I was scared, Darla. I was so scared. I was certain I’d been set up, that they wouldn’t be returning. I turned to leave, hoping I could get back to the TMA feed but then the program began to speak from where it was trapped in the computer.
It was their voices. It was Jon and Martin's voices. I know you won’t believe me but they read the stories and I know it was their voices. I froze in place.
They grew clearer, and as the distortion faded from the recording for a moment I could make out the mechanical tones, the off-putting cadence. They spoke slowly, intoning the incident reports with steady, measured voices. Something was speaking through them, from inside the machine.
I said the only thing I could think: “Jon? Martin? Is that you?”
And those voices I have loved for eight years answered: “Some of them.”
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Gotta say I'm loving how... mundane the Protocol episode titles are so far. Archives' titles are all so sinister and mysterious- Anglerfish. Burned Out. A Father's Love.
And then Protocol is just like. First Shift! Running on Empty. Rolling With It! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
They just sound so normal and everyday in comparison
I'm writing this at almost 2am on wednesday morning and I'm not going to post it until public release but holy shit I'm in love with the new soundtrack I'm so fucking happy they hit the full orchestration stretch goal
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My mom has given me the golden offer of listening to one (1) episode of Archives/Protocol with me since I've ranted to her so much about it. Which one do I show her???
Advantage to Archives: My main obsession, can introduce her to Jon and Martin, there are a lot of episodes without too much metaplot so I don't need to explain as much going in. She's not a horror person, and there are plenty without any excessive gore/graphic violence that I could show her.
Advantage to Protocol: I've been giving her weekly updates on the plot so she kind of knows what's going on already, it would give her a chance to pin voices to names for all the characters, I think this was the show she was actually interested in hearing before I mentioned that the horror is a lot more gorey.
I've narrowed down a list of episodes; pros and cons of each are elaborated under the cut.
Which episode should I play for my mom?
TMA 23: Schwartzwald
TMA 53: Crusader
TMA 180: Moving On
TMAGP 1: First Shift
TMAGP 7: Give and Take
TMAGP 19: Hard Reset
Something else/show results
Voting ended onSep 12, 2024
Episode Pros and Cons:
TMA 23: Classic episode format. Not too violent or gorey. Nice little stand-alone statement that you don't need any extra context for. Has both Jon and Martin.
TMA 53: Same as above. Does not feature Jon reading a statement, but does feature the idea of Other Archivists - which I've talked about a bunch with her because of Protocol.
TMA 180: Surprisingly easy to explain the metaplot going into this one, even though it's season 5. Lots of jmart cuteness. More developed soundscaping than the other two. Need to explain who Annabelle and Salesa are.
TMAGP 1: It's the official introduction to the series so you truly don't need any context going in. You meet pretty much every major character except Celia. It's a bit long though, and she'll probably want to skip the two cases to get it down to dinner-length listening.
TMAGP 7: Has every major OIAR employee in it, the case isn't too disturbing, and most of the metaplot is self-explanatory... except for the Klaus bit, which might require pausing the episode to remind her where Gwen got that video.
TMAGP 19: Again, all the major cast, and the metaplot handles itself. The case is pretty tame... except it’s about a 50/50 shot she'll be really put off by the whole "experimenting on a dog" thing. She does like historical stuff, though.
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Organization for Transformative Works
With another series of clicks and buzzes, the disk’s contents appeared on the screen. There were only two files: an audio track, titled “First Shift,” and a text document, titled “Transcript.”
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Somewhere Else, Jon and Martin receive a strange message from another world.
(Or, the one where Jon and Martin listen to The Magnus Protocol.)
