
by Hoyle23
Every Tuesday, people disappear. Nathan Cole barely gives it a second thought until he becomes one of them. Nathan wakes in Dusthaven, a deserted 1947 Western town, wearing mismatched armour, silver cowboy boots and a brown duster. He has no idea where he is, why a voice inside his head keeps giving him instructions, or why the weapon in his hand is called THE BLUE ARGUMENT. Dusthaven is only the first Stop. To get home, Nathan must survive places pulled from different times and countries, learn Skills, develop his Class and understand rules that are usually technically fair and deeply unreasonable. Dead Contestants leave loot. Equipment changes. The System rewards adaptation whether Nathan wants it to or not. Fortunately, he isn't doing it alone. Elsie is an elderly woman in a wedding dress, cricket pads and a Roman helmet carrying what appears to be an artillery-grade leaf blower. Poppy is six, wearing one pink welly and armed with a toilet plunger. Deputy Thistle is a waist-high tumbleweed with tiny boots, a sheriff's badge and thirty-two years of law-enforcement experience. Nathan wants out. The Junction keeps giving him reasons to stay. And the longer he survives, the harder one question becomes to ignore. Why Tuesday? Character-focused LitRPG • Progression • Historical worlds • Survival • Mystery • Dry British humour New chapters every Tuesday and Thursday. Book One is planned for approximately 60 chapters.
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, 04:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:38 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
7%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Mystery → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Mystery (2%).
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
#4688 of 12,099 · 4638 below RS #50
By genre
beats 97% of similar stories
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beats 69% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.