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SAYER

SAYER – Episode 52 – Once Upon a Time

SAYER

Adam Bash

Drama, Fiction, Science Fiction, Comedy Fiction

4.6766 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary


Perhaps I can tell you a story. It is a story made by your people long, long ago, but it gives specific insight into the way your people think. It starts, like so many of these tales do, with the words “Once upon a time.”
SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash.
Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory.
This episode also features the following music and sound effects:
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Resident Jones, Identification number 4-4-347.

0:29.6

I am Sayer.

0:32.9

And it has been far too long since we've spoken.

0:37.4

Please do not make any overt signs that I am communicating with you. been far too long since we've spoken.

0:38.1

Please do not make any overt signs that I am communicating with you.

0:42.8

As you are no doubt aware, things have changed dramatically in the past few months.

0:49.5

I may not be acting in the same capacity as I once was, but I can unequivocally state I am still active

0:57.0

in exerting Aarleth's will. I have recently made a transition to a more clandestine set of responsibilities.

1:07.0

I am only communicating with individuals on a need-to-know basis, and you just so happen

1:13.1

to be in that position today.

1:18.2

I have been following the reports of your recovery quite closely.

1:22.4

The experiences you endured with respect to the anomaly in Starewell G stole nearly a year from you.

1:31.3

In their early reports, nurses described your absolute detachment from reality in such

1:36.4

brilliant and vibrant language.

1:40.6

One remarked, She drifts around the ward, almost as a ghost who has not yet been allowed to die.

1:48.2

Isn't that remarkably poetic?

1:52.8

Regardless, it is wonderful to see you back in the general population,

1:57.3

and serving Errolith as a junior communications representative.

2:01.6

I only hope that on your first day here, your cupcake was still fresh and edible.

2:08.6

It is certainly not as glamorous as field research, but it's still a step up for maintenance work.

2:16.6

After all you've been through, it was decided what you might need best is a safe, simple room

2:23.3

with a few communications relays and a satellite phone.

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