MULTIVERSAL DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ALL FICTION
In 2018 I wrote a book called Walk Outside: The Warlock’s Guide. I styled it like a journal, and put intense focus into it. I really wanted to show off a particular skill by writing it, designing the diagrams inside it, and even placing treasure week after week in Mammoth Cave near Cedar City. It was the wildest coffee table book I could imagine, the kind of thing I’d love to have stumbled across in some dusty book store. (Hey, I was an 80’s kid, and we only had like ten movies we watched on repeat, okay?) It wasn’t exactly a money-making enterprise, but I was getting some really good team-building exercise design time in. I was also head-up-my-kiester determined to live as my “authentic self” as an “artist” and an “author”.
IF SOMEONE HAS TO TALK ABOUT BEING THEIR AUTHENTIC SELF, LOL
One day I got an unexpected knock at my front door. A particular young man had read my book and felt strongly enough about it to come to my apartment, and wanted to know if he could come in. I was baffled, invited the young man in, where he sat on my living room floor. The next word he spoke was the most surprising of all:
He bowed and said, “Master.”
My guts dropped, and I rapidly announced, “This is FICTION. This is a TREASURE HUNT.”
It went poorly afterwards. He’d lost a feeling of certainty that the story offered him. I unpublished that novel pretty quickly after that. It became a powerful lesson on discerning just how significantly a believed-in story can impact a person’s life, to the point they think it’s reality. And there’s often some reason to buy into a story. Maybe to kill the pain, maybe to feel something else. I suspect that this one unlucky fellow was looking, perhaps, for some sense of belonging beyond himself.
So, just to keep any of you from thinking this is real, the entirety of the works on this site are to be considered interpretive works of fiction and design.
-Bobby Ennis
FURTHERMORE, MY ADVICE: DON’T DO IT.
Even if you are allured by some realistic location imagined somewhere on these pages, my exact advice to you is to not even think of attempting to risk going anywhere even remotely potentially, for any reason at all. Should you choose to attempt something for any reason, consult your primary care physician, etc.