Trickster’s Song [A LitRPG Portal Fantasy]

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Description

After a drunken college ritual goes very wrong (or very right), Robin wakes up, naked, in a world of dark priests, angry kobolds, and Lost Gods. The priest wants to crush his will. The kobolds want to catch and eat him. The Lost God, well, it's not yet clear exactly what he wants. None of them care what Robin wants.

Robin would like to explore this new world without all the messy complications, thanks. He finally has a bit of real magic at his fingertips, but the monsters on every side won't let him relax long enough to enjoy it! The only tools he has to survive are his wits, the strange messages that keep flashing before his eyes, and a newly-discovered talent for illusions. It’s nothing game-breaking…or is it?

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First three arcs now available onKindle,Kindle Unlimited, andAudible!

This fiction features a bi male protagonist (think Kinsey 5 level).

Robin will progress through various levels of power at a steady pace. Progression will be at a moderate pace. The rise to power is far from meteoric.

Trickster's Songwill update on Mondays and Thursdays each week. Expect Updates to usually post between 16.30 and 17.00 GMT (London Time)

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Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2021
Author: TomOBedlam

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 1,805
Views: 121,090

Chapters(13 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

AlsoJohnRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Measurements by cave dweller rather than dead king's body parts. Nice! The system the MC is affected by is likewise pleasing and non standard.
Good story telling skills and command of language. Few noticable typos so far. Fifty words? How many did it take me to say what I wanted to say? That should be the requirement royal road.
Dreamwolf969Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a well written tounge-in-cheek take on the LitRPG isekai kind of story. Pacing is restrained but the set-piece situations are explosive. The inspiration for the setting is clearly Dungeons & Dragons but it's not an exact copy. The MC is plagued by a snarky quest system and the blessings of a (almost) dead trickster god. He does have to start from scratch though, naked, hungover and with just one very basic spell but no weapons.
OwlishRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Grammar is great, haven't noticed any problems while binging. The main character is fun, he isekais after attempting ritual magic while drunk on homebrewed mead, and he knows something about Norse mythology, which seems to have no use in this new world. The other characters, allies and villains, mostly have one flaw that makes them not a cardboard cutout, but it's still early. Give it a try.
dinodogst123Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I am so very glad you can override the font to use the default, cause trying to read this with the authors choice is almost painful. Other than that easily sidestepped issue, I'm loving this story so far! It rare to find a litRPG where combat its not the focus, and I much approve off the focus on illusion and trickery.
Hi_Im_RenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
As I read more and more fictions in my review journey, I've learned one thing: the opening paragraph is really important. This one in particular is really dang good and I can tell right from the start that this'll be an interesting read.
After reading: okay that is some very colorful language my friend. I'm at a bit of a loss for words, WTF was that. I demand to know why there isn't a comedy tag, this had me bursting out laughing wayy to often. Dang
Okay now that I have complimented your insane and beautiful jokes, I need to be that person.
Needs. Blue. Tables.
Normally doesn't bother me much but this one got to me since the status messages were barely differenciated from the rest of the text.
outoftime10Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Most of the stories that I've read on Royal Road that are within this genre have been juvinile, poorly written and had no structure at all. A lot of them struggle with the understanding that the readers are not idiots and will inherintly understand some concepts and others will just fragrently not give descriptors or emotions to the words or actions that the characters are doing.
This, on the other hand, is a nice suprise from the norm. It has enough intrigue to get you excited to read more and a good flow to the story. I enjoyed the fact that the lead is not an idiot and uses his brain in the situations he gets himself into.
The character writing is solid, though I will say that I would have made the start a bit more realistic as it's not as believable to me that the main character would be completely calm waking up in that experience. I would have gone through some exterstential examining of the situation before making the main character calm down and start to act rational, but that is just one opinion.
All in all, I believe up until the point I am at it is a worth while read and I hope the author continues in this vein.
JonsoonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Style: Very good prose, much better than the average you find on this site. It's descriptive enough that I'm able to see what's going on in my head, but not so descriptive that it feels slow paced. The only thing that I might say is I don't get a good sense of the character's appearances, especially the adventuring party he saves. But I think my preference on the matter is different from the average webnovel reader so take that with a grain of salt.
Grammar: Once again, nothing much to say. I didn't see any grammar issues. Much better than what you usually see in webnovels as a whole.
Story: I really like the mysterious quest system and how that relates to the world's Gods. The dynamic between the Orc, the kobolds and the priest was intriguing. Overall, the worldbuilding is brilliant. Also, the way the protagonist uses his trickster abilities to achieve his goals without even fighting was entertaining to see and quite unique in the genre.
Character: The protagonist feels quite inactive. The character's voice, the way they describe things and their own commentary was well done and makes them quite likeable, but he also feels somewhat empty of personality and I feel like that's the result of him being inactive. It feels like the quest system is the one making decisions for him and is the sole source of all of his motivation. Even after the protagonist saves the adventuring party, he kinda just follows their lead continuing to not make any decisions of his own .
An easy solution to that issue would be for the protagonist to make his decisions, either through narration or external action, before he's notified with the quest. You could have the protagonist decide to save the adventuring party before the quest pops up. You could have the protagonist make it a goal of his own to make the adventuring party like him before the quest pops up. etc.
Other than the protagonist, the adventuring party he encounters have shown quite colourful personalities that play off eachother q
XxRottentotheCorexXRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
As far as I've read, the story is well put together, the main character progresses nicely and isn't too overpowered and uses his skills and cunning to his advantage to avoid head on fights. Very cool.
The MC is unique and the characters feel shaped; they have depth. The characters have a backstory that you don't know but you learn more about them as the MC does instead of info dumps that I've seen some other books do. Like how there are bits of their languages shown when they curse, or their array of humor in one of the quests Robin gets. There is foreshadowing and build up in the arcs wich is nice because you tell the story is planned.
The story feels and reads like a DND campaigns. But assumes that reader will know about terms of DnD like not describing the hafling character or really any other characteristics of the other characters that are introduced in the first arc the elf.
One problem tho- I stopped reading just to say this-- Marq? Really, Marq? Of all the names he could've chosen for an alter-ego he chose marq? That's such a downgrade. "mark". Why even have an alter-ego? Robin is a cool name-- better than MARQ. Maybe it's explained later, idk. Doesn't use quotation marks to indicate when characters are talking.
Princess of HellRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
It's a good story but personally I started to be disappointed in later arcs. I expected that MC would be travelling around pulling tricks and be loner. Funny, relaxing story without unnecessary characters. I don't really like fact that multiple Gods (probably) are watching him. Also you can't translate some words from English. And for a trickster MC is pretty dumb. Practically everything is provided to MC one by one
LionessLoverRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Writing quality is fine so no surprise that there are plenty of high ratings.
I don't think my own stance though is unjustified and rare either, this MC gets told what to do every tiny step from the start, by his blue boxes. He has no agency. It really is like a game where you constantly get quests.
That's fine for a game, you can turn off your brain and relax from real life and just doi as you are told. However, in real life - and stories are about that - I very much prefer independent and thinking MCs who are not servants of some god and/or system and act on their own. This guy even gets told whoom to befriend. This may as well be a "slavery is fun!" story (because it is - he either does as he is told or he dies because straying from the path laid out by the quests is not feasible).