Episode Details

            For tonight’s tale, we join a public servant on her first day at her government job. Typically, that would be the sort of thing to make her parents proud. This is especially true considering their humble expectations for their daughter. Armed with a liberal arts degree and a boundless imagination, her parents naturally expected very little from her. Those expectations were further diminished by her involvement in the incident in the ruined village.            

            Their wayward daughter foolishly ventured into the ruined village to engage with its denizens. This was done at the behest of one of her teachers who insisted on engaging her in their liberal-arts nonsense. While she was there, she was confronted by a crazed old man who screamed at her about his obsession with trash. That lunatic attracted the attention of a second lunatic, who inflamed the chaos with his undying vendetta against the old man. Fortunately, she was rescued by them boys and their River Road crew. Unfortunately for her, she was then threatened by Sachiko, the ethereal serpent deity who had claimed the village as her own. As a result, the young woman decided to document the experience.

            The article, which humiliated her parents to no end, was largely ignored by the general public. Yet there were creatures that lurked in the darkened edges of society that did read the article. Government employees, who had taken it upon themselves to find out what was going on in that God-damned village, decided to use her article for their research. More accurately, they wanted to use her article instead of doing research. So they hired her to join a team they had assembled to deal with the nonsense going on in that village.

            The team, which is led by Sachiko and Tomisaburo, was charged with controlling the nonsense in the village. Their first task was to assist the spider, a ruined creature produced by the Cult of the Spider to bolster their ranks. This creature needed help finding victims to feed upon. Tomisaburo couldn’t be bothered to even show up, and Sachiko couldn’t decide who to feed to this ruined creature. But the public servant, who still had the voice of the crazed old man ringing in her ears, knew exactly who the first victim should be. Unfortunately for her, that choice put her at odds with the rest of the village. Especially the River Road crew.

            This tale deals with themes of parental shame, body horror, supernatural elements, governmental incompetence, and violence. Furthermore, it deals with alcohol abuse, animal endangerment, vampirism, and profanity. Listener discretion is advised.