Moonlight Over a Ruined Village

            For tonight’s tale we follow a lone IT specialist as he whiles away his life working for a pharmaceutical company. However, this is no normal pharmaceutical company. For it has government contracts to produce chemical weapons that can be used to remove the bones from the living. Fortunately for out IT specialist, he knows all about those contracts. In fact, he is not even an IT specialist. He is a spy that was sent to that company to find those very chemicals. He was sent by none other than the spider deity, who has claimed control over the mountain village and the river village.             In his capacity as lord of these villages, he aims to find a cure for the victims of their cruel experiments. So he made his best disciple into his chief specialist and sent him to obtain the means to do so. However, between our specialist and the chemicals he needs to make that cure lurks a horror beyond imagination. For those chemicals are being kept in the domain of the creature known by its creators as the Skin Doll. This creature is the result of the horrific experiments being conducted at the facility, and is being kept alive for nefarious purposes.             Our specialist will have to enter the domain of this creature and ultimately deal with it. But out specialist has died before, only to be reborn as something beyond human. By the order of the spider deity, he fears no darkness. For the cult of the spider has claimed lordship over the entirety of both of these two villages, and that includes the denizens of the places too dark to even be imagined.             This tale contains themes of mutilation, medical horror, bureaucracy.  Human resources departments, office culture, occult activities, and profanity. Listener discretion is advised.

            In this episode, I will talk to you like a normal person and give you some insight into what it’s like to do field work in these two ruined villages. Please be warned that I will resort to the use of course language to do so. I may also mention violence, occult activities, and antisocial behavior. For those reasons, and probably others that I am too far gone to even notice, listener discretion is advised.

            For tonight’s tale, we revisit an incident that had a monumental impact on both the River Village and the Mountain Village. Yet we will not concern ourselves with that tale, for it was not true. Not only that, it was a shameful falsehood intended to cover up the folly of the wolves of the mountain. That had been charged with protecting the mountain, and they had been found lacking.             This is the tale of the young man who forced the wolves of the mountain to own up to their ineptitude. Our hero was a proud resident of the mountain village. He was proud of its rich history and cultural heritage. His ancestors called to him through these tales. For the mountain village was founded by fiercely rugged people who thrived amidst the supernatural elements of the strange, shadowy mountain. His ancestors made homes for themselves where others feared to even tread. For they dared to form an alliance with the dark elements of the mountain. Our hero stared into the dark places of the mountain, hoping to see what his ancestors saw.             But the dark places faded away when the tourists arrived. Soon, the tales our hero grew up with became entertainment for the throngs of tourists who come to the mountain to gawk at things other people told them were important. Our hero could no longer accept the fact that his village was becoming nothing more than a tourist attraction. So he found the worst tourist of the lot and whooped his ass. He whooped his ass good and proper. He whooped that ass in the spirit of his proud ancestors. And for that act of resistance to overtourism, he was expelled from his village.             Cast out of the light, he sought out the darkness. Yet he never suspected that the darkness had been creeping closer and closer to him all of his life. As he makes his way from the village, the cult of the Spider claims him for their own. They offer him a chance to join the darkness at the heart of the village. So he is faced with a choice. Should he make peace with the modern world, or should he embrace the inhuman forces that lurk in the darkness. The decision he ultimately makes shapes the fates of both villages. For the cult of the spider has come to power, and their members are everywhere.             This tale contains profanity, overtourism, violence, antisocial behavior, occult elements, and references to excessive alcohol consumption. Listener discretion is advised.

            For tonight’s tale, I explain why this week’s episode is late. I also give you a bit of insight into how these episodes are made, and what it's like to deal with the denizens of these villages. Though this is not a full episode, I still managed to include profanity in it for some reason. Listener discretion is advised.

            For tonight’s tale, we look upon an abandoned house. It was the scene of a horrific attack on a family that left one dead and two wounded. The attack was so brutal and savage that the surviving brothers could live there no longer. At least, that’s was version of the story that was told to a lone priest, who had previously been content to passively observe the village around him. However, this tale inspired him to take an active role in investigating the house. He is a member of a secretive sect that specializes in communing with the dead. Their practitioners are few and their methods are unconventional. Yet this lone priest from a renegade sect will dare to test their methods against whatever wickedness is lurking in that house.             When he enters the abandoned house, he is confronted with an angry ghost that forces him to question his sanity, his faith, and his mental fortitude. This test is brought to an abrupt conclusion when the doorbell rings. Behind the door, he is confronted by two hulking brutes that demand his signature. They have a terrible burden to place upon his shoulders, and they will not leave until he signs his name to their unearthly document and accepts that burden. If you’re familiar with the village, you probably know the dread burden that the priest is made to bear. It’s an ass whoopin, administered by them boys, who are back in town. They’ve returned to teach the priest to mind his manners and pick up after himself.             Humbled, our priest gets on the bus to make his way back to his home. Yet on the bus, he has a chance encounter that greatly changes the nature of his relationship with the village. Armed with a new outlook, our humble priest decides he is no longer content to watch others from the shadows. He now intends to become an active player in the tragedy that is our ruined village.             This tale contains profanity, violence, course language, and descriptions of antisocial behavior. Listener discretion is advised.