
by D.W.Sutton (Your Favorite Bug)
Hacking into heaven was a dumb idea. Bash did it anyway. Now he's in the Shard, a gamified afterlife where the rich play god and the dead bleed. Armed with a pure INT build, dark humor, and an evolving AI companion, he's ready to BASH it all down. 📅 New chapters Monday and Thursday What to expect: • Flawed MC - High INT, Low WIS. Not even death can stop bad choices. • Clever planning rarely survives first contact - When things go kinetic, improvisation is king. • System-lite, action-heavy - Stats and skills exist to be exploited, not optimized.
#11
3/26/2026
Peak #49
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#10
3/25/2026
Peak #50
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#9
3/25/2026
Peak #50
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#8
2/6/2026
Peak #50
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#7
2/6/2026
Peak #50
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Rank updated 14 Aug 2026, 02:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#7417 of 7,628 · 7367 below #50
By genre
beats 76% of similar stories
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beats 74% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
At this conversion, the Psychological Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 745 views/day — the story currently gets ~314.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.