After about ten minutes of driving, I finally connected with a familiar road—a road that normally led to the Powerworks Pavilion. But this time, as I drove along, I saw that I was supposed to tur...
2024-11-01 06:37:27 +0000 UTC
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Riley Lawrence is The Film Buff
His aspect is Filmmaker.
Filmmaker: The Filmmaker has a comprehensive understanding of the filmmaking process. They...
2024-10-31 04:46:38 +0000 UTC
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There will be several chapter drops this week. I'm thinking four unless I get impatient. I am breaking them up into a few at a time. I hope that's okay.
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2024-10-29 02:20:35 +0000 UTC
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All right, as you have probably figured out, the next storyline is coming up soon. I am planning a big chapter on Monday to kick things off. I gave you today's chapter yesterday. I wanted to give y...
2024-10-26 00:54:30 +0000 UTC
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With an abundance of caution, we decided not to go to the bowling alley immediately but rather to head back to the loft to do some research.
Now that we knew the name of the storyline—or at...
2024-10-25 04:04:07 +0000 UTC
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Carousel Family Video, despite purporting to be a family store, was huge, but it never lost its charm.
As I walked inside, I was struck by an invisible wall of nostalgia that didn’t belong ...
2024-10-23 06:45:15 +0000 UTC
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I asked you a while ago about additional Tales from Carousel, and you responded positively. I'm currently working on that, and I have an idea related to that I would like to pitch.
I was wond...
2024-10-19 17:00:53 +0000 UTC
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We gently wrapped the crybaby’s arms around the coat hooks at the entryway to the loft, both for convenience and practicality. Not to mention style.
If something came along that we needed t...
2024-10-15 04:43:24 +0000 UTC
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Our next stop was Happened A-Pawn. I had hoped it would have some answers—or maybe even the omen for the Werewolf storyline itself—but that was a little too much to hope for.
"So, normall...
2024-10-12 04:20:44 +0000 UTC
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From the outside, the House of Dolls looked picture-perfect, like an American Girl store or the type of place that only existed in the minds of young girls playing tea parties with their dolls.
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2024-10-11 03:21:35 +0000 UTC
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I know the quasi-slice of life is not usual for this story, but I am enjoying it. I promise this is going somewhere.
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There was a sporting good...
2024-10-09 01:16:49 +0000 UTC
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I stood in the middle of a large stone corridor, like something out of Hogwarts to my eye. Fancy stonework. No formed concrete. Yet, these walls were not for some royal courtyard. They were storefr...
2024-10-07 05:07:15 +0000 UTC
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Here's what's happening. The post got really big, with lots of slice-of-life and miscellaneous Carousel adventures. It is nearly 20,000 words, all told pre-editing. I had to chop it up for my own ...
2024-10-05 03:54:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, just a quick update!
Thank you all for responding so enthusiastically to my last post! I’m working hard to incorporate as many of your ideas into the post as ...
2024-10-02 00:48:41 +0000 UTC
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Your next post is a big one and will come soon.
Spoilers: It involves some trips around Carousel to various shops where Omens and other goodies can be bought.
Are there an...
2024-09-30 20:43:17 +0000 UTC
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More to come ASAP. Got some setup chapters to get done before the next full moon.
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As we walked back to the loft with our bounty of 1970s general store groceries, I sti...
2024-09-29 05:00:41 +0000 UTC
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Lila reappeared not too long after Andrew showed up.
She was nervous, but I could see in her eyes that she wanted to please—that she knew how important it was for us to trust her.
I t...
2024-09-26 03:40:26 +0000 UTC
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“I can’t talk you into staying any longer, can I?” I asked.
Kimberly stood in front of me, looking like a 1970s movie star. Behind her was a French door, and she was backing toward it.<...
2024-09-25 04:46:36 +0000 UTC
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Michael built a fire so fast that I would have thought he had a trope for it.
There was a burn pit just off Bobby's rental's back porch, surrounded by overbuilt wooden deck chairs. The chairs...
2024-09-21 03:46:49 +0000 UTC
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"I'd love to sit here and sing 'Kumbaya' with all of you," I said, as I put my tickets away into the ether where they disappeared, "but it's getting dark, and we still haven't decided what we're go...
2024-09-20 00:38:23 +0000 UTC
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It's time for more Tales of Carousel! For those of you who liked those short stories, now is the time to make requests.
Are there any storylines you would like to see? Are there any historica...
2024-09-15 19:20:02 +0000 UTC
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I rapidly began to understand that Andrew and his team were just like us, but they had arrived a year earlier. I wanted to question what had happened, what had gone wrong that they had never found ...
2024-09-15 04:35:55 +0000 UTC
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"We really cannot risk staying here," I said, but I might as well have been talking to myself because Michael and Andrew could not resist interrogating Lila.
My friends seemed to agree that t...
2024-09-13 03:43:08 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I am still working on the next chapters. I will have them out soonish. I just forgot how slow it is to write rewards. You are still ahead of RR.
In other news, I have changed the end o...
2024-09-09 23:38:32 +0000 UTC
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So, Itch was used to practice writing reruns and compact storylines (the rerun was compact, not the whole Itche section). If you have any comments on where I could improve, I'd appreciate it. If yo...
2024-09-08 06:53:44 +0000 UTC
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When we set out for the KRSL Powerworks Pavilion to finally enact our plan, it was our fifth attempt. The first loss was the hardest, but after that, it got easier and easier, and we got better and...
2024-09-08 06:43:05 +0000 UTC
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“It just comes down to a question,” Antoine said. “Do we try Dina's Rescue trope again, or do we switch to mine? Because we are not giving up. Not at the first real loss we suffered. I feel l...
2024-09-04 05:50:01 +0000 UTC
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When I opened my eyes, the sun was setting as I stood on the campus of the KRSL Powerworks Pavilion.
The storyline was over. We didn’t even get a visit from Silas, the Mechanical Shoman.
2024-08-31 04:37:01 +0000 UTC
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Workers harming other workers was the official theme of today's rescue, and what better way for Carousel to remind us of that than by having one cowardly scab be unwilling to save another?
Mi...
2024-08-29 01:02:18 +0000 UTC
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"IBECS, this is the Helio. Please confirm this transmission. We have no edible provisions on our ship. Mayday, this is an emergency; we are requesting aid on behalf of KRSL," I said.
That lin...
2024-08-28 04:19:46 +0000 UTC
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