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Our Fair City

3.7- The Final Task of Ol' Silty

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Old Tunnel. A dank, dark, dangerous path leading to the most dangerous of all institutions: a history museum. Fortunately, in this episode, nothing bad happens.

Nathan Rourke — Clayton Faits

Clay— Tyler Samples

Ol’ Silty — Sebastian H. Orr

Doctor Moro— Mark Soloff

Written by Jim McDoniel. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Robin Billadeau. 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.

0:30.2

Before the advent of component media like Plastiel and Durium,

0:34.3

the walls of our tunnels were constructed from crude materials,

0:37.2

fashioned from little more than earth itself.

0:37.8

Though it may be hard to believe that the directors could be nostalgic for such things,

0:43.4

there is one place in our fair city where these ancient materials of brick and mortar can

0:50.0

be found.

0:51.4

It is called simply Old Tunnel. Here on the edges of what can be considered civilized

0:58.0

lurk things older than heart life and more dangerous than free thought. Here we find young Nathan

1:07.1

Rourke. He was recently appointed to the enviable task of shoring up statistical projections.

1:13.2

Today his duties in forcing the projected incidents of mistake have brought him into the old

1:18.7

tunnel with all the tools necessary for his assignment, several large sacks, and a wheelbarrow.

1:27.1

Here, Nathan, why don't you wander off by yourself into what is by far the creepiest part of the city?

1:33.3

Oh yes, sir, right away, sir.

1:35.3

And take this wheelbarrow filled with bags of who knows what with you, no questions asked.

1:40.3

Only if I can sing creepy nursery rhymes while I do it.

1:43.3

Well, that goes without sing, doesn't it?

1:48.3

Tunnels of all, tunnels of all, dark and dank and misty and cold.

1:54.6

If you, dear child, don't do what you're told, you will be eaten by hungering mold.

2:00.5

Ha!

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