https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 43   Three days after the official briefing, Zales sat at the head of the briefing room table, for a follow up meeting. The Alpha team was assembled around the glossy brown tables, each with Top Secret stamped folders with briefing papers and complimentary coffee and water. We…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 40   Bard, wearing his Sherlock Holmes costume, walked briskly out onto The Adventurers Inn stage. Puffing on his pipe, then bowing, he gracefully doffed his hound-check British detectives cap, “O.K., kitties and doggies, get your thinking caps on and help Secret Asian Man and yours truly, me,…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) Carnival World Chapter 37 After agreeing to meet Colonel Zales at quarter to fourteen hundred hours, fifteen minutes before two o’clock in the afternoon, me and my bounty hunters headed to the Adventurer’s Inn. Padre dropped his journey equipment into the storage room and walked to his quarters at the cleric…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 34 Padre, my Dwarven Cleric, muttered “Come in Laddie, it is dreich ootside!” Bard replied, “Indeed, Niijii, Padre, it is wet and miserable out there!” Padre grunted and started the health summary he knew that I, Orlando Bard, expected, “Aye wanted ta give oot sedatives. Ghordo the Half…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745)   CARNIVAL WORLD, CHAPTER 31       Most guilds just teach one class. Cullen trains Paladins .  The Adventurer’s Inn Guild trains bounty hunters with ranger skills and the Central Pub in the Irish Pub Theme Park teaches basic Bounty Hunting . Elfred teaches Alchemy and Gadgeteering and calls it…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/   Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 28 Princess Quetzi Quetzicoatl was on her feet, after her long nap, sprinting behind me. (Author’s Note: Bard was the former Cryptid Ranger Team Four operative and Anomaly Investigative Services investigator from Earth, now living on Carnival World and disguised as a Half Elf Ranger and Lore…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/   Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745)   Carnival World, Chapter 25 Before they arrived, they passed the haunted house square. “We don’t want to go in there, Mystica,” moaned Latraya. All of them agreed that they would skip the spook house. Passing the Spook House exit , several fair goers came running out squealing and screaming,…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745)   CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 22 I was standing in my inn with Flyt , the wood elf, Melodia, the Orange Tabby Catling, and Long Leon and Charlie Girl were with me, too. When Charlie Girl’s enlistment was up, she had asked if she could stay on Carnival World and work for…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/   Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745)   CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 20 Author’s note: “The baby Wayne Conner story” was suggested by Shirley Knorn , who ran the character Mystica Knorn, in the Carnival World Role Playing game mentioned in the intro of this book. The photo (up/left) was taken, October 31st, 2023, at her birthday party,…

https://wayneoconner.com/carnival-world-book-one-all-chapters/ Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD, CHAPTER 17 The distortion vanished as the giant creature pounced on Big Ted and thrust him through with a gigantic cobbled together trident. It happened so fast. I had never seen that type of Cryptid before. I remember back in my Cryptid Four days being briefed on many types…