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Introducing: Red Bay · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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  Speaker 1: The following podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener
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  Speaker 1: discretion is advised. As I am recording this, it is
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  Speaker 1: October 13th, a dark and gloomy morning with occasional thunder.
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  Speaker 1: In short, it's a perfect day for announcing the release
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  Speaker 1: of a project I've been working on since about this
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  Speaker 1: time last year. I should say up front that it
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  Speaker 1: is not a Tale of the Manticore-related project, nor is
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  Speaker 1: it D & D or even RPG-related. It's something separate
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  Speaker 1: and distinct from my main body of work, and it's
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  Speaker 1: called Red Bay. Red Bay started off as this idea
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  Speaker 1: for a found-footage-style horror story generator. I wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: something very niche that would do for short horror fiction
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  Speaker 1: what Blake Snyder's Save the Cat does for screenplays, basically
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  Speaker 1: a step-by-step guide. So I started writing, and pretty soon
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  Speaker 1: I had a system of prompts that would take a
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  Speaker 1: writer all the way from introduction to conclusion. During testing,
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  Speaker 1: I came up with a number of stories and quickly
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  Speaker 1: realized they were basically record-ready audio dramas. That's when Red
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  Speaker 1: Bay split into two halves, a story-making engine and a
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  Speaker 1: limited-run podcast that I would produce and publish separately from
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  Speaker 1: Tale of the Manticore. I decided that for both aspects,
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  Speaker 1: it would be more fun if I enlisted some help,
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  Speaker 1: so I brought Tales from the Void on board to
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  Speaker 1: help with the artwork, and Brian Rideout of Swords Against
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  Speaker 1: Madness to help with the audio dramas. The wheels turned
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  Speaker 1: for a year, during which time Red Bay was revised
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  Speaker 1: and improved. We set October as our target launch month,
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  Speaker 1: and now, here we are. Finally, both are complete, and
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  Speaker 1: I would love for you to check them out. The
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  Speaker 1: audio drama can be found wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Just search for Red Bay. The story generator can be
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  Speaker 1: found on DriveThruRPG. It includes a sample story delivered piecemeal
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  Speaker 1: in accordance with the steps, and even better, it features
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  Speaker 1: several full-page illustrations by Tales from the Void. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: did he knock it out of the park. I just
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  Speaker 1: know you're going to love these illustrations. Thanks in advance
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  Speaker 1: to anyone who decides to check out either or both
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  Speaker 1: Red Bay projects. and I'll see you right here again
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of days to wrap up the Dice
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  Speaker 1: Chain Experiment. The Tale of the Manticore premiere for Season
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  Speaker 1: 4 will happen on November 1st. I'm going to leave
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  Speaker 1: you with the trailer for Red Bay to put you
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  Speaker 1: in a Halloween spirit. Until next time. Please begin. Just
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  Speaker 1: describe what happened in your own words. What are you
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  Speaker 1: staring at? Ah! Where are you taking me? Oh my god. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's disturbing. Red Bay is a brand new found footage
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  Speaker 1: horror anthology podcast. Discover worlds of fear and isolation with
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  Speaker 1: a variety of stories that take place. In a haunted house,
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  Speaker 1: I do not die. Believe in ghosts. In an abandoned cabin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: perfect place to either figure myself out or go stark
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  Speaker 1: raving mad. In a summer cottage. No, don't close it!
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  Speaker 1: And even aboard a spaceship. The crew of the curvature
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  Speaker 1: have met some kind of justice. Red Bay is intended
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  Speaker 1: for a mature audience. Find it wherever you get your podcasts.