Part 2/2: I only have 5 players. "There must be 3 more people that have the same powers as us." I've been referring to the players as having a spark in their souls, and it's given them extra privileges [they can attune to waypoints for easy travel and started with a thematic feat].

Yep, there must.

Story 2, part 1/2: I wrote the epic tale of 8 artifacts for the 8 holidays, 4 season (4 greater and 4 less), 8 schools of magic, 8 days of the weeks, 8 months, they are bipyramids (8 sided), and usually use a d8 for ability.

2/2: Then they tied themselves to a rope, not allowing them to appear at the other end, and they just floated in nothing space, the mist.
Well, now they are in the carnival, and it will be closing, and I have to figure out:
"Where does it go, and where are we?"

Story 1, 1/2: They wanted to go into the Night Carnival before it opened. To prevent this, I made it not exist. They sent a minion through the empty boarders, and it appeared on the other end.

A thread of my examples of where it's affected me:

I gave my players fast travel way points [they attune to 3 as a party] to cut travel encounters and the map is huge. Anyways, we justify it by using the mist [the in-between space] and when they tried to rationalize it further, I said: They just seized to exsit then exsit again. They are skeptical.