by NewDay365
Who hasn't imagined waking up in the world of their favorite video game / story / anime / etc.? While Melissa hadn't exactly made it a serious habit, she still certainly gave in to the occasional 'what if?', thinking about just what it would actually be like to be part of the action, adventure, and drama of one of her favorite video games, say, like Final Fantasy VII. Unfortunately, when she finds out the answer, she may wish that she had remained ignorant...*Cover image created with the use of Microsoft CopilotStory is also posting to Spacebattles and FFN
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
14%
Two or more lists
9%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Drama → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi + Drama (8%).
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
#8332 of 12,147 · 8282 below RS #50
By genre
beats 89% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 21% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
