Lost Carnival Timeline

Below is a more detailed timeline of Carnival events than what can be seen on Carly's App.

Carly arrives just before the Carnival moves to the Summerlands, just after she and Aslla Piscu are condemned to the Netherworld (not to be confused with the Nether Realm). She makes her deal here, and soon joins them as the carnival moves onward.

While relaxing in the Summerlands, Carly gets acquainted to the crew of the Carnival, while doing her best to ignore how her eyes never returned to normal. Aslla remains quiet during this time.

It is when the Carnival moves to perform for the Hive Queen that Carly starts to experience changes. Initially she pays them no mind-her first change is a lengthy extending tongue, while her bodily fluids take on a unique tint. By the end of the tour however, as they move for the trees, Fae Marks appear on her body...dying her skin black beneath glowing orange.

While performing for the trees, Carly begins to panic, and considers running away. The trees are just trees, she's sure, and the forest would be easy to run through. Aslla, at this time, starts to speak to try and convince her otherwise; it is talk from her then trailermate however, that convinces her to stay. There are tears, and reminders that she has only the rest of the year left, and that she should enjoy herself until then.

The Carnival moves to perform for heaven's Angels, Birds, and even the Omnipresent Super Being. Curiously enough, Carly remains rather oblivious to the fact that the OSB is a single entity for a fair amount of the time, instead rather distracted by the fact that she's growing feathers and such. She reminds herself that there isn't much time left, and the Carnival moves for Future Japan.

...Future Japan reminds Carly of her home, Neo Domino to say the least. It's strange to see a place that's so much better off than hers however, and she wonders about all the things she left behind. Having a place so familiar however, makes it easier for Aslla to do what he's been trying the whole time-to get her to enjoy herself.

As the Carnival moves through the Universe's Got Talent competition to finally attend a Wake for a solar system, Carly finds the ending of her 'Year' not unlike the end of the Universe. All things must end, but she realizes that despite the struggles that took so much of it, she was just starting to enjoy herself. It's not fair...

Aslla Piscu reminds her that it doesn't have to end just yet however. The Carnival, he declares, could have easily decided to 'miss' the wake of the solar system. With how it moves through time and dimensions, they could have come before or after. The Ringmaster will do the same for her, when she chooses to go home.

Carly considers Aslla's words, and also how while she'll apparently return to life, Aslla will remain in the earth. So she musters up the courage to ask for a new contract with the Ringmaster, taking the ability to become a Hummingbird (little different from what she requested, but alright) in exchange for the promise to work another year.

Though the Carnival year is off to a rocky start with the Elementals, the shenanigans involved with disguising themselves as robots allows Carly to better fall into a good mood overall. This is despite bearing various splotches of black feathers over her body, and so on.

It comes to a brief grinding halt when they reach the Demon Realm, with Carly finding herself asking Aslla Piscu if it reminded him of his home. (The answer was no, the realms are entirely different) Carly ends up occasionally lending an Out-of-Work hand to the Warden during the tour here however, prompting her to briefly ask if Carly would consider a Patrol role. She declines however, fretting over the 'muscle' side of things.

The Warden seems to consider Carly's reasoning, as a short while later as the Carnival moves to the King's Court, she's offered the chance to maybe train for a Scouting position with the Nightrider. Things are a little tricky to think about when you're busy running away with the King's jewels, but by the time they reach Musicverse Carly starts the crash course training.

Passing through the notes and moods springing forward in the Musicverse, Carly manages to, by the end of the tour here, net herself a chance to try working with the Nightrider's Scouts. Their next destination has already been decided, so this is a good test right?

Well, the test worked in a sense. The Nightrider already knew it was fine-this is just the Cleaning Trip after all. Carly however gets to experience some mild panic when all those rules she thought she had downpat turned out to be different, and her new coworkers get a bit of a kick from the 'initiation' when they break her out of jail-line to get going for the next destination.

The next number of locations pass in a blur, more or less-while the Grays are certainly an Experience on their own, Carly travels with the other Scouts and learns a bit more about how to look for danger, and how to determine if the location choice is best.

The Fashion World in particular ends up quite an experience, as outside her single outfit from her time with the Dark Signers, Carly is still clinging somewhat to her typical capris and such-which doesn't quite work now that she's growing a tail. With some encouragement from more than a few others, she winds up leaving with quite a change in wardrobe!!

With the party held for the Asgardian Soldiers leaving her in such a good mood, Carly again thinks of home however. Not about returning-but rather, as Aslla Piscu has slowly been getting a little more chatty, what will happen to the bird. She creates another contract with this in mind, gaining access to his fire magic much to her shock.

The Nether Realm becomes a source of great effort for Carly; even though she's a scout, she tries as much as she can to find a way to give the dead a good time, while attempting not to burn them with spirit fire. When they reach the realm of Wizards, this becomes increasingly awkward; her magic is pretty dark by their standards! Carly couldn't fly away to the next destination faster, in the end.

Sci-Fi Utopia brings more homesickness of sorts, with Carly asking if Aslla can see how her world is doing. Aslla naturally answers that he can't-if he could, that would mean time passes there while she's here, wouldn't it? It sparks a conversation on how 'frozen' time works, ending in a relieved Carly going back to enjoying herself just in time for some good old fashioned Heroes and Villains!

Carly's fire ends up getting a little bit of minor use chasing a villain out of the Carnival, prompting a reunion with the current Warden; her job is going well, thank you!! In her mind in fact, things couldn't be better. She's happy, she's got friends...

And then by the time they visit the OSB again, they receive a warning. Carly doesn't hear the warning of course-but when they reach the Vampire World, she wishes she had. The Scouts are responsible for the safety check of the next destination. They're meant to make sure the world is safe, but it wasn't.

And now everyone is dead. In the Vampire World, the Nightrider gathered them for what would have been her first 'major' mission outside the typical duties of the Scout. Instead of scouting for the Carnival, she would be scouting for battle. They went in-and arguably at the time succeeded.

They were followed back, however, and scout that she was, Carly finds herself unsure of if she is to blame or not. It is a state many of them are in when they return to the Summerlands, spending a whole two months there doing their best to cope and recover. In a sense, the Crossroads they come to afterward are 'symbolic'. A crossroad of decisions coming to the end of the year, as Carly considers going back to her world.

Somehow, she can't bring herself to leave. More than ever, with the ones she cares about in the Carnival, the ones that are still there, remaining behind-it feels wrong. It feels like abandonment, even, to leave now! ...So she asks the Ringmaster for something simple, something that perhaps would make her smile as well. A chance to get to know the other.

And the next year will begin.