
by bstdev
Samantha "Sam" Small is a 16-year-old superheroine who can grow teeth from any part of her body. She can still bite through steel and still smell you bleed. She's about to cause problems for everybody. The second act of Chum. Familiarity with the predecessor is recommended but not necessary. What to expect: A web serial structured like a comic series, in distinct arcs and phases, drifting between the daily lives of Philadelphian superheroes and explosive bouts of investigation, action, and violence. Each book of Chum is roughly a novel's worth of words (70-100k or so). This is a mirror of the Chum wordpress website, which can be found at chumstory.wordpress.com, will be about an update or two ahead of this one, and has a denser, less frequent update schedule. Chapters on Royal Road are separated into parts to help fill a daily upload schedule. Expect at least 10000 words per week. There is a Chum TvTropes Page and Chum Wiki (be wary of spoilers!) that could use some TLC. Feel free to contribute, if desired. You can also join the Discord to hang out with other readers.
#4
8/13/2026
Peak #50
0d
#3
6/27/2026
Peak #47
1d
#2
4/3/2026
Peak #48
1d
#1
2/22/2026
Peak #43
8d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:08 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
22%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Sci-fi → Drama → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (20%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#8910 of 12,212 · 8860 below RS #50
By genre
beats 28% of similar stories
beats 75% of similar stories
beats 69% of similar stories
Readers arrive, few stick
Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.