Necroepilogos

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Nothing walks the black cinder of Earth except the undead leftovers, reanimated by science so advanced it may as well be magic. Twisted into unimaginable forms by flesh-shaping and machine-grafting, the undead are the only remnant of a civilization reduced to bitter ash and organic slurry. Zombies shuffle through the ruins of nuclear fire and biological warfare and far worse, alongside rusted war-machines still holding the posts of a thousand ancient conflicts, dwarfed by god-engines turned so alien that even the extinct necromancers would have run screaming. Elpida doesn’t know this world, but she’s up on her feet, leading a half-dozen other fresh revenants, ripped from the oblivion of eternity and disgorged shivering and naked on cold metal slabs in a womb-lab of blinking lights and blaring alarms, by machines running some ancient plan to spit them out into a world long dead. Necroepilogos is a web serial about body horror and alienation, weird zombie-girls gluing themselves back together, mad science beyond mortal ken, and trying to cradle the flower of companionship in twitching, undead fingers. Readers have described Necroepilogos as: infinite Fortnite with undead lesbians Necroepilogos: Isekai'd into the Post-Post-Post-Post-Apocalypse by a Graveworm's Gacha Addiction and Now I'm a Cannibal!? an infinity of fucked up girlthings. “And you cut me to pieces with your terrible claws. (And we were both girls)” maginanomachines have for some reason decided to endlessly make the landscape into Zen gardens of violent lesbians cute girl doing cranial trauma Girls born after 230000000 only know how to twerk, be gay, gunfight, eat people, and have ptsd double² double² toil and trouble;coffins churn and nanos bubble.grow a cyborg from that lake;in the coffin boil and bake; reach through time to perfectly recreate fucked up bitches they've got God (Telokopolis) and Anime (Gay) on their side dig up and reanimate your gays New chapters every Thursdays. Soon, Thursdays and Tuesdays, if things go to plan. Cover art by Carter W Jessup: https://www.carterwjessup.art/ This Royal Road upload is a mirror of the Necroepilogos website, at: https://necroepilogos.net/ Chapters will be posted here at the exact same time.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: Hungry

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Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 2,850
Views: 1,195,886

What readers say about Necroepilogos

“Incredible page turner of a science fiction story. Immediately worth your time and attention, but definitely need the content warnings as necessary. Subject matter can be incredibly intense, but it hasn't ever felt gratuitous, and I mean it when I say I've…”
AeoleoneRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“An amazing play on the hubris of man brings about our own end... but then we don't end. The story is always keeping you from getting too comfortable with a conflict and uses the vast time scales of humans existence to play with it. The opening juxtaposition…”
Arc BoundRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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AeoleoneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Incredible page turner of a science fiction story. Immediately worth your time and attention, but definitely need the content warnings as necessary. Subject matter can be incredibly intense, but it hasn't ever felt gratuitous, and I mean it when I say I've enjoyed every piece of reading through this backlog. Additionally, I'd say that the author has handled the necessary transition of settings wonderfully.
Arc BoundRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An amazing play on the hubris of man brings about our own end... but then we don't end.
The story is always keeping you from getting too comfortable with a conflict and uses the vast time scales of humans existence to play with it. The opening juxtaposition of a super-soldier from a techno/genetic apocalypses to a nano-necropolis apocalypse is inspires and the story never sits on its hands to let you get too used to any one apocalyptic mindset.
The population of the world is just as lost as we are as readers and a constant drip feed of new questions wildly different world interpretations by the scattered backgrounds both cultural and temporal. It also sates the reader with a drip feed of answers so you don't feel like the story isn't just pulling a mystery box on you leaving you with no overarching shape to the story.
It definitely earns its nearly 5 star so much so I couldn't even bring myself to knock of half a point in any category. The only few nit picks I feel is warranted would be that the characters can feel a little oversexed at times and at a few stretches the characters feel like they have narrative blinders on having to act a certain way to justify an edgy aspect of the plot.
AurnyxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If I had been told the worldbuilding of this story separate from the story itself, I would have believed it to be the most grimdark thing ever written. By all rights it should be an absolute slog to read through, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. The core characters are so consistently there for each other and supportive of each other. They show kindness and acceptance in a world built to destroy such behavior.
If the story was set in a peaceful world it would feel indulgent, but given context the heroism becomes magnified, instilling a strong feeling of hope throughout the whole work.
As a person who often struggles with finding some silver lining or hope in the world, this story has been downright rejuvenating for me to read, and I can't recommend it enough.
Leaving aside the wonderful vibes for the rest of this review, the prose is excellent, never feeling stale, and not falling into the standard, by the numbers writing that can plague web serials.
There are no men in this story, at all, take that as you will.
Outside of that, though, this book is a masterclass in representation. Basically the entire LGBT spectrum can be found here, various forms of neurodivergence, and none of them are ridiculed or seen as lesser by the main character or the narrative. There are cruel and unkind people in this story, but they are the exception, not the rule. Content warnings exist for each chapter and are very thorough in my opinion.
Tl;dr fantastic. 10/10. Read asap.
Dusty_plantRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story features so many elements dear to me that it really surprised me when I read it. I absolutely love the characters, the setting, the premise, and the atmosphere. The author isn't afraid to write the story they want to write, making it feel very liberating to read. I eagerly await for the rest of the novel to be published.
I_DunnoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love everything about the book!
Thanks for the great book!
I'm new to reviews but I just had to create an account and leave one here.
Great overall story, great characters, story progression and plot is great.
Love the story and im waiting for the new book.
Ps. I'm trying to make this review long.
KanecaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is an excellent story. The plot is tight and we'll thought out. The world is believable and creative. The prose is well written and feels good to read. Overall is an enjoyable experience and more it's exciting. Also lesbian girls and hopefully some fan service. There are also guns and wierd sexualised body horror
KekmennekeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Very unique world and setting, so as reader you discover the world at the same time as the characters instead of it being a "standard" fantasy or sci fi world. Also very interesting and diverse cast of characters who all have their own (back)stories yet their stories come together in the present and move as one. Write, i ask you to not please indefinitely HIATUS this story but write it to a fitting close. Or if not, don't give false hope ans just say you've dropped it.
i binge read this in 1,5 days so i'm momentarily completely invested but i hope good writing to you, author!
LilyVictoriaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story has a lot of atmosphere that feels a bit distressing but also kept me on edge like I want to keep reading it. The setting and story have some mystery to them but the author keeps things moving and provides info. I like the pace of developing the setting and developing the characters and events happening in the plot.
the narration comes from the perspective of one of the characters as her interpretations of what's going on, so we learn just as much about our main character as we do about the actual story. the character is unique enough that this doesnt feel dull.
MrSnapRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Out of this author's two projects, Katalepsis and Necroepilogos, Necroepilogos is clearly the superior one and my favorite. Even given the wildly different worlds of each story, Secret Wizard Cult World vs. Gray Goo Machine Undead World, the characters of the latter are better. Furthermore, the author more fully exploits the weirdness of the fictional world to drive the story.
The world of Necroepilogos is a unique grimdark setting where the nanomachine gray goo won and ate the world, leaving humans essentially extinct for millions of years (probably). Yet for some reason, the personalities of long-dead humans are being resurrected into nano-machine-faux-flesh and released into a harsh world where you can't eat food but have to eat other nano-machines to survive. This essentially turns into a cannibalistic society since only the "high-energy" flesh of the brain is sufficient.
Good grimdark worlds set up a host of perverse incentives where people have to become horrible to survive and anyone who tries to change it is stomped down. The MC is resurrected into this world and has an almost genetic-affliction to always push against these miserable headwinds and bring everyone into her wake. Although the MC has internal self-doubt and grief, her personal presence and actions shine through in the other character's reactions and response to her.
It also helps that the author doesn't over-explain the world and leaves details vague about how far in the future we are, and what any of it even means. We see glimpses and hints of the civilizations of where any of the other characters were plucked from and the history of the world, but we don't really dive into any of it. Leaving things frayed and unresolved around the edges is a great way to preserve a world and let the reader's imagination fill in the blanks. I've spent a lot of my time thinking about this world during my day.
I also like that this is another female-only sci-fi world like The Stars are Legion by Kamero
AdvisorVisorRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I think a review of this work is most insightful by contrasting it with its predecessor. Katalepsis is good, but it has limitations. The "modern" portion of the setting is usable but not inspiring. The magical parts are far better, but they aren't the whole thing. The continuous drama between friendly characters can take a front-seat to the actual underlying conflicts; the characters are bogged down (and so is the story) by their emotional hang-ups, which often actively cripple them. It can often be predictable and one-note; one review accurately mentions interpersonal drama is the only vector by which characters develop. Everything feels slow, deliberating, meandering at times. Katalepsis is not a story I have finished, because it fell to becoming unexciting.
So instead of a partly-interesting magical setting, we have an entire world, an entire history, which is elaborated in a way to make you piece it together. A setting that doesn't try to minimize its interesting elements, but instead thanks to the unique situation of the characters emphasizes it. The strenuousness of their position helps make the interpersonal conflict have real meaning, and I think it's somewhat toned down - or includes external elements such to avoid easily being compared with a soap opera. Elpida is no teenage girl; she is a weapon of another age standing in an absurd situation, and thriving. There can be occasional pit-stops, but they don't overstay their welcome, and the situations often introduce new interesting elements. There aren't just "drama scenes", usually they spring up to complement an exciting situation. Despite there being so much more, things move so much faster; new settings, new vistas, new visions and channelings.
If you found yourself bored by Katalepsis, Necroepilogos breaks the mold of the older work, and feels like a reply to everyone who wants the present-day soap-opera drama to be completely replaced by everything genuinely interesting - then squared. There's a deeply