Episode 1: The House on Cedar Street
Heather Waybright discovers something unexpected while investigating the scene of a murder.
Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
- Ambiguously Gay: Yyric, who is referred to as a "twink" by Heather's narration. Averted in the following episode after you are introduced to his husband.
- Darker and Edgier: This episode establishes this right off the bat, with the reveal that Pacifica Northwest was straight-up murdered by a far-right cult. This continues as a theme throughout the rest of the series (especially Episode 2).
- Foreshadowing:
- The fire glyph on the wall hints at the presence of an honest-to-goodness Boiling Isles witch several paragraphs before Heather comes across one.
- The necklaces taken off the dead bodies of the Illuminati are outfitted with Eye of Providence pendants, which hint that a certain someone survived his presumed death at the end of Weirdmageddon.
- Heather's inability to remove the necklace from the Illuminati corpse sets up her inability to reverse Yyric's possession in the following episode.
- Yyric hands Cain one of these necklaces in this episode. In the beginning of the following episode, Cain hands it back- which causes Yyric to become possessed by "Him" and go on a killing spree.
- Yyric's easy compliance and generally amicable demeanor could be taken as a twisted form of this after what happens to him in Episode 2.
- The chapter ends with the mysterious girl warning about the demon that would come out of the wall in the following episode.
- Multi-Part Episode: The creator stated, in the Content Warning for Episode 2, that this was the first of a 3-episode opening arc before the series transitioned to a more Disney-esque, Monster of the Week approach.
- Never One Murder: The central "murder mystery" in this episode consists of not one or two murders, but seven.
- Police Are Useless: Sergeant Cain, menacing as he is, was clearly rather inadept in solving the case he was handed- and even with Chief Gustafson's entire squadron there, nobody was able to locate the basement or the pointy-eared girl until Heather stumbled upon it entirely by accident.
- Vagueness Is Coming: The chapter ends with the mysterious girl warning "It's coming, it's coming". The following epsiode, "it" comes out of the wall and nearly kills both protagonists- twice.
