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Chum: Act II

Chum: Act II

by bstdev

ActionAnti-Hero LeadContemporaryDramaFemale Lead
Shadow rank ~#1817 in Sci-fi↓25

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.

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Current Rank
N/A
Peak Rank
#43
Followers
159
+3
Story Timeline

Started

1y ago

Tracking

7mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

7mo ago

#43 Contemporary

7mo ago

Left Contemporary RS

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Entered Contemporary RS

6mo ago

#48 Contemporary

6mo ago

Left Contemporary RS

6mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

3mo ago

#47 Contemporary

3mo ago

Left Contemporary RS

3mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

1mo ago

OverviewViews and follower statisticsEngagementProseChapters
Ranking History
Track position changes over time
24h7d30d
Favorites
51
0
FVR
0.05%
Rating
4.42
Ratings
18
0
Reviews
N/A
0
Comments
N/A
0
RS Days
10
90d
All
No data available for this time range
Rating Breakdown
Overall4.42
StyleN/A
Story4.00
GrammarN/A
CharacterN/A
Streak History

#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

Shared RS Climb

One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.

Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:28 UTC

Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:28 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

~#8913131

#8913 of 12,214 · 8863 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-64/wk
Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%
Shadow rankObserved RR rank

By genre

Reader Funnel
How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 150+ chapters
Views
308k
0.2 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 28% of similar stories

Followers
159
0.32 favs / follower

beats 75% of similar stories

Favorites
51
Traffic (last 30d)607 views/day

beats 69% of similar stories

Conversion trend
Coolingrecent 0.2/1k vs lifetime 0.5/1k

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.