PathOgen [Forge Your Own Path] Reader Interactive

Self-Published

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Description

This is a 100% reader-interactive, game-like book, based on my novelTechnomagica. It is written in collaboration with the readers - every comment drives it forward. Once there are enough interesting or fun comments on each chapter, various paths forward begin to manifest that you can [choose] to follow.

Summary: Soviet bio-weapons designer Vladislav Kerenski died in 1992. Upon meeting "god" he rejects a continuation of his narrative. It's up to you to help him survive the darkness of the Astral Ocean.

This is the only book on Royal Road where your choice can make the MC become a villain or a hero, to die horribly and quickly, or slowly and painfully, to live out an interesting life, to become god, or to be trapped in a nightmarish loop without an end!

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Vitaly S Alexius

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Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 630
Views: 227,302

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Community Reviews(10)

prasidRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
madness i tell u. No bum can write stories in this manner. it requires precison, art and perception of where you are going.The tales are never boring beacuse there are tales within the tales. and it doesnt go on to infinity, it ends if the choices are dumb or dangerous . Addicting just wow
AboreusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've read plenty of novels, none of the novels I have read have taken story structure and fused it so well with both the world and genre, reading each dead end gives new insight into the world and the rules within. If I had to describe the plot I'd have to use topologic, time and space are subjective yet transitive. So far the story has been extremely enjoyable please continue!
Nick RamseyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Interesting mix of quite a few concepts: biology, math, magic, isekai, soul world interacting with regular world, morality, and fantasy (with a fairly light System). The character elements of this story are so-so (I like the characters, but nothing has made me cry, laugh, or cheer), but the world-building is good and exceptionally nuanced. The choose-your-own-adventure element is a nice bonus.
RunsloRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really good. There are no grammar mistakes and the author knows what he's doing, so the style feels fun to read. The paths are cohesive, I haven't noticed any grammatical errors, and the characters are realistic, actual people, instead of cardboard cutouts.
Overall, it's a great read.
P.S. Comment on [DO NOTHING]. Support Majum Dusk!
ShearedsheepRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Very fun.
Sorry for not writing more, it is 4 am.
I also need to apparantly reach 50 words to post this review so I'm going to keep talking for a while.
Uhm, is this enough? Is this enough? Is this enough? Is this enough? Maybe now? Now? Soon? Please say it's going to be enough soon. I never realized just how hard it is to reach 50 words. Well I have realized it before on those tests where you have to reach a certain word count. I think this notification saying I need to reach 50 words stays here until I submit my review again.
Yep, bye.
Silver GoldTwineRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Absolutely facinating stuff, at first i wasnt sold on the person the story was about but quickly realized that it was both inconsequential and a fools worry to have, the story itself portrays
afterlife as a complexally structured realm and the main character follows a series of multiple choises with the ultimate intent on surviving, a secondary intent on escaping this limbo of madness and a tertiairy intent of growing.
As he find out and possibly fights back against the conspiracy that surrounds him.
It introduces diffecult choices, game overs and different true paths each with what i assume will be their own true endings.
The most facinating parts about this multiple choice novel are the imagery and scientific examples it uses to allow the mc to rationalize it's surroundings and come up with sollutions to its problems, personally i dare you the person reading this to at least read the first 2 chapters and then decide wether or not this is your cup of tea. Enjoy.
TreviisolionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Death is a common outcome, and often the preferable one. Yet sprinkled along all the dead ends are bits of lore that flesh out the world, especially with the context provided by Technomagica. Fun, fascinating, and utterly terrifying. It's a universe that is well-shaped, with inhabitants fully capable of taking magic to the logical conclusions that physics-defying tools lead to while still being balanced so the main character doesn't steam roll his way into godhood despite his advanced mathematical knowledge that is perfect for determining the actual rules of reality as opposed to the practicalities imposed by ignorance. 10/10
bugstomperRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A fascinating multiple universe complex web of reality branching off from the start of author's successful book Technomagica.
This is the first genuine Choose Your Own Adventure type story I have found on RR. Unlike others that are tagged Reader-Interactive which use reader polls to decide where a story goes next, but still end up as conventional serial stories, this book has multiple branch links at the end of each chapter to follow the different branching timelines of possibilities. Readers do not control where the story goes, that is up to the creativity of the author, but the reader comments fuel the dynamic creation of the web of the story. The result is a pleasant mix of some subplots that come to a conclusion with the demise of the MC, and other branches that continue into their own more long-lived timelines, possibly merging or intersecting.
This may sound confusing, but if you are used to following multiple web serials here on RR, you are already enjoying multiple stories in parallel.
Style: With the emphasis on story progression in multiple directions, each chapter is short and takes its timeline to a next choice. As a result, there is never a slice of life or exposition or complex set of events or a cliffhanger in a chapter. But there is always story progression in a chapter, a necessity because a chapter has to end with multiple choices for what happens next. The story, written from the first person perspective of the MC, an isekai'd Soviet-era Russian scientist, has a straightforward descriptive expository style. This is not great fancy literature, but it works for the purpose.
Story: So many stories in one! There is the downside that if there are N ongoing branches that have not yet reached conclusion, then however quickly the author releases chapters each story line is progressing at 1/N the pace. But the various timelines are progressing and are fascinating.
Grammar: No complaints, and the author responds quickly to correct typos or errors pointed ou
loimprevistoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is an incredibly ambitious bit of storytelling, and by dint of being the first I've found here I'd say it's the best CYOA on RR!
Following the different story branches and chiming in on the comments has been a joy. If you like the audience participation aspect of 'quest' type stories from SpaceBattles or QuestionableQuesting, then you can't go wrong with this.
Bird of DeathRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Love the idea and story. Since I started reading novels in every story theres aways been a time where I thought that a different decision would be smarter or better then the choice the MC made and always wondered what would have happened and how the story would progress if I had been in the MCs place and made the choice that I belived was correct.