Arashia: A LitRPG story

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Description

Laurie Deveraux thought her idiot family tossed her into a virtual reality game because they are stupid that way.  Except it wasn't a game.  Instead, she end up in a world resembling virtual reality with said stupid family, working together to explore this new world.

Ummm... what is with that look!  Don't plan anything crazy you whacked out cousin.

Gahhh.. shut up naggy relative from hell.  This character doesn't want to listen to you!  Points?  Stats?  Listen for an hour?  Done!

Brothers help!  Who killed who?  Huh?  No, save me from family reunion!  We are family... damn it, portal to Earth open up!

2 chapters a week, every Monday and Wednesday.  Extra = Friday

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2018
Author
sahara airen

Tags

LITRPGFANTASYVIRTUAL REALITYADVENTUREFEMALE LEADCOMEDYROMANCE SUBPLOT

Royal Road Stats

Rating
3.7/ 5.0
Followers
101
Views
108,432

Chapters(74 total)

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Community Reviews(5)

  • AshcheulRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    /* This review was written when only 38 chapters were avaliable. */
    I think it is fair to mention that this story has an amazing trainwreck of a family in it's focus.
    It's 38th chapter, and I feel like every chapter of Arashia adds a wham line about what's wrong with them.
    And it's good.
    Don't get me wrong, they are not incompetent whack of comedians. Rather, they are a young generation of few branches of family whose parents were quite cutthroatish, and dog-eat-doghish. This younger generation is damaged, flawed (and flawed in a believable, relatable way, you had to deal in a life) and doesn't have social tools to reach to each other and mend wounds.
    But, oh, they try. And it can be hilarious, horrible and interesting.
    And I think it's fair to mention that this story has Leviene. It's 38th chapter, and I feel like every chapter of Arashia adds a wham line about what's wrong with her.
    And I like it.
    Compared to other members of the family, Leviene is not about infighting and power struggles and crime. She's adorable, ditzy, greedy, adorably petty creature that has problems with finding directions and tries to forget horrible things as fast as they are happening. It's just scratching the surface by the way. You can watch her forever.
    This story is 30% new things happening in Arashia and 70% of delving into how things went with a family before Arashia. 80% of story are interactions between family members.
  • AlmarnaRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    the point of view is confusing
    could be easely fixed though if the auther were to insert something like
    ---Alex's POW---
    whenever the pow shifts
    you could furthe expand on this by informing the reader whenever you do a flashback
  • kspnRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    I am fiding this story to be interesting, but the name switching and POV switching as well as the random -in the past- sections do make it a bit confusing to read.
    However I am enjoying it and will continue to read it. :)
  • whoeverRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    To read this story, you need to be able to endure info dumps and name cycling to quite some lenghts. I tried to ignore them hoping to get used to it or for it to get better, but stopped reading at chapter 30 after realizing I could not longer follow the story because of it.
    Most painful is the severe case of name cycling the story suffers from. Like some teenage wanna-be journalist or sports reporter, the author cycles through different ways to name a character. The name, the species of the avatar, and other descriptions ("experienced player", ...). While this is itself is already quite annoying, it gets worse when used not fitting the context at all. Like refering to the character via the species of their gaming avatar that speaks about the out-of-game history of that character. That makes no sense at all and destroys for me any chance to used enough with that style to bear it. (And then the text still feels repetitive. Name cycling and repetitive, it's like someone tried to make an example of how name cycling is no help with repetition).
    And even if you can avoid the confusion that causes and bear the absurdity of it, the first few dozen chapters feel like a single info dump. Reading RRL I'm used to info dumps about what stats and classes do (though it annoying to read), but this story manages to info dump character characterisation and history on you. While that shows that the author put lot of thoughts into the characters and the backstory, all that deptht is just dumped. Some whole chapters feel like the author's notes or some English hopework of writing about the characters in some book. But not at all like sometime that should be the literature work itself.
    If you can ignore the above problems, there might be nice story there and good characters. I couldn't see anything except those flaws again and again and again, though.
  • LunederRoyal Road
    ★★ 2.0
    Poorly written soap opra where nothing really lines up and the drama is so over done it is agrivating.
    The grammar is good and the way the story start is interesting but that is as far as it gets.
    The character personalities are all over the place, when a character is said to be an air head but the actions of the character are nothing like and air head.