
by cascodia
A dungeon wakes up. It has no name, no language, and no idea why the first thing it meets is trying to kill it. Fear feeds the core. Terrified intruders provide plenty of it. But fear is thin. It never lasts. Then a wounded man is left behind inside its walls, and the dungeon discovers something better: his relief when the pain stops, his confusion when the broth appears, his slow and grudging gratitude when the room gets warmer and nothing tries to eat him. The guild sends kill teams. The dungeon sends them soup. Nobody asked for a hospital dungeon. That hasn't stopped it. New chapters every weekday @ 1816 EST. Books 1, 2, and 3 (~250k words!) of The Hospital Dungeon are complete, Book 4 is being written!
#3
4/3/2026
Peak #8
25d
#2
4/2/2026
Peak #7
26d
#1
3/26/2026
Peak #3
47d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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.
Previously appeared on Rising Stars, but no supported current projection is available.
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Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
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.
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