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Specter of the Ice

Specter of the Ice

by Nine Waters

Anti-Hero LeadApocalypseFirst ContactLow FantasyMultiple Lead Characters
Shadow rank ~#120 in Short Story↑433

Something woke beneath the Antarctic ice — and the last team who found it chose death over discovery. Now the glaciers are melting from the inside out, and the world doesn't know why. A new team arrives to finish what was buried, only to find they're not alone. Something walks the halls of the abandoned lab: beautiful, bloodied, and speaking in a voice that isn't one voice at all. It won't let them go below. It won't explain why. As the deaths start — some too precise to be a monster's work, some far too human — one member of the team finds himself drawn to the very thing everyone else fears most, even as the ice keeps disappearing, and the tide keeps rising, one degree at a time. Some truths cost everything to keep. The world doesn't have long enough to find out why.

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Followers
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Story Timeline

Started

3w ago

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FVR
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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 6 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC

Entry forecast updated 6 Oct 2026, 07:08 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

27%

Two or more lists

21%

Likely threshold order: Short Story → Psychological → Mystery → Main.

Leading bundle: Short Story + Psychological + Mystery (15%).

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

~#22832707

#2283 of 2,767 · 2233 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-58/wk
Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%
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Reader Funnel

Collecting data. Under 100 lifetime views — conversion rates this early are noise, not signal.