With the vault door uncovered, all that was left to do was wait for Dina to get it open.
We had several theories on the plot going into this. Was getting into the safe something that would ha...
2025-11-17 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWe tried to do one of those scenes where everyone in the heist gets together, and we learn what everyone is good at. The kind where the audience meets the hacker, the hitter, the face man, stuff li...
2025-11-17 02:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I finished talking to Camden, I needed to find out where my character lived so I could have a good home base. Since I was the guy in charge, AKA the mastermind, it was probably the location w...
2025-11-14 01:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostRiley Lawrence is The Film Buff
His aspect is Filmmaker. The Filmmaker has a comprehensive understanding of the filmmaking process. They can manipulate the game environme...
2025-11-12 20:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first stop for the day was Eastern Carousel. It was early morning, so some of the various nature spirits that lived among the crops and scrub trees in the area were still out and about, roaming...
2025-11-11 01:11:47 +0000 UTC View PostLark House, as near as I could tell, was set in the 1990s. The neighborhood looked like the kind of place that rich kids in movies of that era would live in. A simple line about their parent being ...
2025-11-08 02:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, I'm in the home stretch for Book 4's manuscript, so I am devoting a lot of attention to it. I have to take a break from posting here for quality control. I'm just too distracted, and I don...
2025-10-27 02:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostLucky was already there when we arrived at the food court. As distracted as we were by the various exhibits at the zoo, we tried to hurry, dodging every Omen that came in our path.
Funny enou...
2025-10-21 02:57:14 +0000 UTC View PostI stood inside the restaurant beneath Kimberly’s loft, eating pork chops with my hands as I watched what was going on in the street.
Isaac, Cassie, Anna, Camden, and Ramona were standing th...
2025-10-20 22:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostI quickly found my way back to the theater seat that I had come from.
The others didn't need my help at that point. Camden had taken the lead and had planned the entire storyline, Crawlsp...
2025-10-20 20:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps you are wondering how this is Book Eight. Shouldn't it be Book Seven? Well, hawk-eyed reader, you are correct. The last book was Book Six. However, in hopes of preserving all o... 2025-10-20 01:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Please leave any movie monsters or story types related to creature features or adventures that you want to see in the comments. I have one storyline still open for the next book. I will put up a vo...
2025-10-15 02:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the incident with Janet in the night, I had to use Out Like a Light if I wanted to sleep at all, and yet I found myself waking up well before the sun rose. I sat and listened...
2025-10-13 23:35:43 +0000 UTC View PostLike many nights after coming back to the loft from a storyline, we eventually found ourselves on the roof, relaxing.
But it wasn't that we were completely comfortable with each other yet. We...
2025-10-13 16:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip back to Kimberly’s loft wasn’t exactly silent, but people weren’t talking loudly.
Pushing an entire caravan of shopping carts multiple miles to get back to the downtown area wa...
2025-10-13 04:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two chapters will be coming out ASAP, probably by noon. They just need some editing.
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Carousel must have really liked my plan because, in part due t...
2025-10-06 18:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhoever said that decapitation was a humane execution method? When all you have is a head, it always feels like you're falling, even when you’ve rolled to a stop. I couldn't tell if I felt the im...
2025-10-06 10:29:58 +0000 UTC View PostKimberly thought they were making great headway.
The offerings that they had made to the Heaven King worked wonderfully to counter any magic that the cultists could brew up, and since most of...
2025-10-05 00:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostI wondered why I hadn't been pulled apart in the way that Lorne had been.
He had far more Grit, and even though he was the Second Blood sacrifice, I didn't see any good reason for Tom to take...
2025-10-03 00:30:16 +0000 UTC View Post(Bobby Chapter)
One year later…
The words appeared on the script so plainly, and yet they represented such an accomplishment. Bobby Gill stared at them while his eyes glazed over.
... 2025-10-01 04:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Come, my brothers and sisters,” Tom said as he began walking down toward the front of the room where Antoine was tied up. “Let’s save the world.”
Everyone cheered.
That illus...
2025-09-29 04:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe most frustrating part of playing the game at Carousel wasn’t the dying. No, dying was easy, physically if not emotionally, and there were plenty of monsters around to help you do it.
Th...
2025-09-29 03:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostHow the cops got there so fast, I would never know. It was obviously movie magic. Carousel would cut things to make it seem like they were inbound the whole time. The audience wouldn’t even notic...
2025-09-26 22:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostWe walked through the temple at the crest of the largest hill in Southeastern Carousel. Since this was a sound stage, the circus was nowhere to be seen.
A lot of research had led us to this p...
2025-09-23 04:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostOn-Screen.
“Dammit, Riley, it’s been a year. A whole year. We’re days away from the window for them to perform the ritual, and we are no closer to defeating them than we were months ago...
2025-09-20 07:34:46 +0000 UTC View PostYou may have seen that the Royal Road schedule moved down to three posts a week. That does not apply to Patreon, even after I make up for last week. I am trying to publish at least...
2025-09-19 00:35:17 +0000 UTC View PostAntoine’s show ended with a prayer. Every head was bowed, every eye closed, except, of course, for Antoine’s, because he had never seen this prayer before and needed to read the words off the t...
2025-09-18 05:26:33 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t remember pushing the red button.
I didn’t even remember Silas the Mechanical Showman being there.
Where was I?
My character’s studio apartment. Or… a copy of it.<...
2025-09-17 01:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This chapter is experimental.
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We needed time. Time to plan, time to research, time to form an attack.
If we were going to get it...
2025-09-16 03:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post