#mag23

Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia

Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere

A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance

Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed

A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play

Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words

SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES

Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals

More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.

"Good lord man"

"man" ???

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Me:

Day 23/40 Schwartzwald

((it has been a real long time since I did one of these!! Hopefully I can continue it at least until episode 40))

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[ID: Two pen and paper comic strips of characters from the Magnus Archives from the twenty-third episode of the podcast, Schwartzwald.

Comic one: In the first panel, a figure wearing a long coat and wide-brimmed hat that obscures his eyes from vision, talks to Albrecht von Closen, a man wearing a scarf and a winter coat, poised to take something out of his satchel. The figure gestures to a building behind them and says "That crypt you seek is a very dangerous place." The next panel is a close up of the figures face as Albrecht says offscreen "What have I to fear from the dead?" The figure seems slightly shocked from this response. But in the next panel, he laughs and pulls his hat even lower. In the last panel an ominous, dark vignette halos the figures front facing face as he says with a wide, menacing grin, "No, sir. You've nothing to fear from the dead." Where the last word is underlined for emphasis. Under the comic is written "mag 23".

Comic two: In the first panel Jonathan Sims, a rectangle glasses wearing man with short messy hair and a moustache, is seated in a chair behind his desk. He has an angry expression on and a dark blue aura around him. He yells at Martin, a fat man with round glasses, curly hair, and arm hair. He says "Good Lord man, at least have the decency to wear trousers!!" in a green speech bubble. To which an awkward Martin, standing in the doorway to his office, says in a blue speech bubble, "sorry." The second panel is a close up of Martin's face from the bust up. We can see his red face and beads of sweat run down his skin. He is smiling awkwardly. Green and blue empty speech bubbles around him suggest he is still speaking with Jon. Behind him is screaming text suggesting his internal monologue being in turmoil currently. The top left corner reads "later." The artist would like it to be known that they forgot to exclude that from the drawing and it's not meant to be there. At the bottom some boxes text reads "Martin will be thinking about this interaction for the rest of his life." Under the comic is written "bonus mag 23"