#MAG 21 Freefall

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Redemption Round 3 - Match 15

It's a battle of the Fepisodes, if you will. Freefall has earned 177 Redemption votes, while Far Away comes to us with 190 votes from last round!

MAG 021 - Freefall | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Moira Kelly, regarding the disappearance of her son Robert.

MAG 121 - Far Away | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Oliver Banks, regarding his dreams and trying to run away. Statement given directly to Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, currently unresponsive.

[zevarina]

Moira Kelly: o hey u are back early

Robert Kelly: the ground's gone

Moira Kelly: what?

Robert Kelly: *being eaten by the sky* the ground's gone

[catwings-writes-things]

MA’AM.

[artfulacrostic]

interest feature of listening to the whole show chronologically for the second time is i was just waiting nervously for five episodes after jon mentions that martin is "out sick with stomach problems" bc i know martin is actually stuck in his apartment being assailed by worms without any way to call for help. anyway just got to the part where he bursts in at the end of ep 21 and i am SO relieved but also i know it only gets worse from here :/

[aikouncoloured]

GUUUUYSSSSS WHY IS JOHN SO FUNNY IN SEASON 1.

'Statement ends. Before I address the central point of this statement namely...'

*deep breath in*

'*in an annoyed voice* whether the sky can eat people *🙄* there are a few other facts that need to be addressed...'

He's a sassy archivist fixing Gertrude's mess (and he makes sure you know he's annoyed).

And then after his sassy talk of not believing the statement he goes:

'one other thing bothers me *cue ominous sounds in the background*if miss Kelly's recollection is correct regarding how Robert described his last skydive it might just be a coincidence *even more sound building up*'

and then MARTIN.

[putting-pomni-in-places]

The sky should eat me.

[tmascrapbook]

Mag 21: freefall

[clairebearsparkles]

I painted this for my birthday!! It goes with my dress with clouds on it

[biwonderland98]

Podcasts are great because you can have a sentence that's just "the sky ate him" and nobody has to worry about visually making it look like the sky itself is eating someone

[updatebug]

not to TMA spam, but I was re-listening to the series while at work at it has given me a LOT of thoughts.

I am wondering how many of cases we hear about in the files are avatar recruitments? Like, I don't think it's a high number, but I definitely don't think it's zero. I mean we have one canonical one in that guy who cheated death, and a strongly implied one with the murder pig but the one that really got me thinking about it was Freefall.

So in Freefall, Robert works for the Fairchild skydiving company which is obviously a front for their chucking people into the vast, but he works for them for at least a year (probably a couple) before he ever has any issues. And he's not scared of skydiving, he loves it (and I know loving something doesn't necessarily stop the fears from torturing you with that thing). But the thing that really struck me as odd was that Harriet was still waiting for him at the bottom, even tho Fairchild had left. IDK I just wonder whether if Robert had embraced the fall, he would have wound up as an avatar and when he didn't he was moved back into the prey category.

[shadowistrans]

Reviving this account with a bang

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Round Two Part Four - Match 30

It's the battle of the Vast today! Which Simon Fairchild episode is your favorite? Freefall got 208 votes in Round One, but can Big Picture topple it?

MAG 151 - Big Picture | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Simon Fairchild regarding Peter Lukas and The Extinction.

MAG 021 - Freefall | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Moira Kelly, regarding the disappearance of her son Robert.

[roguecanoe]

Mag 21: Freefall

[fullsaw]

jonathan sims, i love your work, you're an excellent author and a very talented voice actor; what the FUCK did you mean by "The sky ate him"?

[thegaycondor]

it came to me in a dream

[oddi-isod]

me listening to the magnus archives when Aberystwyth gets mentioned for absolutely no reason