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Sporelock
Sporelock
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The Being

The Being is an unknown entity behind the system and responsible for the creation of Humanity.


Ethan Stokes

Ethan Stokes is the Main Character and is a Fungal Warlock, appropriately named as a Sporelock.

27, American, lived in New York City before Judgement Day.

Mr. Kuthrapali Rajesh | Landlord

An Indian man who immigrated to the US 38 years ago and worked to purchase a run down apartment building for his retirement. He treats everyone fairly and is always willing to help when he can. He is a practicing Hindu and doesn't eat meat.

Mr. Rajesh's gift is the ability to feel living things in a radius around himself, initially a weak ability due to low level.

Mrs. Kim

Elderly Four foot eight,  Korean woman. The longest resident in Mr. Rajesh's apartment building. Good friends with him. They both have an amicable, non-sexual companionship with one another- often sharing meals and visiting each other.

Mrs. Kim has a cat, Junho.

Mrs. Kim's 'gift' is to speak to any and all animals and non-Humans as if she has a universal translator that speaks mind to mind, she is not psychic and cannot read thoughts. When she speaks, the creature hears what she says as a voice in their head already translated in real time with no delay in a way that the creature can understand.

Jerome Simpson

Jerome is a large built muscular black man who looks every type the thuggish stereotype; little does anyone know however this is just his outward facing self- he is secretly a geeky shut-in with all the likes and dislikes that comes with the territory but he pretends to have no clue about any of it when he's around other people. His parents are actually quite well off with their own frozen dinner factory, however he has been shunted to the side and is given a stipend each month that can barely cover his living expenses which is why his apartment isn't jammed wall to wall with figurines, posters and a manga collection. He also has a weak spot in his heart for diminuitive yet assertive women and whenever he's around kids he has to physically restrain himself from smiling- he's a big softy at heart!

Jerome's gift is the ability to stick to surfaces, 'like spiderman.'


Miscellaneous
Judgement Day

The day when The Being gave his final 'gifts' to Humanity, for what purpose, we don't yet know.

Also called Day Zero and Day of Ascension.

Mana

A replacement of all forms of energy, perhaps better thought of as a fundamental change in physics where all forms of energy are combined into a single utility energy that also can be broken down into individual types to emulate the energy before Judgement Day. Mana is free form and pliable to the will of the shaper.

For example, electricity failed on Judgement Day, because Electricity itself ceased to exist and was replaced with Mana, as all energy was. Electricity can still exist if mana is made to emulate the characteristics of Electricity.

Location
Ethan's Apartment

Ethan lives on the fourth floor in an old and rundown apartment building in New York City.

The apartment has one medium sized room with only a desk, fish tank, his bed against the window and a kitchenette, there is also a bathroom that has drainage in the floor which doubles as a shower, no space for a tub in this hole in the wall.

The apartment building is owned by Mr. Rajesh, a presumably Indian elderly man who treats his tenants fairly.
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    Eyesight
    Status: chapter 13

    I tried giving this story a honest and unbiased read, and I can say that it has a lot of problems.

    I'll start by describing what's good in this. The concept is interesting, I'm not a big fan of LitRPG but I can appreciate it when it's done well. The concept of having several points of views coming from the same apartments is really intriguing and opens a lot of possibilities in regards to how the reader perceives everything that is happening. If you ever consider rewriting this, I'd suggest keeping this as a fundamental core of the story.

    With that being said, there isn't much else I'd keep, unfortunately. 

    The characters are a complete loss. None of them are likable. Ethan is an edgy kid who believes himself to be more intelligent than anyone else, casually kills his goldfish for personnal gains, and plots a world takeover only moments after being transformed. He feels more like a strange self insert of a teenager believing himself to be superior to everyone else than anything. Byren is rude and a thief that apparently no one likes, and Mr Rajesh is a man who refers to his penis as "a spear".

    Now, having an unlikable character isn't a flaw in itself. Having good antagonists or even unlikable heroes can be very beneficial to a story, but the problem here is that none of these characters have any interesting qualities. You don't "love to hate them", you just "hate them", and that's it. It makes them really bland, as there is nothing special about them, they're just horrible people with no personality outside of their disdain and hatred.

    More than that, their behavior isn't realistic. The world just drastically changed, and in seconds, Ethan and Rajesh both have accepted that people have turned into monsters. No doubt, no panic, nothing. Sure they do say things like "This feels weird" and "What is happening", but none of it really shows the impact the transformation should have on them.

    Writing a mundane world suddenly gaining supernatural or magical elements can be really challenging, as the characters do not have the time required for them to get acquainted to their new reality. Still, authors will usually have them panic and struggle with the changes even a little bit, which you absolutely haven't done here.

    It's thus really difficult to empathise with them. Why is Rajesh worried about minor water damages while the world is being thrown asunder? What is he actually thinking, why is that so important now?

    The world building also has issues that need to be fixed. Chapter 2 is almost unreadable, as a literal ton of information is dropped onto the reader, most of which we do not need to know about right away. Information about the characters' powers should be given in small doses throughout the chapters, as they become relevant, not just dumped into a single chapter. Doing this makes it really hard to remember everything and made me feel like I was reading a textbook rather than fiction. Other than that, as I said in the introduction, the world is interesting. I'd probably criticize the spontaneous orgasm you gave your MC, as I don't really understand why that would be important, and the gore and egg laying seemed really gross and unnecessary. What were you trying to accomplish?

    Another point to address is the way you have to suddenly describe events happening in different places, like you did in your prologue chapter. It's an interesting tool to use, as it can give a wider view of the world, but it's also really confusing as you keep doing it again and again. What do we gain from knowing someone transformed into a specific creature and ate someone if that character won't become relevant? Why do I need extremely specific examples of people being monsters? What does it bring to the story? The answer is nothing much.

    Similarly, let's talk about onomatopoeia (Clank, boom, crash, that sort of thing). These sound effects are very interesting in a comic book, where you cannot dedicate a lot of space to descriptions. They get the job done when combined with visuals. In prose, however? It just looks childish, like you do not know how to describe what is happening and would rather just let random sounds do the job. Please write actual descriptions, they are much more interesting than something like *CRACK*

    There is much more to be said, but I'm going to leave this as is. I wouldn't recommend reading this, as there are much better works on this website, some very similar to this one, which do everything this story is trying to do, but better.

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    This is pretty good... sadly as the other review said, I don't really feel too attached to the MC. I actually like Byren better lol

    The MC is just a little too crazy for my liking

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