The player forums exploded.
News about the Carnival of Desire spread like wildfire—from the harrowing accounts of the few survivors who had managed to escape alive, to expert analyses of the dungeon's structure, and anxious discussions among the artist community.
[Has anyone heard of the Carnival of Desire? I heard only a handful of people survived!]
[I heard the members of the Themisia Guild were almost completely wiped out. Julian and Lily were both turned into candy.]
[Dungeons are getting more and more dangerous... Remember when we first started? The death toll was nowhere near this high.]
[It feels like Happy TV Network is deliberately increasing the difficulty to weed out the weak.]
But the comments drawing the most attention weren't about how dangerous the dungeon was.
[What about the Erebus Guild? I heard they participated too.]
[The Erebus Guild? The guild of that new god?]
