Robot Wrangler Roy and The Carnival of Mister Sprocket

Mister Sprocket's Marvellous Travelling Carnival rolls into Halloway for its one yearly stand: striped canvas and strung lamps, a painted carousel, a brass strongman, a clockwork fortune-teller, and a Grand Finale the whole frontier has waited a lifetime to see. Halloway scraped its lean year down to this one bright week, and pinned all of it on the show.

Then the wonders begin to fail. The strongman drops its bar. The fortune-teller talks backwards. The carousel forgets which way the world turns. And the famous finale is promised each night and given on none. The town feels cheated, and the circuit's factor comes down with a kindly, mournful verdict and a strike order ready in his coat: end the great old show with its dignity about it, before it shames itself.

But Roy will not call a machine broken before anyone has gone and asked it what it is doing. And these wonders are failing on cue.

Warm, bright, full of heart. A standalone adventure; read in any order.