Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune
by Tismon
Walter's having a real bad day. His normal life's been turned upside down and he finds himself in a situation right out of his nightmares. But Walter's always able to find the good and bad in every situation.
The Good: The human race was judged worthy of Ascension, and can obtain powers beyond comprehension by completing Trials as an Aspirant.
The Bad: The Trials are run by otherworldly abominations who view humanity as little more than amusing playthings.
The Good: Walter's been chosen by the Absolute Luck System and has infiltrated the Trials as a Lord Arbiter.
The Really Bad: Now he has to balance life as both an Aspirant and an Admin, and Walter's doomed if either side finds out he's not who he says he is.
Follow our unfortunate protagonist as he navigates this double life using his wits, smarts, and a little luck, and maybe he can survive long enough to become an Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune.
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Style: Very much a comedy that keeps giving more while adding to the story. I mean I didn’t think I was going to be rooting for an eldritch abomination getting into a relationship with are identity stealing main character.
Story: Your classic Korean system apocalypse with that regressor who is a bit of an ass because all his friends died. So is now really edgy and is totally always thinking about ways you’ll fuck them over. Which is why I love are main character who is the total opposite and is running headlong into things. While managing to not fuck because of his bullshitting skills and luck.
Character: The character lovely with an them all having there own unique taste from lovable eldritch horror to psychopath running around chopping people up one minute to having a calm conversation about finding a super nice supermarket for no ulterior motive. What I’m trying to say is where the author is not parodying other character archetype he build unique characters who add to the comedic element by contrasting the those same parodies.
Grammar: Perfect grammar on release majority of the time and fixes when errors are found. So if you find errors put them in comment so the story can be improved.
Overall: Totally deserves a read and should be in rising stars as this is much better than some of the stuff up there.
Author make sure you keep up the good work as you totally deserve more attention.
This story has a pretty good background and premise with how the MCU has to use the importance placed on his position to his advantage with the help of his system.
The mc basically has to bullsh*t his way through conversations with Eldritch beings (that believe he's one too) to to get boosts in power and advantages. The only gripe I have with this is that the luck system hasn't had much use other than giving him skills and info. He hasn't been given any quests that would help him with the luck aspect of the story.
I cannot do this justice concisely, or without spoilers. Every now and then on this site, you come across a carefully crafted work of art, each word meticulously chosen. This is not that. This is a romance written from the POV of the NPC. This is a system apocalypse, according to villager 3. This is the story about a man trying to survive the death of sanity itself with nothing but a teleprompter and it is glorious.
But the cover art is like an impressionist skeleton or something what even. Literally unreadable 0/10.
While I'm usually not a fan of horror (I just find the vast majority of it boring) the lovecraftian angle with comedy enticed me to give it a shot and I have greatly enjoyed it. I had been fully expecting the MC to be some variant of shoggoth and thankfully a more creative approach was taken and I can't wait to see how things develop and what new things are brought to the table.
Consistently great (except for that one chapter Mr Tismon) love all the characters and it is a unique premise on a heavily overdone genre. Thoroughly enjoying it. I love the worshiping aspect I think that it really gives a twist to a genre that has very one sided overpowered characters or has a character that never has power in the name of balancing. Keep doing what you are doing. Lots of love
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Although this is not the first time we see on Roya Road either; eldritch horror litrpg; side character to "regresor/typical MC" actual Main Character; Luck powers, or absurd comedy with a main character stumbling to glory, this novel diferenciantes itself with its clever application of the premises mentioned to form a whole that can stand on its own.
Personally I think that luck powers can easily lead to justifying hand wavy stuff, which often could lead to a reader losing their suspension of disbelief or getting pulled out of the story, but in this case, minus some minor situations, I was able to look past it thanks to the overarching background arc that takes all the parts of the story and pulls them into a single novel, plus the author often has the main character in narrative situations that limit his applications of this near almighty power. I also like the characters presented so far, all with their bombastic personalities or characteristics, hilariously with the eldritch aliens often behaved more normal and human than the actual humans.
Also important to mention, the novel is well polished in plot holes and grammar, which is worth a star by itself and makes it an enjoyable read.
Recommended, thanks for sharing.
This came out of nowhere and I can’t fathom how. It’s written at a professional level (in my opinion) and the story itself is also fantastic. It has similar themes to one or two other stories that I also enjoyed a lot and I’m very excited to see where the amazing setting/world building of this story takes us. Good luck to you, O great author and happy writing :)
First things first, I love the idea for the story and as a comedy it shines through the use of subversion. I particularly enjoy the authors description of Xalla, the strange alien whom seems to have a budding relationship with our main character.
However what stops me from ranking this higher in the story category, is the use of luck to represent the main characters power. This concept needs to be handled with great care to still allow for intensity and the suspension of disbelief in your readers. A good way to do this might be by using running out of ‘Luck Charges’ as a main way of raising tension.
The style of writing is fine, it doesnt do anything particularly intriguing and lends itself to being rather short and snappy. Which is absolutely fine if you enjoy getting straight to the action, but leaves the reader bereft of grounding commentary. Exposition is still present, but is skimmed over so quickly you are left feeling it has no weight on current circumstances at all.
Now, as for grammar, it is most certainly lacking. Of course, learning english is a full time job no matter where you’re from, but there are a few basic problems in there which prevents me from bumping it up a bit higher. If you want some pointers author, or want to argue your case, message me privately.
Now we get to the part that explains why I claimed this piece as ‘cliched.’ I have noticed in some works on this site, that subversion tends to overwrite character. While this may not bother some, it will bother others. I do not enjoy reading characters that ‘go with the flow’ that the author intends to take them in simply because it gets some tedious character work out of the way. This is something that cannot simply be written off as ‘well these people have mind altering abilities.’ The use of these abilities must be clearly described to the reader, not because they are unable to figure it out for themselves but because it is imperative to be shown that these people are actually people, underneath all that mind control. Instead of just robots being compelled to act a certain way.
in conclusion, this is a really fun story idea. It has an incredible potential as a story of intrigue and exciting action, but as it is I have no qualms believing that our main character is going to be nothing but exemplary in every field, despite what his stats tell us.
The novel starts out extremely hilarious, with some Walter getting up to some absolutely wacky malarkey, but it quickly transforms into a "fake it till you make it" journey. I look forward to the end of Volume 1, and the continuation of Walter's eldritch adventure. Now I've said all I want to say, but the website is making reach a 50 word count, so I'm going to pad it out just a little bit. I'm not going to do that cheap tactic that some do, and copy-paste a bunch of random letters in, I'm just going to make you read more. It's good for your character.
Great story that features a character driven story with litrpg apocalypse elements. Mc is a very clever very self centered person but he toes the line correctly. He is a scoundrel, but a likable one. Impressive character building, even for the non human ones. Looking forward to reading more about this world.