3.10 - In The Cage
Our Fair City
Audacious Machine Creative
4.7 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We return to our regularly scheduled broadcasts of the HartLife Historical Record with a death-defying ascent to the very top of the lightning rig “Stormhawk,” as Neal Henderson continues his search for his lost love.
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Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018.
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Neal Henderson —Sebastian H. Orr
Jack —Mark Soloff
Benny Lemieux — Kamron Palmer
Written by David Rheinstrom. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Dan Streeting. Created by Clayton Faits.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life. |
| 0:10.2 | These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history. |
| 0:15.6 | So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need. |
| 0:34.6 | Red, green, yellow, blue, gray, endless gray. |
| 0:43.3 | A string of tiny pennants snap and flutter in the wind, bright specks in a monochrome sky. Hundreds span the gaps between the frail and precious cabin and the spidery wings and lattice catwalks, which loom above. |
| 0:53.3 | These tiny flags are the prayers of lightning rigors, |
| 0:58.3 | prayers that the rig will remain aloft, |
| 1:01.4 | that the cabins will hold, |
| 1:03.5 | and that if the mighty forces of nature should rage, |
| 1:08.9 | they will channel safely down a conductive rod. |
| 1:13.6 | This is a lightning rig. |
| 1:15.6 | Hundreds of meters in the sky, these immense hulks tear energy from the ceaseless storms |
| 1:22.6 | that mass above Hartford. |
| 1:24.6 | Red, green, yellow, blue, gray, endless gray, and an almost indiscernible |
| 1:35.3 | indiscernible figure silhouetted against it. The man up top braving the elements in order to see which |
| 1:42.5 | way the wind is blowing. |
| 1:46.0 | Okay, navigation control. |
| 1:48.0 | We're looking at approximately 30 inches of mercury here over in the nest. |
| 1:52.0 | That's 1,015.8 millibars and falling. |
| 1:56.0 | Clear skies for now, but we should be heading into some good harvesting weather soon. |
| 2:00.0 | Do you copy control? |
| 2:01.4 | The message received dial the sky. |
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