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C A R N I V A L

-- SEASON ONE --

Six booths. Six secrets. Three endings. One Barker._

A brand-new BBS door game - and the midway is only half lit. On opening night just one booth takes your tickets. Play it, win it, and the Barker starts opening the rest: the Duck Shoot Gallery, Balloon Darts, the High Striker, Whack-A-Mole, and the Fun House Maze... each revealed with its own ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! fanfare.

Open all six, prove yourself in the Fun House, and the Barker himself invites you to FINAL NIGHT - a three-round showdown. Beat him and you finish Season One, receive one of three secret endings, and your name shines on the CARNIVAL HEROES list forever. A season can only be beaten once.

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         Step right up! The midway opens tonight at Your BBS Name Here!         
   v2026.7.31  (c) 2026 Alexander Corris  -  built on RMDoor by Rick Parrish    
                                                                                
     Six booths. Six secrets. One Final Night. Only heroes finish a season.     
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actual ANSI - the opening night marquee

THE MIDWAY

Every caller gets a fresh pocket of tickets each day. Spend them well: with daily play, Season One takes about a month to beat. The scoreboard hub tracks best scores per booth (with career averages breaking the ties), the Heroes list, and...

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   Welcome back, Caller!                                                        
   Tickets today: 8 of 8               Career points: 0   Wins: 0               
                                                                                
   THE MIDWAY                                                                   
                                                                                
     [1] Ring Toss            1 tkt  best 0                                     
     [2] Duck Shoot           ■ locked                                          
     [3] Balloon Darts        ■ locked                                          
     [4] High Striker         ■ locked                                          
     [5] Whack-A-Mole         ■ locked                                          
     [6] Fun House Maze       ■ locked                                          
     [F] ????? ?????        the last tent stays dark... for now                 
                                                                                
     [H] High Scores / Heroes / Egg Hunters                                     
     [I] How the carnival works    [X] Tunes: OFF    [Q] Leave the midway       
                                                                                
                                                                                
       BARKER: "Win a game of Ring Toss and I'll open the Duck Gallery!"        
                                                                                
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your first night: one booth lit, five dark, and six empty stands on your prize shelf

THE SECRETS

Six easter eggs hide around the lot. Some are typed. Some are luck. Some take skill... or curiosity. Every egg you find takes its place on your prize shelf - it follows you across every screen - and lands you on the EGG HUNTERS leaderboard. Zoltar sees all, and might, for a coin, say more.

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the Ring Toss - where every season begins

FEATURES

▼ DOWNLOAD CARNIVAL.ZIP ▼ Season One v2026.7.31 - Win64 / Win32 / Linux / RasPi - sysop docs & config included
      CARNIVAL - SEASON ONE  v2026.7.31
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   Six carnival booths... but only ONE is
   open tonight. Play, win, and the Barker
   opens the midway piece by piece. Daily
   tickets, hidden easter eggs, a prize
   shelf, three secret endings, and one
   FINAL NIGHT showdown. ~A month to beat.
   Only heroes finish a season.
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   ANSI music * multinode * Linux/Win32/
   Win64/MSDOS/Raspberry Pi
   (c) 2026 Alexander Corris

SYSOP QUICK START

; unpack, edit carn.cfg (set BBSNAME), then for example:

; Mystic (Linux):
carnival -D/mystic/temp1/door32.sys

; Raw socket:
carnival.exe -S%SOCKET% -N%NODE%

; Local console test (prompts for a name):
carnival

Full details, multinode notes, and troubleshooting are in carnival.doc inside the zip. Callers need ANSI; the door politely declines ASCII sessions.

S E A S O N  2

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The Barker's keys have not been claimed.

Season Two begins when a Hero finishes Season One.

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