It Lives (Again) : The Off-Brand Prometheus

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Description

It's always hard to explain what a story is about, and I hate general summaries with a fairly strong passion.

This is a satire of modern webnovel fantasy conventions. That doesn't make it a comedy, but it is occasionally funny. This is a Fantasy-Horror: where the horror is derived from taking all those cute little ideas that are popular nowadays and taking them to their logical and uncomfortable conclusions.

A man is isekai'd, but why would his body come with him intact across worlds? His bodydied. No, he wakes up in the flesh of an artificialfrankenstein.

He's not an otaku. He's not a nerd, geek, or dork like you and me. He's just a man that's tired and understands what it means to lose.

Summoned from another dimension, he is given a quest to save the kingdom from an invading conqueror. But what if neither country is the "good guy"?

Now, in a universe where magic and levels exist, where everyone can gain superpowers of their own, how long will it be before he realizes that being the strongest person in the room doesn't make yousafe.

Expect a continuous and low-grade body-horror discomfort. Expect a tight-lipped, mature protagonist. Expectgoblins.

TRIGGER WARNING:Slow burn style story! Contains characters that say stuff and do things, that may be important several chapters later.

Boring stuff FYI:This fiction is not being published anywhere but RR at this moment. If you find it online elsewhere,that be stolen. Y'all know the drill. This story is not to be reproduced, transmitted, or modified, except as areasonableexpectation from how I've shared it with you. No one should interpret this as permission to create derivative materials (for money), feed a machine learning algorithm of any kind, or yadda yadda. Not without permission. If I'm violating anyone else's protected intellectual property, hit me up and I'll try to fix it. Use common sense. Talk to me if you've got questions.

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2022
Author
wordsinaline

Tags

LITRPGSATIREFANTASYMAGICSLICE OF LIFEMALE LEADHORRORREINCARNATIONHIGH FANTASYPROGRESSION

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.0/ 5.0
Followers
477
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201,528

Chapters(80 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

  • SagaaaRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I kinda love it, it's like a morbid fascination with something that you can't quite get your head around.
    it is confusing and entretaining and, honestly?, I want to read more about this world, it looks like it will be quite entretaining to read the story that comes out of the authors mind
  • The OxRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Very promising start to a story.  Rhode, our main character, dies young of illness after living a life of quiet desperation.  He then finds himself reincarnated/isekaied into an industrialized version of Frankenstein's Laboratory, where they build their abominations that violate the laws of nature en masse.  With goblins.
    Rhode finds himself in a very giant, but very ill new body.  The people (goblins) have invested a great deal in his creation and expect him to recoup their investment by slaughtering their enemies on the battlefield.  Rhode naturally has reservations about this, but he keeps them to himself.
    This story has already built a very interesting and mysterious world that I wish to read more about because it is very unique.  The characters introduced so far are nuanced and have fascinating voices.  Especially Rhode.  He is someone who is easy to like and identify with.
    This far into the story, we have a complex blend of ominous unknowns combined with a wacky exposure to the Goblin society that Rhode has been drafted into.  The goblins are a hilarious blend of types, variously suspiciously and dangerously evil, bloviatingly vain and pompous, or wide-eyed and endearingly cute/stupid.  Most are combinations of those three.  Goblin culture seems to be a very heirarchical bureaucratic monarchy filled with idiot savants who are totally up themselves.  It makes for some really funny scenes, while still creating a very precarious situation for our Main Character.
    For the advanced review categories-
    Style- Functionally the writing is very sound.  No jumping around in chronology or bizarre tense switching.  From a more stylistic standpoint, so far I'd say this is more of a comedy-adventure vs adventure-comedy.  The emphasis is on the comedic potential of the characters and the situations they find themselves in.
    Story- This far in, we have just gotten into the reveal part of the story,  the larger plot is still a mystery.  Haven't heard of a mcguffin or great quest
  • Sk1lz3rRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Normally I don't make reviews. But I am very interested and invested in this story, as I have waited for over a year for more chapters.
    This is not easy to read. Take your best reading comprehension with you.
    The MC is not reliable, but that is what makes it interesting. That is what the story is. It is profoundly interesting.
    I simply wish to Know More. But that takes time. And chapters. Thus five stars right here.
    You might have noticed I have not said anything about the actual story. Your observation was correct. I have not.
  • ApproachableRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    Firstly, the title: Currently it's a misnomer. There hasn't been much napping or necromancy. There's been quite a lot of falling unconscious as a result of trauma, but it's yet to live up to the synopsis. The author has acknowledged this, but I still feel a better title for the moment would be something like "Test Subject [Hero]".
    The writing quality is great, I've noticed very few typos. It's definitely in the unreliable narrator category, so it isn't exactly easy to emphasize with any of the characters. The world that's being built is interesting, and can only be desribed as fantastical feudal chaos.
    In summary, it's a good read, but very slow burn, and yet to live up to what I expected from the synopsis.
  • PyroSquidRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    The story is interesting, though seems paradoxical in its pacing. The pace moves incredibly quickly but as of where I'm reviewing has yet to be more than setup for the plot. The fast pace along with what i would call a lack of detail makes it incredibly hard to understand what is going on or why it's happening, beyond the broad strokes. The main character seems to have bonded with multiple side characters but we didn't see this happen, so it seems strange when he is essentially a prisoner. Along with this is the tendency for conversations to jump unnaturally with no rhyme or reason, as if the author just wants to hurry through them. The story is fun but not one I'm likely to continue with.
  • Maaku Yuujiin KurosubiiRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    The story has a promising premise but takes a while to get going. The author creates a lot of mystery and suspense but doesn’t explain or show enough of the world or the plot. The writing quality is good. The story might appeal to some readers who enjoy puzzles and riddles or mind games. It’s a bit entertaining, but also very confusing at times.  The more chapters you read the more you will understand.
  • malinizgeldiRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    Let me state that I like the main story, but we may have touched on it only in 1 chapter in 15 chapters. everything else is a definition or a roundabout definition or detail. Frankly, this bothered me so much that I didn't want to read beyond the 15th chapter and left it. I liked the story, but the narration method distracted me from this story.
  • BacchusRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    Overall, entertaining if you don't care too much about knowing what's going on. Most of the chapters are written as if the reader already knows the side characters and background information. Good for something to read when you're killing time.
    The writing quality is surprisingly nice for RR, however the characters personally feel more like caricatures than real people. Hopefully with more chapters, things become more fleshed out.
  • axllencyRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    This story is like a fever dream. The writing is artistic and fantastic, in a way. But it feels, 70 chapters in, like the writing is giving pieces of a puzzle - just a few pieces on the outside border slowly getting put together and the rest of the pieces piled in the middle in a chaotic mess. The story and characters feel intentionally vague and confused, but it's a very slow burn that is taking way too long to pay off.
    The story is making promises, and I really want to see those promises fulfilled, but they haven't been yet. It's really hard to keep groups of characters straight, in a way that seems intentional, but equally makes it harder to care about any characters beyond the main character, and the prince, in an opposite way. Unfortunately, the main character is developing at a glacial pace and the prince is not getting his just desserts yet. There are a lot of open questions in this book and not enough answers yet.
  • CommenatorerRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    The blurb/synopsis is the best bit of the story.
    Its not that there aren't flashes of brilliant story telling or prose thus far in (20 chapters). It's just that there are too many quipy asides and descriptors that detract and befuddle rather then enthrall and entice.
    Characters are good but for all the similes used to describe them and their attributes you somehow get the sense that they are still only a facsimile rather than something tangible in the world we're supposed to be experiencing. Maybe its the way everyone in the summoned to world interacts is just so unrealistic(MC included)?
    Anyway, the world is the other main issue after completing the first arc.
    Where is it? Because we as the reader surely have not been shown it.
    Progression is sloooow but might pick up after the first arc?
    Spelling is near perfect.
    Grammar is about the same.
    3/5 will check back on it later.