
by Gungeonmaster
"Retire truly young! Reincarnate with the Early Death Package!" In a world of magic, mystery and industry, Chase Rampart spent years stuck working in a government office dedicated to breaking the law. So, when she becomes eligible for the Early Death Package, she leaps at the chance. But she’s reincarnated as a Gathlain, a foot high part plant, part fairy. Her dreams of noir detectivehood-- fancy pistol and fashionable drinking problem included-- now impossibly large. When a desperate father hires her to investigate a case of mail-order lycanthropy, Chase has no idea that she's been set on a path to investigating the crimes of a dangerously narcissistic goddess of the arts. What she does know is that she's too short for this shit. Enter Layla Peregrine, an ex-mercenary with a bulletproof body and a perpetually unpaid tab. She’s provocative. She’s experienced. Of most immediate relevance to Chase, she’s normal-people-sized.Together, Peregrine and Chase must beat the clock as they become embroiled in a multi-layered conspiracy of frame-jobs, lethal IP law, and deceitful gods who’re up to no good. Well, those dastardly deities had better watch out… …Because detectives Peregrine and Chase are on the case! What to expect:>Odd couple romance.>Action and intrigue in equal measure.>Strange goings on in an industrial era high fantasy.>Giggles, if I did my job right. What not to expect:>LitRPG. (Unless you count D&D mechanics silently integrated and rolling for skill checks behind the scenes)>Harem.>Numbers going up.>Fantasy Stasis.Releasing Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Cover Art by Jegsuuu
#18
8/11/2026
Peak #5
41d
#17
8/11/2026
Peak #45
3d
#16
8/11/2026
Peak #14
28d
#15
8/11/2026
Peak #47
2d
#14
8/10/2026
Peak #49
1d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:49 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:49 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
40%
Two or more lists
31%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Mystery → Romance → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Mystery (17%).
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
#3708 of 12,148 · 3658 below RS #50
By genre
beats 88% of similar stories
beats 10% of similar stories
beats 81% 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.
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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