What is WeirdFest?
It’s part literary festival, part cosmic adventure, and part community fair, plus, a renewed sense of possibilities.
Lost Treasure will operate as usual, but for those who purchase the $10 Reality Disengagement Manual, the familiar becomes extraordinary: a full-fledged alternate reality game (ARG) packed with characters, clues, interactive zones, and surreal surprises.
Players complete zine-based challenges, earn interdimensional certifications, and explore creative mini-games in designated Rift Activation Zones (RAZs) while engaging with local authors, artists, organizations, and businesses woven into the narrative. Whether you’re into cryptids or the cosmos, DIY lit or freaky fashion, you belong here.
Rift Activation Zones
Play through Lost Treasure’s previously unexplored Rift Activation Zones to encounter aliens, cryptids, and secret missions sponsored by our Big Time Weirdo Sponsors!
Big Time Weirdo Sponsors
How It Works
Step 00 (Attendees with Psychic Abilities ONLY)
You already know how rad this will be, so you’re going to pre-order your official Reality Disengagement Manual right now while supplies last; then, on September 19, you can check in at the Pre-Cog Pick-Up Portal to miss the Procrastinator Pick-Up Portal lines.
Interdimensional Fine Print
*The Trans-Dimensional Registrar of the Carteret Cluster Slipstream (TRICCS) is the bureaucratic body responsible for documenting, monitoring, and occasionally authorizing limited public engagement with layered realities in and around the Carteret Cluster of the multiverse.
WeirdFest has been sanctioned as a one-time, controlled access event due to a rare confluence of dimensional overlap across Base Dimension CC-000-975-976, with partial bleed-throughs from the Outer Banks Subreality Bubble and other adjacent anomalies.
Engagement with the slipstream is time-bound. After September 19, 2026, all cross-dimensional access points are expected to reseal until further notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM PLP’S MANUFACTURING DIVISION
Order Now – $10 Limited Time Pre-Cog Rate – Valid Thru August 2026
Due to supply chain instability across several timelines, please note that production quantities for the Official Reality Disengagement Manual (RDM) are limited.
Components currently impacted include:
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SC-1 VANTA-LITE™: A proprietary non-reflective substrate used in the manufacture of the TRICCS-issued Decognition Device required for several assignments.
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Temporal Mylar: Used in the binding to allow time-anchored page flipping.
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Null-Ink 404™: Ink that only reveals its contents under specific dimensional frequencies.
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Stabilite® Sheathing Threads: Required for the Interdimensional Containment Sheaths to prevent spontaneous phase leakage.
Pre-order now to ensure receipt of a fully authorized, dimensionally stable manual. Quantities are limited by current events in both local and speculative supply chains.
The Anthology: Why We’re Doing This
WeirdFest is a fundraiser for Weird Tales from Waves End Retreat, an upcoming anthology of Weird Lit by various authors, inspired by the beachside trailer estates of the Crystal Coast, edited by Planck Length Publishing.
By participating in WeirdFest, you help us publish stories that bring our coast’s folklore, monsters, quantum anomalies, and haunted histories to life.
