Survival Specialist In Different Worlds

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Description

Alec Willows, a twenty two year recent college graduate old who lives in a single person appartment. Having recently finished college was currently preparing to go overseas to find a job and higher education.

That was until one day when he goes to a shop in order to pick up a cold drink and encounters a person robbing the shop.

Due to a mishap he gets shot at twice at almost point blank, but manages to avoid both shots at due to a strange power he had never knew he had.

Surviving this encounter and dealing with the parties involved he turns to leave from the shop. A little drained from his encounter, but ecstatic with the special power he now possessed.

Until the very next day when he sees himself in the mirror he sees this line of words in there.

[Alec Willows you have ten days left to live in this world]

Follow as his story continues.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: Vermillion Tiger

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 7
Views: 8,756

Chapters(39 total)

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DefectivebyDesignRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
There is some interesting world building, but the main character has poor agency or self determination, and seems to be teleported around like he's on hallucinogenic drugs. The plot is railroaded. I'd like to see the MC tell whatever greater power puppeting the plot to go fly a kite. Pro tip: It doesn't exist, it's the author doing it. I don't see this story going anywhere due to lack of agency, incoherent teleporting, and likely lacks a point a to point b narrative plan to progress anywhere. Whatever exists is 100% not compelling to follow. It's a cheap narrative, no different from infinite tower climbing. Why climb the tower? Is there a end? (No, infinite tower is infinite) Is there an outside? Is the outside accessible? Generic fantasy RPG is more compelling than infinite tower climbing. A good story is the sum/average of it's parts, not the best aspect, because the worst aspect lowers the score. So you can have cool stuff, and completely ruin it with lacking agency and forcing things to happen. I would recommend reading unfathomable senior to understand how to write multi verse novels. Show don't tell. The characters should dictate how the plot moves, not the narrator.
Another example is time loop novels, which most are garbage except the perfect run. Agency is the biggest requirement to writing a character. You MUST write the first chapters well enough to hook readers to keep reading. Writing a horrible prologue is the best way to LOSE readers. It doesn't matter if the later chapters improve if people already dropped it, and I've lost interest from how forced the plot started. There's some random fish that talks and Alec could have told him no. I would have LOVED to read that instead, due to how he was treated. Maybe jump through a random space rift to escape the space government. You ever hear, "The only winning move is not to play"? Yeah, that. Agree to nothing, go rogue. It doesn't make sense how or why anything happened, and there probably isn't a game plan