"The future is what you make of it. Just know that your supplies are limited. Welcome to Desert Bluffs."
There's a mysterious (possibly corporately-created) sandstorm hitting the town of Desert Bluffs, but for the most part, it's business as usual as Kevin takes listener e-mails, updates everybody on local sports and traffic, and reports on the exact, incredibly kind exact duplicates which have appeared around town and really boosted productivity. That is, until a mysterious white portal appears in the studio, and Kevin enters to see where it leads....
Tropes in The Sandstorm Part B include:
- Evil Is Visceral: Every surface of the Desert Bluffs radio station is covered with blood, and the control panel has viscera instead of buttons and dials.
- Good Counterpart: Subverted. It initially appears that Desert Bluffs is really a more pleasant version of Night Vale, but actually it's even worse. It's hard to tell initially because the residents are even more Conditioned to Accept Horror than those of Night Vale.
- The Internet Is for Cats: Like Cecil in part A, Kevin takes a moment to check social media for his radio show, then gets distracted by a cute video of a cat jumping in and out of boxes.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Cecil usually reacts to horrifying events with passive indifference, but when he gets transported to the Desert Bluffs radio station, he's utterly terrified, wondering whether he's gone to Hell and begging anyone listening for help.
- Perspective Flip: Much of the episode consists of Kevin's take on the same events Cecil just described in part A — except of course the portal jaunt, which consists of Cecil's take on the swap we already saw from Kevin's perspective.
- Unreliable Narrator: Kevin seems to be very upbeat and positive about everything in Desert Bluffs, but Cecil's description of Desert Bluffs shows that in reality, it is actually a terrifying place, where even the radio station is covered in blood and viscera.
