Penultimate plans (Patreon)

Hi folks, We hope you’ve had a wonderful week! Here at Rusty Towers, we’re extremely busy working towards the end of the year. However, we’re still taking the time to relax and socialise – this weekend we held a digital RQ social for cast and crew to play some games ahead of a busy few weeks.

It goes without saying that we’re now down to the final two weeks of Rusty Quill Gaming – I’m sure plenty of you skipped straight down to read the title before anything else! We’re still following everyone’s reactions as the episodes release, and were really excited to see that we trended on Tumblr last Wednesday! After last week’s unexpected reunion, Hamid is one lucky halfling and Wilde makes an ill-advised gesture. After Tuesday’s episode, there is just one episode left of the main campaign. We know that a lot of you are eager to hear about our plans to pay tribute to the end of RQG. Over the last few months, we’ve been working on something exciting – a very special, commemorative collectable. While we can’t say much more than that at the moment, be assured that it is definitely worth the wait!

Next week, we’re planning a little celebration of RQG over on our social media pages and thought it would be lovely if our Patrons could be included in this! If you’d like your words to be shared alongside RQ cast and crew, put your message in the comments and you might see it shared on Twitter next week! This could be a simple thank you, how you first came to listen to RQG or just telling us who your favourite character is. Keep it short, sweet, and swearing and spoiler-free! (Please note, not all comments will be shared. Rusty Quill may edit comments to correct spelling and grammar, reduce the length or improve clarity. Comments will be shared anonymously).

If the RQG tension is too much, we have another great episode of Enthusigasm this week and, if you haven’t checked the show out, now is the perfect time! Firstly, due to some gremlins in our spreadsheet, there was a mistake in last week’s newsletter schedule and the episode on Marvel TV won’t go out until next week. We hope you enjoyed the episode on Wrestling – if you’re a fan of Old Gods of Appalachia you’re in for a treat, as both Steve Shell and Cam Collins guested, alongside our CMO Callum. Secondly, from this week onwards, Enthusigasm will be reducing releases to once a week, with extended cuts releasing to Patreon on Thursdays and standard-length episodes going out on public feeds on Friday. This week, join Helen, Imogen Harris, Nora Unkel and Rhys Tirado as they talk about writing. From writing professionally to stories they wrote as children, there’s a particularly interesting range of viewpoints in this episode and it is full of advice for aspiring writers. If you haven’t yet listened to Enthusigasm or if you have missed an episode, you can find every episode at this link.

We’re glad you enjoyed the interviews from last week’s newsletter! This week we have another in this series that showcases the people behind some fantastic podcasts, this time from Jeremy Enfinger, creator of The Storage Papers.

1. Tell us who you are and a bit about your podcast!

My name is Jeremy Enfinger and I created The Storage Papers in the summer of 2019.  I had been podcasting for several years before this, but had never done fiction.  If you're not familiar with The Storage Papers, it's about a guy who wins a storage unit at auction and finds a plethora of documented cases involving paranormal phenomena in the Southern California region.  He begins experiencing strange things as he dives in and decides to share these stories in the format of a podcast.  At first, the stories feel somewhat stand-alone, but after some time, he realizes there are some connections to be made between them and ends up getting involved in an overarching investigation into some of the people and organizations included in the documents.

2. What got you into podcasting?

I am a healthcare professional by trade, specifically in radiology, and I also teach a couple of radiography courses per semester at a local college. I'm always striving to provide various avenues of content delivery to my students, and I initially began podcasting to give the younger generation an easier way to listen to my lectures on-the-go.  It only resonated with a few students, but as I researched this thing called "podcasting", it opened my eyes to a world that I never knew existed.  I began listening to entrepreneurial shows at first, but quickly got burnt out on those before I decided to listen to some interview-based shows about the paranormal.  At the time, there were only a handful of those and I found that nobody was asking the questions I wanted to ask, so I started my own.  It lasted a couple of years before that market became saturated, but then I started listening to more fiction-based content, and here I am.

3. What’s something you’re most proud of within your podcast?

It's difficult to answer this without spoiling anything, but I would probably have to say I'm proud of our team's ability to drive the character development.  In a sense, as we're in Season 3 we are just beginning to scratch the surface regarding some of the major players in the story and though our audience hasn't experienced much of this yet, I think they're going to enjoy what we've got planned for Season 4 next year.  As a writer now working with a small team of other writers, I've never really had to collaborate on anything like this before, but ever since Nathan Lunsford and Cody Ditzenberger began contributing to the story, it feels like everything just kind of falls into place as we discuss the metaplot...even when we don't always approach things from the same angles.  I'm just excited to share this story going forward because I think it will ultimately leave the listeners satisfied.  I find myself extremely disappointed when a great story doesn't end in a satisfying way, and while we still have several seasons ahead of us, I have confidence that the story itself is solid and I'm proud of our team for driving us there.

4. If you could hang out with any cartoon character, who would you choose and why?

Hands down, Wile E. Coyote. I think he's just misunderstood. He's just going about his business, dogging like all dogs do, trying to get something to eat.  He can't simply chase down the Roadrunner because he's just too fast, so he comes up with these ingenious ways to capture his prey that almost always backfire and leave him hungry another day.  Then, to add insult to injury, this arrogant little bird who is mostly oblivious to his efforts finally notices him after horrendous failure and responds with a condescending, "meep meep".  I think he just needs a hug and I want to invite him over for a barbeque while providing him with whatever emotional support I can muster.

Finally, please see our weekly transcript update. As always, this also available on our website.

Update 22/11/2021:

We are continuing to work on content warnings and reformatting for The Magnus Archives and Stellar Firma.

We are pleased to confirm that we are now past the halfway point on Rusty Quill Gaming transcription.

We will keep you updated if this should change, but we are still targeting January to release the complete transcripts for the main series (this does not include bonus or supplemental episodes).

Here is our full schedule for this week:

Mon 22nd November

EGSM 15 – Wrestling (Public) (4pm GMT)

Tue 23rd November

RQG 217 – Last Stand (Patreon) (4pm GMT) Wed 24th November

RQG 217 – Last Stand (Public) (4pm GMT) Thu 25th November

EGSM 16 – Writing (Extended Cut) (Patreon) (6pm GMT)

Fri 26th November

NOBLES Bonus – Hamid Does Shakespeare Again (4pm GMT)

EGSM 16 – Writing (Public) (4pm GMT) Have a good week all!

The Rusty Quill team