Midnight Pals: Sea hides its dead
Megan Bontrager: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the sea hides its dead
Bontrager: where are the dead?
Bontrager: you'll never find 'em
Bontrager: and why's that?
Bontrager: cuz the sea is hiding them
Bontrager: so this big giant obelisk just rises up out of the ocean
HP Lovecraft: out of the o-ocean??
Bontrager: yup! right out of the deepest watery, sodden depths
Lovecraft: [sweats] nothing good comes from down there
Wile E Young: gotta love an obelisk
Bontrager: i know, right?!
Bontrager: they're the best
Bontrager: especially from the sea
Young: oh i don't know
Bontrager: ESPECIALLY FROM THE SEA
Bontrager: now naturally when you see a giant obelisk rise out of the sea
Bontrager: you would probably think it was related to that ancient eternal ocean-based cult that we all know and love
Lovecraft: an ocean based cult??
Bontrager: yes
Bontrager: very sodden
Bontrager: much watery
Bontrager: so naturally an obsessed academic investigates
Lovecraft: oh an obsessed academic? i like this part
Bontrager: yeah, i thought you would!
Barker: oh wow, howard likes an obsessed academic?
Barker: what a surprise
Barker: someone alert the media
Bontrager: there is something that you should know about this obsessed academic though
Bontrager: it's that he's a massive jerk!
Bontrager: who is sleeping with his grad student!
Lovecraft: hey! what are you trying to pull here??
Lovecraft: this isn't the literary fiction campfire!
Bontrager: but he puts together a team
Bontrager: but it turns out that everyone on this team has a dark secret
Bontrager: and before the end, in this watery tomb…
Bontrager: all secrets will be revealed!
Bontrager: all questions will be answered!
Bontrager: all socks will be sodden!
Bontrager: cuz it turns out that the eldritch god of this obelisk
Bontrager: forces you to confront your greatest trauma and atone
Koontz: like the guy in Star Trek V??
Bontrager:
Bontrager: what
Bontrager: no
Bontrager: not like star trek V
Bontrager: no, more like god would demand
Bontrager: i mean god is always demanding that kind of thing
Bontrager: it's kind of god's whole bit
Bontrager: why would you think of star trek
Koontz: i just thought
Koontz: i just
Koontz: god was in star trek V
Diane Duane: that was a false god, dean, and they destroyed him
Bontrager: look, the important thing is this eldritch god forces you to confront your trauma
Bontrager: and through it, you will do a personal growth
Bontrager: as you come to terms with some heavy shit
Bontrager: if you think about it, this eldritch god is actually really good for your mental health
Lovecraft: oh i don't like that :(