by entirelyalive
He is going west and will not be stopped. Out past the horizon, a wanderer passes through towns set amidst the hardpan desert. None of the towns are quite right anymore, and neither is the wanderer himself. He travels through a world where much that is familiar remains, but has been hollowed out, bearing less weight than it once did. Whether it be bandits, dragons, or dogs, things are as they seem, while the world that contains these things falls slowly apart. Journey Further West is an episodic weird western following a man who moves continually through towns that need his help as reality forgets what it is. Each town is a story, but the road goes ever onward. ------ Episodes daily until 2026-09-29, then every Wednesday after that.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 16 Oct 2026, 13:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 16 Oct 2026, 13:18 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
24%
Two or more lists
16%
Likely threshold order: Short Story → Horror → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Short Story + Horror (12%).
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
#1930 of 2,904 · 1880 below RS #50
By genre
beats 13% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 15% of similar stories
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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
