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Our Fair City

4.9 - The Actuaries

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Desperately in search of solutions to the growing power crisis, Vice President Davenport ascends the tower to the vaulted halls of…The Actuaries. Treading where no sane Policy should tred, he risks everything for the good of the Company. Think on his sacrifices, Loyal Policies, and consider: what have I given up for my Company today?

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  • Vice President Davenport—Ben Aldred
  • Vice President Carter—Clayton Faits
  • The TWO— Richard Fish
  • The THREE— Abby Doud, Clayton Faits, Wyatt Kent
  • The ONE Chorus—Tara Schile, Ryan Schile, David Rheinstrom, Jim McDoniel, Clayton Faits, Jeffrey Gardner, Marsha Harman

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 Jimmy Hasse. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Created by Clayton Faits.

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Transcript

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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.

0:31.3

In the bad times before the day of exclusion, the future was uncertain.

0:42.3

Those lost individuals without corporate protection would consult with purported mystics who used bits of paper and bone to say the sooth. Now, of course, heart life has ensured our future and the fortune-telling charlatans have all but vanished,

0:50.3

replaced instead by the great individuals who shape the future.

0:55.1

The power they exert over our fair city can guide events and foretell their path.

1:02.1

For the two vice presidents riding along in the elevator, the path has led away from

1:07.4

the safety and comfort of their offices, and toward a meeting with the true

1:12.5

keepers of the future. The actuaries. Are you sure you want to do this, Devonport? Really,

1:20.0

really sure? Positive. Because this isn't how it works. If the actuary summon you, you go.

1:25.3

If not, you stay the hell away. You don't actually

1:27.8

seek them out. It's not... It's not normal. You sound like you're scared. Damn right, I'm scared.

1:33.4

Carter, you're the vice president in the actuarial department. Because I don't visit the

1:37.4

actuarial department. I don't interfere. That's the arrangement. I leave them alone. And they

1:41.9

leave me alone. We're vice presidents. What are they going to do?

1:46.4

Level seven. Doors open. Actuary.

1:52.4

Wow. You weren't kidding about this place.

2:01.6

Aren't you coming?

2:02.6

I'll wait in here.

2:03.8

God, come on.

2:05.2

Just find the two.

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