Today’s episode: The Hawk King unleashes his wrath upon Uth, the Last Human Village with a pair of terrifying monsters–Pyrix.

In our last episode: Delu the raven spy finally reaches the Hawk King and informs him of the Hunters’ betrayal and Steve’s escape. Back in Uth, the Last Human Village, Steve learns from the Geo the oracle that he must search for the lost Sword of Zaa.

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Technical Notes: Some sound effects courtesy of Freesound.org (User Attribution list). Other sound effects and music by GarageBand or Daniel J. Hogan.

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Cast:

Daniel J. Hogan

(Host, Narrator, Characters)

Robin Hudson

(Eira the pelican)

Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (03.17.10): “Silver Tongued” – Steve and his friends meet a cranky, talking weapon with abandonment issues.

Ramblings:

Because of the way the weeks run in March, I should technically do three episodes for this month. Well, I ain’t gonna.  I want to stick to the “first and third” Wednesday release schedule, so there will not be an episode on March 31st, but rather April 7th.

This episode introduces the fiery minions of the Hawk King, the Pyrix. They are giant, skeletal birds covered in fire. Scary.

I came up with the name by combining “pyr” (Greek for fire) and “strix” – a bird creature from Roman mythology (although in the original myth, the strix are  vampires).  The strix are said to be like owls, but I envision the Pyrix to have a skeleton similar to an eagle or a hawk.

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Today’s episode: Our heroes continue on toward Uth, the Last Human Village. Along the way, Zeroth gives Uncle Shameless and Steve magical armor for protection.  In need of weapons, Zeroth has Eira catch some swordfish in the swamp–they are fish with sword-blades for tongues.  Zeroth tries to teach Steve how to fight, but quickly learns he has his work cut out for him.

In our last episode: Uncle Shameless and Zeroth battled the raven twins and Arbal the mourning dove. Afterward, Zeroth carries the rest of the party to safety by stashing them in his magical pack.

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Technical Notes: Some sound effects courtesy of Freesound.org (User Attribution list). Other sound effects and music by GarageBand.

For more information on the story, please visit the About and Characters pages. These sections will be updated as episodes are put online since I don’t want to spoil too much ahead of time.

Cast:
Daniel J. Hogan
(Host, Narrator, Characters)

Robin Hudson
(Eira the pelican)

Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (02.03.10): “Uth, the Last Human Village”  Our heroes finally arrive at Uth, the Last Human Village but they soon find out that entering the village will not be so easy.

Ramblings: I had some fun with the audio mixing in this episode.  It certainly shows I’ve been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd lately, what with some of the crazy layering I have going on when Steve is “remembering” events in his past.

The audio of Steve’s dad’s “voice” was fun to do–I originally had thoughts of asking my own dad to record the parts, but I opted to do them myself.  That way, if I decide to do something like this again, I won’t have to keep bothering my dad.

I don’t know, but for some reason Steve’s dad sounds like Tom Waits.  I really don’t know why I did the voice that way, I guess I was inspired (and I’m by no means saying it is a good impression).

One of the lines I say (which came about while improvising), “above a dirty book store” is right out of a Tom Waits song. Another line I came up with on the fly, “I certainly was correct” is a reference to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album (the line there is “I certainly was in the right”).

I figure I may as well do funny stuff like that–what’s the point of having this be in audio unless I mess around and experiment a bit?

Speaking of, I’ve started including a short “stinger” at the end of each episode, taking a page from Mystery Science Theater 3000′s playbook.  The line is either a favorite line of mine from the episode, an alternate take or a goof.

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