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The Wandering Inn is an ongoing, self-published web serial by 'pirateaba', presenting common fantasy tropes through the lens of characters from "the real world". During it's four year writing period The Wandering Inn has reached a word count of 5,960,275, placing it as a firm contender for highest word count for a single author piece of english fiction. The Wandering Inn follows the perspective of a wide variety of characters, however is mostly focused on the events surrounding Erin Solstice and Ryoka Griffin, two people who were transported from a modern day earth to a fantasy world, where they must survive using special skills and levels, which grant them abilities and knowledge through a system resembling a video game. With thousands of ratings on various platforms, has over 7,500,000 views and a sizable community of readers, who create additional media to accompany the story, such as art and maps.

Publication
The Wandering Inn was first posted on July 27th 2016, and received updates every Tuesday and Saturday, with infrequent breaks, the updates have continued until the present day, although Pirateaba has begun to take week long breaks every three months to improve the quality of their writing, beginning early in 2020.

The Wandering Inn is separated into seven volumes as of 2020, each volume consisting of approximately fifty parts with subchapters, sides tories and interludes distributed between the more common perspectives. The first two ebooks have also been released on Amazon, the first released in 2018 and the second in late 2019. Along with the ebooks are audiobooks, restricted only to the first two volumes, being released in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Although it is unknown whether more ebooks and audiobooks are being worked on, Pirateaba has expressed a desire to convert further volumes into ebooks.

The Wandering Inn has other side projects currently being developed, such as The Last Tide comic, which is slated to release in August 2020 and a potential video game by headbyte studios.

Setting
The Wandering Inn is set in a fictional world dubbed by the fanbase as the "Innworld" or "Innverse" which exists separately to the fictional version of earth that also exists in the story, though only referenced and never experienced firsthand. Time passes differently on the fictional version of earth compared to Innworld and years have passed on that world, while Innworld has only moved forwards about a month, this time discrepancy allows new characters transported from Earth to have more modern technology and make references to more recent events. Innworld is a fairly typical fantasy world, with classic fantasy races such as dwarves and half-elves and more unique races such as the Antinium, a race of giant ants, or the Stitch people.

The story is primarily set in the titular Wandering Inn, which is built nearby the Drake city of Liscor, and Erin Solstice trying to survive in the Inn and build up a business, hiring staff and buying and finding new additions to the Inn as the business stays afloat on Erin's knowledge of modern recipes and inventions.

Skills and Levels
Being a videogame-esque world, the Innverse has a system which the residents can use to level up if they are capable of sapient thought, gaining classes and skills, denoted in square brackets, for instance if someone were to harvest some crops they might gain the [Farmer] class, and might gain the skill [Fast Growth], which would accelerate the speed which crops grow.

Classes and skills can also upgrade or specialise, for instance if you have the [Warrior] class but fight specifically with a spear, your class might change into [Spearmaster]. The class could then upgrade at certain level marks, for instance a [Tactician] would become a [Strategist] at about level 30, and would gain better skills. Classes can also merge if the classholder has the right combination of classes, a [Strategist] might have levels in [Warrior] and become a [Commander], these classes are regarded as superior to classes that can be gained without merging or consolidations.

Certain skills and classes depend on outside or physical conditions, such as [Conditions], [Natural Allies], [Landmarks] and classes like [Wounded Warrior]. Certain skills are unique to certain classes, such as [Auras], which are found in a multitude of classes but vary depending on the class, or [Blessings] which require positions of power and boost other people.