The Supernormal
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In a world where fantasy has become everyday, one man stands against absurdity.
The local Tower stomps through the streets. Any hedge could contain a witch. Walls regularly crumble, though none more often than the fourth. In the magical city of Blackpool, all ridiculousness is possible, and it takes everything for Jack Of All Trades to survive.
Badly, at that.
Perpetually late with his rent, he'll take up arms for any paying customer in order to fulfill his quest. His obstacles include polka-loving ghosts, card-game playing vampires, and the most vicious monsters of all: copyright lawyers. When he's joined by an arrogant magus and an insecure vampire, his life gets even more complicated, but no matter what kind of infuriating choose-your-own-adventure he finds himself on, one constant remains—his rent is due at the end of the month.
On second thoughts, maybe he should stay in bed.
The Supernormal isn't your average web-novel. It's an urban fantasy parody that saunters through a world full of the absurd, delighting in poking fun at popular media, widely-accepted ideas, and often itself. Story arcs only loosely connect through the characters, who are themselves slowly fleshed out as the story continues. Think ofDiscworldmeetsThe Dresden FilesmeetsGintama.
This novel won't be for everyone, but if it is for you, you're in for a hell of a ride.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- NiallStephens
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- 3.7/ 5.0
- Followers
- 34
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- 31,370
Chapters(84 total)
- Lesson 64: Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick (1)Feb 10, 2022
- Lesson 63: Time Travel is UnpredictableJan 22, 2022
- Lesson 62: Even Experts Don't Know EverythingJan 20, 2022
- Lesson 61: Your Time Machine Should Not be Made of Wood and GlassJan 18, 2022
- Lesson 60: A Peaceful Period is Just the Universe Deciding Which Stick to Beat You WithJan 8, 2022
- Lesson 59: Every Ending is Another New BeginningJan 6, 2022
- Lesson 58: When You Die, Do it Facing ForwardJan 3, 2022
- Lesson 57: Nothing's Ever as Simple as People Would LikeJan 1, 2022
- Lesson 56: Do Vampires Dream of Sparkling Sheep?Dec 29, 2021
- Lesson 55: You Never See the Background Until it's Too LateDec 27, 2021
- Lesson 54: A Realistic Detective Show Would be Like a Brick Giving a Lecture on Drying PaintDec 22, 2021
- Lesson 53: It's Always the Nicest People Who Have the Most to HideDec 20, 2021
- Lesson 52: Bookshops are Basically Just Bars for NerdsDec 18, 2021
- Lesson 51: Don't Try to Cultivate What You Don't Understand (2)Dec 15, 2021
- Lesson 50: Don't Try to Cultivate What You Don't Understand (1)Dec 13, 2021
- Lesson 49: The Past Comes Back to Bite You When You Least Expect itDec 11, 2021
- Lesson 48: Rich People Make Their Own RulesDec 10, 2021
- Lesson 47: The Worst Things are All in Your HeadDec 9, 2021
- Lesson 46: You Can't Protect Yourself from EverythingDec 8, 2021
- Lesson 45: What is Sentience if Not a Curse, Anyway?Dec 7, 2021
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Community Reviews(1)
- mikemcdonald2ndRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This doesn't have nearly the love and appreciation it deserves. I've been on the internet long enough to know that everybody here enjoys a good parody, and all of them are missing out if they aren't reading this. Wit bleeds through the pages— er, screen scrolls of this webnovel while also still delivering on a plot rich with varied characters and a premise free of the usual constraints of fantasy stories.