Framework : Survival [LiTRPG]

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Description

indefinite hiatus, struggling with motivation and editing challenges. Sorry friends.

Sylar is a young stryker recently graduated from the training academy. After a neighboring nation begins to invade his, he joins with the recently defeated and reformed 3rd legion to help his nation repel the invaders. When a mission takes him deep in to enemy territory and leaves him stranded, a strange message flashes across his vision, “Framework initializing, please prepare accordingly”.

The world has changed, a system now enforces rules seemingly made at random and a malevolent ruler begins his not so secret quest to conquer the world. Sylar must navigate a changed world, fight strange monsters and most importantly, survive.

This story is a slow burn survival themed LitRPG with a character who is not prone to violence. He must use his wits and skills to survive a dangerous new world.

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Book two finishes on 11/11! Book one clocked in at around 65k words and book two a little under 100k! Book three will begin after a short hiatus. I need to do a lot of editing and mentally reset.

Book 1 - Chapters 1-37

Book 2 - Chapter 38-88

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: mOrphi

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Silverstorm4444Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Quite a good story and this is coming from someone that doesn't like litRPGs, let's get into it.
Style: a bit of a weak point in this story is the style. In the beginning portions of the work it tends to be a little bit light on describing what's going on, but that's quickly phased out in the later portions. The system actually helps with this as its treated almost like another character that the MC can react to.
Grammar: Nothing worth docking any points from
Story: A definite strong point so far. Letting the system pick out traits from the people in it before assigning their class and skill points is a clever idea and it's been paying off so far. Giving the MC actual human emotions and reactions to everything happening around him is another point in my book.
Character: The MC is great. He's clever, makes mistakes any normal person would make when they're figuring things out, and has regrets while still being able to improve and make plans to get him through everything. My only issue is that he's the only one. We're introduced to some other characters in the beginning, but they didn't really resonate with me. They also don't last long, so that could very well be part of it.
Overall, definitely worth a read. It's a clever system with an intelligent character and some fascinating world building.
Abraham-DeWittRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This review is part of a review swap.
I always enjoy a good war story and LitRPG. Framework: Survival is both. At the beginning of the story, the main character, Sylar, is sent off to war against the invading empire of the Norx. By the end of Chapter 7, the story of Framework transitions over to a LitRPG. I really enjoy the journey of Sylar from a seventeen-year-old in a medieval military to an explosive-using LitRPG protagonist. For these reasons, I give Framework: Survival an overall score of five stars.
Style: Framework: Survival is written in first-person. This makes the early chapters seem like a series of journal entries written by a soldier on the frontlines. The first-person perspective also works in later chapters because it allows the narrative to focus on the Framework RPG system.
Grammar: There were no significant problems. The wrong word was used once or twice, but that didn't detract from the experience at all.
Story: After the Framework system gets introduced, there is a distinct feeling of growth that makes you want to see just how powerful Sylar will become.
Where I am in the story right now, Sylar is gaining levels in the forest. I look forward to seeing how Sylar's new power will interact with the war narrative from the first few chapters.
Character: Where I am in the story, it seems that the characters other than the protagonist are relatively unimportant, but that's usually the point of LitRPGs. The story is about Sylar and his interaction with the Framework system. It's not about secondary characters. As far as Sylar is concerned, he is a good representation of a teenager sent off to war in the early chapters. In the later chapters, I like his curiosity and exploration of the Framework system.
Five6212Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Great premise, great writing.
The story follows Sylar and the effects of war on him and his journey through it all. The Litrpg concept doesn’t pop up until somewhat around chapter 6/7, so if you’re looking for it right off the bat you’ll first have to deal with Sylar’s mental journey of war first, and even that was done well so you’ll enjoy it.
Style: The story is written in first person, so all we see is through the eyes of 17 year old Sylar in his first war. Nothing to say here as it was done almost pretty neatly, and it is evident that the author improves greatly as the story progresses. The later chapters were written in far better quality than the earlier chapters. A sign of growth.
Grammar: Goes along with style, only that there are some things that could have prevented by one last read through before posting, but when suggested the author corrects them so there’s not much problem here.
Story: As I said before, great premise and it works well especially with the author’s writing style. The story is neither less descriptive nor overtly descriptive. It has a good balance so that it is enjoyable for the reader and immersive in the main character’s mind. So a good thing.
Character: There’s not a vast cast of characters as we are only following the main character now, and at the beginning when there were other characters we had little dialogue from them so we did not get to be immersed in their characters, but it’s a Litrpg story that seems to be focused on the main character and how he journeys with a system so I think we should not expect a lot of side characters, the main character was done well in that regard, so no problem there.
All in all… a story I can recommend.
RumtwistRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A very simple review at this time.
New story decent start, interesting character concept, and a world I think will be interesting however at this time it is very limited to the reader.
Cons if you looking for litrpg/gamelit crunch really does not start appearing till chapter 14. The author starts alot of sentences with "I", so far not a deal breaker however if a friendly RR author is around please share some wisdom.
Story is really too new to comment about anything else, so take gander and join the ride of this story. Best of luck.
CommenatorerRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
For the first twenty or so chapters i was riveted to my screen, hanging on every framework notification and explosive action scene. Unfortunately despite initial competent character crafting the story fizzles out when the main character nonsensically stops using explosions to solve his problems. Even more baffling than this he does not warn a single soul about a looming regional threat of the Nox emperor, which was supposedly one of his main drivers for finding people again in the first place?
A further point of logical discord is given how lucky 'Syl' has been his luck attribute should be well over 50.
By about chapter thirty with all the spaghetti the mc is dropping by way of outbreaks of crying, abdication of settlement control, combat ineptitude and shunning his combustive origins the story has truly soured.
On to the technicals;
World building is nice.
Few grammatical errors.
First person perspective gets a bit much.
Dialogue gets a little stilted in later chapters but still coherent.
Trying to remain objective and accepting that others might not find the above character inconguence as much of a deal breaker and that i got twenty odd chapters of free enjoyment, I give it a 3.5/5.
Update:
The author contacted me and requested i read ahead as they had tried to address some of the issues i outlined above. And in doing just that i am happy to report that while not completely correcting the above issues they certainly have made some decent inroads.
Some key points:
*The MC gets back in touch with his explosive tendencies
*Amnesia about Nox's imminent invasion fixed
*MC (eventually) stops his annoying whining
Further issues noticed:
*Weird disconnect when he starts to kill again (not that the killing isn't necessary to his character development or plot, just that the way the MC justifies it is really stilted and immersion breaking.
*Mind control/entrapment of the army, even though explained at length still doesn't make much sense.
Also have to admit that as steeped
MarytheGorgonRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This review is part of a review swap.
This story has some glaring issues with its formatting. This could be because I read this on my phone instead of laptop, but some of the paragraphs were WAY to long. Dialogue that should have been multiple paragraphs were just one huge paragraph that took up most of the chapter. Around were I stopped this lessens a good bit but still. I struggled to read at some points due so much being shoved into a paragraph. Here are examples from one chapter:
Squad six had spent most of the morning preparing all the supplies they would need for a month in the field. Lyse was tasked with acquiring the supplies from the camp quartermaster while Amelia and I poured over the maps we had been given at our chosen route. We were to east deep into the eternal forest until we came across an old trading route that was no longer under use. The eternal forest was named so as it seemed to stretch endlessly through more than half of Eter and deep inside of Norx. The recent political state of the Norx border had led to the route being mostly unused on this side of the border. Following the map, we would take the trading route some twenty miles north, then turn west and try to enter Grove from the north through the Grove of Giants, a part of the forest known for its massive and old trees that could grow as high as five hundred feet tall and live for hundreds of years. We were to avoid all contact with the enemy scouts with our primary objective being to locate any survivors of the advance army or find the enemy main encampment. All of the recently graduated squads were tasked with these routes that would take us far out of the likely path of combat, leaving the riskier ones for the more experienced squads. It should have been unlikely we would make contact with the enemy if they were pressing south down into the mainland of Eter, but that did little to improve our spirits. No one spoke as we gathered our packs and began to walk to the marshaling field. Amel
ShadowKnight6992Royal Road
★★ 2.0
the grammar is good and has no glaring issues.
the side characters are interesting and actually act like real people and have intelligence And react to what the Mc does and how he behaves which is crying a lot. Nice bird though
the plot is good so far but the litrpg elements seem weird, like you can kill something 90 levels higher than you with bombs, so I don’t see why any other stat but agility is useful because all you have to do is max out a bomb ability get a bomb drop it on an enemy and RUN, repeat till it’s dead, so what’s the point of levels if everyone is on the same level still like modern humans. It just doesn’t make sense to be a litrpg.
the main character is weird like a stryker is supposed to be a commando and the Mc GRADUATED FROM COMMANDO SCHOOL and has become a commando with his squad, SO WHY IS HE SO BAD AT EVERYTHING! the Mc is gittery about killing, is almost a complete idiot for intelligence gathering and usage of said intelligence, and is just useless for being a one man army an intelligence gatherer and saboteur like his father, the Mc is almost the exact opposite or the most incompetent Stryker there is, unless Stryker isn’t commando and is just like a tribal hunter and his father just so happens to be a commando type of character and they got lucky recruiting him