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Rusty Quill Presents the Magnus Protocol Episode 42 Hostile Workplace.
Alice
It Alice. Alice, are you alright? No, no, no. Alice, wake up. Come on, stop messing around.
Unknown
Lost it. Damn, that thing moves quick. How is she?
Alice
I. I don't know. She won't wake up.
Unknown
Shit. How long has she been out for?
Alice
20 seconds, maybe 30.
Unknown
Wake me in an hour.
Alice
Christ, Alice, don't do that to me.
Unknown
No promises.
I'll radio Melanie. She should be able to call in a medical team to.
Alice
Oh. What?
Unknown
Your arm.
Alice
My arm? Jesus.
Unknown
When did it happen?
Alice
It must have been when it grabbed me.
Unknown
What's going on?
Alice
Nothing. Nothing. I'm fine. I just need to. I'll be back in a second.
Unknown
Can you see out of them?
Alice
What? No. Oh, God. Will I start to.
Unknown
I don't know. I've seen a lot, but this is new.
Alice
What do we do?
Unknown
Well, we can't just leave them in case it gets worse.
Alice
Worse? How can it get worse?
Unknown
Let's just say we need to get rid of them.
Alice
But how do you get rid of extra eyeballs?
Unknown
I mean, I assume the normal way.
Alice
The normal way. Oh, Christ.
Unknown
Everything okay out there?
All good. Alice, do you have a sewing kit?
In the dresser, top drawer.
Thanks. No, it's just like lancing a boil.
Alice
You don't know that.
Unknown
You'd rather they stuck around? Well, then give me a couple of minutes. Just keep an eye on Alice. Oh.
Alice
Ha, ha. How are we doing?
Unknown
Feels like I was drinking tequila all night, but, yeah, I'm okay, I think.
Alice
I thought I'd lost you one all, I guess. I don't follow.
Unknown
I already lost you, remember? It was your turn.
Alice
Oh, right. Yeah.
Unknown
It's all right. I know you're not my son, but you're damn close. And now you're leaving too.
Alice
Yeah. Sorry.
Unknown
It's okay. Are you sure you can't work things out with your Alice?
Alice
I don't know. Last time we talked.
Unknown
You should try doing an apocalypse together. Did wonders for us.
Alice
I'll give it some thought.
Unknown
Just make sure you survive this time. Yeah.
Alice
Alice.
Unknown
Okay, Good news is I found a nice big needle. Great news is Melanie's managed to call in a med team and they're on their way. Bad news is they said we need to sort your arm asap.
What's wrong with Sam?
Nothing serious. Just some minor first aid. Right, Sam?
Alice
Uh, yeah, yeah, it's nothing.
Unknown
So I heated it over the stove and I even found some old rubbing alcohol kicking around with some clean rags, so we should be good to go.
Alice
Is it going to hurt?
Unknown
Probably. Is that gonna be a problem?
Alice
No.
Unknown
Good. Bite down and close your eyes.
Alice
Easy for you to say.
Unknown
It's all right, Sam. I've got you.
Hold him.
Alice
Trying. It's okay.
Unknown
Right. That should do it. You can let him go now. See? That wasn't so bad, was it? The medics can take a proper look at the station, but with any luck, we've stopped them spreading at least.
Alice
Oh, good.
Unknown
How are you doing? If you're going to puke, try and keep your arm out of the way.
Alice
No, no, I'm fine. I just. Just need to.
Unknown
Sam.
He's out. He'll be fine. He's had a big day.
Scratching at the bandages won't help.
Alice
Trust me, you have no idea how.
Unknown
You maybe want to try that again?
Alice
Sorry. It just itches like crazy. Oh, God. What if they're growing back?
Unknown
Then I'll take a pair. Look, I wouldn't worry. The doctor isn't. This is nowhere near the weirdest thing we've seen from the Zone. We had a rookie a couple of years back who got stuck in there for too long. And you wouldn't believe where he started. Growing a new face.
Alice
How's Alice?
Unknown
Sleeping. But they say she'll recover quick if she doesn't do anything stupid.
Alice
That's good. Where's Georgie? I thought she'd want to be here.
Unknown
Well, given what we're dealing with, she thought it best to go and get. Speak of the devil.
This is the one I was telling you about.
Alice
Mrs. Hussein?
Georgie
Have we met?
Alice
Oh, I suppose not. Sorry. I'm Sam.
Georgie
Georgie got me up to speed. So you've met my double.
Alice
Yeah. You were a deputy head at the school. Uh, yeah.
Georgie
Huh. Was it a good school?
Alice
I mean, it was pretty fancy.
Unknown
Sam, I brought Basira in to help because she, myself, and Melanie are, as far as we know, the last people alive who dealt with our archivist back in the day.
Georgie
So it is John then? Or his double, at least.
Unknown
We don't know.
Georgie
But you did see it.
Unknown
What I saw, it was so transformed, so inhuman. If it was him, he's completely gone now.
Alice
Okay, sorry, hold up. Can I get, like, an explanation of who this John guy is or something? As far as I know, this is a monster that came over with me from my world. And now you're acting like he's an old friend.
Unknown
Georgie, you care to do the honors?
You tell it better.
All right, So a few years ago, before everything went to hell, we had a colleague, a friend, eh, A guy called Jonathan Sims. He was the archivist for the Magnus Institute, and we all ended up working there at one point or another, except Georgie. So, anyway, he got wrapped up in bad supernatural stuff, the same as we did, but he got it the worst. It turned him into kind of external.
Alice
What?
Unknown
No, no, shut up. He turned into something that sent the whole world to hell. Eventually he managed to undo it, but it killed him. And. And someone else we cared about.
Well, they disappeared at the exact same time that the building they were in completely exploded. That doesn't feel like much of a stretch.
Georgie
I mean, you say that, but.
Unknown
Let's not do this again.
Alice
So you think this archivist might be the same as your archivist, maybe.
Unknown
The Eye stuff, the monologues, it's definitely similar.
Georgie
Where did your archivist come from?
Alice
I mean, we don't know exactly. Best guess, we have had a Magnus Institute in my world, but it burned down about 25 years ago.
Georgie
Lucky, I guess.
Alice
But me and Alice, my Alice went walking around in the ruins, and we think we might have accidentally disturbed it.
Unknown
Do you know how long it had been down there?
Alice
No, but it must have been trapped a long time since the place was destroyed. At least, maybe longer. Hmm.
Georgie
The timelines don't work.
Unknown
That's assuming time is the same everywhere. Which we already know isn't the case.
Georgie
True.
Unknown
The Institute, the one in your world, did it still serve the Eye?
Alice
I don't know what that means.
Unknown
Did it do a lot of collecting stories, taking statements?
Alice
No. No, I don't think so. It was more into alchemy.
Unknown
Alchemy? What, like lead into gold?
Alice
More like lead plus fear into gold, but yeah, sure, Interesting. So then, what's this eye you said your Institute was working on?
Georgie
Lots to unpack there.
Unknown
Not it.
Georgie
Fine. So in our world, fear was like a supernatural force. Okay, and it was chopped up into 14 entities.
Unknown
Fourteen and a half, really.
Georgie
Whatever. The point is, each one was tied to a specific kind of fear. Like the corruption was all disease and filth and bugs, or the spiral was kind of like madness and not trusting yourself or the hunt, which. You get the idea.
Alice
And your Eye was one of these entities?
Unknown
The Eye was a power, yes, one obsessed with being watched.
But that's not how it works where you come from, is it?
Alice
I don't think so. My job is. Was categorizing these things for the government, and we had a whole index of way more specific listings.
Georgie
Can you give me an example?
Alice
Sure. So, like, when I was a kid, I applied for the Magnus Institute's Gifted kids outreach program. And, well, long story short, I saw a man's skeleton claw its way free of his body.
Unknown
Sounds like flesh to me.
Georgie
He may be buried.
Unknown
So what did your index say about it?
Alice
Oh, I think it was something like alchemy. Cross referenced with human bones or something. Okay, but that's not the one I was thinking about. That was just the setup.
Unknown
Go on.
Alice
So, going through that left me with a real phobia of skeletons. Not surprising, really. I get why it was kind of funny, at least. Why? Everyone always laughed when I told them. So after a while, I just stopped telling them. It makes sense. I mean, we see skeletons as kind of goofy, right? Dancing cartoon, Bones and cheesy Halloween decorations. If people have seen a real one, it was probably cleaned, polished and hung up in a museum somewhere. Not many people have seen them fresh and bloody, with fat and muscles still clinging to them. As a kid, the phobia was really intense. I don't know how many Halloween meltdowns my parents had to deal with over the years, but I never told them what happened at the Magnus Institute. I didn't think they would believe me, and now I'm certain they wouldn't. Even now, I can see you smirking and I do get it. But handing the other kids a cheat code for bullying you is a bad idea. So by the time I was in my mid teens, I'd learned to hide it. Just calling myself a bit of a scaredy cat. I still had to steel myself when October rolled around, but it generally didn't affect my life as much as it had when I was younger. Then I started training to be a lawyer. I went corporate. Nothing sexy like a barrister. I'd never had a calling, so I thought I might as well make good money while doing something that I at least found mildly interesting. Anyway, it takes years to qualify, even after finishing your degree and taking all the courses. So I took a job as a paralegal at Ackman Blaine. It wasn't what I expected. There were three others on my team. Natasha Merrill, Anastasia Ressing and Anthony something. I forget his last name. As soon as I met them, I knew we weren't going to get along. My parents were pretty well off, or told. But these three were something else. Every one of them was there because of some family connection and none of them had any doubt about where their career was going. Natasha was occasionally kind to me in a charity case kind of way, but as far as the other two were concerned, I might as well have been something they scraped off their shoe. And on top of all the rest of the pressure that comes with working as a paralegal, it didn't take long for it to start to get to me. Six months in and I was already getting hit with the holy trinity of insomnia, depression and burnout. Then Halloween came around. One of them, I think it must have been Anthony, went around taping little cartoon skeletons to hold the monitors. It wasn't aimed at me. I hadn't been stupid enough to tell any of them, but I reacted badly. I don't remember what happened exactly, but I knew it ended with me crying at my desk. Natasha asked me what was wrong and I don't know, maybe it was because she was occasionally nice to me. But I ended up telling her. She nodded very sympathetic and and said she'd get Anthony to take the skeletons down. He did. And that was the last I heard of it. Until about a month later when Anastasia asked me to help her get a ream of paper down from the top shelf of the stationery cupboard. It wasn't a suspicious thing to do. She couldn't have been more than five foot two and it wasn't the first time she'd asked me to fetch something. So it came as a complete surprise when the door slammed shut behind me. The cupboard was shallow enough that it didn't have a light and as I was plunged into pitch darkness, I could hear three distinct voices giggling to themselves. It was only as I turned to open it that I saw what was waiting for me. Pinned to the inside of the door was a glow in the dark paper skeleton. You know, the ones with those pale green bones that stand out in the gloom. I froze, terrified. I wanted to scream, but I choked it down. I knew the reaction they wanted and however close I might have been to a breakdown, at that point I was damned if I was going to give them the satisfaction. Then something changed. I don't know how to describe it exactly. It was like the fear inside me mixed with something, became something entirely new, not just inside me anymore. I screamed when the skeleton began to peel itself off the door. Its two dimensional grin opened wide as its legs flailed, stretched and spasmed, dancing like in those old cartoons. And it reached out its arms towards me. It couldn't have been more than 10 seconds between my scream and when our boss, Gene Pearce pulled the door open, but apparently my face was already covered in teeth. Paper cuts. So yeah, I don't know how that fits into whatever system you use for these things.
Unknown
It doesn't anyone else clock when it.
Georgie
Turned into a statement.
Unknown
What, you think it's nearby?
I don't think so. The squad has definitely been more eloquent since it arrived, but it seems to just be a general effect near the Zone so far.
I'm guessing you didn't stay in that job much longer.
Alice
I tried, but my nerves were shot. A week later, David pulled me into his office for the not everyone can handle the pressure talk and I was encouraged to move on right out the door.
Unknown
Anyway, the point is that regardless of whether this archivist is John or not, it's not working the same as it did before.
Alice
I don't even know if it's quite the same as it was in my universe either.
Georgie
What do you mean?
Alice
Well, for one thing, the eyeballs are new. I'm wondering if this I think you have has changed. It had.
Georgie
It's gone now.
Unknown
Unless having another archivist changes that.
Georgie
Well, shit, yeah.
Unknown
So given all that, if anyone wants out, now's the time. Because either way, this is going to get messy.
Alice
I'm still in, and it's not like I've got anywhere else to be.
Unknown
You know, I can hear when you're all staring at me, right? Obviously I'm in. I'll just leave the shooting to you guys.
Well, okay then.
Alice
So does that mean I'll be getting a gun? Because I haven't.
Georgie
Actually, no.
Unknown
The Magnus Protocol is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial share alike 4.0 international license. The series is created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J. Newell and directed by Alexander J. Newell. This episode was written by by Jonathan Sims and edited with additional materials by Alexander J. Newell with vocal edits by Lo Rianne Davis, soundscaping by Tessa Vroom and mastering by Catherine Rinella with music by Sam Jones. It featured Shahan Hamza as Samallah Khalid, Billy Hindle as Alice Dyer, Sasha Sam Sienna as Georgie Barker, Lydia Nicholas as Melanie King. The Magnus Protocol is produced by April Sumner with executive producers Alexander J. Newell, Danny McDonough, Lynn C. And Samantha F.G. hamilton and Associate producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, CTS Direct and Megan Nice. To subscribe View associated materials or join our Patreon visit rustyquill.com Rate and review us online Tweet us at the Rustyquill Visit us on Facebook or email us@mailustyquill.com thanks for listening.
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The Magnus Protocol 42: Hostile Workplace Release Date: July 10, 2025
Overview
The Magnus Protocol continues the chilling narrative established by The Magnus Archives, delving deeper into the enigmatic and supernatural occurrences surrounding the Magnus Institute. Episode 42, titled "Hostile Workplace," unravels the intense dynamics among the team members as they confront both internal tensions and external paranormal threats. Through a blend of horror, mystery, and psychological drama, this episode offers a gripping exploration of fear, trust, and survival within a hostile environment.
1. Immediate Crisis at the Workplace
The episode opens with a tense situation unfolding between the characters Alice and Sam. At [05:08], Alice calls out for Sam's help:
Alice (05:08): "Alice, are you alright? No, no, no. Alice, wake up. Come on, stop messing around."
The distress escalates quickly as Sam responds, revealing a sinister event:
Sam (05:43): "It. It must have been when it grabbed me."
This sets the stage for a confrontation with an unknown and potentially dangerous entity affecting their workplace.
2. The Strange Incident and Its Aftermath
As panic ensues, the team grapples with the immediate threat. Sam attempts to console Alice while assessing the damage:
Sam (06:30): "Can you see out of them?"
Alice (06:33): "What? No. Oh, God. Will I start to."
Sam (06:37): "I don't know. I've seen a lot, but this is new."
Realizing the severity of the situation, Sam decides to take decisive action:
Sam (07:04): "Thanks. No, it's just like lancing a boil."
The urgency heightens as they prepare to address the supernatural anomaly threatening their safety.
3. Introducing New Allies: Georgie and Basira
Georgie enters the scene introducing another layer of complexity to the narrative:
Georgie (11:03): "Georgie got me up to speed. So you've met my double."
This revelation introduces Basira, expanding the team's resources and deepening the mystery surrounding their connection to the Magnus Institute.
4. Alice’s Haunted Past
A significant portion of the episode delves into Alice's backstory, providing insight into her fears and motivations. Reflecting on her time at a previous institution similar to the Magnus Institute, Alice shares a traumatic experience:
Alice (15:22): "I saw a man's skeleton claw its way free of his body."
Her recounting of encountering a horrifying, animated skeleton explains her intense phobia and sets up her character's vulnerability:
Alice (17:45): "As a kid, the phobia was really intense. I don't know how many Halloween meltdowns my parents had to deal with over the years..."
This personal history not only humanizes Alice but also ties her past experiences to the current supernatural events they are facing.
5. Unraveling the Connection to the Original Archivist
The team discusses Jonathan Sims, the original archivist, and his transformation due to supernatural influences:
Sam (12:01): "A guy called Jonathan Sims. He was the archivist for the Magnus Institute... he turned into something that sent the whole world to hell."
This revelation connects the present crisis to past events, suggesting that the current threats may be echoes or remnants of Jonathan’s catastrophic transformation.
6. The Emergence of the Eye and Supernatural Forces
Georgie elaborates on the supernatural entities tied to fear within their universe:
Georgie (14:16): "Fear was like a supernatural force... each one was tied to a specific kind of fear."
The discussion introduces "The Eye," a powerful entity obsessed with being watched, hinting at its possible role in the current turmoil:
Georgie (14:42): "The Eye was a power, yes, one obsessed with being watched."
This concept underscores the pervasive and manipulative nature of the supernatural forces at play.
7. Confrontation and Decision-Making
As tensions rise, the team faces critical decisions about their next steps. Sam warns of the escalating dangers:
Sam (21:30): "So given all that, if anyone wants out, now's the time. Because either way, this is going to get messy."
Despite the looming threat, Alice chooses to stay and confront the challenges head-on:
Alice (21:38): "I'm still in, and it's not like I've got anywhere else to be."
Her determination highlights her resilience and the personal stakes involved in their mission.
8. Climax and Unanswered Questions
The episode builds to a climactic moment as Alice undergoes a painful transformation:
Sam (08:27): "What's wrong with Sam?"
Alice (08:29): "Nothing serious. Just some minor first aid."
As they attempt to treat her, the severity of the situation becomes palpable:
Sam (10:18): "Then I'll take a pair. Look, I wouldn't worry. The doctor isn't. This is nowhere near the weirdest thing we've seen from the Zone."
This moment encapsulates the blend of horror and urgency that defines the episode, leaving listeners eager to discover the outcomes of their desperate measures.
9. Production and Credits
The episode concludes with production credits, acknowledging the creative team behind the narrative:
Narrator (22:15): "The Magnus Protocol is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial share alike 4.0 international license. This episode was written by Jonathan Sims..."
Key Takeaways
Character Development: Alice's traumatic past and her phobia of skeletons add depth to her character and connect her personal fears to the overarching supernatural threats.
Supernatural Elements: The introduction of entities like The Eye and references to the original archivist Jonathan Sims deepen the lore of the Magnus universe, suggesting a complex interplay between fear and power.
Tension and Conflict: The hostile workplace environment serves as a microcosm for the broader chaos, highlighting themes of trust, survival, and the struggle against unseen forces.
Narrative Hooks: Unresolved issues and the introduction of new characters like Georgie and Basira set the stage for future developments, maintaining suspense and engagement for the audience.
Conclusion
"Hostile Workplace" masterfully intertwines personal trauma with supernatural horror, creating a rich and immersive narrative that propels The Magnus Protocol forward. Through its engaging dialogue, character backstories, and escalating tensions, the episode captivates listeners, making it a standout installment in the series. For those unfamiliar with The Magnus Archives, this episode serves as a compelling entry point, showcasing the intricate storytelling and atmospheric horror that define Rusty Quill's acclaimed podcast.