A friendly desert community [Welcome to Night Vale]

Mortal Sky

Hello listeners. To start things off I’ve been asked to read this brief notice: the city council announces the opening of a new dog park at the corner of Earl and Summerset near the Ralph’s. They would like to remind everyone that dogs are not allowed in the dog park. People are not allowed in the dog park. It is possible you will see hooded figures in the dog park. Do not approach them. Do not approach the dog park. The fence is electrified and highly dangerous. Try not to look at the dog park, and especially do not look for any period of time at the hooded figures. The dog park will not harm you.

And now the news.

Welcome To Night Vale is a surreal horror comedy mock-radio show, made by the crew at Commonplace Books. Enjoy the sonorous voice of Cecil Baldwin, as he guides you through the casual life of a desert town where nothing is quite right.

Episodes are released bi-monthly, and feature awesome music.

Mortal Sky

Jimothy

I heard of this the other day when Noelle Stevenson reblogged a really funny series of "Guns Don't Kill People" ads related to the show. I googled it and now I'm very interested, though I've yet to listen.

Centipede Damascus

World as Myth

my favorite bit so far:

"remember, if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget."

Mortal Sky

Every episode has a few golden lines like that, yeah.

And the Weather is always perfect.

Mortal Sky

Just like Carlos's hair.

Abracadaniel

FUNNYJUNK?!

SCREECH OF THE FARG

funnyjunk is based off a server in nightvale

Veldrin

Ugh, that Steve Carlsburg.

What an ass.

Bucketman

Well I'm interested. I'll give it a listen tonight

Gustav

Am I actually looking forward to 10 hours in a car tomorrow? I might be.

Thank you PA Forum.

Grey Ghost

What about the Apache Tracker

What. An. Asshole.

SCREECH OF THE FARG

I would watch a night vale tv show where the podcast was the narration

Gatsby

I really love how inclusive, open-minded, and diverse a community Night Vale is despite being filled and harassed by eldritch horrors.

Gatsby

Not like Desert Bluffs

Moriveth

Gatsby wrote: »

Not like Desert Bluffs

Fuck Desert Bluffs!

And Steve Carlsburg!

Fugitive

I just left a very negative Yelp review for Telly the barber.

I would recommend everyone else do the same.

Veldrin

RIP Carlos' beautiful hair.

So handsome and perfectly formed.

Fugitive

For real though I heard nobody talking about this thing and then suddenly everyone was talking about it and Tumblr was going nuts.

Did something happen that caused it to explode? Did it actually exist before I knew about it?

Avraham

It's been going on for a full year, and now seems to have hit that point where there's enough word of mouth to spread like wildfire

Mortal Sky

Yeah, just word of mouth.

Metacortex

Always remember to use that mouth to produce words in a loud and clear manner, so as to facilitate the Sheriff's Secret Police recordings.

Gatsby

Also it's bi-monthly so that might be why it's taken a little longer to really reach more listeners.

Crimson King

so is there a point at which this stops being a halfassed creepypasta

Mortal Sky

At least it's a really solid archive, with a decent amount of replay value (I always seem to miss one or two lines per episode, at least, hen I have it on in the background). So the 30ish episodes that are up are plenty to start out.

BlankZoe

Crimson King wrote: »

so is there a point at which this stops being a halfassed creepypasta

Considering it is primarily a comedy podcast with creepy elements

the first episode?

Gatsby

Man I don't know what you been reading CK, but I'd love to see the creepypastas that are half as entertaining and self-aware as Hiram McDaniels, the five-headed dragon charged with resisting arrest and falsifying identification who's also poised as town favourite mayoral candidate based on a couple of his blog posts

nuka

@Rankenphile introduced @Weaver and I to episode 7 of this and we could not stop laughing. Shortly after I got myself all caught up to chapter 8.

Fugitive

Like, sometimes it dips into the "a thing showed up and is mysterious and unknowable and then left" well a little too often, but I just got to episode 13 and it is pretty fantastic.

Episode 13 is the second-person viewpoint episode

Avraham

Crimson King wrote: »

so is there a point at which this stops being a halfassed creepypasta

it is like a creepypasta that is intelligently and deftly written, sometimes absurdly amusing, sometimes genuinely chilling and unsettling, and in the end leaving you with an sobering but uplifting message about our shared humanity and shared vulnerability.

so uh, not like a creepypasta at all and never halfassed

Avraham

And you were pleased. Because you always wanted to hear about yourself on the radio.

Dead Legend

Avraham wrote: »

And you were pleased. Because you always wanted to hear about yourself on the radio.

This is true. My buddy wanted to be a radio DJ and so I would listen to his rookie segments and he would throw me a bone now and then with a shout out. It was cool.

I'm gonna give this thing a go when I have some time.

DHS

On an aesthetic level this really reminds me of John Hodgman's That is All, specifically the stuff in Today in Ragnarok, so color me intrigued and I'll have to check this out, because the off kilter alt-history is my favorite part of the Complete World Knowledge trilogy. Since that is over and done with, the looks to scratch a similar itch. I'll have to start listening.

Gatsby

The bit about the cave paintings being power washed off because their original discoverer, on religious grounds, didn't believe in the past still slays me

Langly

My friend's band got selected for the weather, gonna be awhile though before they get played

Rankenphile

I just listened to the Story About You.

Holy fucking shit that was beautiful.

Gandalf_the_Crazed

Oh hey, something new for me to get obsessed with.

Great.

GSM

Fugitive

Is this where we post our favorite Cecil fanart?

Gatsby

The thing that throws me off most about night vale fanart is that a lot of people draw Cecil with a bunch of tattoos.