Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories is the first episode of the podcast. It was released on July 22, 2016.

Synopsis
A tale about mysterious disappearances and an ominous word unfolds on the Transcontinental Bridge. Monsters are (probably) summoned, job descriptions are threatened to be read, and the whole ocean will be examined.

Plot Summary
Etta Perrault, a traffic reporter for Watchtower 10, begins another in a long line of daily reports in the form of a series of folkloric tales about the Transcontinental Bridge. She does this despite the nagging of her supervisor Roger Kaplan, who is far more concerned with her job performance and the fact that she left a jury-rigged chocolate fountain running in the kitchen. She interrupts her tale about the Transcontinental Hotel in order to give a traffic report, complete with a faked cephalopod accident in order to rile up Roger, who continued to stay on the line.

After getting chewed out, Etta is interrupted yet again by their resident Bridge Travel Agent, Kate Burnham, who had been cleaning up the chocolate disaster and wondering where Etta's chocolatey co-conspirator, Bertie Renard, went. Kate is pulled away by a continuation of the chocolate episode, and Etta is left momentarily alone until Roger calls in again to ask about an actual creature sighting in the water, which Etta fails to see, but does manage to notice a strange power flicker and odd interference.

After teasing Roger enough for him to hang up on her, Etta is finally called by Bertie, who had abandoned the chocolate fountain to check on his hydrangeas, before getting distracted by an issue in Submare 3, a submerged portion of the watchtower. Etta agrees to meet Bertie down there with Kate so things can get sorted out, but before she leaves she appends the hotel tale for her radio listeners, revealing something very personal about her history, as well as tying herself to the story of the Transcontinental Hotel, despite keeping this a secret from the rest of the crew.

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