The Magnus Archives - Announcement: 2023 Holiday News from Rusty Towers

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

This announcement from CEO Alexander J Newall includes RQ Network shows to check out, a review of RQ Originals, including the brand new Neon Inkwell and the now fully released Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later, as well as a summary of the exciting new merchandise partnerships from this year (in case you need some last minute gifts!)There is also a Special Announcent about the release of the Magnus Protocol! Just in case you were curious.Thank you, from all of us at Rusty Towers, and we hope you have a really excellent New Year.Transcript: https://shorturl.at/jknB1Links:· The Dice Dungeon - MAG dice + RQG dice https://thedicedungeon.co.uk/collections/vendors?q=The%20Dice%20Dungeon%20x%20Rusty%20Quill· Monte Cook - MAG RPG https://the-magnus-archives.backerkit.com/hosted_preordersSucrabeille – Perfume https://sucreabeille.com/products/jon-and-martin?_pos=1&_sid=22ab0b033&_ss=rSupport us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/rustyquill Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quillJoin our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillEMAIL: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi everyone, Alex here, founder and CEO of Rusty Quill Ltd. This has been a huge year for Rusty Quill, so much so that it's been hard to keep up with everything, so we thought it would be a good idea to take a few minutes to get everyone up to speed ahead of 2024. So let's start with the RQ Network, which has continued to showcase the very best in podcasting talent from around the world. We have gained a whole host of new shows, including Divisor, Spirit Box Radio, West Side Fairy Tales, Not Quite Dead, The Lovely Dark, Selene, Wild and Ranch, Clockwork Bird, Planet Arcana, Hainé, and What's in the Rift, not to mention continuing to work with all your existing favourites. Links in the show notes. These shows have been carefully curated to ensure that they are the best of the best, and if you are a fan of our work, we guarantee you will find

something new to love in them. What's more, we have a whole load of new shows to announce in 2024, so you won't run out any time soon. On the RQ Originals side, it's been equally busy, with Cry Havoc Ask Questions Later releasing to wide acclaim, best summed up in a review from The Telegraph, which describes it as somewhere between Succession and Up Pompeii. We're all incredibly proud to have worked on this project, and if you haven't listened yet, you definitely should. There's 20 episodes of ancient Roman dramatic comedy available to listen to for free, plus a bunch of backstage content being released to public as we speak, which patrons can access right now. We have also launched Neon Inkwell, our brand's spanking new weekly podcast which features short-form, full-cast audio fiction by

up-and-coming creators from around the world, and we've started with Of That Colossal Wreck, an existential sci-fi horror written by Sasha Siena and Jonathan Sims of the Magnus Archives. This seven-part series follows five artificially created humans that wake up with fractured identities on the derelict space station Ozymandias, only to find they might not be alone in the dark. But the best bit about Neon Inkwell is that as soon as one story ends, another begins. Whether it's a US coming-of-age tale about a would-be cult sacrifice, a heartfelt Australian comedy drama about a private consulting wizard, a gothic haunting story set in modern-day Ireland,

a quirky monster road trip, or one of the other countless tales lined up, Neon Inkwell has you covered. And, as always, you can back via Patreon for 48 hour early access, along with bonus content for this and our other shows. Lastly, we have to mention the overwhelming support we have seen for the Magnusverse this year. Between the record-breaking Magnus Protocol Kickstarter, the Europe-wide ARG, the massive tabletop RPG crowdfund, our incredibly busy MCM London appearances, and the fantastic reception of the Pre-Master Protocol preview at Cultplex, we've been a bit overwhelmed. Now we're looking ahead to 2024 and thinking it's

only going to be bigger, because I am happy to announce that The Magnus Protocol, the long-awaited sequel to The Magnus Archives, is set to launch to the public at 4pm GMT on 18th January 2024, via the existing Magnus Archives RSS feed. So if you are already subscribed there, you don't need to lift a finger. Higher-level patrons and early-access Kickstarter backers can already access a pre-master preview version of the double-length pilot, and will be getting ongoing 48-hour early access to every episode starting on the 16th of January, 2024.

Thanks to your support, this series is more ambitious than anything we have attempted before, with heaps of bonus episodes, full orchestral music, spin-off series, a video documentary, and even a live theatrical tour, which we'll be giving more details on soon. Now, if you're wanting to get in on the hype ahead of the holidays, we have a whole mess of goodies you can get your hands on thanks to our merch partners, including Redbubble and TeePublic, which now have new designs, including the Magnus Protocol launch items, the Dice Dungeon, which is offering a limited edition set of the entity's polyhedral dice, including an exclusive extra-large D16 featuring icons representing the Magnus spheres, as well as the very last of the Rusty Quill gaming dice, Sucre Bay, who have created a new fragrance called John and Martin featuring rock rose, rich

benzoin resin and vanilla, and Monty Cook Games, who are selling copies of the Magnus Archives RPG. We'll put links to all of these in the show notes of this announcement. Thank you so much to all of you for continuing to support us and help make all this happen. Whether through buying merch, attending events, supporting via Patreon, or even just recommending us to people, you are all helping to keep our story engine chugging, so we can keep building something really special, and we hugely appreciate it. So, as a little thank you from us to you the listener, let's close out this year with the trailer for the Magnus Protocol, and we will see you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for 2024. I'm sorry. Come in.

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