
by dscott5059
Six university students with relatively normal, boring lives are thrust into a game that none of them asked to play. Enter Penny, Benji, Lyla, Glenn, Eleanor, and Oliver: young adults with little in common and even less reason to ever cross paths on their large campus. But after being lured to the same place, they awaken in a mysterious room with no memory of how they got there and no explanation for why they were chosen. When they return to their lives, they discover they didn't leave empty-handed. Each of them has been marked, changed. And now each of them possesses an ability that shouldn't be possible. At first, understanding what they've become is difficult enough. But as the six strangers are drawn together, one thing becomes increasingly clear: whatever happened to them wasn't an accident. Someone chose them. And the game has only just begun. Disclaimer: all content published is my own original work (except the cover. That was created by AI). AI has ONLY been used for proofreading; all characters, storylines, worldbuilding, and written content are my own creation.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 8 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 8 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 73% of similar stories
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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 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.