Lots of people have odd things to say or nonsensical comments to make. Characters are strange, distortions of organic life and inanimate objects and the world itself is at times literally upside down, with paths leading in circles or nowhere in particular. At times reminiscent of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, a Brothers Grimm fairy tale at its most macabre, or a trippy Lewis Carroll through-the-looking glass pipe dream, Lost in Random is full of weirdness at every turn. Lost in Random’s narrative takes bits and pieces from not only the classic hero’s journey, but other tried-and-true story templates, like the stranger-in-a-strange-land conceit so popular in fantasy. Because the hero’s journey demands an ally, Even encounters Dicey, the seemingly last surviving member of a race of enchanted, magical dice, relics of a long-lost happier time before the Queen ruled the land.
Even sneaks out of her home in the middle of the night, determined to find her way to the land of the sixes and retrieve her sister. Odd rolls a six and is whisked away to the Queen’s own realm, essentially kidnapped. Odd has turned twelve, and the Kingdom of Random’s Queen appears on Odd’s birthday to have the girl throw the magical Dark Dice, the outcome of which will determine where she is to live out her life. Lost in Random is a classic hero’s journey, in this case casting a young girl named Even in the starring role, as she embarks on a lengthy quest to rescue her older sibling, Odd.
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