Audio Book of Carnival World Fantasy Novel, Snake Butte Temple Story Arc

By wayneoconner | May 10, 2025

Carnival World:

Book One.

Audio Book Final Story Arc

The adventures of an ex U.S. Special Forces Cryptid Ranger, a High Elf Princess, Half Orc Warrior, and a Dwarf Cleric, on a planet vast light years from earth.

Written by
Wayne O’Conner

Copyright pending on story and games. Full audio book will be available in the future. That may take a while. Please enjoy the final story arc below!

The action takes place on a different planet than my novel Sanctuary Planet, but there are a few minor characters who appear in both novels.

Welcome to my story!

It is free and I do have a decent voice. Not spectacular, but good.

Also, it is pretty much a straight recording.

My audio for this final story arc of Carnival World: Book One, was not recorded with an expensive microphone with filters or edited by a sound engineer. That said, it is a good story. One day I hope to have a good recording with a great microphone or a good AI enhanced PDF to audio program that makes Books a Million

https://www.booksamillion.com/

quality audio books.

But that day, friends, is not today.

July 1st 2025 note: sorry, the audio went down recently. I did send an email to the webmaster. Meanwhile, feel free to look at the pictures that go with each chapter.

Please click the white sideways triangle on each black bar below to listen to each chapter.

Snake Butte Temple

Story Arc

Illustration above:

Side view of Carnival World’s Snake Butte Temple Butte Ruins that rests on a colossal petrified tree stump.

AI generated.

Illustration below:

Atlanticean Advanced Technology Blimp.

Sent by U.S. Ranger Commander Zales with a small ranger crew, members of the Carnival City Bounty Hunters Guild and a camera film team, to drop them off onto the temple top. Their mission, to investigate rumors of Cryptids amassing below the ancient Snake Butte Temple Ruins on Planet Carnival World, also known historically as Ameruca Prime by the natives of the planet.

All images, if not AI generated, to the best of my knowledge, are royalty free and copyright free images.

Chapter 49:

Orlando Bard’s normal and “Cryptid Buster” arrows.

Chapter 50:

Illustration of original Snake Butte Temple:

Illustration below and right of the ruined temple columns following its destruction of the temple during an ancient war. Of course the temple columns are not uniform in height. Some are short. Others are taller. A few are flat and many are broken diagonally:

Illustration below of one type of sea shell, found naturally scattered, or embossed or imprinted, on the temple floor and fountain:

Chapter 51 A:

Ranger Kai’s Engineer Shovel and an outdoor kettle.

Chapter 51 B

Top: Tartarian Cathedral

Bottom: Mermite Military Food Containers

Chapter 52 Chapter 53:

Chapter 54:

Filming camera with a special long range lens and filters that buffer the alleged blurring ability common to many Cryptids.

Chapter 55:

Three members of Orlando Bard’s Snake Butte Temple Mission Team. Sent to film Sasquatch and Wolfmen, who have been seen gathering at the foot of the Penal Colony Mountains, just east of Snake Butte Temple Ruins, on Planet Carnival World.

Orlando Bard, Archer and Bard. Disguised as a Carnival World Half Elf. Former U.S. Cryptid Team Four Special Forces Ultra Classified Cryptid Ranger

U.S. Ranger Bruce Kai

Half Orc Bounty Hunter Ghordo

Penal Colony Mountains Cryptids

Upper left: Sasquatch.

Lower Right: Wolfman –

Also Known as: Hell Hound Majorus

or Jackal Head.

Not to be confused with Lycanthropic Hell Hounds.

Chapter 56

Both Maleks “with an e” are AI generated from the descriptive text of their scenes, from this chapter, in my novel.

Left: Malek Jazz Right: Malek Jedd

PART ONE:

PART TWO:

Chapter 57:

Chapter 58:

Chapter 59:

Orphaned Elf Princess Mystica’s “Adult” version of her childhood “sippy” cup. AI generated.

Chapter 60:

Chapter 61:

Note: The dialog sentence typed in bold font is missing from the audio in the following text from Padre the Dwarf cleric’s comment to Ranger Bruce Kai:

Padre had wandered passed Kai. Curiously, fingering his red-gold beard braid, he peered inside the treasure room. “Nickie-Bens! Creator protect us!” shouted Padre the White Dwarf Cleric. He added, “Mayhap not the treasure you expected, Earth Ranger Kai, in that extra-dimensional treasure chamber. But for all o’ that, valuable, none-the-less. They are nae a book, scroll or religious figurine, so the chests will be shared group treasure. Those are finer chests than even we dwarves make. Aye laddie, that large one is worth a king’s ransom, me boy! But aye wouldn’t touch it meself, mind ya! Ewil it is! He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Spoken-of and Maliks with an aye! Nay, I doon’t ken this venture to be a total loss, once the chests are sold.”