It all begins with Dr. Oddfellow, a powerful occultist who used a traveling circus as a cover to harness dark supernatural forces tied to the Zodiac. Everything he built was rooted in control, from the performers he manipulated to the rituals he carried out behind the scenes.

The carnival wasn’t just entertainment; it was a machine designed to channel fear and sacrifice into power.

Then there’s Jack.

Jack started as a killer who turned himself into a clown, using performance as a way to get close to his victims. When he joined Oddfellow’s carnival, the two became part of the same system, but for very different reasons.

Oddfellow saw the circus as a tool for precision and purpose, while Jack turned it into something unpredictable, using it as a stage for increasingly chaotic and
theatrical violence.

As Jack’s behavior grew more dangerous and drew attention, Oddfellow decided to eliminate the problem. He killed Jack and sealed him inside a box, believing he had contained the chaos for good. But the box didn’t just hold Jack. It transformed him.

Clawing Oddfellow’s face just before he was entombed, Jack became fueled by the dark energy
surrounding the carnival and the power of the Cane of Souls.

Jack returned as something no
longer human. He broke free, killed Oddfellow, and took control of the circus, reshaping it into the Carnival of Carnage, a nightmare fueled by fear, spectacle, and blood.

But Oddfellow didn’t stay dead.
Because of the power he had been building, his essence was pulled into the realm of the Zodiac, where he finally took full control of the forces that had once influenced him. When he returned, he was transformed as well, no longer just a man, but something far more powerful, wielding what had become the Dark Zodiac.

Now, both of them exist, bound to the same power and the same world.

Jack embodies chaos, turning everything into performance and destruction, while Oddfellow represents control, manipulating events and bending reality to his will.

They are opposing forces, but they are also connected. Neither of them would exist in this form without the other.

That dynamic is where our haunted house begins.