RK9 - Rescue Dog [Discontinued]

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Description

This novel had been discontinued for many reasons (see last chapter)

I might rewrite it one day. I don't have the heart to take it down.

May poor Ember rest in peace.

Global Warming is already on the verge of causing a sixth great extinction event.

And then emigrant fleeing an army of demons came to our world, bringing Gods, Magic and their own set of troubles in their wake.

Can Humanity avoid an imminent social collapse and possible world ending scenario?

And more importantly: Can a young unassuming Border Collie, self-appointed runt of her litter find her own Happy Ending by answering the Call of the System?

•Realistic dog

•Low Fantasy (Earth with Magic) and Hard Magic System (clear rules, limitations and implications)

•Character-driven story (Progression/Slice of Life)

•Characteristically dystopian and realistic fantasy (Grimdark/Distopia)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Miss Corbyn

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 20
Views: 21,449

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Community Reviews(2)

RainbowFoxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story is about a dog and an apocalypse. I know it's not so exciting when I write it like that. What differentiate it from the other stories is a way it is written.
It has many things that you met before like a system, blue windows, death, a system fairy, a non-human FC, sometimes POV, team building. The important part about is that it is done in a proper way.
System exist and is a main building block of the story, but it is not completely copy paste system from other stories.
Blue windows are there but you don’t often see them after the introduction chapters.
Death has a meaning for the main character and is not something that will stop to influence her after one chapter.
There is a system fairy is one of the most important. She is helpful but she not always gives the best advise form FC perspective.
The non-human FC is truly non-human. Her motivations and thinking are based on her instincts and experience as a dog and not some delusional human morality.
POVs exist only in places they should be. What is important FC knows what happen because they are mostly about system fairy that she is connected with.
Team building is not abrupt it takes time. I don’t know how it will turn out but the important part is we can see there is non of magical “we all have the same opinion” or “we all follow you boss”. There are clashes like in any group with more than one person.
The only problem with this story is that it has raw chapters. They are readable but they have grammar errors. So I can’t give it 5 stars in this category.
My only suggestion to the style is that as it is a system story there should be at least a summary of FC character sheet after big changes. It can be shown as a separate spoiler at the end of the chapter. It doesn’t always need to be in the story.
jadecriminalRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
YMMV edit: It was so good I hated it. If you can handle a little grim in your dark though, you might like this as long as you go in with proper expectations.
Longer, ranty version:
The idea sounds awesome, the execution is basically a greek tragedy about puppy mills, depressed owners and a puppy basically shutting down from stress and going into timeskip, induced by a self destructive owner and lack of agency.
She should be a shining bastion of floof and happy based on that innate gift.
Now about two years old, puppy jumps out a broken window in time to find out her owner is dead.
Also a there's a system. It didn't do much.
To be fair it's quality writing but also exactly the oposite of what I was expecting from "border collie gets a system in a system apocalypse" tagged "comedy"
Edit: Also that owner! If the fucking dog manages to figure out and shit in the toilet on her first day in your house you fucking praise that shit and teach them to do it properly and not punish it. I don't care how much water got spilled. Some people just can't be helped.
Like the puppy has literal Anti bad feelings magic aura and over a year to get better with it... the owner was still a wreck somehow.