Summoning Kobolds At Midnight: A Tale of Suburbia & Sorcery.

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Description

Three friends get thrown into a world of magic and fantasy, well, more like the world of magic and fantasy gets thrown at THEM! Machinations of otherworldly beings results in creatures known to us through myth and fiction being transported to our world! Now the three friends and the denizens of the small West Virginian town they live in have to deal with some new, strange, and not all friendly arrivals! Will the town and their friendship survive, or will these new arrivals be what breaks the fragile peace of the town? And what darkness will it awaken inside them?

Elements include:

A blend of traditional fantasy, local mythology, dark American folklore, and Eldritch Mythos.

Elves, dwarves, goblins, kobolds, halflings, and more dealing with our modern world and own myths and legends, and they dealing with the newcomers in turn.

Secret Government Agencies and other secret organizations doing their best to contain, or exploit, the chaos caused by these new arrivals to our world.

Hostile Magic. Ninety(ish) percent of traditional magic will result in a mixed bag of results in our world. Mostly bad. This is circumvented with "patrons". Elements, spirits, Eldritch beings, devils, djinn, etc.

POV spread out between three friends, the people closest to them, and some occasional side characters.

First 20-30 chapters are pretty rough in terms of length, content, and POV. It gets better and more consistent after that so please bear with it.

A dark low-mid fantasy dramedy is what I'd personally call it.

T/Th/Sat between 11:30 and 12 CMT. (Barring life and/work getting in the way.)

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Necrolancer96

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 188
Views: 273,139

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Community Reviews(5)

Lore242424Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm just starting but I'm liking what I'm hearing so far.
Fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
nghtstrRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
What can I say? This is a very fun story to read. I look forward to every single chapter, and the characters are just… interesting, and the plot is strangely addictive. I know, this doesn’t seem like a glowing review, but trust me when I say that I am hooked completely! It is a lot of fun, and having multiple main characters who are not heroic, but flawed and very human, just makes this so much better.
Namel909Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story starts out with jeb picking up pen and paper supplys to use for their group session.
By accident (which was encouraged zo happen by the book store owner providing the materials) jeb does a magic thing and ends up summoning a merry band of recently „liberated“ from dragon kobolds to earth.
Which is a slow start for the story. Soon after more and more things happen to / in their little city, which brings over more and more fantasy races and creatures and cultures. Almost all fleeing bad faiths like the kobolds had.
All soon find out that magic on earth works different (barelly at all at best) than where they came from. Some find out that there are other tastes of magic that still do work on earth.
The story is shared and expanded on from different view points that originate from the Pen and Paper group and spreads out from there to some of the kobold tribe, some goblins, some halflings ….
Nice story with action, some drama, mystery, crime, desperation, second chances, consequences, rebuilding of lives
All in a mostly even slow flow that manages to keep me interested to read one more chapter each new release.
Not perfect story, but very good in scratching an itch for many minor desires based on the current characters position in the story.
Moros311Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Summoning Kobolds At Midnight: A Tale of Suburbia & Sorcery has been a story recommended to me multiple times and I've been aware of it for a while on other sites, but it wasn't until after I learned the author had begun posting here that I was able to read it, and I'm glad they did because I've definitely enjoyed it.
The only reason that I haven't given the story five stars is due to grammar and word use issues that have steadily improved over the course of the story. This is actually something everyone who has also recommended it to me has mentioned, so it's really all that's somewhat holding the story back at all. Other than that, the story is great and I can't wait to read more.
The story is pretty definitive as far as a fantasy-comedy goes, and sets a good balance between comedy and story. As a writer I've noticed a few pitfalls that the author could have fallen into, but didn't, much to the story's benefit.
The author's hard work absolutely does show, for all that the story has its own issues. I've had many experiences with works of fiction where the premise is very interesting and is even executed well, but poor structure has held said works back. That is absolutely not the case here, and I'm very happy about it.
TerrorBiteRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
I'd been following this story for a long time, more or less since it began.
This story begins with two perspectives: a tribe of kobolds in a fantasy land fleeing from a band of bloodthirsty adventurers, and Jeb, a human in the small town of Somewhere, West Virginia, who has recently obtained a mysterious book from a local bookstore. With this book he inadvertently and unknowingly bridges two worlds, and sets in motion a chain of events that starts with a basement full of kobolds and will soon expand into a full-town quarantine carried out by a federal department that doesn't officially exist. In the process, Jeb will fall in love with a kobold, and awaken eldritch powers which his estranged family has been waiting for ever since his birth.
Jeb is, perhaps sadly, not the focus of this story. Jeb's friends and acquaintances soon get tangled up in events as the situation progresses, and each will find themselves dealing with a different group of otherworldly beings as the situation deteriorates. Some will make power plays, while others just try to survive. Factions of sorts will form. The story will give equal attention to all of these protagonists.
This story certainly has its strengths with some very interesting and unique characters, and it's refreshingly not just another xianxia/isekai/op/archmage/system/evolution story. The premise of the story and the worldbuilding are also quite interesting. But, I feel that the story lacks focus. It feels to me like it tries to tell five or six different stories all at once, in the same setting, with some of those stories and characters having limited to no interaction with the others. It's hard to become attached to any one character when the story is constantly switching between them all with no central focus. There's plenty of adversity to overcome, but no clear path forward to any resolution, so it feels unclear whether the story is actually going somewhere. Maybe that's the makings of a good drama, but that's not really my