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A Man, A Donkey, In Someone Else's Epic

A Man, A Donkey, In Someone Else's Epic

by A wild MarshMallow

AdventureAnti-Hero LeadComedyFantasyHigh Fantasy
Shadow rank ~#295 in Comedy↑352

He was never supposed to be the hero. While kingdoms rise, prophecies unfold, and legends are being written, one perfectly ordinary man finds himself caught in the middle of an adventure that very clearly belongs to somebody else. And then there’s the donkey. Together, they stumble through a world of heroes, villains, grand quests, questionable decisions, and increasingly inconvenient circumstances. They weren't chosen by prophecy. They weren't destined for greatness. They just happened to be in the wrong story at the wrong time. Sometimes the greatest adventures happen to the people who were never invited. A Man, A Donkey, In Someone Else’s Epic is a humorous fantasy adventure about an unlikely pair trying to survive a story that was never meant to include them.

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Streak History

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Shared RS Climb

One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.

Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 12:08 UTC

Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 12:08 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

22%

Two or more lists

5%

Likely threshold order: Comedy → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.

Leading bundle: Comedy (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

~#16522282

#1652 of 12,218 · 1602 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-67/wk
Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%
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By genre

Reader Funnel
How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 10–19 chapters
Views
484
0.0 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 25% of similar stories

Followers
0
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not enough data yet

Favorites
1
Traffic (last 30d)9 views/day

beats 24% of similar stories

Both levers trail the field

Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.

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.