THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #91 - The Coming Storm
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- MAG091 - Case #0172804-A - Mike Crew
Statement regarding their encounters with the supernatural.
The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a person of interest appearing previous statements, from how they got a childhood scar to dealing with a number of interesting books.
Content Notes: Heights, electrocution, gun violence
Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims; Michael “Mike” Crew - Guy Kelly; Alice “Daisy” Tonner - Fay Roberts; Basira Hussain - Frank Voss
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead
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I know most people had found Jon's powers to be kind of underwhelming but I find it cute how these murderers possessed with dangerous powers just spill their secrets like it's therapy.
Powers that don't seem strong at first glance are my favorite, because the applications can be very creative. What if Jon had a radio show where he asked the listeners to share their stories? Everyone would be compelled to tell their secrets. On one hand, all crimes would be solved as long as the culprit or witnesses heard the show and were in a position to communicate, but on the other society may collapse.
@@nanahuatli2144 which perfectly fits the agenda of those.. things XD
@@nanahuatli2144 Listeners, today we have an exciting special guest with us. It's Jon from the Magnus Archives. Jon, welcome to Night Vale. I heard your flight got lost in the void on the way here, but you seem to have made it just fine. It's nice to have you.
@@GasmaskBlacky Now I'm wondering which of the Dread Powers operates in Night Vale.
Probably the Spiral. It seems like a very Spiral-like location.
His powers align with knowledge and secrets. That can be extremely dangerous. The other characters seem to fear him actually compelling them to say things they don't want to. And heck, look at Elias. Being able to know without actually asking the question. Knowledge can be a very powerful weapon indeed.
Jon's power is just unwilling therapist and no one can tell me otherwise-
Amazing. The comment section for these videos is a goldmine.
@@rosemarycat5 time to record them in audio 👁🗨
So, INFJ confirmed?
Or would that be Martin?
well i guess i've got that power then lol. random strangers keep wanting to tell me their life story, and i've been the "therapist friend" for years until i finally got sick of it
Imagine giving therapy to someone while you’re at terminal velocity for like 20 minutes only for that person you got to know and who isn’t too dissimilar to you in nature gets killed. That’s a gut punch, man.. more trauma for the pile..
Mike: How DARE you compel me you have no power here
Mike: Anyway, here's my whole story
Just like the fire lady in the previous episode. They KNOW they are being compelled to spill their secrets, but they can't stop themselves from doing it anyway. It's so cool
The voice acting in this episode is great, Jon sounded like he was geniunely in pain and it made me so sad. This boy has no clue whats going on, he can apparently mind control people, and he keeps getting the snot kicked out of him by everyone he knows
Yea thats prrtty much Jon
seriously! I'm starting to wonder who'll beat him next (like tim or elias)
@@aw3707 #beatjonmoarplz
@@aw3707 I’m betting on Martin
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Basira coming in clutch with the last four brain cells
almost wasn't enough to compensate for daisy's negative numbers of them
@@f_mva Daisy is trying her darn best and in her defense Jon is naturally sus in his paranoid state xD
@@amphitritemists4595 Jon is reverse Chilled of the TMA world then xd Chilled is only not sus when he's paranoid.
@@f_mva you say this like Jon isn't the one going out and talking to mildly elderitch murderers
why is it that jon is constantly being beaten up by michaels
I want them to introduce more Michaels just for them to beat him up.
Those Michaels again I swear-
Cause he keeps digging into these spooky supernatural mysteries like he's Nancy Drew or something xD
"me and Michael 🎵🎶"
Next he's going to get beaten by a Michel at Michaels
1) Fall in love with Mike instantly.
2) Be sad.
same
Glad to know I'm not the only one
Rip short sky himbo
hehe _fall_
So, if I can trust the comments on every other video, this is just standard procedure.
Just slightly irritating, not gonna lie
I was NOT expecting Mike's voice to be like that at all.
Like a happier/lighter Tim.
@@winterwolf211 like Tim's PTSD manifested in a different way
@@someoneawesome8717 oh damn u right
pretty sexy
I think I understand now.
Elias can know stuff he shouldnt
and Jon can make anyone share what they know.
The eye watches, the eye seeks and the eye,
R E C O R D S.
Woah
Not sure about the records bit. Well at least not the tapes
you’re actually not far off! jon is an archive :))
So I guess this means Gertrude is able to make connections with just about anyone no matter how evil and assuming Leitner is an avatar of the eye too, he can take anything he seeks.
The Eye seems relatively benign.
Everyone’s talking about poor Jon and stuff, but god Mike is such a cool character
was*
Magic Mike.
Definitely the most chill of all of the spooky's introduced by this point.
@@pyrosianheir "most chill" *throws jon into the infinite void as he give his statement* sure he asked about tea, but like
The skyfolk are all pretty chill in their villainy: Mike is super pleasant here (void-tossing notwithstanding), and Simon Fairchild seems like he's having the time of his life every time he shows up to ruin someone else's.
oh my god jon u can't just ask people how they got their scars
(but seriously please stop hurting jon)
Why not?
Makujah They were making a play on words from a scene in Mean Girls 😊
But also it's kind of rude as the story may be traumatic or they might not like have attention drawn to them.
@@nanahuatli2144 (tw) this is especially true with s/h scars
Honestly, it's weird no one's ever asked Jon about his scars. They must be quite the sight.
Mike’s affable, but there was something wrong with his moral compass even before he became an avatar. His offhandedness about his parents’ deaths and his willingness to kill in search of Leitners is chilling.
The Vast gives one a... broader more distant perspective on things. Even before becoming an avatar, Mike did have Vast inclinations it would seem. :)
I think that before becoming an avatar, these people are sort of gradually led to act like one before a final “transformation” (seems to be a death and subsequent revival). Jude Perry liked matches, scented candles and petroleum before her “change.” She started off just destroying her own life, then she gradually became compelled to destroy others’. This finally culminated in her transformation into an avatar after dying.
I think Mike died when he jumped too and came back to life. It started as a small inclination towards the sky, led on by the lightning strike, and gradually the Vast’s hold on him got stronger and stronger until he died and became an avatar.
This makes me wonder though… that guy who died way back in earlier statements surrounded by fractals. Was he really dead?
@@luxill0s DUDE THIS IS SUCH A GOOD THEORY OMG
@@luxill0s Now I'm curious too
Yeah. At first I didn't dislike him as much as the Lightless Flame cultist Jon spoke to (just listening to her talk filled me with actual rage even though she's fictional... it's a problem I have...) but the more I thought about it the more I was just thinking "Mike is a lot like her but calmer about it"
i LOVE that we’re talking directly to characters whose names we’ve heard over and over or at least who have been relevant to several statements this is so good
They're like celebrities. When Jon interviewed Leitner I nearly lost my mind.
@@nanahuatli2144 lmao ikr
@@nanahuatli2144 too bad Elias pulled a half-blood prince on him
We haven't met Jared or Gerard. For Jon's sake, I hope he never meets Jared
@@hamburgerdog25 I just hope that if he does meet Jared he's figured out how to use his asking powers a little more cheatily.
"Anyway, here's freefall..."
"Do you mean Wonderwall?"
"No"
when i tell you i choked on my water-
I REALLY REALLY HATE JON GETTING HURT
He's been stab by Michael.
ME TOO
@@mericagunsfreedomandlove.8985 yeah, and his only reaction to this was literally "ouch. anyway, moving on".
I was not even sure it actually happened until Martin mentioned the wound in one of the later episodes.
This is still so hilarious to me.
Not gonna lie, as soon as Mike opened his mouth my himbo alarm bells went off.
Why? He's not Tim. There may only be one supreme himbo in this show
@@anemoi6803 there can only be 1 supreme himbo, I agree there, but there can be other smaller himbos too!
@@anemoi6803 nah tim is a timbo
laughed a little too hard at timbo
Timbo leader of the himbos
Between Michael and Michael, ONLY ONE CAN REMAIN...
micheals gon win micheal dont stand a chance lmao
funny thing is you know which micheal is referred to in these comments
I want a boss fight but with just the two Michaels
Mike Crew probably uses a nickname to avoid a fight to the death with Mr. Knife hands.
Well I've got good news!
Mike seems like he retained a lot of his human personality and memories, interesting!
The avatars that seem to embrace what they are seem to do quite well in retaining their old selve
Jon my baby boy are you ok please stop hurting my precious little man. I want to wrap him in a soft blanket and bring him tea so he’s safe and ok because I love him oh dear god.
Edit: I think Martin possessed me sorry
This is one of the best comments I've ever read.
Remember though, "the blanket never did anything"
@@CrazyTimeTraveler 🤮🥳
The blanket never worked though
martin totally possessed you gamer
I don't like Daisy and you can FIGHT me on this she is literally so awful to Jon
Ya know. At this point, totes valid.
She is a corrupt cop who regularly assaults and kills people with no actual investigative skills outside of threatening witnesses, so that seems appropriate.
I don't think anyone will fight you at this point unless she has a *serious* redemption arc. More likely she'll be offed by an entity she's pissed off. Quite possibly Elias.
@@neganick ACAB even applies in this universe I guess lmao
Daisy has a cool voice but, oof
Why does everyone have to hurt John? Like he's not even dangerous, it's like beating a curious cat. I get Daisy's train of thought but does she really look at John and see a murderer? I could kick her ass. Glad she beat Michael considering he's killed people but...I still feel bad he died.
Yeah... about that.
@@mimkyodar god I'm so fucking invested now
@@mimkyodar What? I'm concern now.
@@midnights2631 It's fine. don't even worry about it
Well... Daisy didn't said nothing about dead
Wow, so Daisy really has this one killing place in the woods. There must be some hidden graves by now then. Poor Jon. More trauma for him.
When Jon says "Why are you doing this? Tell me!" to Daisy, there's a little bit of static, damn
holy shit. i've listened to this scene an enumerable amount of times and never noticed. im giddy all over again, no details are overlooked!
@@hell0mega I know!!!!
oh the wonderful sound of mike getting slapped across his stupid smug face. excellent
But he had a second smaller smug look underneath
@@just_a_cryptid HsheheHEHSHA PLEASE. YIU JUSY CANT WIN
Mike actually seemed like a really likable guy. You just had to go and shoot him...
He was a murderer.
@@moonstruckstarlet6607 (I like your profile picture!) also yeah he killed that innocent man in Paris, with the fear of ladders.
@@moonstruckstarlet6607 oh so what, basically everybody is; out of all the avatars we have so far seen he was one of the more pleasant ones for sure
@@ineedmoresalmon2475 Actually you're right he was kinda nice
@@moonstruckstarlet6607 Who isn't these days? Even Jon may turn into one by series' end and I'll still love him. xD
Enjoy Ground Brown, Mike!
the lack of likes on this comment is criminal I am cackling
OH MY fuHcKinG GOD
I CHORTLED OH MY GOD
banger comment
I spat my drink
Can we at least have a healthy wholesome moment for Jon where he's not in a place of distress and/or nearly getting killed, please?
Just for once?
No?
He needs a nice vacation to a cozy little cottage in the countryside, wouldn’t you say? 🙂
@@TheNitpickChick And with Martin by his side, of course. :)
We would have, but Alex said no >:(
@@TheNitpickChick and some nice fluffy cows 🙂
He is a main character in a horror podcast... what do you think?
The Magnus Archives
Come for the episodic cosmic horror, stay for the mystery and character drama.
I love this.
Man... Just like Leitner, they introduce one of the characters I'm most interested in, then they killed him off immediately. At least Mike Crew didn't disappoint.
Mike is just "yeah I've committed those crimes heheh" **pours a cup of tea** "want some? :)” I can't think about him otherwise
Aah. The... The Freaky Mind Controlling Eye Powers come in here.
@Julie Kavanagh I believe it is an illusion or s direction correlation the Evil Eye. The idea is that there is a curse cast by a malevolent being on an unassuming victim causing misfortune, misery, injury, or even death. The legend is prevalent is many cultures, especially Mediterranean and Middle Easter/West Asian. They need a nice Jewish bubbie to give them all those blue eye talismans. My mother would gladly elect herself. She loves Martin.
That little whistling sound mike made when talking...it was very well made. God i love this podcast
It would be interesting to know whether they added it, or the actor naturally makes his S’s like that. As a kid I had speech therapy for a lisp, and it worked, but I never learned to make the S sound quite right. My S’s are a touch too sibilant and whistly, like Mike’s.
He sounds like someone who's gone through some speech therapy
The VA might have a gap in his two front teeth, sounds weird I know but I have a front gap and I unintentionally whistle a lot more than fellas without
Mike Crew could throw me off a tower in Paris and i'd thank him.
Can they stop hurting Jon now, please? :'( These are amazing but also ouch. I came here for the horror, not to end up having *feelings*.
from what my friend who got me into this series tells me theres a lot more things your gonna be feelin hun
Oh God I can't the voice acting in this episode is absolutely tragic, Jon just being in absolute pain is so chilling I really wanna give him hug.
Jon at parties must be like "haha yeah this scar I got when my friend tried to slit my throat lmao" like BRUH PLEASE STOP BEATING HIM UP FOR FUN
(edit/spoilers?)
I finished tma so far and Jon has officially been dubbed the avatar punching bag
My surprise is minimal
First-time listener here, but I guess that kind of makes sense. It seems like the Eye is considered the weakest entity by the others. I mean, Jude Perry literally insulted it for just watching.
like how this comment implies jon would go to parties
This episode messed me up way more than any other. I think it's because getting kidnapped and murdered is a lot more realistic than most things that happen in this story and also because so much information was revealed. It's wild to think that Jonathan would have this ability and have no clue about any of it.
im really glad they always state outright who people are cause i cant tell mike's and tim's voices apart at all
for me it's Tim and Elias. if context doesn't make it clear i have to check the transcripts to make sure i'm not getting it wrong fhfkfkgg
@@SI-nx3fo Really? For me it's (or rather, used to be) Elias and Jon
@@himeow7454 Ikr Elias sounds like Jon lowered his voice
@@SI-nx3fo they both have completely different mannerisms
@@mahideergin7285 Honestly, I can just identify who's talking by the transcrip lol
Jonathan and Elias.
Both work for the institute.
Both are working to preserve information.
But there is an important distinction between them.
Elias takes what should be freely given.
And Jon simply asks.
I can handle Jon in pain...I can't handle Jon being terrified. wtf Daisy
I cant handle either
For a guy who obviously thought he was hot shit Mike went down rather easy.
Then again, sounds like the Hunt got Daisy.
the Hunt is able to harm anyone... even... Later (spoiler territory)
Poor Jon. He does not deserve any of this
full honesty,,, daisy scares me in a bad way. like she's very traumatized and i get that i'm trying to give her benefit of doubt because she isn't trying to wreck everyone's shit or w/e but she just. reminds me of people and idk how to feel abt her??
I don't know if it's so much that Jon's power is "weak" as he hasn't been using it long enough to break it. Imagine holding up a dangerous Lietner and saying "What does this book say? Tell me the whole text exactly as it reads"
ok i refuse to believe mike is dead. after the tape cut off basira took the cop car and hightailed it straight to the hospital where he remains for the rest of the series recovering after that bastard shot him.
oh jon, he needs a break
Well, that was stressful.
Jon- being rude to things that can kill him since 2016
The sudden turn of events in the end made me laugh, feel sad, and terrified of what Daisy have done XD
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Daisy: "Does he need to see you to do it? Does he need to speak?"
Jon: "I-I-I don’t know."
Daisy: "Okay."
[Proceeds to further destroy Michael Crew]
*Daisy: "Doubt he can do it in a coma."*
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Heck, even the last part * W *
She just killed Michael, and made Jon bury him.
This episode is amazing, and well done like the others that featured sound effects and other characters * W *
15:44 “Why are you doing this?! TELL ME.”
He’s finally trying to use his powers:D
Daisy: *choking Jon*
Me: NOOOO!! 😫😫
"-sigh... And I was trying, so hard, to be polite..."
WOOOW I freaked out it was so powerful !!!
Is it that the archivist has the power of getting people to confess or is it the tape recorders?
I think it's a bit of both? Like the tape recorders are an extension of Jon's Eye powers or something
jude kept mentioning compelling so i think its the eye's power to compel people to make statements ? im not sure though
I think it's the Archivist. By now it's established that everytime Jon asks you something you have to answer. The tapes just turn on by themselves when there's something juicy worth recording, but they don't seem able to force anyone to do anything.
So if the Archivist can compel the truth and not just answers, then does Martin have a bit of resistance to it? Because it took asking a few times plus yelling out a demand for Jon to get him to admit to lying on his CV.
@@greywriter maybe Martin is resistant because he is connected to the Eye as well
Jon's little whimper of pain 😢
The episode: 💀🪦👹
The comments: 💕👀😍
Every time
RIP Mike, his character was so cool.
Mike seemed pretty cool, I wish he stayed for a bit more longer. He was really interesting.
He got defeated by Daisy pretty easy, but he probably didn't expect some human to kill him.
Someone give Jon a hug please he needs one
Daisy beats a man into a coma asmr
Damn she made quick work of that lol mad respect
"I'm not usually the soul for speeches"
So like the archivists can really make people speak huh...
jons just not having good time good lord. Someone hug him please, literally every new person he meets tries to kill or harm him.
Well... F for Mike Crew, I guess.
Loved this episode! The Vast is probably favourite "power." It doesn't feel as overdone as some of the other fears/horror tropes. Too bad that we only got to hear Michael Crew once, but now I'm really looking forward to the episodes with Simon Fairchild.
Okay I _just_ reconciled with the fact that they killed off Leitner in the same episode where he first spoke and now they just did it again?? Mike was so likeable 😭
When I first listened to this episode yesterday I didn't realize that daisy had the blunt knife to Jon's neck around 15:54 (English is not my mother tongue) and it took me an animatic for me to realize that's what happened. I'm writing this to help anyone else that had the same confusion as I. Language is hard... Daisy did sound cool saying it, and Jonny's acting was fantastic.
aaaaayyy, listening to it in a second language is cool, then (like being able to do so at all ) !! and GL with the listening. : )
The episodes concerning The Vast have always been some of my favorites, is it weird that I'm kinda sad that Mike is dead now? Next to the Boneturner Jared, Mike's power is definitely one of the coolest in the series in my opinion. He's so. . . blase about everything that he's done that makes it chilling in a very interesting way. The Fire lady was horrifying because of how much joy she took in it, whereas Mike seems indifferent to it in a strange way.
The fact that Michael went on that whole eliquintly worded story without Jon using his archivist powers says alot about how well spoken he is.
Jon asked him how he got his scar. That’s when mike got pissed and then gave his statement.
I think Jon DID use his archivist powers...
@@kehlcassidy9562 he did, 2021 me was a dumbass
I love how we’re basically given a guide to know which entity we would serve
Oooof, that rushing noise as Mike did the thing. O.o Also, he's somehow the most chill of all the odd-balls we've met at this point.
Until she started hurting Jon I was really fond of Alice smh. I kinda still am but boi if she hurts Jon again I will cri :') I really feel bad for him tho. He has no idea what the fuck is going on, and he keeps getting dragged into dangerous situations and getting hurt and it's not fair.
Hope you’re free falling forever in Vast heaven, king!
M a n I wish we couldn’t had more of Mike :((
I love the approach of building up these characters across statements, and just casually introducing them for a short time.
Jon: I've been falling... for thirty minutes!
(SPOILER for this episode) I was loving Mike so much, I wish he could stick around for longer :(
When everyone else figures out you have some sort of superpower and you’re still clueless and trying to breath
I am sad for Mike I think? Ok, he killed a few people to feed upon, but outside of this, he seemed like a nice guy! Giving himself to the Vast was his last option, and it seems he was desperate at the time.
Maybe is he not human anymore, but not so much of a monster either.
Mike really is like "Dude I try to be nice why >:c"
I hate Daisy with my whole body
I genuinely think Jon’s powers are cool like I would love to have mind control that makes people tell the truth and stuff, and also rip Mike 😔
sometimes I play minecraft while listening to tma, and I just found a lot of items I thought had despawned! yay!
Why does any and every Michael that I love die painfully in this show?
right? :'(
Wtf daisy i actually wanted to see more of mike, i really liked him :((
10:37 In Soviet Russia the book reads you.
At first I thought it was Basira who came to save him from Mike and warn him about Daisy being on the warpath. Then I realised it was Daisy, but she was not murdering him right away, so I was okay with that. And then she goes on and proceeds to strangle my boy?! Not on my watch, scary murderous police lady who I won't stand a chance against in a fight! Put the smol baby Archivist gently on the ground and step away with your hands in the air! I have a Basira up my sleeve, and I won't hesitate to use them!
Amazing voice acting and sound effects in this episode. The illusion of falling is achieved very vividly--seriously impressive to do that with just audio.
Don't be mean to poor Jon...
Currently at 5:30 and what the fuck. Jon can seriously magically compel people to answer his questions. Creepy as shit.
My god Jons on everyones punting list arent they, next episode some other entity take a gander at poor lil jon
I have been FALLING... for THIRTY MINUTES
I think I'm starting to get the picture...
Are we... The Beholding?
We're the "god" and we'd be mad if Jon dies, so we lend him favor to survive all of this, we give him the ability to force others to share their secrets. All in the service of knowing more. Of seeing and recording more.
_For our amusment._
whewwwww ugh i love daisy so much but also BASIRA
honestly, i know its clear jon has the power to make people talk, but im just convinced that it is infact because none of these people understand how regular conversations work and have never spoken to any good listeners before
[CLICK]
MIKE
You’re sure I can’t get you a cup of tea?
ARCHIVIST
Uh, it-it’s fine, really.
MIKE
Okay. You just seem a bit… jumpy, is all.
ARCHIVIST
Oh, I just, er… Coming in I thought… It’s fine.
MIKE
Grand. Er, okay, what can I do for you?
[SOUNDS OF TEA BEING MADE]
ARCHIVIST
Er… You’re… you’re Michael Crew, right?
MIKE
It’s Mike, please.
ARCHIVIST
Right.
[SPOON NOISES]
[Leadingly] I’m from the Magnus Institute.
MIKE
Oh, you, uh, yeah, you said.
ARCHIVIST
I, er… I read… You feature in some of our statements!
MIKE
Oh. Statements of what?
ARCHIVIST
You… There was, there was a book? Er, two of them, at least. Er… Ex Altiora, The Boneturner’s Tale.
You, uh, I think you threw a guy off a skyscraper in Paris.
MIKE
Hmm. Last chance for that cup of tea.
ARCHIVIST
I… Where did you get that scar?
[LONG SIGH AS THE SOUND OF RUSHING AIR RISES]
MIKE
And I was trying so hard to be polite.
[THE ARCHIVIST ATTEMPTS A SCREAM BUT TO NO AVAIL]
Hard, isn’t it, trying to ask prying questions at terminal velocity? The air… it doesn’t… leave your lungs like you expect it to. I mean, I know you’re still sat down, you know you’re still sat down. But whether your body knows it when I decide you hit the ground, that’s… that’s something I haven’t made my mind up about, yet.
A little bit of privacy. Is that really so much to ask? I suppose it is, isn’t it? From you and yours at least. We have a lot in common, really. After all, what, what good’s the height, the terrifying draw of gravity, unless you, unless you really know the scale of what you’re facing?
Maybe I’ll let you live, allow you to drag yourself back down to your den, but… you need to learn some respect.
MIKE (STATEMENT)
My scar, wasn’t it? Always the scar. Ironic, in some ways, because that was one the few marks that was only really ever physical. I got it when I was struck by lightning, age of eight. I was playing outside with a friend of mine, and the storm just came on quickly. That’s really all there was to it.
Have you ever been struck by lightning? No. No, of course not. Not unless that’s what happened to your hand, but I’m guessing that burn came from sticking it somewhere it wasn’t wanted. And you still didn’t learn. Well, imagine a white-hot, stinging pain, your whole body becoming rigid, like for an eternal moment you’re frozen, you’re trapped in a statue of yourself with a thousand needles of agony just erupting through you from the inside out. I don’t know if it’s the most painful thing that can happen to the human body, but… beyond a certain point trying to quantify and measure pain, it becomes pointless. That point is being struck by lighting.
The part that always bothered me was how I didn’t remember it. Not really. The sensation’s still vivid enough, but it exists in my mind completely detached from any actual memory. I remember the feeling, but not the event. One moment I’m playing amid raindrops the size of blueberries, and the next I’m in a white hospital bed, that acrid smell still surrounding me, and these lines of agony just carved through my skin.
The doctors told me there would be no long-term damage from my accident. They, they were wrong, of course, but the damage wasn’t something they could see, so how were they to know? Sitting alone in my room, tracing the lines of electricity with my finger, imagining my pain travelling these branching pathways. I was obsessed with it, and every time my finger reached the end of the line I felt a jolt of fear, because I, I knew they went further, went deeper than would show on my skin.
By age ten I was reading everything I could on what had happened to me. Electricity, Lichtenberg’s experiments, meteorology. My parents thought it was simply my way of recovering, of processing my trauma, but there was something else there. I know that now.
Did you know that Lichtenberg figures are fractals? I didn’t, not back then, but as they travelled along the length of my scars, I sometimes think like my fingertips could feel it. When I was twelve, curled under my bed to escape the pounding of the rain against my window, the roll of thunder that just rattled my skull, I began to travel them once again. My hands ran down and along those jagged, discoloured lines, every branch, every turn, my nostrils full of ozone, my veins full of fear. And they didn’t stop. I knew where my scars ended, but… those I traced in the dark that night, they just went on and on and on, far beyond me and to somewhere that still flashed with that unspeakable white light.
That was the night everything changed. Before it I was odd, certainly, probably traumatised, and gripped with a terror of storms, but after that night, things were different. I think, looking back, that was when I called it. That was when it caught my scent.
It delighted in toying with my perceptions, making me believe a storm was approaching, forcing me to run for shelter or desperately hunt for cover without warning. In the dark it would stand beneath my bedroom window, the light flaring, flashing the awful brightness of sheet lightning across my room.
I could never look directly at it. The bright, arcing glow of its insides almost blinded me when I tried. It was almost a man, but I could never be sure. Its strobing, flashing Lichtenberg organs changed and flickered too fast. It… never hurt me. Not once in all the years I was chased by its… malevolence. Of course, I know why that is now, but at the time it did nothing to dull my fear.
I remember when it found out where I lived. I had dreamed that night of shifting, branching avenues of light. I travelled them so fast I could feel my flesh peeling away, leaving nothing but the coursing, buzzing pain within me as I ran down these hideous corridors, aching for an end I knew simply wasn’t there. I woke up screaming into the darkness. Walking to the window, I looked out over the tiny garden below. I was sixteen at the time, and the house I lived in had a small patch of green behind it, just fighting against the pressing grey of the city, the dull glow of the light pollution overhead. But where the back wall should have been, there was a small wooden gate.
I didn’t feel the cold as I opened the back door, and walked out towards it. My… my tormentor was nowhere to be seen, but the blackened edges of the gate showed clearly it had passed by. Was I afraid? It’s hard to remember now, but I have to assume that I was. I mean, I must have been. As I pushed the ancient hinges back to reveal this darkened forest, how could I not have been?
It stretched away forever, I think, or as close to forever as the human mind can contain. The trees were long and spindly, their branches bare and reaching, as they grew down towards me out of the sky, their roots pulsing upwards into this roiling mass of clouds; the scorched and shattered trunks reeking of ozone.
I found The Journal of a Plague Year when I was seventeen. I was lucky, I suppose, that it wasn’t anything worse. It infected the house, of course, brought it crashing down upon my parents in a collapse of diseased brick and septic foundations, but I escaped. And more than that, my eyes were opened to the powers that might save me. Might protect me from a past that followed me so brightly I could barely see it. But I knew that Filth was not for me. Buzzing flies and rot disgusted me, but they never spoke to my soul. I threw the book into a sewer, and began my hunt.
The Boneturner’s Tale was next. Found tucked away in a waterlogged library basement, and deposited back in another. I played with it, but when I tried to shift the bits of myself I thought might set me free, the only shapes I could form with them were laced with that horrid, hunting fractal. My experiments weren’t entirely pointless, though, they did have a truth to me. I learned that I was more than capable of killing, if it brought me closer to what I needed.
I spent some time with a small grey volume, I think it was in Cyrillic, that decided it was at home amongst my bookshelves. I couldn’t read it, of course, but… when it tried to read me back, I buried it on a lonely stretch of moorland.
Finally I found what I was searching for. In the back of a Chichester bookshop, I found my release. Ex Altiora. ‘From the Heights’. The owner didn’t want to part with it, a nasty, grubby little man who stank of sweat and self-importance, but I got it. And at last I had what I needed.
The thing that chased me, you see, it was an arcing branch of the Twisting Deceit, taken shape to follow me. But the shape it had taken more rightly belonged to the sky. To those same vast unknowable heights that blessed book wanted to take me. Falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight. When my parents would take me to the fair, I always found my way to the highest ride, the one that would just send me plummeting. It wasn’t simply the rush of adrenaline, but something, something deeper, something that just gripped my soul with this ecstatic horror. And I knew within that book was something that could not only release me from my pursuer, but chain my being to that rush of wind and vertigo forever.
I don’t remember that night in detail. The two most important events in my life, and I have clear memories of neither. I know it was the first storm, the first real storm, I had seen for almost ten years, but nothing else remains in my mind. There are echoes of resignation, I think, almost desperation. That can’t be right, though. What reason would I have had not to jump? Not to become as I am now. Perhaps I just didn’t know the true joy of vertigo. It doesn’t matter. In the end I threw myself into the arms of that vast emptiness, and I bound my tormentor to the book.
That’s… that’s all, I think. Since then I’ve embraced my new life; gladly fed that which feeds me.
A… uh, a Paris skyscraper, was it you said? I honestly, I, I can’t say I recall it in detail, but that does… sounds about right. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track.
MIKE
Hm. You know, that was… that was nice. I’m not, not usually the sort for speeches. That was… pleasant change. So.
[LOUD SOUNDS OF RUSHING AIR AND THE ARCHIVIST GASPS]
Off you go, then.
ARCHIVIST
[Breathing heavily] I, er… You-
MIKE
Archivist. Take my mercy and leave. You have touched something few ever walk away -
[DOOR KNOCKING]
I thought you said you came alone?
[GASPING GURGLES]
Hm.
[OPENS DOOR]
Can I hel - UGHH!
[SHORT-LIVED SOUNDS OF ALTERCATION]
ARCHIVIST
Detect… Detective?
DAISY
Shut up. He human?
ARCHIVIST
What?
DAISY
Is this man human?
ARCHIVIST
I… Er, no, I, I don’t think so. Not anymore.
DAISY
Right. What does it do?
ARCHIVIST
Er, he… It feels like, he makes you… Vertigo. Like you’re falling.
DAISY
Has he killed people?
ARCHIVIST
Er, y-y-yes. Yes, a few, I think.
DAISY
Does he need to see you to do it? Does he need to speak?
ARCHIVIST
I-I-I don’t know.
DAISY
Okay.
[ADDITIONAL SOUNDS OF KICKING]
Doubt he can do it in a coma. Now turn that off, and help me get him in the car. Don’t try to run.
ARCHIVIST
What are you -
[PUNCH]
DAISY
What did I say about questions? I said turn that off!
[CLICK]
[CLICK]
[SOUND OF WIND AND VOICES ARE SOMEWHAT MUFFLED]
DAISY
This is it.
ARCHIVIST
[Out of breath] So… so what now? You kill us?
…
DAISY
You think he’s going to save you?
ARCHIVIST
What? What, no -
[GUNSHOT]
[THE ARCHIVIST CRIES OUT]
DAISY
Now… let’s see the bag.
[THE ARCHIVIST IS STILL GASPING]
[SOUND OF ZIPPER]
DAISY
One wallet, brown leather, no cash. One packet cigarettes, Silk Cut. One lighter, gold, spiderweb design. One pocket knife… blunt. Huh. One set of keys to the Magnus Institute. And one tape record -
[VOICES BECOME CLEARER AS DAISY EXTRACTS RECORDER]
You sneaky little freak! You want to record this? Alright. I’d have to destroy it anyway.
ARCHIVIST
What, I? I, I didn’t -
[RUSTLING NOISES]
Pl-Please don’t shoot me.
[SOUNDS OF PANIC]
Why are you doing this? Tell me!
[GURGLES MORE AS DAISY GRABS HIM ROUND THE THROAT]
DAISY
Stop… asking… questions!
That’s how you want it? Fine. You brought a knife. So we go through the voicebox.
BASIRA
Daisy!
…
Daisy, put him down.
DAISY
You been following me, Basira?
BASIRA
Didn’t need to. I know what you do here.
DAISY
He tell you?
BASIRA
He didn’t need to. You’re not that subtle. But I - I always thought you just killed monsters.
DAISY
I do!
[ARCHIVIST CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE]
BASIRA
Just let him go.
DAISY
You don’t know what he is. You don’t know what it’s like to have your secrets pulled out like teeth, just because he asked?
ARCHIVIST
I’m sorry, I didn’t -
DAISY
Shut up!
BASIRA
Daisy!
DAISY
Don’t you… Don’t you dare look at me like I’m crazy! It got you too, or do you think we gave him those tapes because we like handing out evidence?
ARCHIVIST
What?
BASIRA
That’s not how it happened.
DAISY
No? You ask me to take a tape over to this murdering freak, and I’m all set to tear you a new one for it. But then I get the cassette in my hand, and suddenly all I want to do is deliver his tapes, and spill my guts.
BASIRA
So, so now you kill him?
DAISY
First him, then his creepy boss.
BASIRA
This is too far, Daisy. You know it is.
DAISY
He murdered two people, Basira. Maybe more. I’ve done one monster today, no reason not to do another.
ARCHIVIST
I didn’t… I didn’t kill anyone!
BASIRA
For god’s sake look at him!
DAISY
Then who?
ARCHIVIST
I thi - I thi - I think it was Elias.
DAISY
Yeah. Well he’s on my list too.
BASIRA
What if he asks?
DAISY
What?
BASIRA
You reckon he can mind control people. Make them tell the truth? Why not try it on Elias?
DAISY
…
He’s got, he’s got his own… He knows things. Would that work?
ARCHIVIST
I don’t know. I, I could try.
BASIRA
Daisy! This might be our only chance to find out what’s going on.
DAISY
…
Alright. But if this doesn’t work, you’re still dead.
ARCHIVIST
[Exhaling heavily] Yeah. Yeah.
What about Mike?
DAISY
Who? Oh.
Grab a spade.
[CLICK]
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You're welcome :)
Petra Iván holy shit poor jon ):
also thank you broooo
I had mixed feelings about Daisy before but after she did Mike dirty I think I have formed a pretty solid opinion :)
Can't wait for daisy to meet a brutal ironic end, hopefully from martin or elias, though id settle for basira taking her out of her misery. She terrifies me. (In a good way, amazing job from the VA!!! Not an easy character to pin but the bored, deadpan tone and latent violence are bone chilling.)
*watches from the finale* How'd you go there?
@@mimkyodar WELL WHAT A WISHMASTER SITUATION HUH
(Still think the va did an incredible job on daisy, that transition from icy threat to ally beast was Something. i love a character with a good redemption arc)
Was gutted to press like as it sat at 111... I like repeating numbers 🤣 fabulous work
13:35 was the first real scare i've gotten out of this. fisrt time i heard it it scared me so bad i felt like i was falling backwards and the air got sucked out of my lungs. such good effects and voice acting
I'm a little unclear about when exactly the reveal of Jon's power was. For me it was when Jude told him not to try to compel her, but I'm not sure if Jon was already aware by that point and I just missed something, or if that was the reveal for him too
I looked at that title and went “i think I know who this episode is about . . .”
nice icon !! and yep.
The Storm is already here, Magnus.