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FINALLY!!!!!!!! TMAGP LENT ANIMATION HAS BEEN FREED FROM PROCRASTINATION HELL!!!!!!!!

This took way too long bc the malevolent brainrot got in the way so,,,,,, yeah I hope y’all enjoy!!! started this I mid-march so that’s why this has more first half of s1 vibes :))

also the YouTube link!!

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I was thinking about the absolute carnage of towerfall - you were in a plane before, you’re dead; you were on a train or you were in a car travelling 60mph, you’re dead (assuming people are back where they started and travelling the same speed as they were before the Event) - like yeah, utter bloody chaos because the implication is everything (planet included) moved for 6 months but the humans are dropped into the exact latitude and longitude that they were before (consistent velocity to be confirmed) - every road is a pile-up, there are plane crashes everywhere, everyone is ✨horrifically✨ traumatised✨ (the bleakness is so wonderful, I adore it)

I asked before about how Jonny nearly killed billions of people - surely it must’ve been something regarding the consequences of towerfall? Did he want the people to be dropped back into the space they were in (sans planet)?

please do tell 😆

I FINALLY get to tell this story! Yay! Enormous Protocol and Archives Spoliers READER BEWARE: Firstly, you should know that whilst @jonnywaistcoat is a big ideas guy, I am normally the one who ends up going off and actually figuring out how things work in the real world. I'm always ending up saying something like "sure that's creepy but that's not how steam trains work. You need to account for the Stephensen Regulator" etc. This means that when @jonnywaistcoat had thoughts as to how Towerfall worked in early Protocol drafts, I was the one who had to try and make it work. We both wanted to make sure that people could begin to rebuild in a meaningful way rather than going full Mad Max but unfortunately I quickly realised that almost every instinct @jonnywaistcoat had for cataclysms generally lead to the irrecoverable collapse of civilisation and death of basically everyone. For instance, we both felt that the actual Hellscape could have lasted longer (in the order of months, not weeks) but no matter how I tried to bend things to fit that timeline, the truth is that human built infrastructure does not recover well from that length of absence. (at least, not in a way that doesn't kill most people from pestilence, starvation and associated wars.) So we had to make it a bit shorter and thankfully we'd already established there was time dilation at play in Archives. (We actually even experimented with it only lasting 1 day but we both decided that wouldn't hurt enough.) The worst case of this kind of logistical horror however, was about locations. @jonnywaistcoatwas was really enamoured with the idea that everyone would arrive back, not where they had left, but instead clumped according to their fears. I.e. Everyone in the Arachnophobic domain turns up in Australia together, everyone in the Nyctophobic domain turns up in Antarctica etc. so I dutifully went away and ran the numbers and no matter how I tackled it I kept coming to the conclusion that this pretty much kills everyone in less than a week due to the massive logistical collapse it causes. (There's actually a really great examination of this on XKCD) Now don't get me wrong, I was all for getting stuck-in telling the story of the bleakest logistical collapse possible but to quote Jonny "that sounds pretty grim and not in a fun way" so in the end we opted to return people where they left (albeit compensating for planetary movement so that we wouldn't accidentally extinct everyone in the most unsatisfying way imaginable). So there you have it. Technically, technically I saved the world including all your favourite characters from @jonnywaistcoat's insatiable bloodlust. You're welcome.

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He bought you a chair, it cost 60 euro

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Heinrich Unheimlich has a present for you :)

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the man loves his chairs, hes so polite :]

When i first heard his name i fully thought it was Heinrich und Heimlich and thought we were getting a Breekon and Hope variant but this is way better

Immediate favorite, bieg man

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Will you sit in the chair? He bought it for your comfort. It cost 60 euro. (Oil on cardboard).

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He wanted to ask me some questions. I agreed. [Why?] Even a monster gets lonely.

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my initial design for Heinrich Unheimlich

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Was any part of recording TMP 39 particularly difficult for you? Your performance is so amazing but it seems like it must have been exhausting.

Thank you so much. It was. It was exhausting. Not just because of how much there was to process, perform and analyse, but also because yes, as a trans person the really heavy implications of gender dysphoria hit me right in the heart. And also, just having to switch to such a downtrodden, depressing version of Alice like that was like getting whiplash.

I know Alice has much less of a spring in her step in Season 2, but she’s still determined, sarky, a fighter. This Alice is… well… she’s dead on her feet.

HOWEVER: As a performer, this is the type of challenge I relish. I wanna note that RQ were so so good at handling this. They provided me with context warnings, made sure I’d be ok to do it and during and after the recording session they were so patient and considerate with me.

A challenge like this is what I was put on this planet to do. If I can use my skill set to touch the hearts of people and inspire them, especially trans people, that is a duty I take with pride. Even if it means I need to have a nap and a cup of tea after a recording session.

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Today is Early Access for the Act 1 finale of Season 2!

There’s some particularly tricky editing magic from Tessa and Cathy 💫 the teams put in so much hard work this Act from the actors to the editors, to @rqbossman himself, locked in either a writing/directing/passback dungeon eternally. I’m so proud of everyone!

Well still be hard at work over this break, getting act 2 edited and act 3 written and recorded, as well as prepping for the Hilltop Liveshow (which is a first for a lot of us). But there’s still LOADS of content to keep you from getting too hungry in the meantime!

With all that said… I think It’s close enough that I can now tease that fans of a certain critically acclaimed mmorpg may hear a familiar voice this week :) I am so hype for this character, enjoy!

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Yea this was on me!

Everything was written as Alex and then I saw a note I completely misread (because numbers are hard) so the transcript errors and shownotes are incorrect, once again because April Can’t Read.

Will be fixed Monday 🙃

Hey all, seen some confusion out there for the latest episode of Protocol because we had a couple of errors with the patron post saying I wrote it solo and the shownotes saying it was cowritten. Just to confirm, I wrote Protocol episode 39 and @jonnywaistcoat edited. We'll get those credits sorted next week, sorry for the faff. For those interested though @jonnywaistcoat wrote the line about love and grief being the same thing. It's a good line I wouldn't dare try to steal!

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1 week

🙃

2 more weeks.

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Alex just hides his Weird more than Jonny.

As far as voices, I think this is an interesting take as both @jonnywaistcoat and @rqbossman have quite a wide range in vocal performance styles.

Enough that their performer voice and real voices are actually quite different to me nowadays.

Which makes me wonder if the cadence is actually what’s familiar rather than the voices themselves?

Hello Bossman Alex! How are you doing?

This may be be a weird thing to ask (I wasn't even sure to ask Jonny this too), but have you ever had someone say that your voices sounded like someone elses, like familiar to them?

I ask this because, I was listening to TMA with my father (second time for me, first time for him) and we were on episode 22: Colony and my mother, who was in the room with us, said that your voice and Jonny's voice sounded familiar to her despite never hearing your voices before.

Sorry for the odd question again.

P.S: I find your voices comforting and calming whenever I relisten to an episode.

Interesting question. In my experience when people meet @jonnywaistcoat they tell him he has such a distinctive voice/face/vibe and he's a unique special bunny. Meanwhile I get told I am more normal/average than people had hoped and they thought I would be more interesting. (@rq-producerperson can confirm)

Make of that what you will.

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hello, bossman!

ive been wondering if there’s any words you particularly like when writing. i’ve noticed jonny, for example, uses the word “acrid” far more often than is reasonable than an average enjoyer of the word. also apotheosis but he’s explained that one! so: any words you’re fond of and use more than reasonably? (or perfectly reasonably. you’re the bossman after all)

Goddam "apotheosis". (sighs) So if you want a deep cut on @jonnywaistcoat he loves the phrase "burst like a rotten grape". I think @rq-producerperson have caught him adding it to Protocol on three separate occasions normally accompanied by the world "Bulbous" and we have edited it out. I try to work in the word "Maelstrom" in every creative work I do. I also try to sneak in arbitrary asinine alliteration as its awesome to assimilate.

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2 more weeks.

🙂

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The Mangus Protocol is a pangcast dangstributed by Rangsty Quill and

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I read this 67 times with no idea what I did wrong before I realized 🫣 whelp. That’ll be fixed in an hour.

@rq-producerperson *shakes fist* FREDDDDDDDDDDDIE!!!