Are You Afraid of the Dark?1990

Tucker:
This is all about tellin' the tales.

Vange:
[grinning with Megan] *Scary* tales.

Tucker:
Exactly. I know you guys, just like my brother Gary knew the friends *he* brought here. We all love stories that are weird and scary. And this secret place is where we tell those stories. 'Cause when we enter the circle, we leave reality behind, and enter a dark world, where *anything* can happen.

[everyone starts as they notice the fire before them light up, Andy grins and goes from where he started it to sit as Tucker reaches in the hollow stump and removes the pouch]

Tucker:
Vange, Andy, Megan, Quinn. Are we ready?

[everyone nods]

Tucker:
Then the first one's mine. Submitted for the approval of the *New* Midnight Society...