4.9 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Case ########-14
An examination of scale
Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.
Content warnings:
- Insignificance / Diminuition
- Arguments
- Body horror
- Falling
- Dissociative amnesia
- SFX of deep impacts, destruction and 'pressure wave' distortions
Thanks to this week's Patrons: Teo Qvillberg, cussbunny, Emilia Lee, Cora Larson, Rapsodia, Hannah McNutt, I Think Spirals Should Vote, Amaya, Stacy Bright, Matt Freeman, Black Dog, Karin Hammarsten, Heather Biggs, cinnabi, Maria Tickerhoof, Kathryn Nye, Jackie Tolomeo, Mary S., Laura, Miranda B., Kiera Gittins, tjesje, Jeffrey De Koning, Luis Narro, Ian A., Cristina Stubbe, Hayley Phoenix, kototyph, Katie Glasson, Arcturus, Jennie Styan, Abigail Eileen, Kris L, Danny Colgan, Jude, Jennifer Dyas, Megan Batchelor, Moomin Family, Samantha Leigh, Anita Mathisen, Stephanie Shinkle, Alienea, Hannah Sanner, Joan the Deer, C. E. McGill, Tamara Steeves, Nadia Bracegirdle, stitch, Esme Weil
If you'd like to join them visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill
Edited this week by Annie Fitch, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall
Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall
Produced by Lowri Ann Davies
Performances:
- "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J. Newall
- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims
- "Simon Fairchild" - Karim Kronfli
- "Helen" - Imogen Harris
Sound effects this week by jamesrodavidson, LiamG_SFX & previously credited artists via freesound.org.
Check out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1
You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe
Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.
Join our community:
WEBSITE: rustyquill.com
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill
TWITTER: @therustyquill
REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill
EMAIL: [email protected]
The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence
Get bonus content on PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Rusty Quill presents The Magnus Archives |
0:30.0 | Episode 174 The Great Beast |
1:00.0 | The Shadow falls over everything Marine has ever known. When it had first covered her home, bathing the street beyond her window in unexpected shade she had thought it didn't eclipse. |
1:28.0 | There wasn't supposed to be one then she is sure of that although if pressed she could not have told you what day it is today. Before the Shadow fell she is sure that the sun was shining brightly although if pressed she could not have pictured it. |
1:45.0 | And the humid heat of a lingering summer had left the world sleepy and unprepared although if pressed she remembers the heat but not the season. |
1:58.0 | All told the time before the sky was covered is hazy to her but she knows that there was one a time before something blocked out the sun. |
2:11.0 | It moves and shifts as if it is willed clearly a part of some greater whole. A foot, a hand, perhaps a single finger. |
2:24.0 | To look up is to see only the smallest fraction of it covering the sky. And half of Marine's mind screams at her to get back to get further away to get to a distance where perhaps she could see the whole of it. A position where the idea of comprehending what she is looking at isn't some bitter joke. |
2:45.0 | But the other half of her mind whispers the truth that it is already so far away that to see it in its entirety is impossible. And if she did she could not understand it. |
3:01.0 | But there is another certainty within her another piece of terrible knowledge that bubbles up on bitten from somewhere in Marine's soul that is no longer hers. |
3:13.0 | It is coming closer. It is descending on her home and everything that she has ever known. And when it arrives it will not even notice that it has destroyed her. |
3:26.0 | That it has so casually wiped from the world everything that she will ever know or love. It will crush her home. |
3:38.0 | It will crush her family and her city and her world. The shadow is over everything. |
3:46.0 | Marine gathers her mother who sits in the kitchen over a pot of sour smelling tea, berating her that they should have left earlier. |
3:55.0 | She gathers her husband who snorts in the original and tells her that he is heard that there isn't really any danger at all. |
4:02.0 | She gathers her daughter who asks with wide eyes and the voice of nervous innocence where they are going. What is going on? |
4:11.0 | Marine cannot quite make out their faces as she bundles them into the car old and shuddering as it coughs into life. |
4:19.0 | Does she remember having a child? A spouse. Does she remember her mother having such a cruel snare? |
4:29.0 | It doesn't matter. They are here now and she has to save them. She cannot leave them to the growing shadow and the thing coming ever closer. |
4:41.0 | She starts to drive. The streets are empty. The blank faced strangers around them frozen, staring to the sky in still and silent expectation. |
4:52.0 | There is no traffic, nothing to stop the labored grinding of the elderly car as it carens down the street, hunting desperately for the edge of the shadow. |
5:02.0 | Marine knows if she can just escape it. Find where it ends and the sunlight hits the earth, they can be free. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rusty Quill, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Rusty Quill and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.