#psycho phantom

Just by the chapter title...Vlad's in this chapter, ain't he?

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Vlad Masters," the man said

Nailed it.

So yeah, Vlad visits Freakshow, that carnival/fair/circus guy?  Oh.

Oh.

I already see the Psychonaut tie.  SPOILERS FOR THE GAME. See, the last level, for those who don't know, takes place in a demonic "Meat Circus," that results from two of the main characters' psyches.  One, the antagonist, had a horrible butcher for a father, and the other, the player character, ran away from his circus folk family.  The combination is both characters' nightmare world.  

Freakshow=circus guy.

But enough of obvious ties, back to the story.

"Have you heard of a certain Reality Gauntlet?"

"Been there, done that," Freakshow mumbled. He sat on the floor and laid his head in his hands. "For all I know the ghost boy has destroyed it by now."

...

"You don't have to remind me!" Freakshow snapped. Then he drew back. "Actually, it might be helpful if you did. I can barely remember the whole ordeal. After he beat me and handed me over to the Guys in White, he wiped some memory out of my mind. Oh, how I wish I knew what it was…" He paused and rubbed his temples. "But the one thing I did learn from using the gauntlet was that you were his arch enemy."

"Ah, so that's how you knew me… and I bet Daniel wiped his true identity from your mind."

Don't you love fan fiction plot conveniences?  Anyway, they go back and forth on some "ghost artifacts" from the show, like some stuff from the Ghost King arc, and hitting on Freakshow's staff thingy, until...

"Ah, of course. Have you ever heard of the Orb of Tesla?"

Vlad clearly hadn't, because he perked up when he heard the name. "Go on."

"Yes, a mystical orb designed by an ancient ghost. The orb is supposed to enable its user to teleport anywhere they want." Freakshow waited for Vlad's reaction.

"You do realize I'm half-ghost? I can already teleport," Vlad scoffed.

"Ah, but can you teleport to other dimensions?" Freakshow had been waiting to spring this bit of information.

...

"Tesla designed the orb so that she could get from the Ghost Zone to the human plane. Of course, there are multiple other planes that the orb can travel to, if someone were to get their hands on it."

And here we have our way to Whispering Rock Summer Camp.  And that's where the chapter ends.  So far, it doesn't seem too bad...the characters seem fairly well written, the writing was a bit on the repetitive side, but I'll let it slide, seeing how it was the first chapter, and there wasn't really much to it.  Plus, it was mostly dialogue driven, trying to set up the plot too, so, like I said, I'll let it go.  For now.

Until the next chapter!