
More recent plot points include the resolution of the Blood Space War, the aging of Lee Marvin, the town being brought back into the normal flow of time, and the whereabouts of the missing Delta flight 18713. The early plot point of a miniature city buried under the town's bowling alley resurfaced after this, in addition to the sporadic appearance of Huntokar, a deer-headed deity with connections to both the tiny city and Night Vale's unusual nature. The series's fourth anniversary in June 2016 coincided with a two-part climax to the most recent storyline: the invasion of Night Vale by mysterious strangers, led by a demonic beagle puppy accidentally summoned from Hell by Chad Bowinger, a former radio intern. Major stories have included the development of a romantic relationship between Cecil and Carlos the stranding of several characters, including Carlos, in a "desert otherworld" the invasion of Night Vale by the corporation StrexCorp, from the rival town of Desert Bluffs, and StrexCorp's eventual expulsion from Night Vale the 2014 mayoral elections, with subsequent terrorist activities by failed mayoral candidates The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home and Hiram McDaniels and the complications surrounding McDaniels's subsequent imprisonment and trial. Another running joke is the low survival rate of interns at the radio station the only interns, former and present, who are currently alive include (in order of appearance) Cecil, Chad Bowinger, Dana Cardinal, Maureen, and Kareem.Ĭharacters and narratives often emerge and develop slowly, while unrelated stories may combine to form new plot points. The writers employ running jokes and plot arcs for example, The Glow Cloud, one of the series's most iconic characters, hypnotizes the townspeople with its colors and noxious gas, making people chant "ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD," and eventually becomes president of Night Vale's school board. Individual episodes usually function as standalone narratives and only rarely contain significant developments in story line.

Welcome to Night Vale 's plot consists of long-form storytelling. When the book became available for preorder the following March, it became Amazon's number-two title seven months ahead of its October release date. Fink stated that "it's going to have all the characters and weird atmosphere that you want from Night Vale, with a brand new story that explores parts of Night Vale that we just haven't been able to get into with the podcast". In addition, it was announced during the episode "The Auction" that a novel would be published in 2015. In October 2013, Welcome to Night Vale began presenting live shows, which continued into 2014 with a tour of the West Coast.

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The theme and background instrumental music to the series were created by the musician and composer Disparition.

See also: List of Welcome to Night Vale episodesĮvery episode of the podcast includes a piece of music as "the weather", each by a different independently published artist. The podcast typically airs on the first and fifteenth of every month, and consists of "news, announcements and advertisements" from the desert town, located "somewhere in the Southwestern United States." In an interview with NPR, Joseph Fink said that he "came up with this idea of a town in that desert where all conspiracy theories were real, and we would just go from there with that understood." Production Cecil Baldwin as Cecil in the live episode "The Investigators" during the 2015 UK tour. Cecil Gershwin Palmer-the host, main character, and narrator-is voiced by Cecil Baldwin, while secondary characters are sometimes voiced by guest stars or recurring guests-such as Dylan Marron, who voices Carlos the Scientist. Published by Night Vale Presents since March 15, 2015, the podcast was previously published by Commonplace Books. The series was created in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Welcome to Night Vale is a fiction podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it.
