6.1- Friends Upstairs
Our Fair City
Audacious Machine Creative
4.7 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We return to our retelling of the Great History of the HartLife corporation as the Ant Menace spills into the depths of the Tunnels through the new entrance carved by the mighty Geoship, the Hope of HartLife. As the Chitinous Menace rampages through the assembled Policies, will Cassie Wilkins, Charlie Wynn, and Alison Dalton make peace for long enough to escape- or will their inability to synthesize and maximize their resources effectively spell certain doom? Find out, as the story of Our Fair City…continues.
- The Narrator— Ansel Burch
- Cassie Wilkins— Ele Matelan
- Charles Wynn— Jared Latore
- Alison Dalton— Nina O’Keefe
- Flint— Clayton Faits
- Roman— Jeffrey Gardner
- Streetsafe Officer—Ryan Schile
- Assembled Policies— Eric McClelland, Tron Howard, Dave Romm, Staci Corcoran, Jamie Martin, Kale Ganann, David Gutsche, Jacob David Maurer, Richard Fish, Mitch Thompson, Jackie Casteel, Michael Gutsche, Mary Thompson, Ryan Rydberg, Rune Berg, Sophia Bull, Sonya Guggemos, Lisa Martin Ashley Jenkins
Written by Mark Soloff. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Episode art by Jacob Halton. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Recording Engineering by DJ Catnip. Production Management by Betsey Palmer. Created by Clayton Faits. Some crowd sounds recorded live at CONvergence 2014.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Jeffrey, and I'm popping in here to tell you about the wonderful fiction podcast, The Amelia Project. |
| 0:07.4 | Have you ever daydreamed about disappearing and starting over? |
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| 0:37.1 | death, I'd probably go with something like |
| 0:39.7 | lost in the mountains, you know, hiking or mountaineering or something like that, just disappearing |
| 0:48.6 | into thin air. Anyway, the show is unique and tackles philosophical questions and impossible dilemmas with a lightness of touch, always making you laugh. |
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| 1:19.6 | Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest |
| 1:24.7 | needs, heart life. These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history. |
| 1:32.3 | So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need. |
| 1:41.7 | New England, a crumbling husk stooped by time looms beside the ossified sea. |
| 1:50.4 | Carpets of ice and ash stretch on forever beneath the charcoal skies. |
| 1:55.9 | The inheritors of this ruin, of this outside world, are little more than mindless beasts, unspeakable, |
| 2:05.1 | inscrutable monstrosities. Truly, the outside world is a place of certain death. But inside, |
| 2:16.0 | behind the walls of our great tower tower our lives are ensured by the benevolent heartlife corporation |
| 2:23.6 | and that corporation protects every life worth living welcome back dear, to our fair city. |
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