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by Nemo Omniaque
Oliver N. Madison was just your ordinary Pacifican investigator from Los Angeles up until a fateful encounter with a bee made him realize a terrible, unmistakable truth: his entire world was fake. Ever since then, his keen eyes couldn’t stop seeing the ever-worsening glitches, his fellow citizens’ memories constantly wiped clean of both them and worse yet: him. Oliver was reduced to a pathetic, lonely shell—taunted by God, he thought. Until he met an enigmatic entity simply named ‘M’—a self-described demiurge (and devilish creep) who revealed that not only was his world some ‘complex simulation’ whatever-a-place, it was also dying. Declaring him the solution (without elaboration), with a snap of a finger M dropped him (butt naked) straight into Nexus, another ‘fake’ world broken in its own way. Forced to play M’s game, equipped with a nifty interface doodad and shooter from Mars, Oliver must survive a harsh basin left ruined by a past catastrophe; inhabited by desperate wildlife, less-than-friendly ‘players’, and a crumbling System losing control. Iteration after iteration, he pushes himself forward fueled by one single goal: he will break out into the Real World. Additional tag(s): Alternate History, Eco-Fiction, Metafiction, Noir. Disclaimer: this fiction may explore mature, complex themes and is not intended for all audiences. Status: Book 1 Completed. Book 2 in production. Release schedule: One chapter every T, Th, Sat by ~4:20pm PS/DT (Pacific Standard/Daylight Time). Copyright © 2026 Nemo Omniaque. All rights reserved.
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7/18/2026
Peak #48
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Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC
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Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
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Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
38%
Two or more lists
26%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Psychological → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological + Sci-fi (26%).
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Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#10184 of 12,176 · 10134 below RS #50
By genre
beats 99% of similar stories
beats 17% of similar stories
beats 32% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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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