fics by Erin Ptah

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act II)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, ensemble
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

When the curtain last fell on our heroes, they had just finished an ensemble song about how they weren't going to pay Strexcorp's rent...and Strex came down hard, fast, and armed with internationally-banned chemicals. Now the rebellion has to regroup, injuries have to be treated, distant armies have to be gathered, and, amidst all this, our flagship couple has to try openly communicating with each other.

It's the second half of the musical AU. Well, sort of. Hopefully it's enough of a close to give readers closure.

( Go go go Dana, you know what they say / Go go go Dana, you'll make it someday / Sha-la-la Dana, fight till you drop / We've heard the podcast -- you come out on top...!)

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 57-59)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, Hannah/Lucy, Lauren, Strex agents
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

In the wake of the Orange Grove debacle, Night Vale may be waking up to Strexcorp's dangers...and generalizing that to all outsiders, to Hannah and Lucy's dismay. Lauren, meanwhile, encourages her company to double down on its discipline. And in the middle of all this, Cecil and Carlos — at long last! — get their big duet.

( "Let's order, not request, to get perfection and get discipline, rejecting this direction where the skeptics and objectors win: use all the weapons in our deck, neglected though the bulk have been, till we correct the local lack of discipline!" )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 47-52)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil, Chad, Faceless Old Woman, Hiram, Marcus, Erika, Kevin, Pamela/Trish
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

It's the mayoral debate! Candidates sing their own praises, some Erikas pop in to do recruitment, and Kevin apologizes for the whole time-traveling-deer incident. Outside the studio, Pamela Winchell is falling back into her impending-retirement depression...until Trish Hidge offers her another encouraging Disney tune.

More recordings: Do You Want To Get A Condo, sung by businesscasuallabcoat!

( "We need one more angel in heaven! Need one more hand in the fight. Marcus, we have a need for you. It's tough but you're gonna get by." )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 41-43)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, scientists, Tamika and colleagues, Lucy/Hannah, Kevin, Carlo
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

Tamika Flynn and Lucy Gutierrez come up with an innovative partnership to keep up business at the Strex-beleagured White Sand Ice Cream Shop. Meanwhile, the science team does research on Kevin, leading Carlos to visit the station and get his own pseudo-soothing Strexy musical number.

Heads-up, this one has comedy cannibalism (we're doing a Sweeney Todd song, okay), as well as more Desert Bluffs-style "was that much blood really necessary."

( "For the Smiling God loves you tonight...your reflection in its smile is bright. For a while, try to smile and forget all your problems tonight...." )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 34-37)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Leann, Lauren, Daniel, Kevin, Vithya, Dana, the Man in the Tan Jacket, Masked Army
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

Kevin gets his big intro song to Night Vale (too bad he doesn't get any lines in it). The Man in the Tan Jacket gets a solo about what an awesome spy he is. And out in the otherworldly desert, Dana makes friends...and backup singers.

( For he's a fine, hard-working, patriotic, healthy, normal Strexcorp employee! )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 27-29)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Hannah/Lucy, Steve, Janice, Cecil, Tamika, Maureen, others
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

Thanksgiving comes and goes, with the traditional songs of praise to the Brownstone Spire. Tamika rallies her troops. And Cecil launches into a showstopper about supporting Night Vale's heroes. (He may have bitten off more than he can chew.)

Now with illustrations! Backless Red Chiffon, and Bloodstone Accessories.

( I'm through accepting limits 'cause Strexcorp says they're so / The people need a Voice that tells them what they need to know! )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 17-19)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, Steve, Tamika, PTA members, Strex officials
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

Strexcorp has taken over the Antiques Mall and the local bloodstone factory. Tamika breaks into the latter, then has to flee in a hurry. And Cecil and Carlos get a duet...but singing about real estate (especially evil real estate) isn't exactly the romantic couple's moment Cecil had been hoping for.

( Oh my unsmiling god you guys! Our Cecil's gonna win the prize! If there ever was a perfect couple, this one qualifies — )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 8-11)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, Janice, other kids, Steve, Dana, Hannah, Leann, Diane
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

While Janice and some of her friends have an enthusiastic singsong-y game at the park, Steve and our other heroes commiserate about what Strex's plans are. Elsewhere, Dana walks through a desert, and hopes she can at least get a solo.

There's now a recorded version of Good Morning Night Vale, by Oppopanax! And I love it to bits =3

( What can't we face if we're together? / What's in this town that we can't weather? / Apocalypse? We've all been there! )

Title: Night Vale: The Musical (Act I, tracks 1-3)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, scientists, Vithya, Lauren, others
Rating: T
Disclaimer/warnings: Night Vale and everything related are the property of Commonplace Books. None of the music is mine, either. (Full songbook.)

One morning, Carlos spontaneously bursts into song on his way to work. Then the people around him start singing backup. Turns out everyone in the greater Night Vale & Desert Bluffs area has started breaking into random musical numbers...just in time to hold the world's most well-choreographed corporate invasion.

Canon-divergent starting from Yellow Helicopters, although in the beginning the main difference is that more of it is set to music. Song links can be found at the end of every chapter.

( Oh, oh, oh, look at my hair / What 'do can compare with mine today? )