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Rusty Bits #18 - Mike: The Beard

Mike bids farewell to his fluffy face friend.

STL 56 - Proselytising and (some) Progress

Episode 56 - Proselytising and (some) Progress

The client, the Gademy Academy For Scholarly Hollers, is looking for budget and spending advice (ideally yelled) to help with their financial difficulties.

Management Consultants’ advice: Not being a weak-necked fool; aggressively loud fonts; traditional organic unassisted yelling; more spartinacity; unclear pamphlets; misleading signs.

Content Warning for:

• Emotional Abuse
• Bullying/Taunting
• S...
  2021-01-07 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

MAG - Act III Finale Trailer

The final act begins.

Content Warnings:

• Cults
• Mentions of: apocalypse, scopophobia

Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Sound effects this week by FreqMan, exterminat & previously credited artists via freesound.org

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Check out our merchandise available at 2021-01-06 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

RQG 180 - Visitation

Join Alex, Helen, Bryn, Lydia, and Ben as they share knowledge with the council of the Ursans.

This week Zolf is delegated to, Cel isn't an expert on everything (yet), Hamid does some casting, and Azu receives some startling news.

Content Notes:

• Discussion of pandemics & disease
• Mild innuendo
• Discussions of mind control and hivemind
• Mentions: quarantine, war, heights

Editing this week by Marisa Ewing, Tessa Vroom & Alexand...

Curtains up

Hi folks,

Happy New Year from Rusty Towers! May 2021 bring us all new joy & favour – and we hope that everyone’s continuing to stay safe & well. 2021 certainly heralds much in the way of change here for Rusty Quill, as we ride headlong towards the finales of both The Magnus Archives and Stellar Firma this year, as well as welcoming new shows and new opportunities in due course into the RQ stable!

Things are still quiet around here, though, as folks ar...

EGSM 12 - Highs and Lows

Well, whodathunk? We made it to the end of our first season of Enthusigasm! Many thanks to everyone who has listened so far.

For our twelfth episode, we dip our toes into the topic of dating. Helen, Lydia, Mike, and Tessa talk about first dates, the proliferation of dating apps and sites, and what we’ve learned as we’ve gotten older.

We hope you enjoy this episode, and all the ones before it. Watch this space for news of whether we’ll be having a second season!

Top quo...

Cabaret Night at the Cosmic Lounge - Album Digipak

It's here! Welcome to Cabaret Night at the Cosmic Lounge, an album of music & sketches courtesy of Stellar Firma!

Join Sigmund Shankeray for this Patreon exclusive as he tries to keep an evening of entertainment on track, with songs from the crew of Stellar Firma Ltd, 'comedic' interruptions from other citizen-employees, and a showcase of album art from VeraRaeArt!

STL 55 - Defiance and Defection

Episode 55 - Defiance and Defection

Management Consultancy Review.

Line Manager Hartro Piltz to assess initial consultancy efforts, largely from bed for what can only be assumed to be efficiency reasons. Bill for destruction of celebratory sparkling slurry to be applied to Line Manager’s expense account.

Content Warning for:

• Emotional Abuse
• Bullying / Taunting
• Alcohol & alcohol consumption
• Unhealthy relationships
• Discussi...
  2020-12-31 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post

MAG Commentary - Retrospective #2

In the second of our retrospectives, Jonny and Alex look back at 5 years of the show with commentary on choice clips selected by the cast and crew of The Magnus Archives.

Content Warnings

• Spoilers for show to date
• Body horror
• Clowns
• Graphic description of dermatillomania (skin-picking)
• Mentions of: worms, heights, spiders, patricide & dismemberment, eco-horror, darkness, apocalypse, pandemic, cults, stress, violence

Edited ...

RQG Bite Marks Holiday Special - Part 3

Join Alex, Helen, Bryn, Ben, and special guest Becky Annison as they fight for the future of the pack!

This week Jan does two hugs at once, Stone taps into revenge instincts, Winter is a true friend, and Mr. Smith just straight-up eats a phone.

Content Notes:

• Body transformation (inc. SFX)
• Dogs/wolves (inc. SFX)
• Mental deterioration (age-related) & instances of memory loss
• Manipulation
• Animal attack (inc. SFX)
• High pitch...
  2020-12-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Closing out the year

Hi folks,

Seasons best from Rusty Towers! As a most turbulent year draws to a close, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well – and wish everyone a hopeful start to 2021. There’s a lot to come from Rusty Quill next year, and we look forward to being able to share all of that with you in due course. For now though, thank you everyone for all of your amazing support for our shows and content – it is supremely appreciated by all of us a...

EGSM 11 - Romance and Romance-ability

In today’s episode, you must allow Helen, Sasha, Lydia, and Maddy to tell you how ardently they admire and love the works of Jane Austen.

We chat about the trials and tribulations of how we got into the books in the first place, our favourite characters and relationships, and the various merits of the many film and TV adaptations of Austen’s work.

Top quote: "They feel small, but that's fine, because it is also a delighting in the smallness of real life and existing, and the s...

Grizzop Letter to Vesseek

The following letter was sent shortly after arrival in Cairo in Season 3

[Transcript]

V.

Sorry for not writing sooner things have been pretty busy. Prague was a lot and Eva 

had me chasing down a professor who turned out to be some sort of big scary 

necromancer. Met up with some good people though. Call themselves L.O.L.O.M.G. or 

at least they did. Anyway we worked together to take out Kafka (he was the 

necroman...

STL 54 - Unions and Unsustainable Ideology

Episode 54 - Unions and Unsustainable Ideology  

The Client, New O'Neal Commercial and Industrial Hyperdynamics and Lotion Innovations, requests assistance with unionisation issues and general employee loyalty issues. 

Management Consultants' advice: recontextualise definition of terms; unions are stupid; learn to love the boot; unions eat your legs; hats of nitiation; unions give you wrinkles; eat the boot; initiate ‘funchat'; hold ‘funchat’ in the backup airlock....

MAG Twilight Abyss - Part 3

The view from the rooftops of Slyde World is bleak. Can our heroes Gavin Crumble, Freddie & Ms. Pledge save the park, Dorset, and perhaps indeed the world, from the encroaching Abyss and avoid any further health & safety citations?

Content warnings

• Existential threat
• Instances of memory loss (supernatural)
• Flooding & Threat of drowning
• Mild child peril
• Innuendo
• Character death
• Mentions of: emetophobia, comedic...
  2020-12-23 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

RQG Bite Marks Holiday Special - Part 2

Join Alex, Helen, Bryn, Ben, and special guest Becky Annison as the pack discovers a chilling new threat.

This week Stone provides deep insights, Jan sniffs into things, Winter has a silver tongue, and Mr. Smith suggests they ought to cover more ground.

Content Notes:

• Body transformation (inc. SFX)
• Dogs/wolves (inc. SFX)
• Mental deterioration (age-related) & instances of memory loss
• Manipulation
• Mentions: injury, existential crisi...
  2020-12-22 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Cosmic chants and chance

Hi folks,

Seasons greetings from Rusty Towers! Wherever you are in the world, we wish you all the best for whatever plans you may have, as we head towards the end of the year.

As we said last week, we’ll be a little quieter here for a couple of weeks, as the crew get some rest, but you’ll still be getting a Monday missive that tells you about the release schedule for that week’s shows. This break also includes a short hiatus for RQ Streams, though there will...

EGSM 10 - Return of the Feels

Top quote: "I think that out of all of the characters he's probably the one that I most personally identify with, and I just absolutely adore him. Also he's hot."

Content warnings:

• brief discussion of homophobia
• brief discussion of racism
• discussion of sexism
• discussion of traumatic childhoods
• strong language
• Mentions: death, ghosts, Nazis, suicide, violence

Directed and Hosted by Helen Gould

Featuring: April Sum...

MAG016 - Arachnophobia - Deluxe

Case #0150409

Statement of Carlos Vittery regarding his arachnophobia and its manifestations

WARNING: Contains spider images on Page 7 (Appendix)

Text on P7 replicated here for reference:

John's handwriting on side of page:
"I do not know which assistant attached these photos but they are not relevant and should be removed."

Image: Egg sac of a common house spider

Image: Spider encasing its victim in web

...

STL 53 - Mentors and Management Consultancy

Episode 53 - Mentors and Management Consultancy  

Consultants successfully recaptured, alert level lowered to alternating blue and green strobes. Paradrak Ngelion assigned for orientation. 

The client, The Eternal Order of Patriarch Hans, requests fundraising and image improvement advice to help combat the impact of their murderous activities. 

Management Consultant's advice: exciting new mission statement; sotto voce logo slogans; bowel cleaning eye machine (...

News from the Cosmic Lounge!

It's Cabaret Night!

If music be the food of love... well, you might want to look elsewhere. But! If the musical stylings of the various citizen-employees of Stellar Firma Ltd do interest you, well then, do we have a treat for you!

Starting on 25th December 2020 at 5pm, we will be publicly releasing the individual song tracks from the Stellar Firma album Cabaret Night at the Cosmic Lounge on our podcast feed AND YouTube ch...

MAG Twilight Abyss - Part 2

The second instalment of Jonny's improvised horror roleplay game sees Gavin Crumble, Freddie & Ms. Pledge head down into the pump room of Slyde World to asses the equipment and inspect the inner workings of the Hell Fall.

Content warnings

• Innuendo
• Body horror
• Mentions of: death, human/animal remains, mild child peril, violence, flooding

Edited this week by Lowri Ann Davies, Tessa Vroom, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Pr...

RQG Bite Marks Holiday Special - Part 1

Join Alex, Helen, Bryn, Ben, and special guest Becky Annison as they craft werewolf characters and enter the world of Bite Marks! 

Prepare for intrigue and adventure alongside charming Mr. Smith, devious Winter, loyal Jan, and mysterious Stone.

Content Notes:
- Mentions of: manipulation, death, mental deterioration

Editing this week by Lowri Ann Davies, Tessa Vroom & Alexander J Newall.

SFX this week by Benboncan, sabotovat, and previously credited art...

Pacts, packs & packages

Hi folks,

Seasons greetings from Rusty Towers!

Well, that was quite a weekend. We still can’t quite believe how well that went! Thanks to the amazing generosity of the community, RQ: Gaming & Giving 2020 has raised £33,000 towards our nominated good causes: Mind, Action Aid and the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN)! In fact, you all even managed to surpass our original target of £20k by 6.30pm on Saturday evening. 

Thank y...