by aethercowboy
The sequel to Grime in the Gears, Volume I: Create, Read, Update, Delete (available on Amazon). When Dolores' husband Archie mysteriously disappears, she must go from influencer to investigator to find her missing husband (or at least, find out what happened to him). Along the way, the Gears keep churning and turning. Assassins, bodyguards, conspiracies, and the evil megacorporations all stand between her and the truth. ‘Cause you can't find nothing at allIf there was nothing there all along.Crooked Teeth (Death Cab for Cutie) We stood beneath an amber moonAnd softly murmur'd "some day soon"Aquarela do Brasil (S. K. Russell version)
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 5 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
4%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Mystery → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (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
#1685 of 12,346 · 1635 below RS #50
By genre
beats 21% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 62% 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.
