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🕑 Added 2020-10-26 16:01:03 +0000 UTCHi folks,
Happy Hallowe’en from Rusty Towers! We’ve reached the end of October and the culmination of the frightsome month here, but we’re not letting up on the treats to come just quite yet…
First off, this is a reminder that Daylight Savings Time has now ended in the UK– which means that, for those regions that are still on it, the usual show release timings will be out of sync with those time zones for the next little while. Please ensure you check your timings against GMT/UTC, so as not to miss out.
Secondly, we have staff announcements, as we’d like to introduce the esteemed Jeffrey Nils Gardner as our new Mastering Editor! They come to Rusty Towers with a fantastic audio drama background, having produced/directed Our Fair Cityand are presently the showrunner for Unwell, A Midwestern Gothic Mystery. Once up to speed with our processes, they will be shouldering the task of ensuring our shows have the RQ polish we want them to have and freeing up some of Alex’s workload.
And speaking of roles to help ease some of the load, I am also pleased to announce that Suzanne King is coming on board in a full-time capacity in the dual role of Head of HR and Executive Assistant! This EA position aims to streamline things so that leadership needs, and in particular, Alex’s time, are best organised. I hope you’ll join in me in welcoming both Jeffrey and Suzanne to their new roles.
Congrats have to go out to Mike for making it through his Scary Games Season with the minimum of swears and the maximum of jumps, as he managed to survive the terrors of his least favoured game genre, and even made it through all five nights at Freddy’s! The spirit of the month continues this week on RQ Streams as Nico takes on dark puzzle adventure Creaks (from the makers of Machinarium) and Anil wanders a cruise of cosmic horror in Dread Nautical.
But the main event comes this Saturday, on the hallowed, and harrowed, day itself as Alex Newall, Hannah Brankin and special guests Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner of EA Podcasts, team up for a walk though Little Hope, the next instalment of interactive narrative survival horror in the Dark Pictures Anthology from Supermassive Games! Kicking off at 2pm GMT, the plan is to play the story through in its entirety in one session, so expect a late ending to this stream. Check out the trailer for the game HERE (note: trailer is NSFW / 18 Rated).
As we fast approach the return of Stellar Firma later this year, we have one more ask of you for suggestions to go into the show. Third & final season, third & final prompt… This time the Board are looking to identify threats to Stellar Firma Ltd! Who doesn’t have the company’s best interests at heart? What dastardly corporation is looking to see a stellar failure? Let us know by providing your intelligence HERE! The form will be open for approximately three weeks to collect your valuable submissions.
Now… we’re less than a week away from the TeePublic store launch and the new Fear designs! We showed off the full artwork for The Stranger last week, and I left you with teasers for three more… well, you can see the full pictures down below of The Buried, The Spiral and The Dark! As these come with content warnings for horror art and potentially disturbing imagery, I am placing them below the schedule so you don’t have to scroll down that far if you don’t want to.
We’re just waiting on Mark Anzalone to apply some finishing touches to the final designs and then we’ll be able to show off all 15 new designs to you ahead of Saturday’s launch! Expect a separate post with them all to come, probably on Thursday, for you to enjoy. We will also be doing a public showcase/reveal on a special RQ Streams announcement at 1pm GMT, ahead of the big crossover stream, and setting them live at that point.
And, here's what you can expect from us this week (all shows release at 4pm UK time, unless otherwise stated – remember your times may vary as UK clocks went back this last weekend):
Mon 26th October
RQ Streams – Nico plays… Creaks (4pm)
Tue 27th October
RQG/STL – Hallowe’en 2020 Special, Part 2 (Patreon)
Wed 28th October
MAG185 – Locked In (Patreon)
RQG/STL – Hallowe’en 2020 Special, Part 2 (Public)
RQ Streams – Anil plays… Dread Nautical (5pm)
Thu 29th October
MAG185 – Locked In (Public)
Fri 30th October
EGSM003 – ‘Insert Creepy Noises’ – Horror, with Alasdair, Jonny & Tai (6pm)
Citizens+ Bonus – Mike: Unboxing the New Stream Rig
RQG/STL – Hallowe’en 2020 Special, Part 2 (Public)
Sat 31st October
RQ Streams – Public Merch Launch (1pm)
RQ Streams – Alex, Hannah & EA Podcasts play… Little Hope (2pm)
Sun 1st November
RQ Streams – Mike plays… Skyrim w/ Gary Catman (2pm)
Have a good week all!
Anil
Community Manager
THE DARK
THE BURIED
THE SPIRAL
Comments
GugTheGoose
(They use they/them pronouns btw)
GugTheGoose
EGSM is Enthusigasm, a Patreon-only show hosted by Helen Gould (Melanie's therapist in TMA, Enola in STL, Azu in RQG, also streams, also does intro on Outliers, also new lead Sensitivity Editor), where RQ crew members chat about specific topics they really like every week. The first 2 eps are on Patreon and are about baking and Marvel.
GugTheGoose
The early (Patreon) release of episodes comes up as a separate post here, at 4pm UK time. You can play the episode in the player on Patreon or you can download the mp3 (link to the file is in the episode post) and play it in a media player of choice, for example of you want to play it sped up. If you want to shout about the episode with other fans as it plays, and hype yourself before drop, you can go to the #general-early-access (RQG, STL) or #tma-early-access (TMA) channels in the RQ Discord. Especially for RQG, generally at least Bryn and Helen are in the discord channel for the episode drop.
T.A.
I'm a bit new to your pateron, where can I see the content you release for patreon members? Will it be a separate post? asking specifically because of the RQG halloween special part 2
The art is...... Eh. It's horror art. I'm sure the artist worked hard on them, but it's not doing it for me. At All.
TJ Hoffer
Ohhhhh those pieces are deliciously terrifying! I can't wait to see the rest! And welcome to the fun, Jeffrey and Suzanne! Glad to have you!
Mary Zorn
Woah those fear entities are terrifying 😨
YamiKakyuu
Welcome Jeffrey and Suzanne! Im so geeked because I love Unwell so excited to have Jeffrey on!
LainyJP
Congrats to Jeffrey & Suzanne! I can't wait for EGSM003, and I MUST HAVE all of these new fear designs!! They are gorgeous!
ThirdFromTheLeft
Welcome to Jeffrey and Suzanne! And ooh! Lots of fun stuff in this. I have no idea what "EGSM003 – ‘Insert Creepy Noises’ – Horror, with Alasdair, Jonny & Tai (6pm)" means but I am very excited to find out. And beyond hyped (as usual) for the new TMA ep. That title sounds promising. Got my heart ripped out by last week's incredibly emotionally powerful and thoughtfully complex episode and I can't wait to have it ripped out again this week.
Fushi
+1! Such exciting news!
sAZAndorable
Welcome and congratulations to Jeffrey and Suzanne! Oooohhh I'm so hyped for this week's Enthusigasm!
K. C. Millheiser
Omg! I looooove Jeffrey Nils Gardner's other shows (Unwell is my 2nd fave audio drama) and love that they are joining RQ! (Edited - ty GugTheGoose, corrected that!)
Shelby C
Those fear designs look incredible
PeriPeriwinkle
yooo congrats to both Jeffrey and Suzanne!!! really happy for the two of you :D (and we're super proud of you Mike, as always <3)
Geneva Wormy Wright
The fear designs are dope!!
