Welcome to the Carnival
A desert that periodically turns into a raging ocean? A cave that contains all your instinctive fears? These are just the precursors on the journey to the land of dreams.
Matthew is beginning to suspect the mind he’s trapped inside is not his own
Waking up in a barren wasteland with no memories would be bad enough, but when crashing waves suddenly turn the desert into an ocean, something is obviously more than a little wrong. Confronted with this impossible landscape, Matthew must find a way not just to survive, but to figure out the nature of the reality he's trapped in.
Only then will he have any hope of escaping.
A young woman named June tracks him down and guides him through the dreamscape of the Carnival, a land where any story is possible if you are willing to tell it. But June has motives all her own, and Matthew must determine whether he can trust her, or if she is just another force attempting to lock him inside a constructed world.
A boy without a past
Matthew knows his name and little else. What he does know, though, is that this world is stranger than anything he’s ever seen. As he attempts to create his own story and unlock secrets—both of the Carnival and of his past—he must grapple with this strangeness, and determine if it is a utopia or a prison.
A girl who knows too much
June is usually busy negotiating peace treaties between the Apocalyptians and the Armageddeons. But when Matthew arrives, she will become his guide, showing him the incredible stories that can be told in the Carnival.
A land of wonders
The Carnival is a place of color, of strangeness, of impossibility. Pretty much anything you can dream of will come to be. What kind of story would you tell in a land of dreams?
Watch out for the creatures
From beautiful—but slightly invasive—microgriffs to elves with mysterious wooden boxes, the Carnival is filled with strange creatures. Just be careful you don’t become one of them yourself.
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