Winter In Hieron: Holiday Special 02: Pits and Ladders
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
The mothkin do not remember why years ago, they decided to worship the stars of the southern sky, specifically. Perhaps it is because that is the direction the weavers first arrived from. Or perhaps, becaue looking south from their forest home, the they face the sea, a vast mirror that reflects the night sky. Or maybe, some time ago, the living constellations of the south did the mothkin some favor, yet returned.
But now, the stars recede as the first fingers of sunlight break through the branches of the eastern treeline. And in the village of Old Man's Chin, Red Jack continues his story.
Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
Episode description by Austin Walker
Music by Jack de Quidt
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Ali. I just wanted to give a real quick explanation and a heads up about some of the audio issues from last episode and also for most of this episode. |
| 0:10.0 | There was like some recording difficulties and we had to use the OBS backup to like make the episode |
| 0:17.6 | So that's why I like audio wasn't as clean as it usually is you know there was like some background noise and I hope some of you |
| 0:25.2 | noticed that there were some sneezes and like you don't really hear sneezes on the show very much |
| 0:30.0 | anymore. There was also like a weird robotic voice because Austin was looking up the |
| 0:36.8 | pronunciation of a word while trying to figure out names, which is now I guess an official answer to how we come up with names for the show which is by putting in the work via like frantic googling. |
| 0:51.0 | So that's the explanation there. I know this explanation probably would have been better last episode, but it was like really important for me for you guys to just have the experience of hitting play and like hearing red jack and then |
| 1:06.7 | like the clarnets which are like a cool surprise that I didn't want to dull at all by doing |
| 1:11.4 | this. |
| 1:12.4 | But yeah, so I you guys deserve an explanation but also cool |
| 1:17.0 | surprises. So you know now you have the best of both worlds. Yeah, so happy holidays, happy new year, of course, really happy here. Thanks for |
| 1:27.5 | listening and thanks for all your support and I'm gonna throw it to Red Jack. |
| 1:33.4 | This is a really fun thing to say. |
| 1:36.0 | Bye. |
| 1:39.3 | You know the old saying, those thrown in pits will build ladders. For years I believed that whoever wrote |
| 1:50.4 | that never climbed a day in their life? |
| 1:55.0 | After all, what pit has the material? |
| 1:58.6 | The wood, the nails, the hammers needed to build a ladder. |
| 2:05.0 | Who tossed aside by the more powerful could find the will to build handholdholes and wrongs from nothing at all. How does anyone, I wondered, escape the |
| 2:24.0 | red house |
| 2:25.0 | red house in Mary elder mourning I realized something I had not |
| 2:31.0 | considered the powerful I had not considered. The powerful are frugal, and it is costly to dig a new pit for each person you wish to bury the weak the downtrodden the dismissed the disfigured the doomed we are all neighbors and we are to the wood the nails |
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