Podcast on Episode 882 for Tuesday the 11th of March 2025.

Part 2 and the conclusion of How to Steal the Plot Armour by Luke Wildman,

read by Hollis Monroe and produced by Eric Valdez, rated PG.

Good morning, good afternoon and good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle, the flying castle of fantasy fiction. I'm your host, Matt Dovey and it is my delight to present the denouement of How to Steal the Plot Armour by Luke Wildman, as narrated, and sometimes sung, by Horace

Monroe. This story was first published in Writers and Illustrator of the Future, Volume 37, in

2021. Luke Wildman is an amateur crustinator, but dreams of someday going pro. Born in Liberia and raised in Nigeria, he moved to the US at 19 and currently lives with his wife,

dog and kid in small town Indiana and trenched behind a rampart of overdue library books.

His award-winning short fiction has appeared in his friends' inboxes and lesser venues, including Writes of the Future 37,

Parnassas Literary Journal, and the Inner Workings Anthology, and Calendar of Fools.

Ollis Monroe is an award-winning writer, producer, voice talent, music director, opera and jazz singer,

MC, and Shakespearean. He's done numerous commercial and industrial recordings, published movie soundtrack reviews,

served as executive producer and as a reader for IPR's long running to the book club,

and as writer-produce a narrator,

narrator of the Severade award-winning radio series, Soundtrack to the Struggle.

Now, as mentioned at least twice already, and this is your third and final warning.

This is part two of the story.

So skip ye back to episode 8-8-1 if any of the following recap isn't ringing any silver

bells of recollection in your head.

We opened on a solitary sage minding his own business atop his lonely and remote mountain,

dealing with yet another hero who couldn't take the lonely and remote hint, who had already

proven his worth, and so alas overcome our sage's usual dissuations, enclaring both the

field of Orrug Dung at the foot of the mountain and abominable Alice's scabrous appearance. Thus was our sage burdened with this hero determined to fulfil the prophecy that he would challenge the shadow lord for supremacy and the right to woo his daughter.

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