Chapter 35 - Axe Axewound, the King’s Best Friend
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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Chapter 34 - The Nemesis of Neglect Names You
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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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Chapter 33 - They Rode into Town on a Yacht Made of Swans
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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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100 Words of Astounding Beauty s01e01 - Scream
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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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Chapter 32 - Tell Me! Tell Me About the King's Cool New Powers
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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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Chapter 31 - You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth
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Chapter 31 - You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth
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The Podcast of the European King 01 - Where Have We Been
The Saga of the European King
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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Red Button Audio Workshop: The Dragon of Climate Change
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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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Live at ONCA 2017 ACT II - The Boss Battle Where Men Meet Themselves
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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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Live at ONCA 2017 ACT I - Mister King goes to Washington to FIGHT
The Saga of the European King
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...
info_outlineLife goes on even inside of a gigantic dugong. Everyone has settled down and found new roles and purpose except for Colonel Glowfist. He has found Gappy the reindeer and has a baffling plan to glitch their way back to the questing life.
Will the master of magic ruin their completed character arcs? Just what is magic anyway? Whatever became of the Colonel's powerful slacks? What does it mean when NPCs name themselves and declare agency?
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Written and edited by Tom McNally
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PERFORMED BY
Amy Sutton, Joshua Crisp, Ben Edwards and Tom McNally
Amy Sutton played Sally Minefield, Prince Prince, Pineycone, Sofia Cólera and Joanna Cólera.
Joshua Crisp played Colonel Glowfist, Father Figaro, Little Louie and Will Smith.
Tom McNally did the narration and played The King.
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MUSIC
Theme tune and musical stings by Nicolai Roos
Glowfist's sting by John Bartmann
Sofia Cólera's accompaniment by Beth Gibson
Beach party music was 'Casanova Beach Club Pre-Party Summer 2010' by XaviPinos from archive.org
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SFX
Sound effects not made by Tom McNally are courtesy of the wonderful freesound.org community. This episode included the following:
INSIDE THE GIGANTIC DUGONG
fat-wet-footsteps-in-small-shower-cabin by rugermuller
mudsquelch by ahill86
footsteps-muddy-e by inspectorj
glossy-magazine-sounds-fieldtapes by fieldtapes
magazine2 by tiptoe84
PINEYCONE
bird-flapping-wings by elfman-rox
MAGIC
atlas3-2x-16bit by pixelmasseuse
atlas3q-1-fm-16bit by pixelmasseuse
ON THE OCEAN
ocean-waves-surround-me by Tamás Bohács
BOSS FIGHT
Dugong vocalizations came from the research of Kotaro Ichikawa
MIAMI BEACH
The following sound effects came from the public domain library at archive.org:
Ocean1 by Sakurasky 2010
Pebble beach near Palaiokastrite Greece by radio aproree available from archive.org
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ART
Track art and logo by Tom McNally
Original character designs by Bruno Stahl