“The rock candy and the weathervane work well,” Camden said.
I nodded my head.
“How about the others?” I asked.
He shook his head. “The door handle might be fine, but apparently, that one's pretty weird when it comes to Plot Armor.
“So,” I said, “We only use it in emergencies.”
He stared into the massive tome that was the Atlas. He ate a Carousel brand Hot Pocket.
“I'm not exactly sure what it is the players who wrote the entry were tryi...
2025-04-03 03:59:24 +0000 UTC
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2025-04-02 03:13:35 +0000 UTC
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Kimberly was surprisingly matter-of-fact as she described what she sensed.
We were back in the loft, and we had already retrieved the players from Ramona's cabin.
Kimberly had taken the time to walk through every single room in the loft and the adjacent rooms attached to it. She walked around the restaurant downstairs and the stairwells, as well as the roof area, where Bobby was tending to his dogs.
When she started out with this, she was flabbergasted, offended, ashamed. Bu...
2025-03-27 06:59:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Today marks the final official chapter of Book Five and Arc II.
I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off to rebuild my backlog. RR will also get a two-week pause when they catch up, so the chapter difference will balance out.
Thank you so much for your continued support and readership—it honestly means the world to me.
I hope you’ll stick around for Arc III and Book Six. There’s some re...
2025-03-26 16:33:43 +0000 UTC
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You will notice that both Dina and Bobby have got their aspects in this story. Unfortunately, since the votes for those are still ongoing, the result is not listed. I will come back and change it. I might decide Bobby's on my own BTW. I will decide later.
One good part of Carousel dividing different moments in time up on sound stages was that Carousel proper didn’t need to be repaired at the end of the movie.
It was just a pleasant walk back over to th...
2025-03-25 23:43:37 +0000 UTC
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The credits began to roll, intercut with footage from security cameras showing the characters from the story.
It showed Anna, Camden, and Gabriel walking out of the roller rink safely—because, of course, for every disaster, there was another reality where the disaster never happened.
There was footage of Kimberly and Logan at some speaking event for the museum system, and then there was security footage of Bobby walking his dogs while on patrol.
There were a few other clip...
2025-03-21 17:26:28 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC OCT 18, 2018 00:08:48 [▮▮▯▯▯ 40%]
Watching over six hundred Dinas fight the Generation Killers was almost an academic exercise.
We had long speculated about how stats worked when multiple players fought against an enemy. It wasn’t like your Mettle stats just added together—no, there was some other consideration, something to prevent players from bum-rushing more powerful enemies.
I watched as each Generation Killer fell, and th...
2025-03-20 13:17:30 +0000 UTC
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The next chapter will come out in 5-8 hours. We are one ahead of schedule right now so I am taking a minute to get things right.
The rewards chapter will be next week. I've got a lot of decisions to make for that one. If you have any thoughts on rewards for Post-Traumatic, please comment below.
There are only a few more chapters in Book Five and Arc II. We've come a long way. Arc III will start up shortly after.
P.S. To help me out, for those that voted for: By ...
2025-03-20 02:59:44 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC OCT 05, 2018 15:42:11 [▮▮▮▮▯ 80%]
The hospital burned beside me. People cried for help.
Gabriel Cano stood before me, and at first, I didn't know exactly why he was there—until he reached up and grabbed his right ear. At first, it looked like he was scratching it, but then he gave it a tug.
That was the sign.
That was the signal we had planned for when our overall strategy was to go into effect.
It was supposed to be Lila wh...
2025-03-19 00:04:20 +0000 UTC
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So... funny story.
I had planned for Riley to use his magical masquerade mask to help justify why people didn't recognize him. I forgot about it when it came time to write it. I'll be adding that in in places.
Lol. Have a good one.
See you Tuesday with the thrilling conclusion to Post-Traumatic!
After feedback, I just put in an explainer for why he didn't use it.
Thanks for your input.
2025-03-16 17:01:59 +0000 UTC
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I was overwhelmed, but I continued forward—not because of my mission or even the implications of my findings on our survival.
I moved forward out of pure curiosity.
Having given up on the stairs as a method of ascending the tower, I found myself in an elevator, simply moving from floor to floor.
No one really noticed. I got a couple of odd looks as the elevator doors would open, and I wouldn't get out. I was just peeking to see what was on each floor. It was the most effic...
2025-03-15 00:38:37 +0000 UTC
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Chapter tomorrow.
2025-03-14 02:41:59 +0000 UTC
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When I left the Invitations room, I left with my head hanging down.
I knew that all of this stuff existed—I wasn't a fool—but picturing it as some arcane ritual or the all-powerful will of a cosmic being made it more digestible in a strange way.
The story of our entrapment—it was told on readouts and dials. These people of the Manifest Consortium, they may have been immortal, but they were people. Knowing that their greedy little hands had some small part to play in our fate...
2025-03-13 10:35:50 +0000 UTC
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I briefly worked at my university's football stadium during my freshman year of college.
I was selling sports memorabilia, and I was bad at it. It didn't really matter—all I had to do was stand there and restock. It was a student job, not a real job. I had no ambition to stick around longer than I was contractually obligated to.
But still, I remembered my amazement at realizing exactly how massive our football stadium was—not just the field or the stands, but the area behind t...
2025-03-12 00:51:50 +0000 UTC
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I'll fix the dialogue formatting later. Please ignore it for now.
“It feels so silly to have to tell someone about the Barker,” Dr. Striga said. “It is quite hard to conceive of a world that does not know the Sweepstakes, but you'll find we do dream of such a place. Perhaps our obsession with worlds like yours stems from some subconscious desire for the lives we were never allowed to live—the blissful ignorance… but to understand the Manifest Consortium, you must unde...
2025-03-08 04:30:57 +0000 UTC
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I'm still working on the next chapter. I need to balance the lore drops to the effort Riley put in. I have some fun stuff planned. I might need some extra time. I appreciate your patience.
I know that we lose some of the mystery when you learn who the secretive helpers are behind the scenes. I just hope that the revelation is worth that loss. Things can't stay unknown forever and I was never going to just keep the mystery alive to string you along indefinitely. I believe this will be wo...
2025-03-06 23:24:34 +0000 UTC
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There were no security guards, no real fences, nothing to protect the building from someone trespassing except, perhaps, the remote locale.
The paved trail leading away from the building disappeared into the inky darkness of the woods.
For a moment, I just people-watched as I planned my next move.
The ironic part of this stealth mission was that I had just the item that should have made it easy. I had the magical masquerade mask I had taken from The Strings Attached...
2025-03-06 06:36:50 +0000 UTC
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After I stepped into the long, dark hallway behind the theater screen, it only took a moment for my base instincts to trigger a fear response.
Megalophobia- the fear of gigantic things. I didn’t even know I had it until I looked up.
The theater had a high ceiling, but this hallway put it to shame—I couldn't even see the ceiling. The hallway was like a long, dark crack in reality, with many doors spread along its walls.
The art style was Art Deco. Why I was thinking about...
2025-03-05 12:07:51 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t plan for it to be a cliffhanger—it just happened. As you may have read on Discord, I’ll only be posting three times a week for the rest of Book Five.
I want to make sure the upcoming chapters are just right. Hopefully, they’ll live up to what they've been in my head since I first started planning the story.
Anyway, have a great weekend! See you on Tuesday when we take a peek behind the curtain—or should I say, behind the red wallpaper.
2025-02-28 23:42:56 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC OCT 18, 2018 07:02:45 [▮▮▮▮▮ 100%]
We put a lot of planning into this storyline, but there was only so much we could do before we actually entered it.
Even the best plans could be rendered moot the moment you entered a storyline, and sometimes the best plans couldn't be made until you got there.
One observation I had made—one that would end up being crucial—was that there were only two main cameramen in the entire story.
Ye...
2025-02-27 22:30:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey, amazing patrons! I have too many stories in my brain and not enough years left in my body, so it’s almost time to unleash another one into the wild!
Introducing The Long Way Out of Dead Moon Manor, a supernatural mystery full of murder, magic, and mayhem:
There has been a murder!
A monster tears through a city mall, leaving chaos in its wake, but private detective Hollis Hood can’t stop thinking about the woman...
2025-02-26 21:31:13 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC OCT 18, 2018 05:12:55 [▮▮▮▮▮ 100%]
"So as soon as you fire that thing up, Event B happens, and we sail right out of this time anomaly back into a world that makes sense, right?" Antoine asked.
"Something like that," Camden said.
"Great. I'll get the champagne," Antoine responded.
"Of course, there's a very real chance that outside of the time anomaly, time travelers like us—well, walking paradoxes like us—will sudden...
2025-02-26 19:36:29 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC OCT 18, 2018 15:01:47 [▮▮▮▮▮ 100%]
"Finally got the battery charged," I said, moving the camera around the dusty office where we used to work seven years prior.
"I've got Internet up too," Antoine said. "Not through legal means, obviously."
"I don’t really care if we get arrested at this point," Kimberly said. "It would be a nice change of pace."
We were back at the Museum of Crime, back at the old jailhouse.
"It...
2025-02-25 19:43:34 +0000 UTC
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On-Screen
I didn’t have to record. We would be On-Screen anyway, and I was getting low on battery.
We stood in the faculty lounge, pleading our hearts out so that two scientists and one detective—of some kind—might try to help us. It was time for everything to fall into place.
“If a serial killer were traveling through time, I think our organization would have detected it by now,” Dr. Black said. She was a serious woman, but she held a spark of curiosity to her tha...
2025-02-22 05:43:53 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC OCT 18, 2018 02:15:48 [▮▯▯▯▯ 20%]
My meteorite necklace slowly stopped glowing, and I fell to my knees.
A thousand feet in front of me, I could hear the muffled cries of a construction crew being burned alive by molten asphalt that had fallen into the pit they were working in.
I couldn’t look. I had seen so much casual death in this storyline—it was wearing on me.
Beside me, Camden appeared, looking at me with ...
2025-02-21 04:54:09 +0000 UTC
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Vote now to choose the first storyline of book six! Pick as many as you like.
I can't fix typos so ignore them lol
Note that if your idea was not picked, that does not mean it was bad. A lot of things you suggested are already part of the larger plans.
PS: I spent a lot of time working on this so the chapter will be a bit late.
2025-02-20 04:50:07 +0000 UTC
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I shut the camera off for this time jump.
We had already described what we were going to do, and frankly, it was possible that our entire detour to the hospital would get cut from the final film. So I didn't really see it as important to be filmed.
I was also tired. So very tired.
While we had technically had a night's sleep, in theory, it had not been a full night. Time moved forward as Carousel deemed fit, and while we had some breaks, I had never rested my mind.
So,...
2025-02-19 05:07:53 +0000 UTC
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FYI, some of this is slightly redundant or otherwise off, but I will fix that by editing previous chapters. I had to do a quick cleanup. Sorry for the wait.
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🔴 REC SEP 25, 2018 13:23:58 [▮▮▮▮▯ 80%]
We had gotten greedy.
In what was supposed to be a torture scene, we had gone on a fact-finding mission, and Carousel had decided to just pause the scene.
We had...
2025-02-15 04:06:36 +0000 UTC
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"I'm going to explain this one more time," Camden said to the room full of Generation Killers.
They were all paying attention—at least that could be said of them. But unfortunately, the bottom forty percent of Generation Killers were just not getting it.
The only thing these guys had in common was DNA and psychopathy.
The smart ones figured it out as soon as Camden enlightened them. The dumb ones didn’t figure it out, but they were too proud and egotistical...
2025-02-13 01:49:44 +0000 UTC
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🔴 REC SEP 25, 2018 13:05:12 [▮▮▮▮▯ 80%]
“So, is it safe to assume that right now we're between events A and B?" I asked.
"I’d hope so," Camden said. "Seeing as right now, my theory is that Event A is the Carousel River Valley Meteor Strike."
That had actually been my insight, but we were going to let Camden have it. There was no way that the meteor had been brought up this many times without at least being one of the major...
2025-02-12 00:28:45 +0000 UTC
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