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 turn left onto a small road leading further uphill, one that had been washed out when we’d been here ...
2024-11-01 06:37:27 +0000 UTC View PostRiley Lawrence is The Film Buff
His aspect is Filmmaker.
Filmmaker: The Filmmaker has a comprehensive understanding of the filmmaking process. They can manipulate the game environment effectively, altering the game's dynamics in subtle but impactf...
2024-10-31 04:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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We sat on the roof of Kimberley's loft—just me, Antoine, Andrew, and Kimberley. We had some informatio...
2024-10-29 02:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostAll 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 you another today, but I may need to change things about it later, so I won't, sorry.
I hope y...
2024-10-26 00:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostWith 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 least were reasonably confident that we were on the money—we could do some digging. The only way ...
2024-10-25 04:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostCarousel 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 to me. For as much as I liked watching vintage horror movies growing up, I missed the age of the vid...
2024-10-23 06:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 wondering if you all might appreciate a bit of collaborative storytelling like a choose-your-own-adventu...
2024-10-19 17:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostWe 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 to know about, we hoped that the baby would cry and tell us. But that was actually a point of confusi...
2024-10-15 04:43:24 +0000 UTC View PostOur 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, normally, it's a lot different than this," I said as the group filtered into the pawn shop, looking around ...
2024-10-12 04:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostFrom 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.
Because there were dolls. Tons and tons of them.
It was a Queen Anne-style home, except for...
2024-10-11 03:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 goods store around the last turn of the U-shaped building.
It had an appropriately punny name:
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 storefronts. On either side, there were eight to ten glass doors with big glass windows packed with goods t...
2024-10-07 05:07:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey 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 I can and will deliver it soon. Some of your suggestions were already planned for later chapters, wh...
2024-10-02 00:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostYour 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 any of these that you might hope to see? There are lots of fun tidbits I intend to include, but I thou...
2024-09-30 20:43:17 +0000 UTC View Post~
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As we walked back to the loft with our bounty of 1970s general store groceries, I still felt nervous about bringing newcomers to our base.
It was just an inherently risky thing to...
2024-09-29 05:00:41 +0000 UTC View PostLila 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 tried my best to wipe away my preconceptions and my pent-up frustration with watching her surrogate s...
2024-09-26 03:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post“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.
“You know I would stay if I could,” Kimberly said. “If I had my way, we would stick to t...
2024-09-25 04:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostMichael 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 easily weighed 60 pounds, and the wood was rough, but next to the fire, they were comfortable.
<... 2024-09-21 03:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post"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 going to do about her."
I glanced over at Lila.
We had expected there might be some fricti...
2024-09-20 00:38:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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 historical periods of Carousel you want to look at? Any characters? Any enemies?
The stories will be wr...
2024-09-15 19:20:02 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 Permanent Vacancy, but that was just one of a million questions.
They were supposed t...
2024-09-15 04:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post"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 the interrogation was more critical than whatever risk standing at the entrance of the Powerworks Pav...
2024-09-13 03:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello! 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 of the previous chapter. Here is the change. This takes place after their plan to invoke IBECS' defen...
2024-09-09 23:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostSo, 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 you have nice things to say, I would appreciate the encouragement too lol. Either way, nonstandard sto...
2024-09-08 06:53:44 +0000 UTC View PostWhen 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 better.
We learned things we didn’t even know possible to learn about the inner workings of...
2024-09-08 06:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post“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 like we got a pretty good look at what my Rescue would be like, except there would be no player surro...
2024-09-04 05:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen 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.
"It's great to hear you had such a leisurely time," Tripp, the NPC who guided us when we first a...
2024-08-31 04:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostWorkers 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?
Michael tried to be a hero in the wrong story, and now our hopes of saving the real player he represen...
2024-08-29 01:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post"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 line required hours of planning, including taking all the food we had on our ship and throwing it out t...
2024-08-28 04:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post