UPDATE ON MY NEW CARNIVAL WORLD NOVEL

By wayneoconner | May 23, 2025

Carnival World:  Book One.

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.

The dream, where I received ideas for the three board games, decades ago, has already been copyrighted about 2014. I will post photos of the two game boards used in the novel and for playing The Irish Pub Game (or the Simple Sundays family version: same  board but different rules) or The Carnival Game.  That blog will be entitled Carnival Game and Irish Pub Game Board Photos. The rules and game boards are in the process of copy right procedures.

 

Special Thanks

Photo taken at Tee and Tee Hobby on her birthday, October 31st, 2023, just before a Carnival Game testing session. On the table behind, and to Shirley’s left in the photo, are small plastic boxes with game components. At the left edge of the photo you can see the corner of the green game board.

  • Special thanks to Miss Shirley Knorn,
  • for assistance with game play sequences for the
  • Carnival World Board Game, The Irish Pub Board Game, Simple Sundays Board Game,and role-playing games, where advanced technology items are used as an alternative to magic.
  • And Shirley offered several creative story ideas, based on game characters from the games or after hearing a book chapter.  For example, the “Baby Wayne Conner story.”
  • Special thanks also, Shirley,
  • for sequences in the book that were first played on the game boards or using the role-playing rules for random generation of story lines, before being inserted into my story. On the table behind and to Shirley’s left in the photo are small plastic boxes with game components.
  • Shirley’s favorite game character, Elf Princess Mystica Knorn, from the Carnival World Fantasy Role Playing Game, became one of the lead characters in the Carnival World novel!
  • The entire 63 chapter book is finished. I am in the process of getting the official copyright for both the novel and the Audio for the Snake Butte Temple Story Arc: chapters 49 – 63.
  • 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.
  • Mark Wilkinson’s wife Judy has remarked several times, while hearing previous story arcs, especially the “White Dwarf Mission” and “The Opening of St. Patrick’s Cathedral” story arcs, “This needs to be made into a movie!” And Judy, unlike her husband, is not a fan of fantasy novels or movies!  Mark asked me to make the audio of the Snake Butte Temple Story Arc below.

Audio Chapter Update Notes

for Snake Butte Temple Story Arc:

  • Audio chapter 56 note: Note: where the phrase bracers of blinding speed is used, substitute the phrase bracers of effortless speed.
  • Audio Chapter 61 Note:
  • The dialog sentence typed in italics font is missing from the audio in the following text from Padre the Dwarf cleric’s comment to U.S. 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.”
  • Chapter 59

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Judy Wilkinson’s Movie Wish

If that movie wish would be granted, I know four actors I would want to be in it:

Please click the links to view the photos.

 

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