4.8 - A Feast of Prehistory
Our Fair City
Audacious Machine Creative
4.7 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As the Stormhawk’s survivors explore the underground caverns that are the ruins of Old Hartford, new questions arise: will the wolves find them in this deep cave? Can Humanity survive without the Company? Just what is “Campbell’s,” and could it possibly be as tasty as good old HartLife Algae?
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Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018.
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- Neal Henderson—Sebastian H. Orr
- Alison—Nina O’Keefe
- Jack— Mark Soloff
- Greyson— David Rheinstrom
- Clear Skies Tim—Tyler Samples
- Dora— Lise “Kat” Evans
- Emerson— Dean Yeager Schile
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 Dann Tincher. Produced by David Rheinstrom. 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. |
| 0:30.6 | Little is remembered about the fall of Hartford, the city that straddled the Connecticut River in the bad ages. |
| 0:38.8 | That knowledge has either been erased by the vicissitudes of time or locked away in the great vaults of HeartLife's Tower, |
| 0:44.5 | where it shall remain until the company's board of directors has deemed it suitable for public consumption. What we know is this. The bones of the city still exist, its steel shoulders |
| 0:51.8 | wrapped in a mantle of ice, its broad boulevards devoid of human life, |
| 0:57.1 | the river that once animated the city, |
| 1:00.0 | frozen, stiff as a corpse. |
| 1:02.9 | Until today, no policy of heart life |
| 1:05.7 | had laid eyes upon downtown Hartford in a generation. |
| 1:10.7 | Neil, why don't you come out of there? |
| 1:12.6 | There's a lot of city to see. |
| 1:14.6 | Maybe you could take Tim up to the bridge to see if our foragers have come back? |
| 1:18.6 | Show a little leadership, maybe. |
| 1:21.6 | Far below, in the shadow of an enormous bridge that spans the frozen river, |
| 1:26.6 | Allison and her men have established |
| 1:29.4 | their base camp. Neil, like Achilles, sulks in his tent. I'm not really interested. Is Loamy doing okay? |
| 1:38.6 | She's just great. I started a fire in a garbage can in case she gets cold. Uh-huh. In case you ever come out of that tent. Neil, do you mind if I come in? I'd rather you didn't. Too bad. What's your problem, Henderson? Close that flap. It's cold out there. Is it me? Is it the mole? You seem to do just fine with the cold. Don't get smart, Neil. Doesn't look good on you. |
| 2:02.2 | Listen, Neil, would you look at me? You're letting the air in. I'll close it when I leave. Now, I put a lot of faith in you, Neil. The men look up to you, but you have done a piss poor job of leading them. You don't care about them. You only care about... About myself? Sure, Neil. But I want to get back to Hartford in one piece and the odds of that happening are a lot |
| 2:20.3 | higher if I travel with other people. |
| 2:22.3 | You can call that selfish, but at least I care about keeping this crew alive. |
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