“It’s too early to worry like this,” I said. “They’re still within the time frame allotted for the story. Just have faith.”
I didn’t know what I was saying, but it was my attempt to comfort a worried friend.
Anna paced ba...
2025-05-23 11:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostIf I never went to hell again, it would be too soon.
I managed to make it to bed by noon the day we got back, and I didn't wake up again until noon the next day. Even then, I didn’t want to get out of bed. I didn’t have to. No one was go...
2025-05-22 10:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs the storyline ended, Silas, the Mechanical Showman, appeared amongst the rubble of the burnt restaurant.
"Congratulations, you've won a ticket," he said in his cheerful yet worn-out tone.
We knew the drill. I walked over and slapped...
2025-05-21 11:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostOh gosh, Jerrica, one of the only named characters, had some role to play. Who could have guessed? She's the daughter of the guy who famously had no kids? No way!
It wasn’t exactly a mic drop moment, but Camden and Anna were just ...
2025-05-19 19:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostHiding while the action was happening elsewhere was starting to get old.
Isaac had taken charge upstairs and was ushering people into this other version of Hot Head.
I stared from a distance, trying to understand what I was looking at....
2025-05-19 01:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostI knew that Carousel rewarded exceptional feats, but I was expecting a reward in the form of something that fell out of Silas the Mechanical Showman’s ticket slot.
There were dozens of coins in varying denominations in the safe, about a hu...
2025-05-18 00:15:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the scene was a non-stop onslaught.
Isaac, teaming with Ruck and Ramona, managed to move through the rest of the demons and cut through them with ease.
To Isaac’s credit, he was really good at maintaining a level of fear ...
2025-05-16 20:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostRamona and I stood over the broken remains of the Madame Macabre fortune teller. Like so many of the other things we had seen, this was a pale imitation of the actual animatronic, a mockery when you looked inside.
"Do you hear that?" she ask...
2025-05-16 08:41:18 +0000 UTC View PostI was there, in the pit.
I had thought about it since the beginning of the storyline, since before I knew that Hell was a literal, physical place. Somehow, I had known I would have to go there. Maybe I had seen it in a dream.
Maybe I h...
2025-05-15 09:23:46 +0000 UTC View PostI always liked to think that I was calm and collected. It was likely that all my teammates thought that, too, although they might have called me cold.
The truth was, I have always locked my emotions in a box. Ever since I was a little kid, m...
2025-05-14 06:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostI was glad to finally have some momentum in this storyline. Finding out that many Insight tropes were completely corrupted was a terrible surprise.
Trope Master took forever to use because I had to wait for a new nightmare e...
2025-05-12 05:29:58 +0000 UTC View PostI had to drag Isaac along as soon as we went Off-Screen so that we could make an actual plan.
We had talked about the inevitability of going into hell for a rescue. After all, if we didn’t rescue anyone, we wouldn’t get rescue tropes eve...
2025-05-11 04:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostI walked through the back halls of the pizza parlor like I was walking through a haunted house.
We had put off the realization that something supernatural was going on for as long as we could, but now all of the principal characters should k...
2025-05-10 21:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostStill working on the next chapters. I want to finish a whole batch at once to get this next sequence right, so please bear with me. It shouldn't be that much longer than planned, but I thought I would warn you.
2025-05-09 02:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn't really complain about nightmares, could I? That was the worst I had seen of these demon enemies of ours—at least as far as my suffering went.
But when I woke up covered in sweat, it was difficult not to regret choosing this stor...
2025-05-07 06:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostOn-Screen
We were back inside in the kitchen.
“Lock the doors!” Ramona called out. Nathan quickly ran to the front door and locked it.
“Are you okay?” Cassie asked Isaac, cradling him despite his desire to pull away from ...
2025-05-04 05:18:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop pacing,” Cassie said for the tenth time, “and take out the trash. How many times do I have to say it?”
Isaac ignored her. He walked from one end of his family's living room to the other. He was jumping at every sound. His eyes ...
2025-05-03 04:09:27 +0000 UTC View PostI barely made it back into the kitchen in time for my next scene. Luckily, that scene didn't involve much from me—it involved listening. Of course, it also involved whipping up some pizzas. Five of them, to be exact.
Isaac was in the front...
2025-05-01 19:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe chapter will be here in a matter of hours. Sorry for the wait. I will get the advanced chapters caught up over the next couple of weeks. It is my top priority. You should start pulling ahead over the next few days. This next chapter will still...
2025-05-01 02:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostI had been through a lot since coming to Carousel.
I had been a puppet on the strings of many a puppet master. I had run through mazes like a rat, but perhaps the most annoying enemy trope I had ever come across was Night Terrors 2025-04-28 05:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I told the others to go home and lock their doors.
I couldn't kick the feeling that anyone who got caught trying to watch what happened to Avery that night might share her fate.
Of course, that didn't apply to me.
My build was de...
2025-04-27 04:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostI was struck by how normal working at Pecatto's was. It was too normal.
It felt like Carousel was rubbing it in our faces.
That wasn't to say there weren't odd things.
Camden had looked through all of the timesheets and schedules...
2025-04-23 05:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostI was in the back kitchen—the proper kitchen—where prep cooks were chopping vegetables and cooking off sausage so that it could get to the level of doneness they wanted when it got on the actual pizza.
It was my first day, and I was the ...
2025-04-18 04:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostI’m out of the hospital now—thank you all so much for your patience and support. My appendix burst, which required immediate surgery and some recovery time.
I’ll be easing back into posting as my health allows, and I’m looking forwar...
2025-04-14 23:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, I am stuck in the hospital for the next four days. I am sorry that I will not be able to get any writing done while I am here.
I will try to get you all caught up next week. I'm sorry for the delay.
2025-04-11 00:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post"This one is fine," Cassie said as she cut off a piece of her pepperoni pizza with a fork.
"I'm having trouble understanding what you meant when you said the pizza was wrong last night," Anna said. "Can you go into more detail?...
2025-04-09 04:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostOn-Screen.
“Get away from the door,” Isaac said as two upperclassmen stood too close to the entrance. “The pizza will be here soon, and I have to answer it because this is my house.”
The guys gave him a strange lo...
2025-04-07 23:44:52 +0000 UTC View PostSince we had all agreed that we would never run Post-Traumatic again—or at least not run it to gain experience points or rewards—we decided to watch the storyline.
It was developing into a sort of tradition. Run a stor...
2025-04-07 03:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, just like we practiced.
We all stood around the dining room table, fanned.
I handed a rolled-up newspaper to Camden—I had just purchased it from a stand down the street.
“Any luck?” I asked.
By the time...
2025-04-04 05:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post