Midnight Pals: Haunted Home (Patreon)

Ai Jiang: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the town where all the houses are hauntedBarker: that rulesKing: yeah that sounds really coolJiang: oh you would thinkJiang: but in factJiang: it's actually kind of depressing

Ai Jiang: so my family just moved into a new house todayJiang: Movin' was hard but we got squared awayJiang: Bells started ringin' and chains rattled outJiang: I knew we'd moved in a haunted house

Jiang: see, in this townJiang: you move into a houseJiang: and BAM! it becomes hauntedJiang: guaranteedBrian Asman: where is this town?Asman: i need to know for reasonsJiang: oh you couldn't get a house thereJiang: it's very exclusive

Jiang: there's a really long waiting list to get a house thereJiang: cuz the ghost that you're assignedJiang: will actually turn out to be the ghost of someone you lovedKing: oh! i mean, that sounds good right?Jiang: yeah yeah it's goodJiang: or is it???King: oh no!

Jiang: just think about what it would be like if your departed loved ones just hung aroundKing:Poe:Barker:Lovecraft:Koontz:Jiang: like all the timeJiang: it'd get old real fast, believe me

Jiang: the mom is obsessed with the ghost of her dead sonJiang: so she makes his favorite food Jiang: every goddamn dayJiang: youtiaoJiang: what are we supposed to do, live on youtiao?Jiang: give me a break!Jiang: living people need other nutrientsJiang: we need protein!

King: what's a youtiao?Jiang: it's like a donutKing: oh really? King: i don't know, doesn't sound so badKing: i think i could live on donutsJiang: oh yeah that's what they all say

Jiang: just imagineJiang: eating nothing but donuts every dayJiang: i think the living would envy the deadKing: but wait, aren't the dead also eating youtiao...?Jiang: you heard meJiang: if someone you loved just hung around after they diedJiang: like you'd never be able to move onJiang: you'd be doomed to be forever stuck in the pastJiang: a shadow of what you could beKoontz: whoooaaaaKoontz: it'd be likeKoontz: YOU were the ghost!

Jiang:Jiang: oh yeah that's pretty goodJiang: this kid's pretty brightPoe: yeah that's our deanPoe: we're all very proud of him