Midnight Pals: The Truth (Patreon)

Kit Power: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the song that makes you tell the truthPower: so there's this songPower: if you hear it, you have to always tell the truthPower: OR DIE

Power: after hearing this song, you always have to tell the truthPower: if you lie, it'll make your head explodePower: the problem isPower: it's really hard to run a society without lyingPower: try it sometime, i'm sure you'll agree

Lovecraft: i don't understandLovecraft: why is this bad?Barker: how do you feel about august, howard?Lovecraft:Barker: tell the truthAugust Derleth: we're best buds right howard?Derleth: best best budsLovecraft: [sweats]

Power: so now this guy has to stop the spread of the songPower: before people stop being able to liePower: and start being real

Barker: how's the song go?Power:Power: well i'm not going to sing it nowBarker: c'monBarker: c'mon do itPower: noBarker: do it you pussyPoe: clive stop itPoe: we don't want to hear the song that makes you always tell the truth

Power: ok ok okPower: well it's kind of like thisPower: one and one make twoPower: two and one make threePower: its destinyKing: wait a secondPower: i should confess that this isn't the actual song that makes you always tell the truth

Kit Power: after hearing the song, this guy can't liePower: he's forced to admit that he's not too tired to have sex with his girlfriendPower: when really he just wanted to jack offChris DiLeo: oh shitDiLeo: that's a real problem

Power: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, what if you woke up one day and everyone just had a million dollarsKing: that sounds great!King: this time, it's definitely only going to have good effectsKing: I don't see any possible way that could go wrongPower: you would think so

Power: in fact, if everyone had a million dollars, it might just causePower: some problemsKing: how so?Power: well, have you ever heard of a little thing calledPower: economics?

Power: what if you just woke up with a big pile of moneyGeorge Romero: it's called UBIBarker: oh god here we goBarker: this lecture againRomero: it works!Romero: so they tried it in Norway and studies found