The Magnus Protocol 4 – Taking Notes
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Collection (blood) -/- musical [letter]
Incident Elements:
· Blood
· Gore
· Violence
· Hysteria
· Suicide
· Self-harm
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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Directed by Alexander J Newall
Written by Cole Weavers (for more of his work visit https://www.thetownwhispers.com/)
Script Editing with Additional Materials by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Executive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. Hamilton
Associate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan Nice
Produced by April Sumner
Featuring (in order of appearance)
Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer
Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid
Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard
Tim Fearon as Augustus
Sarah Lambie as Lena Kelley
Paul Schmidt as Klaus
Dialogue Editor – Lowri Ann Davies
Sound Designer – Tessa Vroom
Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella
Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson)
Art by April Sumner
SFX from Soundly, Freesound (CCO): kyles and previously credited
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Comments
Omg this is so grifters bone coded
RedCanary
2024-09-23 16:49:59 +0000 UTCOh, Alice is so scared. She sounds careless and funnyz but she's seen some shit, I swear. I just wanna hug her.
Grace 'Gengar' Soria
2024-04-10 17:49:44 +0000 UTCRelistening I noticed the dice!!!
ShinyPenUnlimited
2024-04-10 01:17:54 +0000 UTCBut it’s not ? Wasn’t Juergen voices by Jonny’s dad?
ShinyPenUnlimited
2024-04-02 15:30:16 +0000 UTCTim Fearnon was masterful I want more Augustus statements please.
Imogen
2024-03-17 08:02:24 +0000 UTCYes it took me until the end of this episode to notice Gwendolyn's last name
JazLaz325
2024-02-27 01:47:17 +0000 UTCAlice absolutely speaks too ominously to be ignored as a threat Or its a red herring idk
Reynard Du Maurier
2024-02-22 13:28:15 +0000 UTCI was also thinking that the merchant was an equivalent of Mikaele Salesa?
Ian Mak
2024-02-07 16:29:01 +0000 UTCI also think it might be an important detail that Sam checked the box for "response" in the first episode. Not sure what it means, but I think it could be something that comes in to play when we get a real look at the "protocol".
Carleigh Warsing
2024-02-06 22:28:41 +0000 UTCI was surprised too! I think it fits well though, and Gertrude would also be an amazing addition. For a while I expected it to be Elias, but then I realized that if Gwen IS related to him she'd recognize his voice, so Jonah Magnus would need a different one, maybe his original?
Carleigh Warsing
2024-02-06 22:24:31 +0000 UTCMy current theory is that this is another reality, the one the fears went too at the end of the last series, so she’s basically gender swapped Elias, one of this universes differences
Eternal Miasma
2024-02-06 22:21:42 +0000 UTCI thought the same thing- but then it hit me that if Gwen IS related to Elias she would have recognized his voice
Carleigh Warsing
2024-02-06 22:19:48 +0000 UTCWas not expecting jurgen to be the 3rd voice. I thought it would be Elias
Eternal Miasma
2024-02-06 15:18:19 +0000 UTCJust want to throw this here - your sound design constantly impresses me. The slide in and out of the digitized voice of Augustus to help the keep the audience aware of what's happening/going to happen, just absolutely love your work!!
Jason Green
2024-02-04 21:37:40 +0000 UTCOh heck. I just realized, the statement-giver was compelled in the same way Jon compelled people in TMA when he talks about speaking of his whole life in candor he did not intend!!!!!
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-02-04 14:26:41 +0000 UTCI also do not trust Alice! I mean Alice is a terrible coworker, we've all had to work with an Alice and it's miserable. There's something more, though. Something almost sinister. Unhinged.
FyreFlye23
2024-02-02 15:15:00 +0000 UTCSo good!
Brandy Hammond
2024-02-01 16:07:57 +0000 UTCListening to this, I kept thinking of the violin of Eric Zann, from Lovecraft (and also used to great effect in Charles Stross' Laundry Files series).
Ember
2024-02-01 15:15:09 +0000 UTCYes!!
dipper
2024-02-01 00:52:10 +0000 UTCOr another of the same sort!
Valerie Kaplan
2024-02-01 00:51:14 +0000 UTCThe voice is similar, but not the same VA; Jurgen was voiced by Paul Sims.
Valerie Kaplan
2024-02-01 00:50:17 +0000 UTCGRIFTERS BONE?!?!? OMG
dipper
2024-02-01 00:31:42 +0000 UTCI do Not Trust Alice! She is absolutely up to something and I don't know what, but I do know I've been betrayed before. Also, Jurgen?? Why is Jurgen of all people the third voice? And now I'm desperately hoping for new, fourth voice. The voice of a certain former Archivist...
J Burns
2024-01-31 20:47:45 +0000 UTCanyone else theorising that this is Jonah??
Martha
2024-01-31 19:28:40 +0000 UTCYESSSS EATING THIS UP NOMNOMNOM
artimas Newton
2024-01-31 18:57:05 +0000 UTCAnd the Protocol is Magnusing
Liddy
2024-01-31 18:29:41 +0000 UTCoh ho things are starting to cook now. almost time to get the red string and pin boards out again :D
James Flinders
2024-01-31 14:32:47 +0000 UTC*in harsh whisper* "BECAUSE WE WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT. AND THE GOVERNMENT LOVES SECRETS DICKHEAD" LOL
James Flinders
2024-01-31 14:04:43 +0000 UTCOk, so let's see what we have so far: The Magnus Institute is destroyed and cursed/haunted. Some government agency has taken over a similar role that the institute had been doing, but are doing it better/unethically by reading everyone's email. There is a police/military response when things get hairy called "The Magnus Protocol." Now, generally speaking, alerts, protocols, government responses get named after events when things went really bad. Almost like the people coming up with the response want to make sure to never forget the inciting incident and make absolutely sure that it never happens again. While details are lacking, I'm starting to get a bit of a clearer picture of what went down in this reality.
James Rule
2024-01-31 13:08:00 +0000 UTCTHIS WAS CRAZY! My jaw kept dropping and the violin gave me chills! this was phenomenal
jox lvndrcrow
2024-01-31 13:05:49 +0000 UTCi wasn’t caught up w thé ARG. could you tell me where klaus was mentioned if it’s not too much of a bother?
MichaelNumber19
2024-01-31 09:36:02 +0000 UTCNicely done Cole! Our own little Tiny Terror ❤️❤️❤️
Coco Boomslang
2024-01-31 05:55:00 +0000 UTCCan you please also add a suicide CW for the tutor?
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-31 05:00:16 +0000 UTCGrifters Bone???? Jurgen Leitners death 2.0?????? Massacre???? Lore????? Is the Magnus Protocoling????
Kelliwop
2024-01-31 04:52:41 +0000 UTCWasn’t expecting to hear from “Augustus” until probably mid-season or so! A fun surprise!
Valerie Kaplan
2024-01-31 04:00:24 +0000 UTCOh my Slaughter, how I've missed you
Seal
2024-01-31 02:32:54 +0000 UTCThis was the wildest cooking dinner experience of my life
Ocean
2024-01-31 00:20:56 +0000 UTCI didn't keep up with the arg at the time but from the information I've collected about it since, I can't find anything on Starkville. What's the importance?
Caleb
2024-01-30 23:42:28 +0000 UTCThank you! Exactly what I needed
Jeff Miller
2024-01-30 23:34:10 +0000 UTCThere aren’t any breakroom scenes in this one. I don’t personally have trouble with the sound design so I can’t verify whether or not it’s the same but I hope that helps!
Anthony
2024-01-30 22:57:12 +0000 UTCI'm thinking of listening to this during a long drive I'm taking this afternoon ... but if the sound is similar to Episode 3, I'd rather save it for headphones. Could someone who has listened let me know?
Jeff Miller
2024-01-30 22:55:15 +0000 UTCThe transcript won’t open for me- would anyone have an tips about this
Megalodons Dont Bite
2024-01-30 22:45:15 +0000 UTC"The blood for its strings need not be your own." will go down as one of the best single lines in Magnusverse history.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-30 22:34:16 +0000 UTCPoor Alice doesn’t know she’s a main character🥲 She really is trying so hard to keep Sam safe. Ah well...
Anthony
2024-01-30 21:50:16 +0000 UTCI can see your point, very possible. I feel like she does genuinely want to protect Sam, whatever her motivations. And I agree 100% about Gwen. Time will tell!
LainyJP
2024-01-30 21:31:50 +0000 UTCThis is by far the best episode so far by a LONG shot everything in this is fucking phenomenal great job y'all
Harlan Bearman
2024-01-30 21:30:39 +0000 UTCYes! Super bully!
FyreFlye23
2024-01-30 21:23:19 +0000 UTCSee I'm getting very sus vibes from Alice - Gwen is the one I'm trusting the most.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-30 21:22:56 +0000 UTCNow I'm wondering what the hell Alice has been through, what has she actually seen?
Trajan Miller
2024-01-30 20:59:28 +0000 UTCGotta say, sometimes my guitar feels like its spiritually drawing blood from me like this guy's violin. I bought it fair and square from a shop that still exists, so I think I'm alright
Trajan Miller
2024-01-30 20:58:23 +0000 UTCLove the Big Sister vibes coming from Alice. She knows something is not right and is doing the Joshua Gillespie and saying "Nope" to all this. I think the real story is that in all universes, directors are usually evil.
LainyJP
2024-01-30 20:55:01 +0000 UTCI- *what*
Edith Honey
2024-01-30 20:49:19 +0000 UTCalice is so fuckin mean man :((((
Kstein19
2024-01-30 20:42:32 +0000 UTCi do think it has to be jonah, right?? as hilarious as it would be for jon and martin to be stuck in a robot with the ghost of jurgen leitner, i just don't see how that could... work. he'd been dead for years?? although i suppose he WAS very connected to all of the powers
SpookMouse
2024-01-30 20:36:11 +0000 UTCI AM FUCKING YELLING ("AUGUSTUS"JUST SHOWED UP) Just finished, so adding: DIOSMIOOOO GIVING BACKSTORY TO GRIFTER'S BONE COULD HAVE GONE SOOOOOO BADLY BUT IT WENT SOSOSOSOSOSO WELL
MarlaBothBothIsGood
2024-01-30 20:33:12 +0000 UTCWhy hello Jurgein
Caleb Prince
2024-01-30 20:31:53 +0000 UTCSTUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING JURGEIN LEITNER GOD DAMN FOOL BOOK COLLECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT AVATAR OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING JURGEIN LEITNER
Merlin3434
2024-01-30 20:23:57 +0000 UTCso true say it louder etc
Anthony
2024-01-30 20:17:12 +0000 UTCSorry to be crude (no I'm not) but everything about this episode f**ks severely. THANK YOU!!
Carrie L.
2024-01-30 20:06:28 +0000 UTCI snorted out my tea!
LainyJP
2024-01-30 20:02:19 +0000 UTCGRIFTERS BONE????
Oleg
2024-01-30 19:54:29 +0000 UTCDid we just get Alfred Grifter’s backstory?
Astraeus
2024-01-30 19:53:19 +0000 UTCThis was amazing oh my god - time to add this to my spreadsheet!
Fen
2024-01-30 19:52:06 +0000 UTCOOOOO sound design in this is so great… ALSO JONAH MAGNUS MY BELOVED HAS RETURNED FROM THE WAR ❓
aaaah! -stro
2024-01-30 19:47:13 +0000 UTCI love how sure I was that Augustus was going to share Elias' voice and then OH HEY HAVE A WHOLE OTHER MYSTERY
Vulture Young
2024-01-30 19:19:58 +0000 UTCAll these mysterious "computer glitches" or sourceless messages feel so sinister and calculated, like they're luring in Alice and Gwen, baiting them into getting involved. Has anyone here ever read Dionaea House? It reminds me of that. The violin feels so much like the classic Slaughter, although the strong themes of consumption are new. But this is a guest author episode, if I recall correctly, so maybe I shouldn't be looking here for clues about whether the Magnus Protocol dimension version of the Powers are different. I loved the buildup to the violinist saying the blood to feed the violin did not need to be his own. A wonderful eerie delivery. Great use of music in this episode as well.
Ransack0894
2024-01-30 19:17:33 +0000 UTCThat's exactly what I was thinking! We only ever heard Elias's voice. Maybe whatever Sergei Ushanka nonsense is going on has restored Jonah's original voice?
Ransack0894
2024-01-30 19:15:43 +0000 UTCso glad i finished eating before listening to this one. soooo good tho!! <3
Undeadly
2024-01-30 18:36:29 +0000 UTCWhoooooo!! So many things happened in here 👀 title drop!! ominous big deal plot! Augustus! That stinger!! Special shout-out to Sam Sam the music man for this one, LOVED the violin bit, that was so eerie and beautiful!
sAZAndorable
2024-01-30 18:32:02 +0000 UTC💜💜💜💜spooky!!
Xan
2024-01-30 18:31:07 +0000 UTCKlaus is from the arg that went on last year!!
SpideyForest
2024-01-30 18:19:48 +0000 UTClena "brutal pipe murderer" kelley is coming for elias's neck i see. and klaus's, ig
jo
2024-01-30 18:18:28 +0000 UTCthe incorporation of strings at just the right moments...*chef's kiss*
jo
2024-01-30 18:17:07 +0000 UTCViolins is not the answer
Skyeoak
2024-01-30 18:07:22 +0000 UTCWhat on earth happened at the end there 👀
The Purple Wombat
2024-01-30 17:23:44 +0000 UTCSwear the intro music sounds like a evil laugh
Heather
2024-01-30 17:15:55 +0000 UTCAh! I see it now. My laptop crashed those last pages so I didn't register them at all. Thanks!
Ishmam
2024-01-30 17:01:44 +0000 UTCAsdfghjkl August episode & that Gwen/Lena cliffhanger...the chills are only beginning 😱👏 also I never used to listen all the way through credits but the score is so good I couldn't not
Cas D
2024-01-30 17:01:11 +0000 UTCit should be on the last page or two of the transcript!
Anthony
2024-01-30 16:57:29 +0000 UTCfinally hearing Augustus! YAY!
Possumcat
2024-01-30 16:54:11 +0000 UTCPaul Schmidt is listed on the Patreon post as the voice of Klaus, but no mention was made in the transcript itself. For a moment, I was convinced that Tim Fearon voiced both.
Ishmam
2024-01-30 16:52:19 +0000 UTCGrifter's Bone vibes, huh
Nairis Santini
2024-01-30 16:46:01 +0000 UTCStarkwell is from the ARG!
Steven Stouffs
2024-01-30 16:45:21 +0000 UTCYEAH IT WAS
Anthony
2024-01-30 16:45:03 +0000 UTCthinking soooo hard about the importance of ep4 to the original magnus... i bet we will be seeing that violin later🫢 goodness… 18th century you say……… awesome casement, augustus’ delivery was Perfect and the strings underneath the monologues each episode continue to amaze! sound design high five to all of the staff involved!! the office bickering continues to charm me as well. VERY interesting to hear alice legitimately angry. i think a lot of her laidback goofy personality is pretty obviously a facade, at least in the workplace — she seems to know more than she’s letting on, or at least to have thought about it more than she’s telling sam that he should — but it’s always a treat when it cracks that badly. gosh i can’t wait to find out more about the research sam’s been doing offscreen. also, alice receiving that notification? HMMM. something wants to push her into dogging sam’s steps, mayhaps… although i do not think this means automatically that lena didn’t get the notification AS WELL but… i have my theories about lena’s role in all this. alright… time to reset the weekly countdown! see you all next tuesday 😝
Anthony
2024-01-30 16:44:30 +0000 UTCI am going to go insane! Who is Klaus, what is the Protocol and are we getting Brutal Pipe Murder 2 Electric Boogaloo early??????!!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
SqueakyBoo
2024-01-30 16:42:50 +0000 UTCBruh that's what I was thinking or maybe it's Jonah magnus
DavidCoppAFeel
2024-01-30 16:38:34 +0000 UTCIs that jurgen leitner or John's magnus's real voice?
DavidCoppAFeel
2024-01-30 16:37:16 +0000 UTCBlown away by this episode! Not only compelling scenes in the OIAR but also the case! Kudos to Cole, amazing!
BloodyBaroness
2024-01-30 16:32:28 +0000 UTCWell that was utterly horrifying!/pos I'm so excited to unpack all of the new lore introduced here, because a lot of it has potential, but feels like they COULD be red herrings.
Ishmam
2024-01-30 16:30:57 +0000 UTCTHE MUSIC WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD IN THIS EPISODE OH MY GOD !!!!
Willow Edwards
2024-01-30 16:30:14 +0000 UTCSo excited to get a statement referencing my town, Alnwick!
Jemma Thew
2024-01-30 16:29:22 +0000 UTCaugustus right after talking about the protocol 😬
Ace
2024-01-30 16:26:54 +0000 UTCWhen he says "the line between musician and instrument weren't so clear" reminds me of a horror webcomic I read where a toymaker made toys/things that did the opposite of what they were meant to do eg ballet shoes meant to be worn by someone instead wore the person and would make them dance to death or a teddy bear meant to bring comfort and safety would try to kill you. Feels like it only applies to this ep tho so idk if that's what the cases are all like or if it was just this guy
Max
2024-01-30 16:26:23 +0000 UTCWhy does Augustus sound like JL
Megalodons Dont Bite
2024-01-30 16:18:55 +0000 UTCThis one gave me chills ngl
Mishiro
2024-01-30 16:17:59 +0000 UTC"bc the government loves secrets, ya dickhead!" alice i love you <3
jo
2024-01-30 16:15:20 +0000 UTC^^
Ams
2024-01-30 16:11:33 +0000 UTCSike, I just missed it oops!
Katherine McDermott (She-They)
2024-01-30 16:08:55 +0000 UTCthe battle I have to have with myself very week to wait until I can enjoy the episode on my way home vs ruining it by looking at the transcript on my lunch break
Helena McCoy
2024-01-30 16:08:13 +0000 UTCIs there a transcript available for this episode?
Katherine McDermott (She-They)
2024-01-30 16:07:55 +0000 UTCaugustus…….hi…..
genevieve
2024-01-30 16:07:49 +0000 UTCGetting an Augustus episode! ...I'm not concerned at all 🥲 yep
Red
2024-01-30 16:05:47 +0000 UTCAugustus 😬 Okay can we just say the SOUND DESIGN is GORGEOUS?! The orchestra during the performance?! This just gets better and better every week. Also, week 4 where I maintain Alice is a terrible friend and co-worker.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-30 16:03:23 +0000 UTC
