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Magic of Eyri 024-Flight of the Griffin

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Today’s episode: Alexander the Small explains who the Pixie People are, and their connection to his ship, the Griffin. U’nala, Remmit and Kaz show up in Tal aboard a flying chariot looking for our heroes, prompting Alexander to flee the duck port town, taking Steve and his friends along for the ride.

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In our last episode: Steve and his friends met Alexander the Small, captain of the Griffin.

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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.

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)

Valeta

(various Pixie People)

Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (06.02.10): “Pirates!” – Our heroes have a run-in with the scourge of the Ralk Sea, Vanderawlt the pirate.

Ramblings:

We get to know Alexander the Small a bit better in this episode. He is, of course, named after Alexander the Great, and a friend of mine named Alex (who wasn’t small, but very skinny). His crew, Julius the albatross and Hector the Penguin are named after Julius Caesar and Hector of Troy. I was partially inspired by an article I read once about the Nine Worthies.

With the audio versions of Julius and Hector, decided to try and do a “Bones and Spock” approach to the voices. We’ll see how it goes.

The joke behind the Pixie People surrounding Uncle Shameless and saying “Hi!” over and over, is a poke at Navi in the video game Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

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Slight Schedule Change

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

OK kids, I decided that I will push episode 024 back until 05.19 and for this Weds. and next, I will run audio from a couple of panels I was on at Penguicon over the weekend.

Here’s what the schedule will be for the next three weeks (starting this Weds.)

  • 05.05.10 – “Adapting Your Novel to a Podcast” with Mary Robinette Kowal. Run time: around 55 minutes
  • 05.12.10 – “Humor in Science Fiction and Fantasy” with Jim C. Hines and Brian Briggs. Run time: around 50 minutes.
  • 05.19.10 – Magic of Eyri episode 024 “Flight of the Griffin”

I’ll record short intros for the panels and make them sound nice in GarageBand before putting them online. We’ll be back to our regular schedule on 06.02.10 with Episode 025. I decided I wanted to get the audio from these panels online ASAP while they are still fresh, and each of them are a fun listen.