TPC 202: "The Rite of Paris", by Aaron Vlek
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Private collector dives fully into Season 2 with this all new episode.
Frank has been through many changes while serving the Librarian, but as Frank shares in this latest adventure, the full extent of that transformation has finally become evident.
Join Frank as he peers behind the the literal curtain into the Librarian's private sanctum and finds new and terrifying secrets, then heads off to Paris, France in search the original score for a deadly ritual disguised as a performance.
Credits
Author: Aaron Vlek | Editor: Daniel Foytik | Adapted for Audio by Daniel Foytik
Cast: Frank Enfield - Daniel Foytik | The Librarian - Nelson W. Pyles | Martine - Erika Sanderson
Music and Score: – Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)
Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Aaron Vlek, Nico Vettese, Nelson W. Pyles
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“The Private Collector Theme” and Episode Score – Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)
The Private Collector was created by Aaron Vlek and Daniel Foytik, based on the character “The Librarian” created by Nelson W. Pyles.
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Production Music
"The Private Collector Theme"
Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams
Audio Recording
Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com
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Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz
FX: freesound.org
Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:11.0 | You're listening to the private collector. |
| 0:17.0 | Hang under your hats. Things are about to get weird. |
| 0:23.4 | The story. |
| 0:24.6 | The The |
| 0:40.3 | The The |
| 0:57.0 | The The girl tossed and turned in the huge carved bed, |
| 1:20.0 | drawing the mountains of pink satin sheets and posh blankets onto the floor. |
| 1:25.1 | Her arms flailed wildly, and she screamed, but didn't wake up. I watched all this |
| 1:31.4 | silently from the shadows. You could have been shoulder to shoulder with me, and never even known |
| 1:36.5 | I was there. The fact I'd made my way into the swank joint past the bank of uniforms at the front |
| 1:42.0 | desk and paraded right up the grand staircase, |
| 1:45.2 | was a testimony to my growing expertise in all things uncanny and arcane. |
| 1:51.1 | What I was looking for was tied up with a red ribbon under the bed in a bamboo trunk, |
| 1:56.1 | with brass handles and trinkets from a dozen ports of exotic call. |
| 2:02.7 | All the places the girl and her pals had danced for the swells and made pretty in their skimpy little get-ups and funny shoes. |
| 2:08.4 | I'd known it was there the minute I'd walked into the room. I knew what it looked like and |
| 2:13.2 | why she'd hit it there. I knew it because, well, I knew it like I knew all kinds of stuff these days. |
| 2:21.6 | I shouldn't have been privy to. |
| 2:24.0 | He'd given it to her, the guy who was going to make her famous, give her a chance, make her a big star, |
| 2:31.4 | and all the other things guys like that tell girls hoping to make it big. |
| 2:35.6 | Only, this guy was worse than those other guys. |
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