Midnight Pals: Prog
Todd Keisling: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call the tale of the yellow kings
Keisling: so there's this progressive rock band making an album based on the yellow king
Keisling: with a cover by our greatest living artist roger dean
Dean Koontz: hey! that's my name too!
Keisling: that's no coincidence boy
Keisling: so there's this groupie
Keisling: camilla
Keisling: and she's got ideas for the band's music
Keisling: horrifying apocalyptic ideas
Keisling: she's going to have everyone take off their masks
Robert W Chambers: i get it!
Keisling: they're going to cause an apocalypse with the power of progressive rock
Dean Koontz: wow progressive rock sounds pretty dangerous
Keisling: only in the wrong hands, dean
Keisling: the power of progressive rock turned to evil, like Univers Zero or Van Der Graaf Generator, can be devastating
Keisling: but turned to the light...
Keisling: take a look at this album, dean, pretty cool huh?
Keisling: oh dean
Keisling: prepare to have the doors of perception
Keisling: blown right off their hinges
Kiesling: check this out dean, i think you'll really like this music
Poe: whoa todd this might be a little advanced for dean
Kiesling: no don't worry i'll start him off slow
Kiesling: let's start you off with some Yes
Dean Koontz: Yes?
Keisling: yeah i think you can handle it
Koontz: why is there a scary zombie on the cover?
Keisling: that's steve howe
Keisling: actually dean on second thought
Keisling: Yes might be a little much for your first time
Keisling: let's start you with Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
Keisling: behold, my record collection!
King: wow this is quite the collection todd!
King: you know, you could save a lot of space if you went digital
Keisling: yeah but
Keisling: vinyl just has a warmer sound ya know?
Keisling: dean i think you're really going to like this band
Keisling: it's called jethro tull
Poe: whoa whoa dean is not ready for that
Keisling: oh don't worry i'm not playing thick as a brick or anything
Keisling: just bungle in the jungle
Keisling: you'll like it dean it's about animals
Koontz: can i listen to this album?
Keisling: Crack the Sky? no dean that's the ayahuasca of prog
Keisling: you want the flintstones chewable vitamins of prog
Keisling: here, try some tarkus
Dean Koontz: [vibrating while listening to headphones, blood gushing from nose] of course i understand it all
Keisling: Dean! No!
Keisling: Not Gentle Giant!
Keisling: it's too much, too soon!
Koontz: each day actually consists of four days occurring simultaneously
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Overheard in Westchester
Noah: A gingerbread man sits in a gingerbread house. Is the house made of flesh or is he made of house? He screams for he does not know.
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Lily: I talk pretty tough for someone with a soft, fluffy bunny heart full of feelings.
Waverly: I talk a lot about tolerance and understanding for someone who is always 2 seconds away from serious violence.
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Ava: If you need someone to validate your life choices, I don’t believe I’m the one you should be discussing them with.
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Stacy, texting: Waverly and Andy just built a flamethrower.
Lucas: Oh my god.
Stacy: Yeah, you should probably get over here.
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Andy: Dan mumbled, “The trees”, and when I asked him, “What about them?”, he yelled, “WE NEED THEM FOR OXYGEN”, then went back to sleep.
Lucas: We need to get on his level.
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Waverly: Someone else needs to be the bad example in our group.
Ava: But you wear shame so well.
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Dan: If I don’t get my shit together, I’m going to be one of those really fucked up cases on 1000 ways to die.
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Noah: We definitely need to avoid these “I’m gonna get stabbed if I stay here any longer” parties.
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Jocelyn: I just tried making my own Red Bull with crushed-up caffeine pills, sparkling water, and Flintstones chewable vitamins.
Jocelyn: Apparently, Cody thinks I’m “lucky to be alive”.
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Conner: And it was in that moment when I realized that these high schoolers looked up to me and that I should set a good example. So I stole a casserole and left.
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Lily: This is your chance to do the right thing.
Britney: I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.
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Lucas: Well, onto Plan 2.
Stacy: Plan B, you mean?
Lucas: That would imply I only have twenty-six plans.
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Cody: What does it mean when you have a bunch of crows hanging out in your backyard? Asking for a friend.
Waverly: It means you have new friends!
Cody, forgetting who he’s talking to: Are these good new friends or “death is coming” sort of new friends?
Waverly: Yes!
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Noah to Waverly in Mr. Red’s house: I'm the one who got us into this mess and I'll be the one who gets us much, much deeper into this mess.
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Cora: I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but make more money as a leader.
Lucas: What the fuck.
Ava, with a notebook in hand: *in awe* There is so much we don't know about you.
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Ava: Who the fuck added me to a fucking group chat?
Stacy: language
Lily: Yeah, watch your fucking language
Waverly: OKAY WHO TAUGHT LILY THE FUCK WORD?
Andy: 'The fuck word'
Dan: Are you stupid? You guys use the f word all the time
Lily: Oh my god Dan censored it
Waverly: Say fuck, Dan.
Lily: Do it, Dan. Say fuck.
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Ava: Why would you do this?!
Noah: Because I feel guilty.
Waverly: Guilt is a trick emotion. It’s put there by your parents to stop you from doing things that feel good, LIKE BEING FUCKING ALIVE!
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Lucas: I don't think we can masplain, manipulate or malewife our way out of it this time.
Andy, cracking his knuckles: Manslaughter it is.
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Andy: I wish I was a cat, but not in a furry kinda way, more like a “I can sleep all day and hit people with no consequences” kinda way.
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Lucas : Rules weren't made to be broken. They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken.
Stacy : Uh, piñatas.
Lily: Glow sticks.
Ava : Karate boards.
Noah: Spaghetti when you have a small pot.
Waverly: Rules.
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