Lost Rambler

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 36

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 se...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 35

“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 ...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 34

Due 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, sh...

2025-12-28 01:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Rewrite Fate

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....

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 33

The 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 ben...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 32

“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 ...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 31

“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. 2025-12-24 05:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 30

“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 when...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 29

It 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...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 28

The 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 prev...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 27

“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.

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 26

As 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 distan...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 25

There 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...

Update

So 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 te...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 24: Six Weeks Later

SIX 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...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 23: The Astralist Part IV

The 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 s...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 22: The Astralist Part III

The 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...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 21: The Astralist Part II

The 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 t...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 20: The Astralist Part I

I'm doing something a bit different here. I am writing this as if it were the novelization of the movie version of the team's run. There will be no meta information. Just the story as it went down...

2025-12-05 13:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Update

Several 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 ...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 19: Interlude

Mortimer 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.

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 18

We 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 ...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 17

Lucky 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 exci...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 16

We 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 circumvent...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 15

It 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 dan...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 14

On 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 t...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 13

The 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 movin...

Update

Alright. 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...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 12

The 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 complete...

Carousel Book Eight, Chapter 11

The 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...