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 Bard.) “I…

  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, dropping pockets full…

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 me. Although…

Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 20     Orlando Bard picture: “Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. To the Bounty Hunter Bard’s Inn. I promised you that we would be starting Mystica Knorn’s story tonight. Last night I regaled you with the fact that Mystica did not arrive in our delightful Carnival City until the opening day of…

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 of…

Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) Carnival World, Chapter 14 “Greetings and Salutations, Ladies and Gentlemen …and uhh…uhh…how do I say this…Ghordo! Ghordo snickered, rocked back and forth, but gently, not quickly like when he was angry. He whipped the bird at me, with both of his scarred olive-green hands, yet laughing, his cement mixer guffaw rumbling all…

Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745) CARNIVAL WORLD CHAPTER 11 I can remember longing for a cigar my first year after gate hopping into Carnival World. When I walked into the camp when the Conner Corp people first camped, before designing the buildings, inside the huge Cyclopean walls of the Atlanticean force-shield canopy, one of them was smoking…

Copyright 2025 (TXu002497745)  CHAPTER 8 “Is it that time already?” asked Bard. “Well folks, let us take a break. Be back in about twenty minutes and I will introduce to you one of the most dangerous races here in the Borderlands of Carnival World, the Hob Goblins. I will also introduce you to one of…

Author, Wayne O’Conner                                                                                                        …