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by RukaZero
Read Rift, Mischief & Obsidian Claws on Royal Road ANNOUNCEMENT: "Rift Mischief" Is Getting a Complete RE-LAUNCH/REMASTER!Hello Everyone!First of all, a huge thanks to everyone who read "Rift Mischief: Obsidian Claws" throughout this first beta cycle!In order to give this story the best chances possible of becoming one of the Rising Stars—as well as to address the initial pacing problems—the current page will now be ARCHIVED to BETA STATUS.WHAT IS BEING DONE?Complete Remastering of Chapters 1 to 15+: Complete remaster of all the first 15+ chapters that will include pacing improvements, better choreography, and more developed characters.Launch of New Story Page: The new official page will launch on September 23 with an insane Day 1 5-Chapter Drop!Fast and Reliable Updates: With 15+ chapters drafted in advance, updates are sure to be quick and consistent.WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO:Subscribe to My Author Page: Click on my author page (RukaZero) and subscribe so you will be notified once the new page goes live!Add New Page To Your Favorites: Once the new page launches on September 23, 2026, I will post the link right here and in the description of the fiction!Thank you for your interest and for reading! The definitive version of Tomoko and Katsumi's story is about to go live!— RukaZero
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:09 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:09 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
8%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (3%).
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
#11793 of 12,176 · 11743 below RS #50
By genre
beats 63% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 36% of similar stories
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 10–19 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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