#awakeaudio

"Good morning, Hina Hwan. This is Day 1 of your shift on Persephone..."

Hina Hwan is awakened from cryogenic sleep 600 years into an interstellar colonization voyage - where poor colonists pay for their transport with 10-year shifts of manual labor on the spaceship Persephone. But she learns that the only thing worse than six isolated people working on a creaky interstellar transport...is finding an unidentified corpse in the closet. 

Awake

Format: Fully voiced audio drama (part of Sparkler Monthly magazine)

Genre: Science fiction, drama, romance, mystery

Paywall: After the one-week subscriber hold on new chapters, it's always free to stream.

Bandcamp listing - stream for free, or pay to download the individual chapters.

Spica's short side comics for Sparkler's Cherry Bomb line (NSFW)

Stream and see illustrations on Sparkler Monthly, starting with Chapter 1 here. Download Chapter 1 transcript for the hearing impaired.

Staff:

Directed by: Rebecca Scoble Written by: Tory Woollcott and Barabara Art by: Angela Sham with guest art by HamletMachine (NSFW) Edited by: Rebecca Scoble and Leah Waig

After some real headaches on the technical end of this, Awake: Chapter 7 is finally up for Sparkler Monthly subscribers! (Paywall will be removed on Friday.) Awesome illustration above is by Angela, aka guzusuru, aka the fantastic animator who did this for Tokyo Demons.

Of all the audio that Rebecca's put together (between Tokyo Demons Audio and now), the opening scene of this chapter is her most jaw-dropping technical achievement yet. It has over 50 overlapping tracks for a 3-minute burst of action--a bunch of people screaming through multiple filters, the ship's creepy A.I. overlapping with herself, and tons of terrifying sound effects. The end result in so intense that we slapped a Trigger Warning on it: this is a realistic audio representation of a bunch of people trying to save someone from drowning. And you'll feel like you're right there.