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The Once And Future Nerd

An Impregnable Missive, Pt. 4

The Once And Future Nerd

Glass & Madera

Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Drama

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Out west – far west, past rebuilt Freehold, past ruined Blackhold and ravaged Silberg, past even Jethro’s remote cabin and its terrible cellar, over the god-made walls of that primordial fortress you call the Black mountains, down the foothills where the downtrodden many pull precious stones from the living rock, for the benefit of the privileged few – there is a town on the plains. The inhabitants of this town would be called Urrkyet by the Elves, that is to say Orcs in the common tongue of the Eastern realms. Most of this episode is about them.

But also Nia catches a really rough break.


The script for this episode is available here.

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And, finally – this being the conclusion of Chapter 5 – we are now accepting listener questions and will answer our favorites live(!) on our YouTube channel on Sunday May 19 (exact time TBA). If you want to submit a question, you can ask us on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook. Make sure to use #AskTOAFN to be sure we’ll see it!

CONTENT NOTES below.

CONTENT NOTES:

  • From 12:11-12:48 (p. 77-78), there are threats mirroring real-world racial violence
  • From 17:43-18:42 (p. 82-83), these threats escalate

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Transcript

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0:26.7

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Again, that is plus1 balms.com slash T-O-A-F-N,

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discount code T-O-A-FN.

0:45.9

Also, the Once-N-Future Nerd is brought to you,

0:48.1

as always, by our patrons on Patreon.

0:50.8

You can go to patreon.com slash once in future nerd to become a patron and get lots of

0:55.5

cool rewards, including hearing every episode ad-free. Now, this episode is the final episode of

1:01.2

Book 2 Chapter 5, so that means we are looking for listener questions to answer in a YouTube

1:06.0

live stream. And we will have all of the details for that after this episode, so that the

1:10.4

intro isn't too long, but you will want to stay tuned after the details for that after this episode so that the intro isn't too long,

1:11.6

but you will want to stay tuned after the episode for that.

1:14.5

And lastly, I know Rianan usually tells you this before a lot of our episodes, but do check

1:20.4

the content notes on this one.

1:22.1

We are dealing with some new stuff that could be really sensitive for some folks.

1:26.2

As always, we did our best, but if you think

1:28.7

we could have done better, we're always glad to hear from you. Okay, enjoy the show.

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