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The Saga of the European King

Release Date: 12/23/2016

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The Saga of the European King

The King has known and loved Axe Axewound for years, ever since they met on an adventure in Spain and deposed his evil brother. But actions have consequences and oaths aren’t just for declaring, and although there is never a good time to initiate a difficult conversation even the best of friends have to have them sometimes. Also the King’s son is stolen by bandits.

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The King and his strike team take a break from the invasion to have a sauna, some fudge and a discussion about the inevitable fate of statism.

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The King’s invasion of Washington D.C. begins with a thousand sickly snaps as he uses all his strength and cunning to barrel through all resistance.

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The pilot episode of our new flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time.

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You don’t just go and face the President of the United States of America without loading up on American-themed powers first. The King needs whatever treats Nanook the polar bear is handing out to help him in the revolution while his ex-wife assembles her own players to counter him.

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It is October 2018. What is going on with The Saga of the European King? Quite a bit, actually. Let us sit down with two pots of tea and a bottle of Pepsi Max and tell you what we've made, what we haven't and what is to come. This includes the merits of GMing trial sequences in roleplaying games, the true nature of BBC4 presenters and the difficulties of digging a trench. With , and . Music by Find The Saga of the European King on , , or The video of our live show is in two parts and on YouTube. Tom's Chewbacca game is up on Find the audio dramas made by the children at St Mark's...

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As part of our live show last year we also held an audio drama workshop for kids aged 9 - 11. It was part of the and hosted by . Here's a clip of what we got up to. We're looking to put together another round of workshops soon. Thanks to and for running the show and for filming.   Music is 'The Happy Monster' by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra, available from archive.org here:

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On the 6th of October 2017 we performed the very first live episode of The Saga of the European King to an audience at O N C A gallery in Brighton. It was part of the Brighton Digital Festival and funded by Arts Council England. The episode we put on was the finale of Book 2 which ties up most of the plotlines of the last year. The Adventure Team is reunited on the lawn of the White Roost and the King's plan to conquer the United States of America comes to a head. Music by Nicolai Roos, John Bartmann and Mano Camatsos. A huge thank you to everyone who came, Josh and Amy as ever, Claudia...

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On the 6th of October 2017 we performed the very first live episode of The Saga of the European King to an audience at O N C A gallery in Brighton. It was part of the Brighton Digital Festival and funded by Arts Council England. The episode we put on was the finale of Book 2 which ties up most of the plotlines of the last year. The Adventure Team is reunited on the lawn of the White Roost and the King's plan to conquer the United States of America comes to a head. Music by Nicolai Roos, John Bartmann and Mano Camatsos. A huge thank you to everyone who came, Josh and Amy as ever, Claudia...

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Colonel Glowfist is in trouble. He has blasted himself into the wetlands of Florida and is beset by monsters and the doubt of his comrades. Fortunately he has the Prince to keep him company while he trudges across the East Coast of the United States looking for the King.

Can the Colonel and the Prince harness the mysterious power of cigarettes to defeat this new land and keep the saltiness of Sofia Cólera at bay?

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Written and edited by Tom McNally

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PERFORMED BY:

Amy Sutton, Joshua Crisp and Tom McNally

 

Amy Sutton played Prince Prince, Pineycone, Sofia Cólera and Joanna Cólera

Joshua Crisp played Colonel Glowfist and Little Louie

Tom McNally did the narration and played The King and the Alligator King.

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MUSIC

Theme tune music composed by Nicolai Roos

Cólera theme composed by Beth Gibson

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SFX

alligator bellow by the US Fish and Wildlife Service available from https://www.fws.gov/video/sound.htm

Recording of Choctaw church service from the Lomax collection (T5215_91_cho) available from archive.org

 

Other sound effects not made by Tom McNally are courtesy of the wonderful freesound.org community. This episode included the following:

 

FLORIDA WETLANDS

walloffrogs by cccanary

1f-1m-gatorsbellowingcalusanaturecenter by astronomica

bird-in-cage-wings by rudmer-rotteveel

zoom0048 by ejames

zoom0049 by ejames

insect-noise-at-ft-matanzas by phb256

frogs-in-alliagtor-creek-at-4am by bansemer

st-marks-nwr-boat-tailed-grackle by nokasoma

cardboard-burning-1 by raremess

 

SMOKING CEREMONY

birds-chirping by bansemer

vn520042 hippie lyllabye by rivv3t

 

GEORGIA

sounds-recorded-in-decatur-georgia by microdac

serenbe-spring-fields-ambiance by dcsimon

country-ambiance-01 by dcsimon

 

NORTH CAROLINA

crickets-grasshoppers-birds by editor-adp

birds-woodpecker-in-flat-rock-jun06 by bansemer

boo-5-only-a-couple-people by jayfrosting

crowd-boo by adam-n

 

STANDOFF

the-chamber by npeo

rain-storm by rambler52

swansflyby by acclivity

 

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ART

Track art and logo by Tom McNally

Original character designs by Bruno Stahl