Today’s episode: Zeroth and Uncle Shameless’ fight continues.  Steve learns that not everything in Eyri obeys the laws of science he learned in school.  A member of The Five betrays the band and the raven twins show up to make matters worse.

In our last episode: Zeroth finds Steve and Uncle Shameless and plans to bring the Boy back to the Hawk King–but Uncle Shameless won’t let give up without a fight.

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Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (11.25.09): Every Which Way But Uth

Ramblings: Quite a few references in this episode.  Zeroth’s randomly appearing shield (as well as his yellow scarf) are a nod to the Mega Man character, Proto Man.  Zeroth’s “science defying pack” is a reference to the magical holding pack the character Snarf has in the fantastic fantasy-comedy comic strip SnarfQuest (by Larry Elmore).  SnarfQuest (along with the comic Bone by Jeff Smith) is a big influence on the Magic of Eyri.

Zeroth’s line about getting the pack from someone who was “reluctant” to part with it is a tip of the hat to the film Spartan.  Val Kilmer’s character has a similar line regarding a knife.   A personal favorite joke in this episode is Zeroth mentioning the Hunter band, Prophet’s Profits, which I wrote as a reference to the band Herman’s Hermits.  Prophet’s Profits are a Hunter band out of Eaner, a name I came up with while looking at my Beaner’s Coffee mug when I wrote the original novel.  Beaner’s has since changed its name to Biggby Coffee.

Arbal’s repeating crossbow is based (loosely) on a Chinese repeating crossbow. Arbal’s name comes from arbalest, which is a large crossbow (and one of the weapons Arbal uses). Cam’s name comes from a part of a compound bow.

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UPDATE: there was an audio goof in this episode (forgot to delete some of the additional Eira lines, d’oh), but it has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Today’s episode: Zeroth the Hunter continues his search for Steve and Uncle Shameless, and when he finds them things get nasty.

In our last episode: The Hawk King’s spies, the raven twins Delu and Uled hire a team of Hunters, called The Five, to aid them in their search for Steve and Uncle Shameless.

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Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (11.08.09): Round Two!

Ramblings: Zeroth’s thinking that the number six printed on Steve’s shoes is his name is a reference to the TV show The Prisoner.  The main character’s name is Number Six.  There are plenty of references to the show scattered throughout The Magic of Eyri. When Steve and Uncle Shameless are tossed Cell Six in the Hawk King’s castle, that is another reference–as is the description of the what the prisoner sharing the cell with them is wearing.

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Today’s episode: The Hawk King sends his spies, a pair of raven twins named Delu and Uled, after Steve and his companions–but, they are not alone.  The twins have hired a team of bounty hunters to aid in their search.

In our last episode: The Hawk King demands to know who let Steve into his city.  Remmit, Kaz and Lexa are rounded up and put on trial for allowing The Boy to enter Da’Rahga.  However, things go a bit better for Remmit and Kaz than they do for Lexa.

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Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (10.11.09): FIGHT!

Ramblings: I had a lot of fun creating the vocal effects for Delu and Uled for this episode. I added a PayPal donate button, so if you would like to support the podcast, feel free to donate whatever amount you wish.  A bit of trivia, the name of the Hunter band, The Five, is a reference to Ben Folds Five (which also only had three members).  I only realized later that it was also a reference to Arthur’s poor counting in Monty Python in the Holy Grail, as Cam (who named The Five) has a similar condition.

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NOTE: Not our regularly scheduled episode!

This is a live recording of Jim C. Hines (Goblin Quest, Stepsister Scheme, The Mermaid’s Madness) Phil Kline (Curse of the Kitsune) and myself talking about Fantasy Writing at the Delta Township District Library on September 1st, 2009.  The sound quality will not be the same as the other episodes, as I just set my recorder on the table and let it go. I did what I could to tweak things (but you can only do so much with an .MP3 recorded at 64 kbps).

The three of us chatted about writing fantasy, our writing process and answered questions from the audience.  The highpoint, for me anyway, is listening to Jim explain his upcoming muppet-werewolf short story.

Run time: 49 minutes.

The next episode of The Magic of Eyri will run Sunday, September 27th.

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Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (9.27.09): Double Trouble – a pair of the Hawk King’s spies search for Steve, but they are not alone–they have hired bounty hunters.

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Welcome back, loyal listeners.

In our last episode: Our heroes met Eira the pelican (voiced by Robin Hudson of Angel Between the Lines and other podcasts), a healer on her way to Uth, the Last Human Village. Meanwhile, back at the Hawk King’s castle, a vulture Mystic told U’nala of the danger Steve represents.

Today’s episode: The Hawk King demands to know who let Steve into his city.  Remmit, Kaz and Lexa are rounded up and put on trial for allowing The Boy to enter Da’Rahga.

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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:

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Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (9.13.09): Double Trouble – a pair of the Hawk King’s spies search for Steve, but they are not alone–they have hired bounty hunters.

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