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Among the Stars and Bones
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A team of xenoarchaeologists travel to distant worlds searching for traces of a now-vanished alien race. Each season brings a new site, new secrets and new dangers.
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Announcement: Mid-Season Break Extension
Jul 3, 202400:01:00Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes Announcement transcript: "Hello listeners, Chris Magilton, creator and producer of Among the Stars and Bones here. This is a quick announcement to let you know that, due to things not quite going to plan, our mid-season break is going to be a little longer than anticipated. Today was intended to be our return, and post-production is just not where it needs to be for that to happen. I could blame the post-production team, but...I'm it really. "I'm sure you're wondering how long of an extension we're talking about here. My best guess is about another month, give or take. My apologies for the delay, but I promise you that I'm going to be working as hard as I can to get the second half of the season to you as quick as I can. Season 2 was a lot of fun to write and direct and perform in, and I can't wait for you to hear the rest. "In the meantime, until I can get it to you, please take care of yourselves and each other."
Transcribe →S2E7 - "God Help Us All"
May 8, 202400:54:35Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS Trapped in the mine, locked inside a lab, or now among the possessed, the team tries to figure out their next move with what resources they have. CONTENT WARNINGS Drug-Induced Break From Reality/PTSD - A character describes a traumatic experience from their past in which drug use resulted in a break from reality (15:33 - 20:50) Loss of Bodily Autonomy - Much of the episode references people who do not have control over their bodies and are controlled by technological means. In two scenes people affected by the phenomenon are describing events that have happened to them. In one they are punching a wall against their will and in the second they are being made to prepare for a fight (26:57 - 33:08) & (46:27 - 52:00) Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Celia - Shakira Searle Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Janine Hattersley - Lucille Valentine @severelytrans Indira Raju - Asha Lloyd @ashaactually Johann Mueller - Jerron Bacat @JerronBacat Anatoliy Klymenko - Andrey Dragovich @AndreyDragovich Hudson Desha - Tarek Esaw @TarekEsawVO Remy Seng - Edwyn Tiong @Omahdon Victor Hollister - Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK Dr Chang - Alex Chew @voidburntflesh The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →S2E6 - "Victor"
Apr 24, 202400:50:26Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS Both Ben and Celia speak to Victor Hollister after Kathy uncovers evidence raising questions about his involvement in what is transpiring. Ben seeks answers to the past while Celia seeks the story of what happened to Nabonidus all that time they were out in the frozen wilderness. CONTENT WARNINGS Loss of Bodily Autonomy - Much of the episode makes reference to the people who do not have control over their bodies and are controlled by unknown external means. In three scenes they are actually present and describing events that have happened to them while punching glass walls against their will (14:07 - 21:56), (27:27 - 39:41) & (40:56 - 44:31) Involuntary Murder/Cannibalism - A character gives a detailed and emotional recollection of his personal involvement in an act of mass murder and cannibalism while he and the others committing these acts are under control by an outside force (35:58 - 39:41) Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Celia - Shakira Searle Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Vinh Duong - Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA Genevieve Meisner - Rebecca Owen @rowen_vo Victor Hollister - Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson MUSIC CREDITS Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris Schubert's Adagio to Fantasia in C Major Op 15, recorded by Bruno Freitas, licensed from Motion Array Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, recorded by ChrisStudio, licensed from Motion Array This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →S2E5 - "Everything Goes Somewhere"
Apr 10, 202400:56:29Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS A return... CONTENT WARNINGS Loss of Bodily Autonomy - Two scenes in which a group of people are controlled and moved against their will by unknown means (4:54 - 10:40) & (18:31 - 24:45) Strangulation - Depiction of a moment when a character attempts to strangle another (6:01 - 6:15) Riot Police/Gun Violence/Tasering - A scene in which less-lethal weapons are deployed against civilians in a situation akin to riot police engaging with protestors (20:28 - 24:45) Delusional State/Sedatives/Medical Restraints - A scene with a character in a state of delusion and medically restrained being questioned (40:15 - 45:37) Cannibalism - The possibility of cannibalism to explain missing people is discussed (52:10 - 53:57) Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Celia - Shakira Searle Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Alexis Konstantinidis - Maia Harlap @maia_harlap Janine Hattersley - Lucille Valentine @severelytrans Hudson - Tarek Esaw @TarekEsawVO Klymenko - Andrey Dragovich @AndreyDragovich Keith Harris - Anthony Morales @TonyrayVA Jensen - Whitney Johnson @EditrixW Private Hubert - Rebecca Owen @rowen_vo Private Trinh - Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA Sergeant Janowicz - Maia Harlap @maia_harlap Johann Mueller - Jerron Bacat @JerronBacat Doctor Chang - Alex Chew @voidburntflesh The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris Special sound design assistance provided by Alice Magilton This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →S2E4 - "All Whispers Cease"
Mar 27, 202400:42:26Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS The team heads beyond the antechamber door and become increasingly frustrated with the contradictory evidence on where the Nabonidus crew might be. Meanwhile Celia and Kathy ponder the puzzle presented by Johann Mueller, with Kathy digging up a recording from his personal files that changes everything. CONTENT WARNINGS Delusional State/Panic Attack/Use of Restraints/Medical Sedation - A character experiencing a break from reality becomes agitated due to the handcuffs placed upon him and is sedated to prevent injury (12:12 - 14:01) Loss of Bodily Autonomy - A scene in which a group of people lose personal control of their bodies and are moved against their will by unknown means. The scene is both described and accompanied by sound effects (36:03 - 39:53) Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Celia - Shakira Searle Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Indira - Asha Lloyd @ashaactually Hollister - Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK Dr Chang - Alex Chew @voidburntflesh Johann Mueller - Jerron Bacat @JerronBacat Private Trinh - Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA Sergeant Janowicz - Maia Harlap @maia_harlap The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →S2E3 - "Technically Circumstantial"
Mar 13, 202400:49:00Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS The crew begins to piece together the story of the last four days before the Nabonidus crew went missing. Kathy notes strange behaviour in some of the recordings and finds evidence of what lies beyond the antechamber door. Meanwhile, Captain Francis plays a hunch that might result in their biggest lead yet. CONTENT WARNINGS Vehicular Accident/Panic Attack - Description of a vehicular accident and a related claustrophobia-based panic attack (6:13 - 7:12) Loss of Bodily Autonomy - Two short scenes involving characters being unable to control their limbs and subsequent discussion (26:01 - 28:56) Delusion/Hallucination - A scene involving a character in a state of delusion becoming worked up (44:10 - 45:15) Tasering - A character is incapacitated by a device akin to a taser (44:55 - 45:15) Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Celia - Shakira Searle Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Indira - Asha Lloyd @ashaactually Hollister - Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK Jensen - Whitney Johnson @EditrixW Vinh Duong - Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA Genevieve Meisner - Rebecca Owen @rowen_vo Konstantinidis - Maia Harlap @maia_harlap Private Trinh - Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA Private Hubert - Rebecca Owen @rowen_vo Sergeant Janowicz - Maia Harlap @maia_harlap Johann Mueller - Jerron Bacat @JerronBacat The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson MUSIC CREDITS Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris Schubert's Serenade, recorded by AudioGarden, licensed from Motion Array Erik Satie's Gnosienne No. 1, recorded by Joe O'Rourke Music, licensed from Motion Array This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →S2E2 - "Wrong Way Go Back"
Feb 28, 202400:49:16Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS The team begins their investigation into the site where the Nabonidus Task Force went missing. Their disappearance has an air of a locked room mystery. The team finds warnings, questions, anomalies and a new mystery surrounding one of the Nabonidus team members. CONTENT WARNINGS None Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Celia - Shakira Searle Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Indira - Asha Lloyd @ashaactually Hollister - Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK Remy - Edwyn Tiong @Omahdon Gallini - Dylan Chambers @D33DAA Konstantinidis - Maia Harlap @maia_harlap The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →S2E1 - Prologue - "Thankfully, Not My Nightmare"
Feb 14, 202400:14:26Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS Six weeks after the events of Season 1, The Herodotus Task Force have been rescued and are on their way home via military vessel. Adrienne thinks her team safe and the worst behind them. But she is about to find out that her bosses have other plans... CONTENT WARNINGS None Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Captain Francis - Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Captain Mayhew - Emma Sherr-Ziarko @TheGreatDilemma Petty Officer - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Season 2 Theme music composed by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Transcribe →Season 2 Trailer
Jan 24, 202400:02:37Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes The members of the Herodotus Task Force have an unexpected new assignment... This trailer features the voices of: Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Shakira Searle Oliver Smith @OliverSmithVAVO Karim Kronfli @BullshotUK Brandon Nguyen @MisplacedTextVA Whitney Johnson @EditrixW Jerron Bacat @JerronBacat Maia Harlap @maia_harlap Rebecca Owen @rowen_vo Emma Sherr-Ziarko @TheGreatDilemma Devin Madson @DevinMadson Theme music by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris TRAILER TRANSCRIPT [A few bars of the theme tune and the rumble of a spaceship in flight] MAYHEW: Nabonidus - What do you know about their current assignment? ADRIENNE: Some site miners found twelve miles below the surface of an ice ball of a planet in Sector 17 FRANCIS: Are you saying they've...disappeared? MAYHEW: I am saying the brass have made it your job to find out. FRANCIS: What? MAYHEW: Both your jobs. ADRIENNE: You can't be serious. We have 14 dead, and many of us are still recovering from... [Adrienne's voice and spaceship rumble fade, replaced by a computer sound effect] COMPUTER: For attention of Jennifer Connolly, Eudoxus Initiative... [The computer fades out to be replaced by the beginnings of the Season 2 theme] ADRIENNE: Initial hails failed to illicit a response. FRANCIS: Because despite all our best efforts, we've turned up nothing. CELIA: There is still a question over whether or not the people we are here to find are alive or dead. KATHY: We've been tasked with going through the data from Nabonidus to see what we can piece together. HOLLISTER: (on recording) Descending the ramp now. KATHY: We started noticing a few people doing weird things. HOLLISTER: (on recording) Did anyone see that? KATHY: There's a question of...behaviour. HOLLISTER: (on recording) Can they be opened? DUONG: (on recording) Should they be opened? KATHY: 88 missing people. Only 87 sets of personal logs. CELIA: We're still at a loss as to how this whole site was built 12 miles below the surface without a tunnel. BEN: Last time we had the ultimate xenoarchaeological murder mystery. This time it's the ultimate locked room. ADRIENNE: Covered in danger messages. BEN: That in two dozen ways are screaming, "Wrong way, go back." FRANCIS: They discovered evidence of sabotage. BEN: A host of contradictions. Warnings and signs and portents and clues and half-truths. ADRIENNE: Are you picking up on a general theme of wrongness? [The music builds up and switches to a different, bass-heavy version of the theme] JENSEN: (on radio) Captain, we've got something. Movement in the hangar area. MUELLER: Stay back! KONSTANTINIDIS: (crying) I'm sorry! ADRIENNE: Get to the mine! FRANCIS: Prepare to advance from the right flank! DUONG: Someone! Please! HUBERT: Swanson - Your two! KONSTANTINIDIS: (screaming) Don't you think we would if we could! FRANCIS: Do not approach! MEISNER: (crying) Someone, anyone...help. KATHY: (on radio) We're not going to make it to you! BEN: (shouting) The hell you're not! FRANCIS: I am compromised. Repeat: I am compromised. [The music drops intensity to an outro] COMPUTER: Among the Stars and Bones. Season 2. Coming February 14 2024. KATHY: Ms Connolly. Please make sure that you have a screen available. Because you need to see this recording. I can describe it, but even I don't believe it and I've seen it.
Transcribe →New Years Prequel Act 2
Jan 10, 202400:59:28Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes SYNOPSIS As the night progresses, things get intense at the poker table with mind games aplenty. Meanwhile at the main party the nights of the rest of the team are about to overlap and entwine in surprising ways... CONTENT WARNING Alcohol Consumption - Alcohol is present at various points in the episode. Prominent moments involve a drinking game (13:30 - 13:45) and some characters drinking a toast (36:19 - 40:04) Gambling/Poker - 3 scenes revolve around a poker game (7:45 - 12:10 plus 20:45 - 25:25 and 28:38 - 34:20) Crunching/Chewing noises - Three in total, the first at 29:28 with two more prominent ones from 33:00 - 33:15 Twitter: @AmongStarsBones Website: amongthestarsandbones.com Patreon: patreon.com/amongthestarsandbones Merch: TeePublic Store Episode Transcript CAST Kathy - Jordan Cobb @inkphemeral Laura - Lindsey Dorcus @LindseyDorcus Adrienne - Julia Eve @juliaeve_voice Ben - Chris Magilton @chrismagilton Gordon - Graham Rowat @GrahamNY Celia - Shakira Searle Harry - Sam Nguyen @Raethr_VO Janine - Lucille Valentine @severelytrans Logan/Gallini - Dylan Chambers @D33DAA Harris - Anthony Morales @TonyrayVA Jensen - Whitney Johnson @EditrixW Hudson - Tarek Esaw @TarekEsawVO Klymenko - Andrey Dragovich @AndreyDragovich Remy - Edwyn Tiong @Omahdon McPhee/The Computer - Devin Madson @DevinMadson MUSIC CREDITS Theme music "Patience" by Oliver Morris @oliverrmorris The following pieces were licensed via Motion Array: "Ready For Takeoff" by WaveArt "New Mechanism" by E2YOU "Party Until Dawn" by PLAYSTARZ "Party Rock" by GvidonAudio "Warm Country" by IhorDrums "Ethereal Android" by Lance Conrad "The Sense of Style" by Elena Anisimova "Secret Alarm System" by E2YOU "Stable" by E2YOU "Rocket Fuel" by DHDMusic "Fun at the Disco" by Easy Vibe Sounds "These Romantic Feelings" by DPMusic Licensed from Pond5: "Auld Lang Syne (Acoustic Guitar Version)" by Liberakun Sound All singing of Auld Lang Syne within the episode was recorded by the cast. In the outro version, performers appear in the following order: Chris Magilton, Whitney Johnson, Jordan Cobb, Devin Madson, Shakira Searle, Shakira/Graham, Graham Rowat, Jordan/Sam, Sam "Raethr" Nguyen, and all the previously mentioned on the final chorus. This episode was written and produced on the stolen land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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