Jake had never really played video games before, let alone the latest in FDVRMMORPGs. So when he gets put on enforced leave from his job for the Natural Preservation Society and has nothing else to do, his new roommate, Andy, suggests that they play the hottest new game, Grande New World, together.

It's just an accident that Jake manages to break the game in the first ten minutes of playing, and receive a massive payout of in-game currency for doing so. Now he's being called "The Firster" by other players, and has to navigate a world he knows almost nothing about, despite Andy's best efforts.