Midnight Pals: Down, Satan! (Patreon)
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Clive Barker: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the billionaire who
George Romero: boooo
Barker: shut up george let me finish
Romero: billionaires shouldn't be
Barker: oh my god LET ME FINISH
Romero: billionaires are bad
Barker: george where do you think i'm going with this story
Barker: do you think the point is gonna be that billionaires are good?
Romero:
Romero: only a dictatorship of the proletariat can stop the excesses of capital
Barker: so there's this super rich guy
Romero: only rich through the toil of the worker, i'll bet
Romero: labor is entitled to the value it creates!
Barker: oh my god will you stop interrupting me?
Poe: not so fun when it happens to you huh
Romero: you know what happens if the workers of the world unite?
Romero: they probably should, they only have one thing to lose
Dean Koontz: gosh, what's that?
Romero: their chains
Koontz: whoaaa
Barker: anyway there's this super rich guy
Barker: he's like
Barker: mega rich
Barker: like he's got like 20 scottish castles
Barker: each one with a room dedicated to big confectionery bins of bag-it-yourself candy
King: wow i didn't know you could be THAT rich
Barker: but get this
Barker: this rich guy is spiritually unfulfilled
Barker: you might find this surprising
Koontz: gosh i guess it goes to show money can't buy happiness
King: you sure said a mouthful, dean!
King: [to Poe] from the mouths of babes
Barker: so this rich guy decides to build a hell on earth to assuage his own spiritual torpor
King: wow clive that's wild!
King: where do you get your ideas?
Barker: oh you know just
Barker: just lookin' around
Barker: his whole plan is that the hell on earth will attract satan
Barker: so that will compel god to appear to rescue him
Barker: cuz he's the most important guy
Barker: you know, being rich and all
King: right, right
[meanwhile]
Elon Musk: eyyy mama mia
Musk: i feela da spiritually unfulfilled
Musk: i feela da spiritual torpor
Musk: what if i builda da hell on earth?
Musk: then da god, he come tella me i ama da good boy
Musk: looking into this
Musk: eyyyy i maka da hell on earth
Musk: with alla da besta torture implements
Musk: i calla it da x
Musk: now i waita for god to rescue me
[5 minutes later]
Musk: oops i torture alla da people!
Musk: disruptiano!
Musk: i wassa scared offa da roko's basilisk
Musk: but dissa whole time
Musk: da basilisk, he wassa me!!!
Musk: [looks in mirror, roko's basilisk reflected back] concerning!