by Inigo Dreamer
What lies beneath the floorboards when the magic is just a scam, the wizard is a fraud, and the wagon is held together by little more than hope and stubbornness? When a desperate man seeking the Giant Turtle That Holds Up The World enlists a peddler pretending to be a Witch and an exhausted courier driving the world’s first car, the road to the Under-Flange gets wonderfully, hilariously out of hand. Are you brave enough to join them and take your first taste of jockstrap liqueur? What to expect: > British Satirical & Comedic Fantasy > Absurdist World-building & Bureaucracy > Unconventional 'Party' Dynamics New chapters released every Tuesday and Friday
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 6 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 6 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
9%
Two or more lists
5%
Likely threshold order: Satire → Comedy → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Satire (5%).
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
#506 of 1,752 · 456 below RS #50
By genre
beats 75% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 31% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.
