Lost Rambler

Update

The last chapter of the book (Rewards and some other stuff) is tomorrow. It might be two chapters so I can set up the start of Book 5. Either way, it's tomorrow.

If any of you are interested ...

Reward Poll: Riley, Bobby, and Cassie

Just like the previous poll. Read it to learn the guidelines

If you think I posted this before without the multichoice option... I did.

Rewards Poll: Dina, Isaac, Kimberly, Antoine, and Ramona

Welcome to the first Patreon Rewards vote!

I may have gotten carried away.

Today, you'll get the chance to vote on the potential rewards that each player will receive.

Here's how ...

Debrief

I will be getting the rewards chapter out soonish. I am investigating the possibility of having you all vote on specific rewards, but that is not set in stone. If you have ideas of tropes or other ...

Arc II, Chapter 83: The Narrator Part Two

When we first read through the accounts of Project Rewind in the Carousel Atlas, we had to take what we had read on faith. We knew we had not been “brought on” to the broken Throughline that ha...

Arc II, Chapter 82: The Narrator Part One

We stood there as the words from the tape echoed in each of our minds.

“Featured” Throughline? That had to mean that there was more than one. The tone of the tape, the way it was phrased,...

Arc II, Chapter 81: The Tape (unedited)

Kimberly and the monstrous Lillian were back Off-Screen for a moment.

Before I could even yell with Flashback Revelation, Kimberly pointed to the Die Cast and said something.

On-Screen....

Arc II, Chapter 80: The Lillian Scorned Contingency

What had the Stranger said to us? What truths had we been forced to ignore?

I remembered he said this was a trap. He said it was a trick.

He said those things to our faces.

We tho...

Arc II, Chapter 79: The Cynic

Ramona becoming a player was a curveball but a welcome one. I didn’t predict what Archetype she would be in the slightest.

She pressed the red button and grabbed the handful of tickets as t...

Doing some rewrites.

This means the chapters will roll out ASAP over the next few days. I wish I could have finished it to my liking already. I don't want to release it until it is right, and I would not delay it if it...

Chapters Tomorrow

Thank you for your patience.

What to expect.

I will post all of the remaining chapters for book four at once. I need to get them all done and look at them together, which will take a few days. Sorry for the wait and the irregular schedule. 2024-06-04 20:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Read the Chapter Before You Look here (with Multiple Votes Allowed)

Change of plans. There is only one chapter today because I decided to give you a poll.

Choose Ramona Mercer's Archetype!

Your choices are all of the classics but with a twist.

I h...

Arc II, Chapter 78: Late Casting

"Having a conversation with ghosts makes me feel like a crazy person," Dina said as she sat back on the concrete ledge next to the river. She wasn’t wearing her usual leather jacket and cut-up je...

The End (Of Book Four)

The Die Cast storyline ends tomorrow with the publishing of the final two (or three because I sometimes get carried away) chapters.

Shortly after that, Book Four will be over and Book Five wi...

Dina's Aspect

The vote for Dina's Aspect is live on Discord https://discord.com/channels/10943539140543283...

Arc II, Chapter 77: The Outsider Returns

When we arrived back at the mansion, I expected to find Bobby’s ghost. He was fatally injured; surely, he would join us on the other side soon. He had to have burns to much of his body and was mi...

Update

I am aiming for two chapters tomorrow, one guaranteed. I just need to edit it. Thanks for reading.

PS: I am developing the TTRPG based on the series. If you find that interesting, I'd ...

Arc II, Chapter 76: Double Team

Lillian was supposed to be in the secret passage, injured but not dying. If she succumbed to the smoke or if the Die Cast injured her further, Doctor Halle would not transform her into a monster, a...

Arc II, Chapter 75: Mirror Match

I found Kimberly and Antoine. They must have met up and split back apart to look for Gray. I didn’t know where Bobby and Cassie were. They had only just noticed me when I used Flashback Revelatio...

Arc II, Chapter 74: Gray

Roderick was now officially a threat. I didn’t like that wrinkle. Most of our plans assumed that future mayor Gray would be a pushover.

I rushed in through the wall. Being able to phase thr...

Update

All three of this week's chapters will be published this weekend. I appreciate your patience, and thanks for reading!

A note

I realize that the tutorial has been long. I don't want to miss anything. I promise the next book will start soon. I appreciate your patience.

Arc II, Chapter 73: Hard Mode Initiated

On-Screen.

“So let me get this straight,” Isaac said as we stood outside the Geist Mansion, “We’re sending them to a place we know the Die Cast is going to strike because we think Rod...

Arc II, Chapter 72: Manor's Blaze Eve

Two bodies.

I had died twice in less than a few minutes. First, I got electrocuted. I couldn’t blame anyone but myself for that one.

Second, I got placed in another body and propped u...

Arc II, Chapter 71: Them

This wasn’t a heist movie. There would be no repelling down from the ceiling to get past a laser beam security system. We weren’t going to grift our way past the five or so police officers in t...

Arc II, Chapter 70: The Secret Sixth Principle

I liked to read the Carousel Atlas when I was doing anything else. I had brought it with me during our month-long holiday as we portrayed our characters' lives.

The knowledge inside was alway...

Arc II, Chapter 69: A Slight Change of Plans

Moonlight Morrow was a Paragon, the Departed Paragon, but in this story he was acting as a player.

That made some sense. Advanced Archetypes like the Departed change the nature of the stories...

Opinions

Can I get some feedback from the Patrons on some things?

First, what are your actual opinions on Riley dying in a story? I understand that some don't like it, but I feel if he never dies that...

Arc II, Chapter 68: Moonlight

This wasn’t the kind of story where slumber parties made sense. Our characters were bound together by having some connection to the Die Cast. Some of us had helped summon it; others had merely wi...