Dustwalker: A Science-Fantasy Audio Drama

The Eye is no longer safe. Has it ever been?

Content Warnings: This episode contains distant explosions from 0:03-0:05, discussion of human experimentation, references to a past abusive relationship, and contains several instances of high-pitched shrieking. Timestamps are listed below. Listener discretion is advised.

Shrill screams interspersed between 51:44-53:02

Episode transcripts available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yEaSAC7SjgbMT3VxG2ojYeeBhVDYexot?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yEaSAC7SjgbMT3VxG2ojYeeBhVDYexot?usp=drive_link

Duststone Theme by Teala Torres, heard at the end of the security hearing.

In this episode, you heard:

Jayde Violet Hampton-VanSant as Kove

Nyx Calder as Arius Rosemund

David John-Bores as Deveraux Menzi

Dylan Nguyen as Orator Tuân & additional voices

Luiza Mendes as Senator Dahlia

Adam Robinson as Archjudge Runo

Edwyn Tiong as Security Advisor Sunn

Nina Nikolic as Counselor

Little Lobstrosity as Senator

Althea Walmisley as Senator Lysander

Trenton Butt as Jean the Reporter

Moe Finch as the Voice of the Credits

Dustwalker screams curtesy of Savy Des-Etages.https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yEaSAC7SjgbMT3VxG2ojYeeBhVDYexot?usp=sharing

Crew:

Executive Producer, Writer, Director: Bren McQuillan

Sound Designer, Primary Mix Engineer, Co-Mastering Engineer: Bren McQuillan

Secondary Mix Engineer & Co-Mastering Engineer: Aaron Paolucci

Additional Music Credits:

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 "Spring": II. Largo e pianissimo sempre, performed by Michelle Ross, Eric Jacobsen, Odyssey Orchestra

Mozart: Violin Sonata in E minor, K. 304 I. Allegro, performed by Conway Kuo, Blair McMillen

Marker 0 by Luba Hilman

Jordskred by Anna Dager, Hanna Ekström

Insanity Unleashed by Stefan Ekström

SFX and additional music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Cane SFX courtesy of Maddie Cooper on Freesound.org.

Episode art by Bren McQuillan.

Website

I’m very excited to present the trailer for The Twelvelms Conspiracy, a fantasy mystery audio drama by Eira Major, the creator of Remnants, Not Quite Dead and Spirit Box Radio. It’s one of my favorite shows at the moment — intriguing, disturbing at times, and filled with well-thought-out magic and mythology. If you’re enjoying the worldbuilding and intrigue of Dustwalker, you’ll probably love Twelvelms.

Set in a magical world hidden just out of sight, it’s a story fraught with social and class tension, exploring what it means to belong, and what it means to live with the legacy of terrible decisions made generations ago, whose consequences have shaped everything around you.

Cyan Goodman does not belong at twelvelms and everyone knows it. Especially him. The university has trained the finest mages in magedom for centuries, but Cyan only found out it existed two weeks ago. Out of his depth, with nowhere else to go, Cyan is allowed to enroll at Twelvelms under one condition; that he keeps the circumstances under which he was admitted completely secret.

To make things more complicated, the only reason he was given a space at the school at all is because another boy has gone missing, under extremely mysterious circumstances. It seems like there’s a much bigger problem lurking just out of sight at Twelvelms, one which reaches far beyond Cyan’s secrets and into the foundations of magedom itself.

Cyan narrates his story years after these events, and his circumstances have become even stranger...

Find out more at [https://hangingslothstudios.com/twelvelms/ ](

Maybe there's more to Arius than meets the eye.

Content Warnings: This episode contains cursing, depictions of heavy drinking, discussion of an unwanted pregnancy, references to a past abusive relationship, and distant explosions from 1:11:03 through 1:11:40. Not intended for kids. Listener discretion is advised.

Episode transcripts

In this episode, you heard:

Jayde Violet Hampton-VanSant as Kove

Nyx Calder as Arius Rosemund

Kit Paterson as Young Arius

Kadecia as Romina

Amy D. Davis and Katelyn Martin as Coriander

Trenton Butt as Sterling

Kirsty Woolven as Cirrus

Moe Finch as the Voice of the Credits

Additional Voices:

Althea Walmisley as Student

Savy Des-Etages as Woman

Additional music credits:

Duplicity by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen and Karoliina Gabel

Crazy Blues and Mem'ries of You, Mammy by Mamie Smith, heard during the tonic scene

Eleven Steps Ahead by Stefan Ekström

Dauntless by Hanna Ekström, heard during Arius' memory sequence

Unconventional Wisdom by Howard Harper-Barnes

Epilogue by Hanna Ekström and DEX 1200

Decomposed by Philip Ayers

Crew:

Executive Producer, Writer, Director: Bren McQuillan

Sound Designer, Primary Mix Engineer, Co-Mastering Engineer: Bren McQuillan

Secondary Mix Engineer & Co-Mastering Engineer: Aaron Paolucci

SFX and additional music courtesy of Epidemic Sound.

Episode art by Bren McQuillan.

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Presenting The Mechadova Engine, a queer streampunk audio drama following Log, an excitable and curious inhabitant of a lonely library who ends up on the adventure of a lifetime around a world entirely confined to steam trains in the sky.

The creator, Lumi Oakes, is currently in the middle of funding the show! Please consider supporting their Kickstarter!

Trailer Transcript

The Mechadova Engine is an upcoming 15-episode queer steampunk audio drama. The story follows Log, who has spent their entire life, as far as they can remember, alone inside a single library train carriage in the sky. Their only knowledge of the outside world is limited to books from a long time ago on earth.

Log has never thought to question their existence or the world outside, until one day their carriage stops. Here, they meet Tinker, a member of a resistance group, who turns their world upside down.

It's a story about meaningless structures, the power of community, and how knowledge is preserved and retold.

Find out more at mechadovapod.com!