RQ Network Feed Drop – The Sleep Wake Cycle | Ep. 1
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill
4.9 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many incredible podcasts on the RQ Network: The Sleep Wake Cycle.
The Sleep Wake Cycle is an audio drama blending supernatural horror with noir and dark fantasy.
This first episode of The Sleep Wake Cycle called “The Insomniac” finds exopsychotics investigator Isaiah Stroud with a new government assignment — assessing the state of the US in the wake of the Great Darkness of 1999.
The Sleep Wake Cycle is from the same brilliant creators behind the Maeltopia podcast.
Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to The Sleep Wake Cycle on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or listen wherever you get your podcasts, or to learn more about the world of Maeltopia check out its official website.
Credits:
Written by Mark Anzalone
Edited by Walker Kornfeld
Sound mastering by Steven J. Anzalone
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Isaiah Stroud voiced by Mark Anzalone
Handler voiced by Mark Anzalone
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Sleep Wake Cycle Theme by Shawn Zeller
Outro music by Steven Anzalone
Music by Michael Vignola, Shahead Mostafafar, Emilio Merone, Oliver Michael, and Steven Anzalone
Sound effects are licensed from third party providers including Envato, Epidemic Sound, and Artlist
Disclaimer:
This show is written in a first-hand, first-person format from uncertain and inconsistent narrators. This show explores specific mental health conditions. Whilst there is consistent use of derogatory terms for those with specific conditions or neurodivergence including lunatic, maniac, crazy, psychosis etc., this show is written and produced by a team that live with some of the specific illnesses featured within, including Tourette’s syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, insomnia, obsessive compulsive disorder, hallucinations, delusions, anxiety and depressive conditions, among others. Our team also features an academic background in neurology and psychology that has been drawn on to aim for sensitivity and accuracy. The intent of the language and experiences within the Sleep/Wake Cycle, and the extended works of Maeltopia, are designed to explore these conditions and their related isolation and degradation as experienced first hand. The world of Maeltopia is one where the mentally unwell are the majority. Yet there are still outliers who are hunted out.
Content warnings:
Murderers
Audio Hallucinations
Visual Hallucinations
Fear of the Dark
Menacing Agencies
Derogatory terms for Mental Illness
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Anusha here, voice of Gwen in the Magnus Protocol. |
| 0:04.2 | Today we are bringing you the first episode from one of the brilliant |
| 0:08.0 | podcasts on the Arq Network, The Sleep Wake Cycle, which is created by the same great team behind the male topia podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | The Sleep Wake Cycle is an audio drama blending supernatural horror with noir and dark fantasy. |
| 0:21.9 | This episode finds Exocsychotics investigator Isaiah Stroud with a new government |
| 0:27.0 | assignment, assessing the state of the US in the wake of the Great Darkness of 1999. |
| 0:33.2 | You can listen to more of this incredible series, |
| 0:35.4 | with over 125 other episodes, |
| 0:38.1 | by searching for the sleep wake cycle |
| 0:39.7 | wherever you listen to your podcasts, |
| 0:41.5 | by clicking the link in the show notes below or by |
| 0:43.8 | visiting rustic will.com for more information. Have fun and enjoy the episode. I'm going to go. Oh, Oh, uh, it's that's not all. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh, so does. Oh, oh, oh, Old towns and countryside are like seasons of the road, one passing away at the |
| 1:46.2 | approach of the next. The transition between the two was almost seamless. Rolling thickets melted into crooked fences and tumble-down barns. Dusty roads |
| 1:59.0 | gradually put on the grayed crack pavement of old places. Then the scenery reversed course and the whole |
| 2:06.1 | thing started over again. The dawn broke behind the crumbling paper mill as I finally |
| 2:11.7 | pulled my car off the road, having nearly passed through more |
| 2:15.1 | seasons than I had gas to get back with. |
| 2:18.8 | The dramatic backlighting made the play scene special, the only abandoned building in the world. The thing was precisely |
| 2:27.6 | in the middle of nowhere, just a wooden husk stretched out in an overgrown field. The warm breeze sent little waves |
| 2:35.6 | rippling through the tall switchgrass and the cicadas were just taking over for the |
| 2:40.3 | crickets, their metallic drone replacing the night singer's previous chirping. for the Jet Shadow splashed over the tips of my shoes. I had no choice but to come here. The people |
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