Author: Eneasz

Wow. A truck of personal chaos crashed into my life over the last 24 hours. Sorry this episode is a few hours late! That probably won’t happen again.

I must mention that Bram Bakker began a Metropolitan Man podcast of his own a couple months ago, which I was unaware of. :( I feel terrible, I didn’t mean to step on his project. I wish him the best, please take a moment to check it out if you’re interested in another take on this story. He is very graciously providing the voice of Perry White for my version, thank you Bram!

SFX: Door Open/Close, 1940’s Office, extra typewriter, typewriter bell, wind, beach, short whoosh, longer whoosh, elevator, Rooftop 1, Rooftop 2, Rooftop 3, footsteps

Music:
Intro/Outro – Handlebars, by Flobots
Luthor Manor – Boccherini’s Minuetto, Mozart’s Eine Kliene Nachtmusik

And we’re back! It’s been weird getting back in gear… with such a long hiatus I’ve very slowly accumulated most of the voice work I need, and gathered a lot of the background SFX and some of the music. This first episode coalesced over two months. Going back to putting one out every two weeks will be interesting.

As you can see there are some major changes to the website. I hope they are for the better. I’ve moved the SFX and Music credits to these Production Notes posts, and will be moving all the SFX to a running list on a single page over time. This is mainly so I don’t have to keep digging up old links for SFX I reuse a lot. :)

Those of you into audio fiction may recognize the voice of Mercy Graves, who is played by Kate Baker of the Clarkesworld podcast. I met her at WorldCon and she kindly agreed to lend me her voice, for which I’m crazy grateful! Clarkesworld puts out some amazing SF, if you need more audio fiction in your life, it’s a good place to go. There’ll be another SF podcast celebrity in the podcast later on, and of course Anaea Lay of Strange Horizons helped out back in the HPMoR days.

SFX: Cocktail Chatter, Street Ambiance, Door Open/Close, 1920s Speakeasy

Music:
Intro/Outro – Handlebars, by Flobots
Skylight Club 1 – Dapperblook, by Insane In The Rain Music
Skylight Club 2 – Ice to Meet You, by Insane In The Rain Music
Luthor Manor – Boccherini’s Minuetto

I think I overproduced this episode a bit.

I said most of what I wanted to say on writing this story this in the bottom half of my post about this story at my blog — including the fact that this was partly inspired by Sister Y’s posted “Transdimensional Justice Monster” at The View From Hell.

One thing I didn’t mention – the summoned monster is supposed to be a Byahkee. Fun thing about trying to figure out how to describe a Byahkee – turns out there is no source. Lovecraft himself didn’t describe what a Byahkee actually looked like except to say they’re winged and have webbed feet. His description is mostly things that it didn’t look like. To wit: not crows, moles, buzzards, ants, vampire bats, nor decomposed human beings. I guess the implication is that they’re kinda like all those things. Anyway, I ended up basing my description sorta on this image by KingOvRats. He’s been interviewed as well.