by MattPetersonWrites
Humanity's collapse to a rogue artificial intelligence was fast and sudden. And Marcus Campbell, tech prodigy and wunderkind CEO of Campbell Corporation, inadvertently had something to do with it. Ten years later, fighting to survive, Marcus finds himself pulled into a loop taking him back and forth between his present fight for survival and his past, weeks before The Fall, where humanity met its downfall. Can he change the past? Can he change the future? And why is he in this time loop and why can't he shake the feeling that there is something more sinister at play?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 11 Oct 2026, 04:27 UTC
Entry forecast updated 11 Oct 2026, 04:27 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
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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 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
