THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
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- Case ########-38 Navigating the descent, recorded in Situ. Content warnings: - Heights / Vertigo (inc SFX) - Falling - Panic (inc breathing SFX) - Injury / Pain (inc SFX) - Explicit language - Discussions of: emotional manipulation - Mentions of: arguments, death, self-hatred, lack of self-preservation, paranoia, pleading, kidnapping, alcohol - SFX: wind, creaking metal, screaming & suffering
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Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall
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Performances: "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims - "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J Newall - "Basira Hussain" - Frank Voss - "Melanie King" - Lydia Nicholas - "Georgie Barker" - Sasha Sienna
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It’s pretty fitting that Martin and Basira literally yeet themselves into the unending void to avoid listening to Jon making a statement by the end of the final season
Lmao
"IF ALL YOUR FRIENDS JUMPED OFF A CLIFF WOULD YOU JOIN THEM-" LMAOOOO
Jon being treated like that one friend on a road trip who can't stop needing to go to the bathroom
Lmaoo😂
*Before* the apocalypse:
the Burried ⚔ the Vast
*After* the apocalypse
the Burried 🤝 the Vast
More like:
The buried👄the vast
@@phosismyb1tch717
Ooh entities kissing !
@@macabrecitrus2127I mean... kinda Jon and Martin haha
@@cupcaketv5673
Oh yeah ! Lonely x Eye
Yeah I mean. A blind sea and the absence of choice. Kinda the same thing really.
"What about me? I didn't think I was important enough to kill"
Yep, Martin "My Reason" Blackwood, definitely not worth killing there.
Martin choosing to jump off a cliff rather then listening to Jon making a statement has me DYING on the floor laughing
Unlike martin
He was also dying on the floor, just perhaps not laughing
Ah yes, the 16th and most terrifying of the fears: The Trolley Problem
I know this comment was made in jest but then I started thinking about it entirely too deeply. I think the Trolley Problem would be Web-ish. The whole dilemma isn’t about “killing one life to save another,” it’s about how much control you had over the situation. It’s kind of like Martin and Jon leaving people to die. Is doing nothing more acceptable than making a choice? Was your choice predetermined? It’s also about ignorance: you have no clue who these people are. What if the 5 people you killed were of the more ravenously murderous and gloatingly torturous variety of avatars? And the 1 person you’ve left to die was a saint on earth who helped old ladies cross the street and loved everyone and took care of their little community garden. Just my 5 cents, I really love the trolley problem
8:20 - ...sorry, I, ah... uh
- ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
- uh-huh...
- couldn't have made a statement BEFORE we got on the ladder??!?!?!?
everyone treating Jon's statement-giving this way is one of the funniest things in this season
The Vast is scary, but if I could fall from such height and not die, I would gladly yeet myself off that ladder Fairchild style
"enjoy sky blue"
No thank you
"Byeeeeeee"
It actually sounds so fun like skydiving without a parachute and any risk
Same. I love the falling feeling, I just don't want to die at the end of it. If I heard that I probably would have jumped off before Jon found the end of the ladder to skip an hour or two of tedious climbing.
I do like to think though, that the vast would be so annoyed that I was having fun that it would manifest a staircase right under me after 2-3 seconds of falling just to be petty and make me walk the rest of the way. That popped into my head at that point of the episode and I had to pause because I was laughing so much.
So my choices are jump off a cliff or cling to it while Jon makes a statement?
* *swan dives into the abyss* *
I love how Jon's need to make a statement is treated by Basira like he had to take a leak
yeah, lol. Jon didn't NEED to do a statement before they started climbing
Basira be like “can’t you hold in it??!”
"I asked you if you needed to make a statement five minutes ago!"
"I told you to go before we get into the car!"
jon: mom... I want to have a statement now. basira: we have statements at the archive.
jon: eew these statements are stale
"WHAT this has to be, like, a wrong turn or something!"
"It's a ladder, Martin"
"Why didn't you do a statement BEFORE this?" "Well I didn't have to go then!" Lol
Jon: It's storytime.
Basira and Martin: *Jump off a into a void to avoid listening to Jon.*
it's raining men hallelujah
Dammit you beat me to it
DAM YOU!!!
I can't believe it took me a moment to get it😅😭😭😭
Basira is their tired teen sister babysitting them and it's amazing.
Caught up on CZcams and I REFUSE to go to the website because that means its over and I'm. Not. Ready. Well done Jon, Alex, and crew y'all are amazing
I just saw that they’re doing a kickstarter to do more seasons!! 😊
January 24!!!!!!! I so hope it's a Jon/Martin alternate reality!
That falling and wind sound made me freeze up. It felt like that falling feeling in dreams when you crash down and jolt awake.
God now I feel it too just reading this wth
Same it literally left me breathless lmao
Martin's dismissiveness about his self-esteem issues is... Very much a mood that I wish I didn't get.
Anywho, I've pretty well come to grips with my old fear of heights; it hasn't bothered me in ages (A little vertigo in the St. Louis arch more than a decade ago was the last time). But man oh man, if the Lonely or the Stranger didn't snag me, I'm pretty sure a Vast domain like this one would.
And boy oh boy, what an appropriate final Domain, considering that we're only 2 from the end.
"Shocker, I have self-esteem issues; not the point."
@@toastghost9145
Aw Martin 💔 -Stop- -being- -relatable-
I'm still I bit nervous from when they jumped😅
Martin:
"Let's keep an eye out"
Basira:
"Was that a joke?"
i don't care if he's dead, this domain belongs to mike crew
"shocker. I have self esteem issues, not the point"
Oh the dialogue in this one is gold
I love how everyone treats Jon having to make a statement like him needing to take a piss. You can not tell me that Martin doesn’t treats him like a literal toddler. He’s basically saying “Do you have to go potty again”
Let the bodies hit the floor I guess
apocolypse ladder slam poetry, something i didnt know i needed.
i also love that even in these horrible moments, everyone still manages to make me laugh. much needed chuckles indeed.
Alternative name for the episode:
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
Not me trying to imagine I didn't already listen to the last episode.
maybe it'll end differently this time!!! :D
):
imagine if they uploaded nico’s mag200 episode instead lmao
At last Martin gets his revenge on Jon for not liking his poetry.
‘Oh, a statement? Let me yeet myself off this cliff.’
'jon its a cliff..' I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS A COMEDY KSDJFAKLSDJF
(full thing)
'where do we go now?'
'we keep going forward'
'jon its a cliff.."
Tma is a comedy first and foremost
Martin Blackwood is Having a Bad Time
We all talk about the amazing writing in this podcast but let's not forget the absolute brilliance of the poetry within some of these statements! He's a wonderful storyteller, sure but he is also a gifted poet!
"If there was another way--"
"Yeah, but there never is..."
great foreshadowing there
Ah😰..... right 😑....The ... The ladder ends 🪜 😂 cracks me the hell up
Martin saying "For fucks sake" added immortality to my life, god I love the cinnamon roll
Simon Fairchild moment
The whole ladder shtick feels very Michael Crew to me lol
The writing in this series is indescribably good. I confess I have been stretching the last few episodes over a year because I don't want it to end. I'm probably going to binge the last few before Halloween though.
Good news for you, we're getting new Magnus content, eventually, hopefully.
I'm only listening to the last four episodes now that I know there will be new content ^^'
hey me too.@@occitane41
hands down my favorite season 5 ep. fall, martin, fall!
I believe I can fly 🕊✨
... I want a book, more than one book, with all the statements, from the first to the last~ I would read them all ~w~
All statements/episodes in one book would be a really thick book. I hope they put them in a book series, like the welcome to night vale podcast does. I would love to have them
there are transcripts of all the episodes online if u wanted to read them back :D however a book of statements would be so interesting!
@@lepidopterology yeah, each season would make for a well sized novel, a good five part series.
This domain wouldn't work on me, I'd just yeet myself off repeatedly for kicks.
i fucking LOVE Vast statements. what a treat, to get one more before the series ends.
also: "we need to talk" - finally, and it only took the apocalypse to hear that
Props to the characters this ep, honestly. I was in a (much safer) situation where I had to just step off of a platform and *drop.* To call it fear isn't even accurate, it's a compulsion to cling to the edge. While it has you, you *cannot* let go.
Fuck the Vast, man.
I wanted to hear that Goofy scream, yknow "ya ha ho hoiy" with all of the other Very Serious Actor screams.
John: “Guys…I have to make a statement…”
Basira: “Ugh, didn’t we tell you to go BEFORE we got on the rickety ladder?”
John: “I DIDNT HAVE TO GO THEN!”
How in the world does a PODCAST trigger my fear of heights?!! XD 11/10, would give myself nightmares again.
i cant believe there's only 2 episodes left ??? god damn guys
“You couldn’t have made a statement before we got on the ladder”
Same energy as
“YOU COULDNT HAVE USED THE BATHROOM BEFORE WE GOT IN THE CAR!
I feel like Georgie is low-key an avatar of The End with The Tunnels as her domain. They take people who suffer in the fear that they could be taken at any time and eventually they all get lost.
Easily one of the better domains but they aren't exactly balanced.
2:46 made me laugh way harder than it should have. This why we love Martin, he's just the best😭
Honestly I think I'd vibe with the vast XD
Being yeeted off a cliff or floating in the sea seems pretty pog if one didnt die of it XD
We are getting so close! So, so very close!
5:22 Basira's chortle extended my lifespan by 5 years, thank you
EDIT: The entire ladder section was also a treat
Hearing Basira snort in laughter was a treat I didn’t know I wanted
Martin hearing the options on the ladder.
Me: Fuck's sake!
Martin 2 seconds later 😂
Getting really REALLY nervous getting close (AGAIN) to the end T-T. I tried to watch Nico's commentary on 200 and I COULDNT. STILL TOO SOON. T-T Even though this episode was hilarious it only makes me more nervous for it XD
This episode gives new meaning to the phrase "slam poetry".
Sad Martin noises are my new ASMR 🤣
i feel bad for yall that dont know whats coming
:(
I am SCARED
OH NO
[CLICK]
[FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL ACCOMPANIED BY SWIRLING WINDS]
MARTIN
So… are we going to talk about it, or…?
ARCHIVIST
When we get back to London. I don’t - I think we all need some time to think.
MARTIN
…
Sure.
[FOOTSTEPS CONTINUE FOR A LONG WHILE WITH THE OCCASIONAL SIGH]
I-I mean it’s a pretty long walk. We could talk about something else.
BASIRA
Like why you wandered off with Annabelle Cane?
ARCHIVIST
Basira…
BASIRA
It’s important.
ARCHIVIST
He can tell us when he’s ready.
MARTIN
Uh, it’s fine. It’s not exactly a big surprise or anything.
Back in London, after we… uh…
ARCHIVIST
Had a blazing row?
MARTIN
I, uh… Yeah, that.
BASIRA
What?
ARCHIVIST
About what we should do with Jonah. With the Panopticon.
BASIRA
How, about whether you should, uh…?
ARCHIVIST
Yes.
MARTIN
Well, anyway, after that, I was coming out to look for you. But the tunnels are just all over the place, and you must have used a different way up or something, and well… she was there.
ARCHIVIST
Waiting?
MARTIN
I guess? It was so quiet. And it looked like London did before. So then I figured that she must have had the camera, which meant Salesa was probably dead, and so… well…
BASIRA
So…?
MARTIN
So I figured she had come to kill you, John.
ARCHIVIST
Me?
W-What about you?
MARTIN
What about me? I didn’t really think I was important enough to kill.
[SURPRISED EXHALES]
BASIRA
Wow, Martin, that’s -
MARTIN
Shocker, I have self-esteem issues, not the point. Anyway, she said she knew what you were planning to do, what would happen to you in there and… and then she said she knew another way, one where you’d be okay, but she couldn’t tell me, she had to show me.
BASIRA
And you took her at her word?
MARTIN
Obviously not, but… if she was telling the truth, it seemed worth the gamble.
ARCHIVIST
Why didn’t you come get me?
MARTIN
Because she said if I did, she’d leave without me. And then… well… we’d have had to stick with crappy Plan A, and you’d… you’d end up gone.
…
Okay, look, I-I admit it wasn’t great judgement, okay? But I didn’t see another choice. I figured you were safe enough with the girls, and, well…
ARCHIVIST
You were angry.
MARTIN
Yeah.
BASIRA
Right.
MARTIN
And… if I could give you another way out, it had to be worth the danger.
Even if it was kinda -
BASIRA
Reckless?
MARTIN
- a long shot.
BASIRA
Hmm.
MARTIN
[Nervous chuckles] Plus I knew you’d follow me, and save me if things got bad.
[ARCHIVIST SIGHS]
Look, I’m, I’m sorry I worried you.
ARCHIVIST
It’s okay.
MARTIN
But, it does look like I was right.
BASIRA
If she was actually on the level.
MARTIN
Well… yeah.
BASIRA
And if she was, she went about it in a really weird -
ARCHIVIST
Manipulative way.
BASIRA
Yeah. Big surprise. But she did kinda hold up her end.
ARCHIVIST
Huh.
MARTIN
I could’ve done without all the webbing, though. Still sticky. Urgh.
ARCHIVIST
Well, it’s over now. And you’re safe, that’s all that matters.
MARTIN
Not quite…
BASIRA
Mmhmm. We do have another option to consider.
ARCHIVIST
When we get back. I want to hear what the others have to say about it.
MARTIN
Then we should get going.
…
Er, speaking of? Um… Where, exactly, do we go now?
ARCHIVIST
Forward.
MARTIN
Uh, th-that’s a cliff, John.
ARCHIVIST
[Sighs] Over there.
BASIRA
Oh great.
MARTIN
W- S-Ser-Seriously? What happened to the big lake or whatever Basira was talking about? I was looking forward to the lake! I-I’m fine rowing. I’m good at rowing!
ARCHIVIST
I’m sorry. Some routes are one-way.
MARTIN
[Mildly distressed] So, so what, this is our new path then? Some rickety ladder on a cliff edge that’s so high you can’t even see the bottom? Really?
ARCHIVIST
I’ll admit it’s not a subtle metaphor.
[BASIRA CHUCKLES]
MARTIN
[Sullen] Yeah I get it. I don’t need another lesson on nightmare geography. It was obvious as soon as I said it out loud.
ARCHIVIST
If there was another way…
MARTIN
Yeah, but there never is. Urgh, fine. Come on.
[CLICK]
[CLICK]
[FOOTSTEPS ON METAL AS THEY DESCEND THE LADDER, THE WIND SWIRLING LOUDLY AROUND THEM]
MARTIN
[To himself] Okay… Easy does it.
One at a time. One at a time.
BASIRA
Careful of your next one, Martin! It’s loose.
MARTIN
Hmm.
Right! Thank you!
Brilliant.
[CAREFUL FOOTSTEP, THEN METAL CREAKS AND GIVES WAY WITH A CLATTER AND SHOWER OF PEBBLES]
[MARTIN EXCLAIMS IN SHOCK AS HE REGAINS HIS FOOTING]
ARCHIVIST
Martin! Martin, are you alright?
MARTIN
[Mildly panicked] Mmmhmm!
BASIRA
[Gentle] I did warn you.
MARTIN
Mmmhmm!
BASIRA
Are you good to keep going?
MARTIN
Yeah, just… just… Yeah.
[METALLIC SOUNDS AS DESCENT CONTINUES]
ARCHIVIST
Martin, would it help to know that if you do fall, you’ll be okay?
MARTIN
[Suspicious] Define “okay”.
ARCHIVIST
I, uh - You wouldn’t die.
MARTIN
Yeah, but it would still hurt, wouldn’t it?
ARCHIVIST
Uh, yes.
But not as much as th-
MARTIN
And, crucially, it would still feel like I’m falling an incredible distance. Wouldn’t it?
ARCHIVIST
I mean, you would still be falling an incredible distance.
You just wouldn’t die when you hit the bottom.
MARTIN
Yeah, and there it is.
BASIRA
Oh, I have missed your pep-talks.
ARCHIVIST
I’m afraid it’s the best I can manage.
MARTIN
Yeah, well, thanks for trying.
BASIRA
Can we just keep going?
ARCHIVIST
Right.
[LADDER DESCENDING CONTINUES FOR A WHILE, THEN…]
Ah.
BASIRA
What?
ARCHIVIST
Right.
BASIRA
“Right”, what?
MARTIN
Guys, what’s going on down there?
ARCHIVIST
The, uh… The ladder ends.
MARTIN
What do you mean it ends?
BASIRA
I’m guessing you’re not talking about the ground.
ARCHIVIST
No. No ground. And… no more ladder.
MARTIN
So what do we do?
BASIRA
What do you think? We jump. And we fall.
[MARTINS CHUCKLES IN DISBELIEF]
MARTIN
What?! No! No, no. I’m not, I’m not doing that. This is, this is obviously like a wrong turn or something.
BASIRA
It’s a ladder, Martin.
MARTIN
Yeah, I know, Basira, but somehow we’ve still managed it!
BASIRA
You said it won’t kill us, right?
ARCHIVIST
Right. We’ll just need to try and -
MARTIN
[Babbling to self] Jesus… Seriously? Hah! If, if all your friends jumped off a cliff would you join them? No! No, I wouldn’t! cos it’s stupid!
BASIRA
[Sharp enough to snap Martin out of it] Martin! Enough!
ARCHIVIST
We just want to make sure we separate out so we don’t hit each other on the way down, or - Oh! Ah.
MARTIN
Oh, Christ, what now?
ARCHIVIST
Sorry, I, uh… hah.
MARTIN
Are you serious?!
BASIRA
You couldn’t have made a statement before we got on the ladder?
ARCHIVIST
That’s not how it works!
MARTIN
Oh c-
BASIRA
Fine. I’m out, then. You coming Martin?
[THE LADDER CREAKS PARTICULARLY OMINOUSLY IN THE WIND]
MARTIN
Oh… S-So my choices are jump off a cliff, or cling to it while John does a statement?
BASIRA
And then jump off it. Yeah.
MARTIN
[Distressed] For fuck’s sake…
Fine.
BASIRA
Okay.
MARTIN
Mmhmm.
BASIRA
On three.
One…
[METALLIC CREAK AS MARTIN LEAPS WITH A GRIMACE AND A SHOUT THAT IS SOON SWALLOWED BY THE WIND]
[Sighs] Or just go then, I guess.
[BASIRA JUMPS WITH A NOISE OF DETERMINATION AND IS SIMILARLY GONE]
[THE ARCHIVIST EXHALES AS STATEMENT STATIC BRIEFLY RISES]
[SOUNDS OF LADDER CLIMBING, LOTS OF HEAVY BREATHING AND OMINOUSLY CREAKING METAL, LOOSE ROCK DUST AND HEAVY WINDS]
ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT)
Down
And down
And down again
Rung after rung after rung to run down a long forever way to nowhere
A simple path, a line that was defined before we first stepped off the edge
We beg to find another way but all around despair is only empty, hollow air
Don’t look down.
Don’t see how far it is to fall.
And still we do not know what lurks so far below and waits upon the ground
The only sound the howling gale that tries to break us and the tinny click and clack of rusted rungs begun so far above
Or below.
Which way we move is but a distant glimpse of what might once be hope
But now is only only vertigo
As metal creaks and screams the beams of this iron thin and dying skeleton we hold to spite the sky
We don’t want to die
But what else is there to do but climb
Don’t look down
Don’t look up
The rung above is smooth and white and cool as aged bone
Slick and brittle as the future
Dead and silent as the past
The rung below is eaten through with rust
And creaks and snaps to amber dust when we try to place a foot upon it
[A RUNG BREAKS, SENDING METAL AND STONES FALLING]
Fall away, rotten thing
And leave us to grip with stiff and frozen fingers as we try to linger here and
Not look down
Not follow in your path
Not surrender to the air
[SCREECHING STARTS, FAINT THEN DRAWING NEARER]
There is another noise
A screeching cry from out the sky and lost as fast within its wide embrace
It is a body, no, a pair, a dozen panicked flailing shapes their mouths agape
With all the terror that we keep within our heart and try to swallow
As the void that claims these souls will swallow them
[SCREECHES TURN TO DISCORDANT SHRIEKS AND THEN TO SCREAMS]
It’s raining
Cadavers that do not know they’re dead
Or do they
For from their ragged throats they seem to have no doubt as to their fate
They shout and plead and bargain for gravity to wait and give another chance to hold the ladder close
Then they are gone
Abandoned by all but the indifferent pull
Of the waiting ground below
But they fall slow enough that maybe we may see within their faces
Us
In feature or in name there’s no reflection but the dreadful pained inflection of their fall
We see our end
And when they pass so fast it seems perhaps they were not there at all
We pause and sweat and shake and swear
It will not be us
And we don’t look down
The wind returns to shake the rails to which we bind our path and bids us to continue but
Something has changed
We reach up with a shaking hand
No
We reach down with a nervous foot
No
And all within an instant comes the gut-felt blow that we no longer know which way we were directed
A moment comes to mind from tinted memory of finding that the sole escape for us was down
Beyond the crumbled precipice to descend upon this shaking metal thing
And find a solid earth below it where we might be free
And yet there is another other coloured but no less in focused clarity or recall
Of a muddy foetid swamp that clings in cloying clumping damp
And tried to pull us to itself and claim our last breaths within its awful depths
So in the dread of our extremity we grasp the slick and filthy rungs
To pull us up and out
But now the air is all we see and there may be no cliff or swamp to flee
Or imagine as salvation from this ladder that is all we know exists
All else is empty
And so we wait
Our breath held close within our chest
As we wait for a sign of what’s to come
Where we might go
We look up at last
And see its twisting stretch that pulls away in all infinity to nothing
And we retch to think of all that way to climb to find nothing but a waving orphaned tip
Surmounting all our fears
We look down at last
And the space below us is not endless
But far worse the ground is there so bleak and bare and hard and waiting hungry for our fall
How many miles we cannot count for as we try to think about such measurements
It seems to move away
Any yet such distance does not dim its need to feed upon our shattered broken form
And so we cling
Desperate
Unmoving
Holding out with all our might against the smouldering fire of that awful dark desire to surrender
To the open arms of empty air
As the bodies start to fall around us once again
[STATIC RISES AND THEN FADES]
ARCHIVIST
Right. Well. I guess that’s it, then.
A one…
[EXHALING, HE RELEASES HIS GRIP AND FALLS]
[CLICK]
[CLICK]
[THE ARCHIVIST GROANS IN PAIN]
MARTIN
John?
ARCHIVIST
[Pained] Mmhmm. I’m here.
I am here.
BASIRA
Come on, even Martin didn’t make this much fuss.
MARTIN
I resent that.
[COUGHING SOUNDS]
ARCHIVIST
[Wincing] There is a big difference between knowing pain and experiencing it.
MARTIN
Don’t worry, it passes pretty quickly.
ARCHIVIST
I know.
MARTIN
Of course you do.
ARCHIVIST
But it hasn’t passed yet.
MARTIN
Nope.
BASIRA
Alright, let’s get you up.
[ARCHIVIST IS ASSISTED UP WITH SOME PAINED EXCLAMATIONS]
ARCHIVIST
Okay. I’m okay.
BASIRA
Martin says that’s London up ahead.
ARCHIVIST
Yes.
BASIRA
Looks even more messed up than usual.
ARCHIVIST
Yeah. We, uh, we should be okay, but best be careful.
MARTIN
Yeah keep an eye out.
BASIRA
Was that a joke, or…?
ARCHIVIST
Come on. Let’s get home.
[FOOTSTEPS AS THEY START WALKING]
MARTIN
You mean the tunnels?
ARCHIVIST
I suppose. I don’t really know.
[CLICK]
[CLICK]
[FOOTSTEPS AND VOICES ECHO AS THEY PROCEED THROUGH THE TUNNELS]
MARTIN
Hello?
ARCHIVIST
Georgie? Melanie?
MELANIE
[Muffled] In here.
[STEPS AS THEY MOVE INTO THE INDICATED ROOM]
MARTIN
Hey, what happened here? Are you both okay? Where is everybody?
GEORGIE
[Upset] They came for them. Took them away. Like before.
ARCHIVIST
Oh, god.
MARTIN
Who’s ‘they’?
GEORGIE
The… things from the city. You know, the, the ones that serve that big eye.
ARCHIVIST
Because of me?
MELANIE
Probably.
GEORGIE
W- It doesn’t matter. [Sighs] It’s the same as last time. We thought maybe keeping our numbers down might help, but… No, it was always borrowed time.
MELANIE
W-We tried to stop them, but -
GEORGIE
There, there were just too many. We… we couldn’t do anything. Just had to listen as they were dragged off.
MARTIN
I’m so sorry.
BASIRA
Damn.
MELANIE
Ha-Hang on? Basira, is that you?
BASIRA
Heya, Melanie. How, uh, how are you?
MELANIE
I’m fi- I mean… fine compared to - You know. Anyway, come here.
[MELANIE AND BASIRA HUG]
Where’ve you been?
BASIRA
Just wandering. I’ll tell you about it later.
GEORGIE
You got Martin back, then?
ARCHIVIST
We did.
MARTIN
I was actually doing alright until you showed up, and then Annabelle started acting up for company.
BASIRA
At which point we rescued you from certain death.
MARTIN
[Grumbling] Well, hardly certain death.
GEORGIE
Well, it’s good to see you in one piece. I assume the spider-woman is, um…?
ARCHIVIST
Actually, no, it’s a bit more complicated than that.
MELANIE
No, I’ll have a real answer, thanks.
MARTIN
Annabelle wasn’t trying to kill anyone. She just wanted to offer us a choice. Sort of, tell us about another option, I guess.
GEORGIE
That sounds… ominous.
MARTIN
Hmmm.
BASIRA
It is.
ARCHIVIST
Yeah.
You got anything to drink in those supplies of yours? I think I could really do with one.
[RATTLE OF GLASS]
We need to talk. All of us.
[CLICK]
@@faxonii thank you!
Really out here doing the Lord's work
Our names are kind of similar
This statement felt like a strange combination of The Vast The Buried. Obviously the distance is of The Vast, but the hopelessness very much echoes The Buried
I think I've finally figured out why this season sits differently than previous ones... They're styled and written much like Terry Prachet's The HogFather. Lots of thereticals, and runalong sentences. Still, very well written, and I look forward to the emotional drama of the finaly ❤👁💚
Holy hell I think you're right! Thats my favorite Discworld book and the energy this season has def been my favorite
I'm sure Simon is around somewhere having a fkng day about it
first time this podcast REALLY got me, the thought of having to jump off of a cliff and surviving but with all the pain irks me
It's gonna take a miracle to get Melanie to believe what happened at Hilltop Road
This just reminds me of that new movie "Fall", which honestly makes me sick thinking about, but for some reason I could deal with this episode a little better than I thought hh
Same😅😅😅
This episode was awesome
The screams here 11:38
The opening was so good, I restarted the episode when the statement began
Im not at all ready for this to end…
Hi Alex!
MARTIN.
DONT JUMP OFF A CLIFF
Martin: Wasn't planning too
BUT IF JON SAID A STATEMENT WHOULD YOU!!!!
Martin: ....
"I'll have a real answer, thank"
This one got to me ^^
It has a-hole energy. No, you don't get to sit down, you must do an extended exposition dump immediately. Because everyone must submit to my whims...You can tell I have no patience for that sort of person in Real Life.
4:41 5:42
mmmm good
"it was always borrowed time"
hm, first Daisy and now Georgie
14:10 and where did you come from cotton eye Joe?
Triangle shirtwaist factory ✨
I just wanted to let people know, but I made a physical book of all the Vast aligned statement transcripts(I'm calling it Ex Altiora). I just finished glueing it together (glueing the pages to the cover so it's actually a full book) and I was opening it up to check on it and make sure I didn't ruin it by accident.
Then I just find a small spider crawling on the end paper... is this a sign? Please send help. Did I make a Leitner?(I added a book plate already)
omg rung from transformers???!!!
I was curious what the least viewed tma episode is, and for some reason its this one, idk i thought it was a great ep, olus the fact thats its the 3RD TO LAST ONE OUT OF 200 i figured would boost this particular eps views, rly interesting how this one wasnt watched v much, i wonder why.
1:02
19:45
Enough with the workplace cpmedy show, now it's time for the adventurer comedy show