Midnight Pals: The Weed that Makes you Depressed (Patreon)

Algernon Blackwood: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the haunted weed
Blackwood: so there's this weed that's SO dank
Blackwood: that if you smoke it
Blackwood: a ghost will get you
Poe: yeah that is
Poe: that is pretty dank

Blackwood: see, this weed is SO DANK that a humor writer smoked it
Blackwood: and he just got super depressed
Blackwood: he couldn't even reassure his readers that he was not making it up

Blackwood: so this humorist smoked the weed that makes you depressed, says life seems harsh and cruel, says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Blackwood: John Silence says, 'Treatment is simple.'
Blackwood: 'The Great humorist Pagliacci is in town tonight.'

Fitz James O'Brien: hey guys
O'Brien: check it out, i got the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: why do you even have that?
Poe: how is there possibly a market for that?

Franz Kafka: can i try it?
O'Brien: no no no franz this is too strong for you
O'Brien: only someone naturally ebullient and hilarious can handle this dank nug
Kim Newman: [bowtie spinning] heyza heyza i just flew in from albaquerie and boy are my arms tired
Newman: what's this about dank nugs

King: look! it's kim newman!
Poe: oh good i could use a laugh
Kim Newman: siiighhh
King: you feeling ok, kim?
Newman: i dunno, i just haven't been my usual jokey self
Newman: i've just been so depressed
Newman: it must be because i smoked the weed that makes you depressed

Newman: so i smoked the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: you smoked the what?
Newman: the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: the weed that makes you depressed?
Newman: yeah the weed that makes you depressed
Poe: excuse me?
Newman: i gotta tell you about this weed
Newman: it made me depressed

Blackwood: so anyway John Silence has to fight the weed that makes you depressed
Blackwood: but it makes him see visions of phantom cats
Lovecraft: i don't understand how this would make anyone depressed
Lovecraft: seems pretty great to me, honestly!