MAG 105 - Total War
Added 2018-06-12 23:00:01 +0000 UTCCase #D-1862-143
Statement of Second Lieutenant Charles Fleming, regarding his experiences during the Taiping Rebellion. Original statement undated, but apparently written in early 1862.
Content Warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.
Thanks to this week's Patrons: Scoots, Bruce Rose, Colleen Ohara, Kelley Redacted, Katharina Sindelar, Daniel Straw, Alex McMinn, Erik Rueter, alexa, Aaron Roudabush, bibli, Padraic Barrett
Edited this week by Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall.
Performances:
- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims
- "Chinese Librarian" - Peng Wei
Sound effects for this episode provided by Taira Komori & mmiron.
Content Warning for:
- warfare
- drowning
- cannibalism
- undead
Comments
This has got to be one of my all time favourite episodes. Overlaps with my personal cultural heritage (grandfather who experienced the opium war), and a particular era of history I'm most interested in.
Lilian Darmono
2024-09-04 00:21:58 +0000 UTCGertrude was very, very methodical. She wouldn't pull statements willy-nilly. Something about this is connected to the larger picture. Is this a new or old Player, and is it with the Unknowing? Or like Michael, working on its own goals and Gertrude was hoping to align with it. War and Knowledge, two very powerful forces in the modern world ...
Wren Griffin-Harrigan
2018-06-14 12:31:31 +0000 UTCThe more I think about it, the more I wonder if this isn't an example of the war entity/power gaining a foothold on the world. Something about this statement reminds me of episode 7 (The Piper). If I'm remembering correctly, and it's been a while since I listened to episode 7, both involve a character being chased in some way. Maybe this is meant to give the Archivist a sense of what could happen if the Unknowing isn't stopped? (Note: there's a really good chance I'm blowing smoke here, but the most recent episode is haunting me more than most).
Mark Sutton
2018-06-14 00:30:21 +0000 UTCExactly! That’s my thought - have there possibly been other lesser instances of the Unknowing? Or perhaps precursor events, like a before-shock so to speak?
Gilligan Mungus
2018-06-13 01:45:48 +0000 UTCWell that's one possible meaning of The Choir...
Linda Evans
2018-06-13 01:33:13 +0000 UTCBut is this completely unrelated to the Unknowing? As the ship was sinking, the people were singing, yes? Obviously I need to listen again (a few gazillion more times) but that bit stuck out. What is the connection with large numbers of singing corpses/soon to be corpses?
Gilligan Mungus
2018-06-13 00:53:13 +0000 UTCFor the first time, i'm legitimately jealous of the archivists abilities :D
Nebu-chad-nezzar
2018-06-12 23:25:20 +0000 UTC
