TPC 203: "Rook's Folly", by Aaron Vlek
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Frank has been through many changes while serving the Librarian, now, his most recent transformation is complete, and he fully embraces his new form and leaves parts of himself behind as he moves toward his ultimate future.
Join Frank as shares the details of his latest caper with the Librarian and his best girl Martine. A cosmic contest between two halves of the same whole is very evident in this latest journey to the other side of the street.
Credits
Author: Aaron Vlek | Editor: Daniel Foytik | Adapted for Audio by Daniel Foytik
Cast: Frank Enfield - Graham Rowat | 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
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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 I snuck another look at myself in the rear view. |
| 1:15.7 | I still looked like me, mostly, but the pale face staring back was different enough that I couldn't quit peeking at myself, trying to get used to what I was seeing. |
| 1:26.0 | I reminded myself that even though I might look different, |
| 1:28.9 | and even sound different, |
| 1:30.9 | I was still the same old Frank Enfield, |
| 1:33.4 | always looking to be more and know more. |
| 1:36.2 | If that meant a paler mug, well, so be it. |
| 1:40.3 | A jolt from a deep rut in the road |
| 1:42.6 | pulled my eyes back onto the road where they belonged. |
| 1:46.1 | The car shambled through the narrow snow-locked mountain pass like a dying cockroach over a road that was nothing but a glorified footpath. |
| 1:54.9 | The road was lined with a dense wall of black pine that hid most of the daylight, |
| 2:00.1 | and one wrong swerve would pitch me into a steep |
| 2:02.3 | gorge to my left or crash me into the mountainside on the other. It didn't help that it was |
| 2:07.8 | close to sunset, and I still had a lot of miles to put at my backside before I got to a remote |
| 2:13.0 | abbey with the unlikely name of Rook's Folly. The plan was debunk with the monks that ran the place for however long it took to find and secure what I was after and beat it back stateside. |
| 2:25.8 | Locals told me the abbey was in an empty part of a country I'd never even heard of two days ago, |
| 2:31.5 | and had been the mountain stronghold in bygone times of some mad prince |
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