Midnight Pals: Revenge Arc (Patreon)

Cat Voleur: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the revenge arcVoleur: it's about a woman who makes a webcomic about dark web torturesVoleur: but when her biggest fan starts to take things too seriouslyVoleur: things start to getVoleur: TOO real

Voleur: it's an epistolary novelBram Stoker: yesVoleur: about sketchy internet stuffEve Harms: yes

Voleur: you gotta watch yourself on the dark webVoleur: or you might even becomeVoleur: roadkill on the information superhighwayStephen King: ah haha hahahah!King: that's a good one!Voleur: yeah i thought you would like thatKing: ah ha ha! roadkill! information super highway!King: hahaha that slays me!

Cat Voleur: she's making an extreme horror comic all about the dark webPoe: oh, so keenspace?Voleur: what? No! the DARK webPoe: oh!Poe: so drunk duck?King: "roadkill on the information superhighway!" ha ha ha!

Stephen King: I know all about webcomicsKing: they're like comics but on the internetKing: you put them on keenspaceGrady Hendrix: [flipping skateboard] "keenspace?"Hendrix: get with it, old man!Hendrix: it's comicgenesis now!

Poe: how do you know about webcomics, steve?King: oh scott mccloud was talking about themScott McCloud: to understand a comic, you must picture an infinite plane in 8 dimensions, bisecting the dreamscape unilaterally foreverMcCloud: a comic is like a dream your butt has

Voleur: anyway, this woman makes an extreme webcomicVoleur: not your dad's webcomic! it's real EDGYFrank Belknap Long: like Jack?Voleur:Voleur: sure, edgy like JackVoleur: but not furry

Voleur: so the fan kidnaps her and tortures herVoleur: but her absence doesn't raise any eyebrows because she put her webcomic on hiatusVoleur: and i don't think you all understand how long the average webcomic hiatus is

King:King: how long is the average webcomic hiatus?Voleur: i mean, technically it dependsVoleur: there's the "i'm busy with midterms" hiatusVoleur: and the "not enough of you are signing my guestbook" hiatusKing: how long do they last?Voleur: foreverVoleur: they both last forever

Voleur: the guy who tortures her is all "ah yes. so good of you to come to my lair. but you must ask yourself… am i the monster of your dreams? or am i the hero of your nightmares? is this your curse… or your destiny? you could have been the ace of knives. yet you chose to play the fool."

Voleur: "have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light? do you believe in the power of a curse? can you remember the tallest man you've ever seen? do you love to go awanderin' beneath a clear blue sky? have you noticed what big star real estate agents have become?"