beings focused on big-scale bank robberies and crime lords, of course. People want someone to turn to when the justice system fails them. When someone goes missing and no one can say why or where. When a friend gets killed by some mystery assailant that gets to walk free.

And that's where Karma Kane comes in. A troubled, thorny, tired to the bone teen detective with an algebra test in the morning and a murder to solve that night. She might be barely seventeen, but she's built a rapidly-popularizing career base off her brilliant mind and her professional, albeit a tad amateur, Nancy Drew-esque cracked case portfolio. She's a badass, and a complete mystery behind aviator shades and a crooked grin — and people love her for it. 

The only problem? 

Karma Kane isn't real. 

She's just a million 1's and 0's forming a fantastical teenage dream poured into a forty-five minute long weekly podcast stylized as 'Karma!'. She only exists in concept, just like the 'cases' she solves and  the people she 'helps'. Her podcast description might trash on the Avengers, but at least they're doing something — she's just playing pretend.

Karma's a faceless fraud pretending to fix problems the voice behind the character can't actually solve. The only 'good' she gives the world is an escape from the real world, until the episode's up and everyone returns to the real world. Nothing about her or her world of happy-endings is real.

Well, until one of the richest men in the United States is discovered dead, declared 'by his own hands'. And Karma Kane makes a brash, heat-of-the-moment decision, when she realises no one is batting an eye at the strange circumstances of the mystery, brilliant, plagued by darkness, Killian Blackwell's death. 

She steps out of her 1's and 0's, barely clinging onto anonymity and painting a big red target on the back of her signature bomber jacket, and tackles her most harrowing case yet: solving what actually happened to her father.

...

❛ THIS IS KARMA!:
the best murder mystery podcast
you're gonna catch on this side of hell. ❜

NOVEMBER 2017,
the month kate blackwell's
life falls apart. or, in which a
mysterious man shows up,
another man disappears,
and a half-arachnid tries to
play watson to her sherlock.

takes place after homecoming,
otherwise mostly canon-divergent.

❛ AND I'M YOUR HOST, KARMA KANE:
the greatest devil walking on this side of humanity.  ❜

...

I do not own the rights to Peter Parker, Spider-man, any other copy-writed characters, etc. All rights go to the respective creators. This is merely a fanmade creation and is no way my claim on the original content.

However, I do own this plot, all original characters, and all writings done in this book unless otherwise stated. I'd appreciate very, very much if you respected this and looked at this story as something to appreciate, NOT to steal and claim as your own. I'm a tired, bitter old(ish) lady who doesn't have much, and these silly little books mean a great deal to me. So if I can anyone stealing a word of this book, I'll be filing a complaint with my lawyer (aka, throwing hands & being incredibly passive-aggressive -- and I'd fear that, my skills with the written word in terms of malicious intent are not to be reckoned with).

Also: some characters may have opinions or make choices you may not agree with. Please understand now that there are reasons for every choice in this book, they're not attacks on your or anyone's opinions, and that doesn't mean that I as an author always agree with them. Everything here is fictional. If a character hurts your favourite character here, it's not real, please don't attack me for my choice to do so. Please also don't attack me for the choices I make with my characters, my plot, etc. I don't mind comments of most kinds, but explicitly rude ones masquerading as criticism are demeaning and rude. If you don't like my book, write your own.

All I do is binge-write my silly little Peter Parker fanfictions and ignore my silly little responsibilities. Hehe.

This is half-inspired by the Hulu show, Only Murders in the Building. I liked the podcast idea from it, and wanted to translate it into my own idea. I'm pretty sure that's the only element I've put into this story, otherwise it's my own makings, but I wanted to give credit where such was due. :)

Just an FYI: This isn't going to be completely canon-accurate, here. I'm aging up Peter & the gang by a year, honestly just because I want to. I was originally just going to play around with the entire MCU canon (the direction the MCU going...it's not my fave. endgame kinda soured everything for me and it's stayed that way) but I think it's easier to just adjust ages so I don't have too many people confused/mad. Obviously, that means FFH & NWH might not be accurate but I don't super love either of those movies so, I don't know if I'd write this little ~novella~ into them anyways. So! Just for reference; Peter & the gang are all 2000 babies instead of 2001.

Anyways. That's that. Enjoy. :)

STARTED: o7/o9/2021
COMPLETED: tba.
WORD COUNT: tba.

WELCOME TO
karma's game.