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Riley and his friends walk into the town of Carousel and onto a film set that never ends — a patchwork of living horror movies where everyone is assigned an archetype. Riley draws Film Buff: the guy who always knows how the movie ends and never survives to see it.
Progression: trope literacy as a stat sheet — genre knowledge, roles, and rewards earned by surviving each 'film'.
Reader fit: you love horror movies enough to laugh at them and want that knowledge weaponized.
Texture: eerie, clever, affectionate toward its slashers.
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