Shadow Carnival
9 zones, 8 links and 9 residents. It exists only inside its event window, and its map leaves the game once that window closes.
The map
The region's 8 links, laid over the game's painted map. Every node carries its zone's exploration art, the very picture the player already sees in game.
- ━Lantern Alley: its 4 links, the crossroads of the region
- 🛒Shop
- ▫number = loot lines the zone alone provides
- ┄The Big Top: a single link, you have to go through Pumpkin Field
- ┄The Macabre Carousel: a single link, you have to go through Lantern Alley
- ┄The Hall of Mirrors: a single link, you have to go through Lantern Alley
- ┄Park Platform: a single link, you have to go through Lantern Alley
What the map does not say: the loot is nearly the same everywhere
Each of the region's 9 zones gives the same 22 loot lines. This is the most useful fact about the region, and the one playing never reveals: out of the 251 lines the region holds, 198 are that repetition.
From 3 lines (The Big Top) to 8 (Pumpkin Field).
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- 8 Pumpkin Field
- 7 3 zones
- 6 The Hall of Mirrors · The Great Shiver
- 5 Park Platform
- 4 The Ghost Train
- 3 The Big Top
The direct consequence, and the answer to the question actually being asked: travelling to gather a resource from the common base is pointless. You travel for an altar, a resident, a shop, or for the three to eight lines the zone alone provides.
The fixed points
1 shop and 9 residents. They are what gives a reason to cross the map, and they never move.
The four regions
The game holds 4 regions, 1 permanent and 3 tied to an event. An event region is a region like any other, with one extra field: its window. The page does not change template when the window closes, it changes state.
A closed region keeps its map, its zones and its loot as reading material; it loses the >move button and gains its closing date. The wiki reads the same dataset either way, which means a future event has nothing to do to be archived: it already is.