Tales Yet Told: An Actual Play Podcast
Tales Yet Told is an award-winning Actual Play podcast, focused on collaboratively telling stories at the intersection of queerness and horror using Indie TTRPGs. Our stories center on troubled characters struggling to be true to themselves in uncompromising worlds that would rather bend and break them than allow them to exist as they are. From cold-hearted killers driving down school hallways to naval soldiers rising from the depths of the ocean, Tales Yet Told is filled with heart-wrenching drama, hair-raising body horror, and enough humor in between to light the darkness. Part of the Many Sided Network
Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip Episode #0 - Buckle Up | Kids on Bikes
Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip Episode #0 - Buckle Up (Session 0)
The road trip is about to begin, but before we head out we need to make sure we’ve got everything we’ll need for the journey. Kendo and the Troublemakers go over the rules of their new system and explain everything on their character sheets. I promise, it’s more entertaining than it sounds.
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Cast:
Kendrick Smith as Game Master
August Knobbe as Walter Brookstone
Dr. Hilda as Dorothy Reed
Marceline Von Carste...
Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip - Trailer
Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip - Trailer
The troublemakers are on the run again! Follow Sublime County’s most wanted, Dakota, Dorothy, and Walter, as they try to evade capture while making the long journey across Sublime County to the Border Cities. Along the way they’ll visit strange locations, fight horrifying creatures, and take in all the hopelessly melancholic atmosphere Sublime County has to offer. The Stranger’s Curse has them in its grasp but our troublemakers won’t go down without a fight.Â
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Cast:
Kendrick Smith as Game Mast...
Updates Yet Told: 9/15/26 - 5 Year Anniversary, Patreon Launch, New Trailer!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!
Tales Yet Told is officially 5 years old today and what could be a better way to celebrate than the launch of our new Patreon and an early listen to the trailer for the next season of Strangers in the Wood 2!
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GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Post-Season Talk Back
Content Warnings: Discussions about colonialism, white supremacy, war, starvation, chronic illness, eating disorders, religious themes, deicide
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GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Post-Season Talk Back
Michelle, Zo, and Kendo sit down to talk about episodes 4-6 of Peace & Death and answer some listener questions!
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Cast:
Michelle Jones as God
Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller
Produced By:
Zo (RadicalZo)
Kendrick Smith
Editor & Sound Design:
Steve Anderson (TallHalfling)
Kendrick Smith
Additional...
GODKILLER: Peace & Death 6 - Death in the Cradle
Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Fantasy Violence, Imperialism, Incarceration, Self-Sacrifice
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Episode 6 - Death in the Cradle
It all comes down to this. Orchid vs Adamas, God of War & Peace.
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Post Season Talkback Question Form: https://forms.gle/qKmhYCazv5NnpJgc7
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Cast:
Michelle Jones as God
Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller
Produced By:
Zo (RadicalZo)
Kendrick Smith
Editor & Sound Design:
Steve Anderson (TallHalfling)
<...GODKILLER: Peace & Death 5 - Revelations in Adamence
Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Fantasy Violence, War Tensions, Imperialism
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Episode 5 - Revelations in Adamence
Orchid rides to the city of Adamence, in hopes of stopping Adamas and finding her mother. But she finds that the city is not at all what she imagined as no one seems to even acknowledge the war in the first place.
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Cast:
Michelle Jones as God
Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller
Produced By:
Zo (RadicalZo)
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GODKILLER: Peace & Death 4 - Crafts In The Workshop
Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Fantasy Violence, War Tensions, Conservative views on romantic relationships, Mother with chronic illness
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Episode 4 - Crafts in the Workshop
Orchid makes a desperate escape from Brookshire with her mother and the followers of Archaea in tow--the Adamentine soldiers hot on their heels. The God of War & Peace is on the hunt and Orchid's tutor, Nanalie, might be their only hope, but even she has her secrets.
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Cast:
Michelle Jones as God
Kendrick Smith as...
GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Mid-Season Talk Back
GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Mid-Season Talk Back
Michelle, Zo, and Kendo sit down to talk about episodes 1-3 of Peace & Death and the process of developing the show.
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Cast:
Michelle Jones as God
Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller
Produced By:
Zo (RadicalZo)
Kendrick Smith
Editor & Sound Design:
Steve Anderson (TallHalfling)
Kendrick Smith
Additional Music:
Epidemic Sound
System:
GODKILLER: First Blood by Connie Chang
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GODKILLER: Peace & Death Ep 3 - Insight In Archaea
Content Warnings: Discussions about Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Deicide, Descriptions Fantasy Violence, War Tensions, Military Siege on a Civilian Village, Allusions to Conservative Views on Romantic Partnerships,
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Episode 3 - Insight In Archaea
On her way home from the city of Tryta, Orchid encounters the followers of Archaea stationed outside the village of Brookshire. They speak of wanting nothing more than to trade food for protection and information, now that the people of the Tower need to eat. Though perhaps their seer may offer the goddess' wisdom.
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GODKILLER: Peace & Death 2 - Hope in Tryta
Content Warnings for this episode: Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Fantasy Violence, Description of Bodily Wounds, Imperialism, Religious based sacrifice, Conversations about Deicide
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Episode 2 - Hope in Tryta
Orchid sets out to the city of Tryta, the seat of power in these parts of the cradle and home to Trytis--God of Abundance & Scarcity--to ask for the god's favor. Death has returned to these lands and so the people must eat now, in order to survive. A simple request, but how will this god respond to it?
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<...GODKILLER: Peace & Death 1 - Peace in Brookshire
Content Warnings for this episode: Forced Starvation, Death & Dying, Fantasy Violence, Description of Bodily Wounds, Imperialism, Religious based sacrifice, Mother Suffering From Chronic Illness
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Episode 1 - Peace in Brookshire
It's was supposed to be an average day in the cursed town of Brookshire for Orchid Lullaby. A day of fasting for Trytis, god of abundance & scarcity and a day of hard work in service of her community. What she did not realize was that this would be the the day she, and the world, experiences death for the first time in over 20...
GODKILLER: Peace & Death - Trailer
GODKILLER: Peace & Death is a six-part actual play series that follows the story of Orchid Lullaby, a child of the cursed town of Brookshire, as she discovers the truth about her mother's festering wound and the disappearance of the god of death over 20 years ago.
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Cast:
Michelle Jones as God
Kendrick Smith as Orchid Lullaby, Our Godkiller
Produced By:
Zo (RadicalZo)
Editor & Sound Design:
Steve Anderson (TallHalfling)
Kendrick Smith
Additional Music:
Epidemic Sound
System:<...
Our Lives in the Wood: Talk Back w/ RahRah (The Heart is a Dungeon)
Our Lives in the Wood - Talk Back w/ RahRah
Now that the dust is settled, sit back and relax with Kendo & RahRah as they chat about the development, inspirations, and production of Our Lives in the Wood.
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Cast:
Kendrick Smith
RahRah
Produced By:
Kendrick Smith
Editor & Sound Design:
Kendrick Smith
Music and SFX from:
Epidemic Sound
System:
The Time We Have by Elliot Davis
Nighthawks by TitanomachyRPG
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Our Lives in the Wood 8: The Rising of a Violet Sun | We Are But Worms
Content Warnings for this episode: Descriptions of human transformation into animals, body horror, situations with police, gun violence, gun death, cannibalism, war anxiety, hallucinations, grief and loss, mass death, supernatural emotional manipulation, murder of a minor, apocalyptic scenarios, fascism, bullying, masculine voices yelling, self-sacrifice
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Episode 8 - The Rising of a Violet Sun
We see the end of the story right before a new one begins.
Now that the writer knows what the Stranger was hiding from him he's gone off the deep end. In his spiral he chooses to visit...
Our Lives in the Wood 7.5: Tape #001 - Initializing Letha Protocol
Content Warnings for this episode: Distorted voices, Religious themes (Christianity/Catholicism), sounds of torture, forced modification of memories, conspiracy to cover up mass death, dehumanization
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Episode 7.5 - Tape #001 - Initializing Letha Protocol
Watching this tape will change everything...
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Cast:
Kendrick Smith as The Stranger, Principal Owlbert (The Principal), & The System
RahRah as Letha
Navaar as Sheriff Edgar (The Sheriff)
Ellis as Sister May (The Healer)
Produced By:
Kendrick Smith
Editor & Sound Design:
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Our Lives in the Wood 7: A Light At The End Of The Tunnel Pt. 2 | Absurdia
Content Warnings for this episode: Distorted voices, Derealization, Religious themes (Christianity/Catholicism), Interactions with Intelligence Agents, War, Sounds of gunfire and explosions, Death, Loss of Memory, Dissociation, Depersonalization, Abusive power dynamics, Body horror, Descriptions of twisting insides and nerves being ripped out from a living body, Snake hissing, Themes of Memory Loss, Forced memory removal
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Episode 6 - A Light At The End Of The Tunnel Pt. 2 | Absurdia
October 8, 85 AE
4 weeks after the Oak Creek Incident
Virgil brings Clementine and Letha to the Waltun Public Library to find the...
Our Lives in the Wood 6: A Light At The End Of The Tunnel Pt. 1 | Absurdia
Content Warnings for this episode: Distorted voices, Sounds of a heartbeat, Derealization, Religious themes (Christianity/Catholicism), Interactions with Intelligence Agents, Implied nonconsensual surveillance, War, Sounds of gunfire and explosions, Death, Loss of Memory, Dissociation, Depersonalization, Abusive power dynamics, Body horror
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Episode 6 - A Light At The End Of The Tunnel Pt. 1 | Absurdia
October 8, 85 AE
4 weeks after the Oak Creek Incident
The Writer and the System have made a deal, in exchange for setting many of the stories that were derailed by the rising of the Violet Sun the...
Our Lives in the Wood 5: This Isn't A Football Game | This Game Takes Place In Your Home Town
Content Warnings for this episode: Forced human transformation into an animal, Body Horror, War, Military Occupation, War Crimes (Indiscriminate murder of non-combatants), Mental Health, Guns and Gun Violence, Sounds of gunfire, Death, Screaming, Betrayal between PCs, Discussions around terminal illness and disabilities, Child Endangerment, Religious Trauma, Religious Themes, Fascism, Drinking and Alcohol, Exploration of the political and social uses of the term "Terrorism" and "Terrorist", Conversations about morality in the face of oppression, Prison Camps, Military-led evacuations, Propaganda
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Episode 5 - This Isn't A Football Game | This Game Takes Place In Your Home Town
<...Blood in the Snow 4: Act 3 | HUNT
Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Fantasy Violence, Unreality, Blood & Gore, Blood Drinking, Blood Squelching, Discussion of Mass Death, Vampirism
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Blythe, Elvira and Swan approach the final battle against the being from Beyond, but first they must wade through their memories of a Sanguine Banquet...
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Cast:
Oleander as Game Master
Kendrick Smith as Elvira Jibril
Fabian Lelay as Blythe
Josephine Kim as Swan Arcati
Producers: Kendrick Smith, Oleander
Editing and Sound Design by: Oleander
Music...
Blood in the Snow 3: Act 2 | HUNT
Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Fantasy Violence, Unreality, Heart Beat Sounds, Blood and Blood Drinking, Environmental Destruction, Vampires, Discussions of Death
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Three knights of the order Sanguis Populi find themselves lost in the Illusory Forest. The Illusory Forest's caretakers seem to have taken offense to the lack of care for collateral damage the knights have brought..
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Cast:
Oleander as Game Master
Kendrick Smith as Elvira Jibril
Fabian Lelay as Blythe
Josephine Kim as Swan Arcati
Producers: Kendrick Smith...
Blood in the Snow 2: Act 1 | HUNT
Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Fantasy Violence, Unreality, Blood & Gore, Blood Drinking, Discussion of Mass Death, Harm to Non-Domesticated Animals, Vampirism
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Changed forever by that sanguine banquet, the remaining members of Sanguis Populi still protect the People of Ozzurod decades later - now as vampires. The People cry out as invading creatures bent on draining this world of magic close in on The Illusory Forest. Sanguis Populi answers, sending Elvira, Blythe and Swan to do what has not yet been done - slay one of the leaders of the invaders. First, though, they'll...
Blood in the Snow 1: Prologue | HUNT
Content Warnings for this episode: Profanity, Violence, Blood, Discussions About Mortality, Classism, Vampires, Crypts, Grave Robbing
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Blood in the Snow: Prologue
The beautiful yet dangerous Swan Arcati, the young and conflicted Doctor Blythe, and the benevolent but baneful cryptkeeper Elvira are invited to a banquet for all who work within the Crimson Castle of the knightly order Sanguis Populi. Little do they know of how important this will be in shaping the rest of their... lives...
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Cast:
Oleander as Game Master
Kendrick Smith...
Blood in the Snow - Trailer
Blood in the Snow is a 4-part Gothic Horror actual play series following the knights of Sanguis Populi as they hunt down a ghastly creature from beyond the walls of the hidden city of Ozzurad.
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Cast:
Oleander as Game Master
Kendrick Smith as Elvira Jibril
Fabian Lelay as Blythe
Josephine Kim as Swan Arcati
Producer: Kendrick Smith
Editing and Sound Design by: Oleander
Music and SFX from: Epidemic SoundÂ
System Used: Hunt by Gila RPGs
...Our Lives in the Wood 4: On A Personal Note | Dream Investigator
Content Warnings for this episode: Forced human transformation into an animal, medical malpractice, medical gaslighting, corporate surveillance, unethical human experimentation, chemically induced hallucinations, mentions of fecal incontinence, negative medicinal side effects, surrealist dreamscape, unethical use of medical information
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Episode 4 - On A Personal Note | Dream Investigator
October 5, 85 AE
4 weeks after the Oak Creek Incident
While the writer unearths his old writing to find a potential source of the "rising of a Second Sun," we peek in on another story that's grown from an old seed planted decades ago...
Feed Drop: Look Behind You (Part 1) | A Liminal Horror Actual Play
Content Warnings: Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Paranoia, Kidnapping & Hostage Situations, Supernatural & Cosmic Horror, Arachnophobia, Strong Language, Depictions of Pain & Injury
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Maia's Game Room - Look Behind You (Part 1) | A Liminal Horror Actual Play
On the last night of the year, professional runner Oliver Valentine takes on one last job. The pay is too good to refuse, the task deceptively simple: deliver a suitcase by midnight. But the city comes alive with hunters and the simple delivery becomes a desperate fight for survival.
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Maia's Game Room<...
Our Lives in the Wood 3: I Choose You | Unresolved Sapphic Tension
Content Warnings for this episode: Forced human transformation into an animal, romantic and sexual intimacy, brief description of a sexual encounter, loss and grief, heternormative culture and the systems that perpetuate them, death, implied homophobia, sounds of feathers being plucked, descriptions of blood and physical intimacy with blood, doomed love
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Episode 3 - I Choose You
October 4, 85 AE
4 weeks after the Oak Creek Incident
Off the coast of Hollow Wood, far across the Evergreen Sea, lies a set of islands privately owned by Dr. Cupid, the...
Updates Yet Told 6-2: Many Sided Network + OLitW Ep 3 + CritAwards
Many Sided Network Affiliates
Many Sided Media (My First Dungeon, Talk Of The Table, Bitcherton)DorkspawnDice ExploderMage Hand High FiveMaia's Game Room ------------------------------------------------
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Our Lives in the Wood 2: You're Making It A Nothing | NIGHTHAWKS
Content Warnings for this episode: human transformation into animals, alcohol, smoking, emotional drinking, depression, loneliness, grief, allusions to PTSD, hallucinations, men yelling at each other, mentions of war, bar fight where no one is seriously injured, conversations around bodily injuries at a hospital, dissociation
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Episode 2 - You're Making It A Nothing
October 1, 85 AE
3 weeks after the Oak Creek Incident
Just another day at Great Pine Lanes, and Gregory, José, and Alex are ready to do what they do best. Ignore all of their issues and t...
Trailer: Our Lives in the Wood
Our Lives In The Wood is a horror Actual Play series exploring the tragic lives and stories of the citizens of Sublime County, orchestrated by one of the Stranger's most devious of servants: The Writer. Enjoy tightly edited episodes with immersive sound design and a rotating cast of guests, playing a wide variety of indie TTRPGs. Witness the everyday lives of those lost within this terrible wood, and glimpse the hope shining dimly in the dark.
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Cover Art Illustration by: Kendrick/Kendo Smith
Editing and Sound Design: Kendrick/Kendo Smith
M...
Our Lives in the Wood 1: What A F*cking World We Live In | The Time We Have
Content Warnings for this episode: Human Transformation into animals, conversations around gender, Horse sounds, Breaking Glass, Isolation, Apocalyptic Scenarios, Family Drama, Betrayal, Mentions of use of excessive force by police
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Episode 1 - What A Fucking World We Live In
September 28, 85 AE
1 week after the Oak Creek Incident
Sunday and Thursday holed up in Sunday’s basement after a surprise changeling attack on the thrown-together street clinic Sunday volunteered at. They didn’t make it unscathed. It is already too late for Sunday and both of them know it. Now...
Updates Yet Told 9-23: What Comes Next + Voicemails From The Wood
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stands with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
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2048 AM Voices in the Wood 5: I Am Not Okay
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stands with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
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2048 AM Voices in the Wood 4.5: A Message From The Voice Of The Sublime
Value Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stands with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
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2048 AM Voices in the Wood 4: I Don't Remember What My Mom's Face Looks Like
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/ Big Bad Boycott: https://bigbadboycott.carr...
2048 AM Voices in the Wood 3: This Doesn't Even Feel Real
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/ Big Bad Boycott: https://bigbadboycott.carr...
2048 AM Voices in the Wood 2: I Hope You Never Find Peace
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/ Big Bad Boycott: https://bigbadboycott.carr...
2048 AM Voices in the Wood 1: I Don't Know Who Is Doing This
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/ Big Bad Boycott: https://bigbadboycott.carr...
Trailer: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood
Values Statement: Tales Yet Told, unequivocally stand with Palestine in the face of Genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies including the United States. The Palestinian people have endured an amount of suffering that we can’t even begin to imagine and we firmly believe that it’s our responsibility as fellow human beings to take action in the face of such evil. All of our struggles are inextricably linked and none of us are truly free until we all are.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/ Big Bad Boycott: https://bigbadboycott.carr...
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Whispers in the Sea 22: Vault Of The Black Egg - Chapter 21
Content Warnings for this episode: Description of insects, violence/death, sounds of the ocean
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It all comes to an end here. But many ends are just new beginnings.
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Hosted and GM’d by Kendrick/Kendo Smith (@KendoMakesFilms)
Featuring:
Dr. Hilda as Avery Morrigan
Marcie (@SoapieSquid) as Brynn Theriot
Gus (@AugustKnobbe) as Felix “Lunulata” Cormier
Ellis (@Whore_Or_Writer) as Thorin and Eldoris
Theme composed by: August Knobbe
SFX from: Epidemic SoundÂ
Editing, Scoring, & Sound D...
