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Midst

MIDST | S2 E6: Tinderbox

Midst

Critical Role

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction, Performing Arts

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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An explosive situation.    To unlock more episodes, have an ad-free experience, and access rich lore-expanding bonus content, join the fold over on Midst.co as a paid subscriber!    Midst is an audio drama in which three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy, space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster.   Some themes and situations that occur in-show may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode. Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources    Midst is created by Third Person  Original Music and Episode Icon Art by Third Person Additional music by 5 Alarm and freesound.org    Follow us! Website: https://www.midst.co  Twitter: https://twitter.com/midstpodcast  Instagram: https://instagram.com/midstpodcast    Find our merch at midst.co    Midst is a Metapigeon production in partnership with and distributed by Critical Role Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The mail cart is yet again descending into unfathomable darkness.

0:51.1

It is getting close to its destination, but it's not there quite yet.

0:53.9

It takes a little while to get from here to there, and for the most part it's a long,

0:55.7

quiet journey through emptiness.

0:58.6

Zela has gone to sleep in the engine car, and Phineas is pretending to sleep in the mail car.

1:05.5

The mail cart has two components, at the front an engine compartment full of all the boccular stuff that makes the cargo,

1:15.2

and a rear compartment full of nothing but boxes and cargo. Both compartments connected in the middle

1:20.7

by a narrow doorway. Lark has taken the opportunity to get a moment of goddamn peace and quiet to herself,

1:30.3

with the other two, presumably asleep. Lark is now sitting on the roof, the cable overhead,

1:37.3

and the dim, intermittently blinking beacon light in front of her.

1:42.3

Blinking dimly on and off, on and off.

1:48.0

Illuminating the nothing that there is to be seen in the darkness of the fold,

1:53.1

enjoying her third to last cigarette.

1:56.1

She knows she shouldn't be smoking here in this dangerous wilderness

2:00.6

where every little flicker of life

2:02.9

could be detected by forces unseen. But the pinprick of heat is small enough, and she's not

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