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DR WELLING FROM SAM'S STATEMENT IN 28 EPISODE?!?!!?

AND IT CONNECTED WITH THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE!!! IT MUST BE HIM!!!!!!!

I'M NOT CRAZY IT'S HIMMMMMMMMM

Can you blame him

hey so what did Arthur mean when he kept calling Kayne daddy. Why did he do that

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure Jane Prentiss actually just sent Jon the equivalent of a 'your man's a little busy right now' text

"Keep him, we've had our fun"

What

Me when I started listening

god this podcast is like 10% mystery, 10% description, and 80% arthur whimpering and moaning and writhing in pain

merry crisis everyone

And a happy new fear

I swear I've been cursed to discover a new creepy deepy horror podcast to obsess over the MOMENT my exams are about to start because this shit is ridiculous

Martin's DRASTIC change in season 5 is always fantastic to see. My man went from being the sweetest, most soft spoken character in the cast to "OI DICKHEAD GET DOWN HERE SO WE CAN KICK YOUR ARSE" and i could not be more proud

XVI The Tower

Who’d want to be human anyway? Who pilots all these crude machines?

Wait that is actually a really fucking good theory hold on

Hey so, I have a theory. You know how Kayne says Arthur and the Black Stone are kind of similar in that he can't quite grasp them?

And how he sings about everything in Arthur's bag, but notibly leaves out the lighter?

And how This Too Shall Pass is a phrase that Arthur has held on to from a young age to the point that he even put it in a poem he wrote trying to deal with the loss of his parents?

And how the light cuts through darkness and is an object of safety? (And can only be doused by water which ... well we know is a theme)

And how time and dimensional travel is happening right now?

(Also perhaps interesting to note one Nyarlathotep's avatars is said not to be able to tolerate light, which could be true of other version of him)

What if the Lighter is made from/is the Black Stone. Arthur gets it for Kayne because he needs to fufill the deal, but knows he needs a fail safe or just double crosses him or maybe Lillth interupts and kills Kayne/gets the stone for herself.

So he takes hides it or a piece of it. Makes it into the flint, or maybe just hides it inside the lighter itself. Tries to Back to the Future it and sends it to his office, but it arrives too early and Roland gets it.

But it doesn't matter because all that matters is that he has the lighter at the approprate time

Because he's had the Black Stone the whole time.