Arriving at the docks and tying off may have triggered the storyline, but it didn't teleport us to our starting locations. Other things changed, though. The river changed so much that I couldn't see it anymore; all I saw was a lake with a large in...
2025-12-30 17:26:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Is Ramona there?” I asked from a distance, keeping an eye out near the water tower.
I didn't get an answer. Maybe I didn't ask loud enough. Antoine was quickly climbing up the fence the posters had been stapled to because the newest pos...
2025-12-29 05:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostDue to the results of the poll, the past has been changed. Anna made it onto the boat headed out on the Carousel River. Kimberly made it on the boat too, but because Anna was there, she got on later:
"Kimberly!" we all screamed...
2025-12-28 01:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The die has been cast, the players divided, but as Patrons, you have the final say.
Kimberly, Antoine, Riley, Camden, Cassie, and Andrew are on the boat setting sail down the Carousel River. I offer you an alternative.
Anna Reed began...
2025-12-26 19:28:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe river was moving fast, even when we stuck our oars in the water to try to slow ourselves down in hopes of being able to drag our teammates out of the water.
But as we went around the bend, passing through dark tunnels illuminated mostly...
2025-12-25 18:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post“What am I supposed to say?” I asked. “I can’t prove any of this, but surely if you look at the situation we're in, you can’t say this is all random or a coincidence. We have been put in a very specific position. If you looked at all of ...
2025-12-25 04:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post“The circus is in here, but it’s a secondhand story,” Camden said, flipping back through the Atlas, “same as I told you before.”
“All right, well, tell me that story,” I said.
“It’s just a recording of a conversation ...
2025-12-24 05:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Why isn’t it crying?” Cassie asked, exasperated.
She held the most hideous baby doll I had ever seen at arm’s length. The Crybaby was a powerful, semi-occult tool that would cry whenever any unperceived danger was nearby. When we ha...
2025-12-24 05:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a while for Kimberly to leave Cassie’s side, which was odd.
Don’t get me wrong, Kimberly was very caring and had spent a lot of time looking after Cassie inside storylines and out, but this was different. I could see in her eyes,...
2025-12-20 09:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe one place that Carousel usually left you alone was in your dreams.
That wasn't to say that your tropes couldn't affect your dreams. My Out Like a Light trope usually prevented me from dreaming altogether, whereas my
“Are you guys all right?” Antoine called from the other side of the door as he struggled to lift it.
“We’re fine,” Michael said. He went to hack at the zombies in front of us.
I grabbed his arm because we didn't need a fight ...
2025-12-17 22:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs much freedom as we had found at Kimberly’s loft, it could never make up for what we had lost when we could no longer call Camp Dyer home.
The open spaces, the views of nature, the distance from town, the feeling of safety you got from k...
2025-12-17 05:49:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something strange about castle walls and high towers that made us feel like a fight was coming to us.
Back in the Camp Dyer days, apocalypses were feared, but they weren't something the vets made a big deal about. There were still ...
2025-12-14 05:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostSo there were mixed reactions to the Astralist Interlude. I felt weird about having some other team earn the Writ for an entire castle without you seeing any of it. You may remember that Logan's team had been working on that for a while in the bac...
2025-12-13 03:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostSIX WEEKS LATER
Eternal Savers Club really was quite simple to beat when you weren't doing a rescue. Antoine, Kimberly, Camden, Anna, Dina, and I managed to pull off a win as part of an ambitious shopping project to help us stock up...
2025-12-12 09:15:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe entrance to the secret passage did not elude Logan, Michael, and Andrew for long. The room was well lit, and very little of it had been touched in months, except for one bottle of wine, which sat on a shelf, dust-free, its green, glassy exteri...
2025-12-11 08:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe next post will be the last of this interlude.
Alarmed but without any explicit justification for worry, Logan walked swiftly down the hallway toward the area he knew the maids’ quarters to be. Andrew and Mich...
2025-12-10 05:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe men sat in the smoking room, continuing to talk about their lives, but Logan could see that Simon's heart was not in the conversation. He was fidgety and distracted, constantly looking toward the door as if wondering whether his wife might nee...
2025-12-06 23:49:31 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral Interludes are coming up, three of which will be a side story featuring Logan's team (I really need to come up with nicknames for the teams). I hope you like it, but if not, the main story will be back shortly.
I will have a chapter...
2025-12-05 04:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostMortimer the 304th walked the cracked pavement toward the high school as if he had all the time in the world—which, technically, was an understatement. He had far more time than this world.
It had been a thousand years since he had missed ...
2025-12-04 07:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe had finally heard the entirety of Lucky's pitch. Our mission, if we chose to accept it, would be to sail the Carousel River, following the path taken by a team more than thirty years earlier in hopes of finding a mythical sanctuary where meta-a...
2025-12-03 05:46:29 +0000 UTC View PostLucky informed us as soon as he walked through the door that the rest of our teammates were over the hill waiting and would be there shortly.
I wasn't in any hurry. While I was certainly excited to find the information we had come here for, ...
2025-11-29 04:34:55 +0000 UTC View PostWe had known that there were storylines that were essentially death puzzles for a long time, and in fact, we had kind of played through one, Itch.
Of course, we beat it by circumventing the puzzle aspect altogether and creating muta...
2025-11-27 03:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt was funny in the end how tricky a storyline could be when there was no one trying to kill us. Nearly half of our tropes relied on us getting targeted or attacked or maimed or killed, but the danger of this storyline was simply getting trapped i...
2025-11-26 02:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostOn the red wallpaper, my status was Captured. It was probably true about all of us, but Carousel didn't clue us in until we had actually seen the proof of it.
I ran as fast as I could, with the elk-like creature on my tail for quite a few mi...
2025-11-25 01:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe strange thing about Lark House was that while it was immediately apparent once we got to the stairs that the rooms and hallways and walls had been rearranged, it wasn't like the house was moving in front of us. Instead, it just appeared as if ...
2025-11-24 01:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostAlright. You will receive the rest of your chapters this weekend. I will be getting back to the Tue-Fri schedule ASAP because this unpredictable one is a bit hectic, I'm sure.
In the meantime, I am working on getting book five ready for book...
2025-11-22 03:38:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe still, ghostly look on Bellanti’s face, which I initially thought was a sign of nervous insanity, gradually shifted into what I can only describe as paranoid rage. He stared at me so completely still that it was as if he was daring me in a w...
2025-11-20 05:13:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe movie was flying by, even though, from what I could tell, not much had happened.
It was clear there was some type of architectural or similar horror involved that had kept Molly and Bobby from reaching their destination.
Whatever i...
2025-11-18 00:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post