TPC 205: “Shiva's Ring, Part Two”, by Aaron Vlek
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Still working undercover at the mining camp, Frank meets another young miner with a story to tell. This time, it's a young man who has a bit of the same gift Frank has.
While some secrets are revealed, the mystery deepens until Frank is forced to tangle with a power that has him using all his tools and tricks.
Credits
Author: Aaron Vlek | Editor: Daniel Foytik | Copy Editor: Scarlett R. Algee
Cast: Frank Enfield, Carter Hatchinson - Graham Rowat | The Librarian - Nelson W. Pyles | Einer Bjornson, Cookie - Daniel Foytik
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
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Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
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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 | ...their... The |
| 0:57.0 | The I lay low for the next 10 days, keeping my eyes peeled, but not wanting to spark any |
| 1:20.4 | suspicions in my fellows in the Shibba's Ring camp. |
| 1:23.9 | I scribbled in my notebook when anybody was around, chewed the fat with the guys, |
| 1:28.8 | and took a lot of photographs with the little brownie 127 I'd bummed off a buddy of mine in Manhattan |
| 1:34.5 | before heading up north. |
| 1:36.4 | For those ten days I'd kept my ears to the ground as every night the whole camp stole out into the forest |
| 1:42.4 | towards the mine. |
| 1:45.7 | I wasn't sure if they'd actually gone into the mine, which was a crazy notion, or if they had some Heidi hall out there where they got |
| 1:51.5 | up to whatever it was they were getting up to. I'd also noticed one of the men stealing a glance at me |
| 1:58.4 | more often than I'd like and wondered what he was up to. |
| 2:01.9 | If he had me on stakeout, I was just too scared to come give me his story for my article. |
| 2:08.1 | I decided to leave it B and see how long the fellow could hold out before throwing down. |
| 2:14.3 | It was about three weeks after Bo Shasta's disappearance, when I finally heard a knock at my door, |
| 2:20.8 | just after I'd gone back to my bunk after Chow. |
| 2:24.2 | I opened the door, and there he was. |
| 2:27.2 | My bird dog would have been shadowing me. |
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