Scott Sigler Slices: DEATH IS BLACK

From manuscript to marketplace, what exactly does a publisher do? We cover the big picture and explain how the large houses do it but focus on our two-person shop – how does Empty Set get so much done?

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The second round of questions from the Sigler Junkies about SLAY and the Siglerverse in general. Lots of great info from Scott in this one as we put SLAY Season 2 to bed and prepare to move on to several episodes of short horror stories. 

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We cover the gear we use for podcasting and offer tips and tricks garnered from our 20 years in the podcasting biz.

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The Junkies sent in many questions about the now-complete SLAY Season II. We answered them, live! ARealGirl Herself reads off the questions, Scott answers.

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Write an ALIEN movie that holds continuity across the entire franchise. Easy, right? Wrong! We break down the challenges facing director Fede Alvarez for his cinematic spectacular ALIENS: ROMULUS.

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When Kellius Droman died, his age-suppression spell on Delilah evaporated. She went from thirteen years old to twenty-two years old almost instantly. While she will inherit her father’s empire, she’s angry and bitter at his manipulation.

Only one person in the world understands the pain of being unknowingly magically modified by a person who is supposed to love you and protect you — Billy Middleton, whose powers and true physical were hidden from him by his grandmother.

Delilah’s nightmare-generating powers are stronger than anyone could have known. The last person to find that out the hard was Teddy Two-Fingers, who now lies catatonic in a Bastion cell.

Meanwhile, Lincoln Franks, the Man in Gray, left Callista’s club in Lumencia, saying that there was something he needed to destroy. What is his target? 

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If you want to write fiction, all you need is a computer and MS Word, right?

Wrong! There is far more to creating than that. Number-one New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler walks through the software, tools, and best practices he uses in his 20+ year career as a full-time fiction author.

Learn his ways now and save yourself time and frustration many years down the road.

Scott also addresses techniques that help him manage his ADHD.

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Lincoln, Delilah, Billy, Sophia Franks, Lukas Franks, and Morgan Stone, Kellius Droman defeated Teddy Two-Fingers, Haimana, Agneetha, and Teddy’s thuengol henchmen, securing the release of the children Teddy kept captive for years.

In the process, Lukas was badly injured, Kellius Droman died, and Teddy was left catatonic, completely unresponsive to Lincoln’s questions about how to get his son Sam off The Shelf.

Agneetha died, too, at the hands of Lincoln, and Haimana burned alive as a result of Billy’s out-of-control power. It is the first time Billy has taken a life.

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In the book business, the category is “Fantasy & SciFi.” They are not separate things. Why are they lumped together? What’s the difference?

Author Scott Sigler and audiobook narrator A.B. Kovacs discuss the differences in the marketplace and in Scott’s horror/scifi work. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry weighs in with his definition.

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Deep underground in Teddy Two-Fingers’s cell block lair, Haimana’s giant scorpion delivered a massive dose of poison to Kellius Droman. Kellius is down for the count — is he dying? Fueled by rage, Billy unleashed his internal power and torched Haimana’s killer beetles. Under the light of ten thousand fireflies, Billy rises up for the final battle with Haimana, but first, he must defeat the same scorpion that down his teacher.

With the help of her fellow captives that she may or may not be controlling, Delilah defeated Teddy Two-Fingers. He lies on the floor of his room, bound in guitar strings, bleeding heavily from a tiger swipe to the arm. The dreamgaunts crawled down from the captives heads, and were crawling toward Teddy.

Meanwhile, Lincoln searches the cell block complex, hunting for Teddy, who is the only one who can tell Lincoln how to get Lincoln’s son, Samuel, off the purgatory-like hellscape known as The Shelf. 

Will he reach Teddy before it’s too late? 

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After fifteen years as a full-time fiction novelist and podcaster, what would author Scott Sigler change if he could go back and do it all over again? Listen in for great tips as well as some heartfelt truths about the writing business.

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With Magda’s help, Lincoln saved his sister Sophia’s life, using Sophia’s healing mesh to stave off the effects of Agneetha’s centipede poison. After giving Lincoln her rixator cloak, the Man in Gray is going after Delilah… and Teddy Two-Fingers.

In another part of the sprawling cell block complex, Morgan Stone engulfed Haimana in a whipping tornado. The mesh-buzz effect short-circuited Droman’s magic — will it do the same to Morgan’s and Billy’s if he tries to use his?

Teddy Two-fingers knows he’s lost the battle. He tried to flee through a secret tunnel in his room, only to be dragged out by a young storm-mage, Mata Kasintseva. But was it Mata who pulled Teddy out, or was it Delilah Droman who is using the dreamgaunts wrapped around the captive children’s heads to control their powers?

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As the publishing industry contracts and the internet’s reach expands, the days of “just writing” are over for the vast majority of authors.

Modern-day authors (and creators at large) have to manage social media, marketing, fan interaction, conventions, and much more, in addition to crafting the actual things that will sell to happy customers.

The FDØ and ARealGirl herself chat about the minefield that is the modern-day creator’s world and the sacrifices that go into becoming successful.

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Haimana has had years to prepare for a duel to the death with Kellius Droman. Can Billy and Morgan tilt the scales?

Lincoln and Sophia are pushed to the edge. Will they survive the day?

Oh, and hey, take a memo — do not incur the wrath of Delilah.

Who lives? Who dies? Season Two is almost complete.

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Scott and ARealGirl Herself discuss the difficulty of taking vacations when you are a content creator, and your content is your business and your income.

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Lincoln, Billy, Lukas, Sophia, Kellius Droman, and Morgan Stone assaulted the Big Nasty’s burger joint located just outside the main gates of the Bastion’s fortress in Coris. At the restaurant, Lincoln and his comrades found the elevator that leads to Teddy Two-Finger’s lair.

In that lair, Teddy is already evacuating his “line workers,” the kidnapped paranormal children whose nightmares he harvests to make the purest filament in existence, filament for which Teddy demands — and receives — astronomical sums from weavers and meshworkers alike.

Teddy also let loose his leash on Haimana, his powerful meshworker who pledged to kill Kellius Droman this very day or die trying.

Haimana isn’t alone in her bloodlust — Teddy’s centipede-armed, orange-clawed thug Agneetha wants Lincoln's head. Haimana, Agneetha, and many of Teddy’s thuengol mercenaries prepare to fight Lincoln, Droman, and the others.

Meanwhile, Teddy’s prized, prodigal “foreman” — Kellius’s daughter Delilah — is done with waiting to be rescued. Her sanity cracking at the edges, Delilah is about to take matters into her own hands and unleash devastating dream-magic upon her captor.

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SLAY co-creator Rob Otto joins Scott for a chat about their annual writing retreat and their collaboration process.

Links in this episode:

• The Puppy in the Red-Checkered Coat: Meets Santa
• BLUE EYE SAMURAII on Netflix.

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Working together, Lincoln, Billy, Magda, and Ariella learned that Teddy’s lair is beneath a Big Nasty’s restaurant in Cordis, close to the supernatural pawnshop known as “the Clearinghaus,” and also close to the Bastion’s fortress headquarters.

The Bastion has a magical interference zone around it, a zone that includes the Clearinghaus and Big Nasty’s. This zone, affected by a persistent spell known as “mesh-buzz,” hides the detection of all meshwork within it. It also makes magic unpredictable — sometimes magic works fine, sometimes it produces unexpected results, and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.

Lincoln and Billy left for the Clearinghaus, where they planned to meet with rixators Sophia Franks and Lukas Franks, Lincoln’s sister and brother, respectively, and with Kellius Droman and his assistant Morgan Stone.

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This episode was recorded on vacation at my parent’s house, so it doesn’t have our usual studio-quality sound. Episode 68 will also be recorded on the road. If this sound bothers you or takes you out of the story, we will be re-recording these episodes the third week of July. Come on back then to get the good stuff. If the sound doesn’t bother you that much, then saddle up, sailor!

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Thanks to a clue that Delilah Droman planted in Gabriella Radu’s mind, Lincoln and Billy paid a visit to Finicus Sleidan, the maker of the dreamgaunts Teddy Two-Fingers uses to harvest nightmares from the children he’d kidnapped.

Sleidan didn’t know where Teddy was but did reveal the name of the company buying the gaunts – Wholesome Stuff, a firm that supplies restaurants like McDonald’s and Burger King. If Ariella, Lincoln, Billy, and Magda can find where Wholesome Stuff ships to, they have a chance at tracking down Teddy, as it’s known Teddy feeds his forty-plus captives fast-food-style burgers and fries.

After following the Wholesome Stuff trail to a dead end, Lincoln and Ariella went to work calling their lawyer contacts, hoping to find someone who could uncover Wholesome Stuff’s business connections via permits, tax returns, and other legal mechanisms.

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Scott and ARealGirl Herself go over the process of how your favorite novels transmogrify into audiobooks. What does an editor do? How do you make these things? What’s this “volume” knob all about? Let’s turn it to 11.

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Lincoln visited Gabriella Radu at her home after Teddy ransomed her to her father. The little girl had been through hell and may never fully recover, but she brought with her a clue to Teddy’s whereabouts — a clue planted in her mind by Delilah Droman.

That clue? The name Finicus Sleidan, a darkmesh creator in Trenton, New Jersey, who is possibly the maker of dreamgaunts that Teddy uses on defenseless enlightened children in his hidden nightmare factory.

Meanwhile, Delilah is breaking down. To stay alive and strive for a rescue, she’s used her new aptitude for dream manipulation to magnify the nightmares of Teddy’s captives. How much longer can Delilah keep this up?

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So you finally publish that novel — now how do you interact with your audiobook narrator? How do you make sure the narrator matches your tone and vibe? Author Scott Sigler (also an audiobook producer) and audiobook narrator A.B. Kovacs (also an audiobook producer and director) give you the ins and outs.

Plus, newbie narrator tips from Ray Porter, narrator god known for HAIL MARY, EARTHCORE, and JOE LEDGER. 

Hat tip to K.C. Alexander for her SINless series, which A.B. Kovacs narrated.

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Delilah continues her plan to escape Teddy Two-Fingers's clutches, using captive Gabriella Radu as a pawn. Delilah manipulates Teddy into ransoming Gabriella.

Lincoln and Billy had a run-in when Billy dumped all the booze, beer, and wine in the Old Stone Church. Things got heated and came to blows, stopping only when Gabriella’s father, Bogdan Radu, said his daughter must see Lincoln immediately.

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His first “database” was a binder with handwritten notes. After three decades in the biz, how does he track all the ideas that clog up his big bald noggin?

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Magda used her healing talents to dress Lincoln’s bar fight wounds, but it will take him a bit of time to fully heal.

Billy, Ariella, Magda, and Lincoln are at a dead end in the search for Delilah Droman. With no leads and less hope, is it time to give up?

If so, Delilah herself didn’t get that memo. She’s put her escape plan into play, and what a dangerous plan it is. Can she maneuver her way out of Teddy’s two-fingered clutches?

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Scott’s writing career began by writing roleplaying game books and articles for the games Champions, Silent Death, and Dungeons & Dragons. Scott and ARealGirl Herself look back on this exciting, breaking-into-the-business time of Scott’s 20s.

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Following the brawl at Stoolie’s Bar, and the showdown with rixator Basil Beverly and adjurator Rochelle Dollar, Billy took Lincoln back to the Old Stone Church.

Teddy Two-Fingers is reveling in his new foreman’s talents. Delilah Droman has been the find of the century for him and his nightmare-harvesting operation.

Delilah, though, isn’t quite as excited. She spends her days amplifying the nightmares of children, forcing them to face their deepest terrors over and over again. If Delilah doesn’t do this, she will be the one experiencing the endless horror, and if she is tossed into that abyss, her plans or escape — for her and for the children — will drift away like that last tatters of a forgotten dream.

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How did roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, Champions, and more help turn Scott into a New York Times bestselling author? Scott and ARealGirl herself dig into the history of many weekends of teenage nerdom. 

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Lincoln got himself in a whole heapin’ helpin’ of trouble. He started a fight at Stoolie’s bar, got his ass whooped, then sucker-punched Finish The Job Johnson, which got Lincoln’s ass thrown into a gutter, where Basil Beverly — second in command of the Bastion — and his socius Rochelle Kolar tried to bring Lincoln in for questioning regarding the kidnapping of Delilah Droman.

Can Billy and Dragon keep Lincoln from being carted away?

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The first episode of a podcast that celebrates the Sigler Junkies, recorded live with a chat room of said Junkies.

As this is a live recording, you’ll notice it’s a bit less polished than the fiction podcast. But in true Sigler fashion, there’s still some naughty language, lots of laughter, and general tomfoolery.

In this episode, we talk about AI in writing and audiobook narration as Scott preps for a panel at StokerCon 2024.

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• Wondercraft audiobook parrot mode
• Bette Midler v Ford Motor Company

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Lincoln went looking for a fight at Stoolie’s Bar and Grille. He found one. He intends to “follow the pain” and get Booty Shooty and Lupo to reveal the location of Teddy Two-Fingers.

Delilah’s training continues. She’s learned how to feed the thirty-two kids held captive in Teddy’s nightmare factory. She’s learned how to harvest filament from the parasitic dreamgaunts. Now, it’s time for her to learn how to change the children’s nightmares, how to make them even worse. 

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Teddy Two-Fingers kidnapped Delilah Droman from her father’s mansion in Barron Heights. Teddy is holding her captive at his “nightmare factory,” located deep underground in parts unknown, where he and Hiamana are training her to be the factory’s foreman.

Delilah is trying to find a way to escape or to get a message to Lincoln, as she believes Lincoln will rescue her.

Lincoln was at Stoolie’s Bar & Grill, looking for Lupo and Booty Shooty, accomplices of the recently deceased Thoko Chikondi. Lincoln hopes they know where Teddy’s hideout is. Teddy, somehow, called Lincoln at the bar and poured salt in Lincoln’s wounds, driving Lincoln to start drinking the free shots offered by Maylene, a bartender there.

Lincoln did not tell Magda, Ariella, or Billy where he was going, and he shut off his connection with Magda’s meshwork ear cuff. He’s been gone for hours, and they have no idea where he is.

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Teddy is training Delilah to work in his nightmare factory. She is learning her duties as “the foreman” of the operation.

Lincoln wants to find Delilah, but he has no leads. On the advice of his father, Jacoby Franks, Lincoln set out to “follow the pain.” Lincoln told Billy, Magda, and Ariella that he’s doing this alone, and ignored their efforts to help.

When Delilah was taken from Droman’s mansion, Teddy put a bullet in Billy’s arm. Morgan Stone worked on the wound first, then, at the Old Stone Church, Magda tended to it, letting a wriggling carofactor slide in to repair the damage. 

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Lincoln and Billy lost Delilah to Teddy Two-Fingers, so Kellius Droman sent them packing. Billy took a shot to the shoulder that should have killed him — how did he survive?

Meanwhile, Teddy is about to put Delilah to work as the “foreman” in his nightmare factory. What do her duties entail?

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Kellius Droman and Morgan Stone set off to deal with Teddy Two-Fingers at an undisclosed location, but Teddy, Haimana, and Agneetha attacked Kellius Droman’s Barron Heights mansion with magic and a flame-throwing aerial drone that set Droman’s living guardian trees and much of the mansion ablaze. Lincoln and Billy, who were there guarding Delilah Droman, fought against Agneetha and Haimana’s murderous giant flying centipedes. 

Lincoln had downed a bottle of whiskey, which slowed his reaction time, and let a drone get the drop on him. The drone fired a jet of flame that should have set Lincoln ablaze, but Billy somehow bent the flame toward himself and absorbed it, bringing it into his own body and making him so hot his clothes burned away. Billy was about to use this new power against Agneetha when a shot rang out — a bullet hit his shoulder, dropping him.

Keg-sized killer beetles ripped the floor out from under Delilah. Lincoln dove after her but lost her in the smoke. She was taken by Agneetha, Teddy, and Haimana, who shot across Barron Heights and vanished into the night. 

Lincoln, unable to chase them, rushed to help Billy.

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Kellius Droman found out where Teddy Two-Fingers had been hiding. Lincoln demanded to go with Droman to whoop some ass, but Droman refused to take Lincoln with him. Instead, he ordered Lincoln to go to his mansion to protect his daughter, Delilah. 

Already distraught after seeing his son, Sam, on The Shelf, Lincoln grew despondent. As Droman magicked away to battle Teddy, Lincoln gave up. He downed a bottle of bourbon and headed for the mansion.

Billy, feeling terrible for his friend, tagged along to give Lincoln moral support.

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Lincoln astral projected to The Shelf, where his young son, Sam, has been held captive for five years. Can Lincoln find a way to free his only child from that hellish dimension?

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The stone medallion that Lincoln and Billy acquired from the Troglodyte in Tollingwood is a conduit that will allow Lincoln to travel to The Shelf to see his son, Sam. 

After five years in that purgatory-like realm, is Sam still alive?

And if he is, what will he think of seeing his father for the first time in years, a father who has been unable to rescue him?

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Teddy Two-Fingers missed his shot at kidnapping Delilah Droman, who he wanted as his “foreman” in his malevolent nightmare-harvesting operation. Can he find a replacement candidate?

Delilah’s father, Kellius Droman, hired Lincoln as Delilah’s bodyguard. When Kellius hunts Teddy Two-Fingers or trains Billy, Lincoln must stay at the Droman Mansion and protect young Delilah. Surprisingly, Lincoln and Delilah have hit it off. She trusts he can keep her safe, while he benefits from her optimism and youthful energy that he can’t experience from his own child, Sam, who remains trapped on The Shelf — where Teddy put him.

Billy’s training with Kellius goes on at Kellius’s facility, the “Nonagon,” in the mystical city of Cordis. Billy needs to find his “loom,” the structure upon which he can channel the powerful, innate magic that courses through his body.

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Ariella sent Lincoln to collect a bounty on the Troglodyte from Tollingwood, the Lumencia neighborhood Billy lived in with his grandmother. The troglodyte owes debts that must be paid with either gold or his head, but it’s the medallion he wears that Ariella wants.

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Shaken by Kellius Droman’s brutal killing of Thoko Chikondi, a despondent Lincoln set out in search of a drink or two at Stoolie’s Bar & Grill.

Back in Season One, Magda and Billy set up an online T-shirt store for a fictitious candy bar — P.J. Phuq’s Phuq-Ton O’ Nuts. Sales have been trickling in.

The Old Stone Church’s main income is the money brought in from Linc guarding Delilah Droman, but it’s not the only business. The quest for bounties that pay in treasure continues.

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Lincoln killed the Loa in Louisiana but had to face off against her familiar, a giant python intent on dragging Lincoln to the bottom of the swamp.

On that mission, Magda used the bauble recovered from the Lich in Lynchburg to mentally join Lincoln, seeing what he saw, hearing what he heard. It was the first time Magda had been involved in a hunt since her and Lincoln’s disastrous encounter with Vestinian.

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Lincoln’s part-time gig as Delilah Droman has money once again flowing into the Old Stone Church, but it’s not enough to get him, Magda, Ariella, and Billy out of debt, which is why Lincoln is off to the Bayoo to hunt down the Loa in Louisiana and collect the dead or alive bounty on her head.

Billy finished his first lesson with Kellius Droman. How did that go for Billy?

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Serial kidnapper Teddy Two-Fingers tried to abduct thirteen-year-old Delilah Droman from the mansion where she lives with her father, the billionaire wizard Kellius Droman. Lincoln foiled that attempt, driving off Teddy and two members of his gang: Hiamana, a mage, and Sophie, a brawler with long, dangerous claws. In the battle, Lincoln cut off Sophie’s left arm below the elbow.

Afterward, Kellius Droman agreed to train Billy in the ways of magic in exchange for Lincoln serving as Delilah’s bodyguard when Kellius was away from home.

Now, Billy is in Cordis at Kellius’s “Nonagon,” ready for his first training session, while Lincoln returns to the Droman Mansion for his first shift protecting Delilah.

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At Kellius Droman’s mansion, Lincoln fought Teddy Two-Fingers and his gang. Lincoln saved Droman’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Delilah, from being kidnapped by Teddy but couldn’t stop Teddy from killing Delilah’s bodyguard.

As Droman himself was about to arrive at the mansion, Lincoln called Ariella, hoping she could negotiate a deal with Droman, a deal that would see Lincoln get paid for collecting a bounty on the head of a man who kidnapped his son.

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Magda tried to teach Billy to control his innate powers, but the plan went awry as Billy’s frustration turned into intense heat that set the Old Stone Church’s basement ablaze. To make matters worse, an enraged Dragon just burst through the basement door to protect Billy — which puts Magda in grave danger.

Meanwhile, Lincoln tracked Teddy Two-Fingers to Kellius Droman’s mansion, where Teddy is using a meshwork carpet to sneak through Droman’s defenses in an apparent attempt to kidnap Droman’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Delilah. Lincoln used crossbow bolts charged with green hellfire to blow a gap in the wall surrounding Droman’s mansion, then drove his motorcycle straight for that hole.

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Lincoln found Thoko Chikondi, a thief who sold a stolen magic carpet to Teddy Two-Fingers, the man who kidnapped Lincoln’s son, Sam, and sent him to the purgatory known as The Shelf. Lincoln had a little chat with Thoko and learned that Thoko had placed a meshwork tracker on the carpet in hopes of stealing it a second time.

Ariella asked Kellius Droman, a powerful, dangerous, and extremely dangerous mage, to train Billy to use his innate magical power in exchange for Lincoln guarding Kellius’s teenage daughter, Delilah. Kellius turned down the offer, leaving Billy’s training duties to Magda and Ariella.

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Billy needs to learn how to use his powers. Ariella asked Kellius Droman to train him in exchange for Lincoln acting as a bodyguard for Kellius’s teenage daughter, Delilah. Kellius’s response? He needs a protector, not a killer. Bill will have to find training elsewhere.

Droman did, however, improve the magical security of the Old Stone Church, for which he charged a high price — a price Ariella and Magda were unable to pay.

Ariella asked Lincoln to sell her golem charm for five hundred gold, an amount that would have paid for Droman’s work and then some. Lincoln did not get the amount Ariella asked for, but he did score a nice pawnshop panini maker.

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Lincoln is at the Bastion to pay his respects to the Clostator, the sect’s spiritual and military leader. He’s been told she doesn’t have long to live. What will this old warrior have to say to him?

Back in Lumencia, Ariella, Magda, and Billy prepare for a visit from Kellius Droman, one of the baddest wizards in town. They’ve hired him to beef up security at the Old Stone Church — what happens when he finds out they can’t pay for his services?

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To cover the mortgage, Lincoln has to hit up a pawnshop in Cordis. While he’s in that magical city, he returns to the Bastion for the first time since he quit his life as a rixator.

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With a successful bounty under their belt, Linc and Ariella fight over next steps. Sophia and Lukas bear bad news. Billy gets an alias.

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Faced with dwindling options and many bills, Ariella gave Lincoln a contract to fulfill — taking out a lich in Lynchburg, Virginia. While potentially dangerous, the lich’s crown alone will cover three payments to Callista. As long as those payments are made, Callista must keep Lincoln’s son Sam safe on the shelf.

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Has Gramma overstayed her welcome? Will Billy stay or go? Does Ariella count coins in her sleep? And why does Magda put up with this crap, anyway?

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Season Two of SLAY picks up where the Season One Epilogue left off. Gramma handed the gang their collective ass. Will she end them all, or can Billy stop the madness?

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The 2nd half of the descent into madness that is our post-podcast Q&A. I may have banished several people to the fiery depths of hell. To be fair, they should have expected this would happen when they started listening to my work. I don’t take responsibility at all.

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As is our long-standing tradition, we finish up this season with a plethora of questions submitted by fans of Scott's work. SPOILER ALERT! Many questions deal with BLOOD IS RED, but many more deal with Scott's other works. Keep your ears open for questions about books you have not yet enjoyed, as the answers could spoil a thing or two.

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There is a fine line between absent-minded genius and idiot savant. Gordo Gordon keeps a foot planted firmly on either side. Father Al knows this better than anyone. Father Al watches over Gordo and tolerates the young man’s endless — and useless — inventions. When Gordo creates a theory to track “prayer energy,” however, Father Al will find a religious secret that puts his faith to the test.

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NFL Security agent Lawrence Cutter’s standard background check of number-one draft prospect Eugene Patterson should have been easy work. It was – until he learned of the animal sacrifice, and that was just the beginning of his unfortunate discoveries. It's past midnight in Memphis, and Cutter is on the run, trying to avoid the “Pitter-Patterson” of little feet.

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In the high-stakes world of the National Football League, a wasted draft choice can cost careers and damage a franchise for years to come. When they investigate sure-fire number-one pick Eugene Patterson, however, they find far more than they want to know.

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Tranquilizers and sledgehammers in hand, the Penniless Quartet set out to catch a Snipe. It may very well be the last thing they ever do…

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The “Penniless Quartet” have their final exam assignment – to demonstrate their zoology skills and creativity in an exercise looking for an urban species that, technically, should exist. What they will find will take them down an unexpected path.

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Nature abhors a vacuum. One such vacuum exists in the “urban ecologies” of our cities. From bacteria to insects, from rodents to hawks, from feral cats to the mass numbers of pigeons, plants, and animals weave together a web of life that goes mostly unnoticed by humans. What is missing from this mosaic? Four college students set out to find this mythical creature, the “Snipe,” and learn that a vacuum isn’t the only thing nature abhors.

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With the storm coming in, the family seals the house and arms up. Kevin and Martha want out fast, but will Bobby and the others let them leave? All does not end well in Fenders Pointe, IA.

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Come visit Fenders Pointe, IA. We'd love to have you stop by, see the trees, smell the flowers, and relax with our Midwestern hospitality. Only you should try to schedule around the rainy season. If you're here when the typhoons hit, we'll be happy to welcome you as a permanent resident.

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To be marked as a sex offender, a pedophile, or a child rapist is to carry a stigma that all but banishes you from society. And if that mark is literal - a permanent, inoperable face tattoo - anonymity vanishes, and all who see you know of your crime. For a man who is wrongly convicted of horrible deeds, this mark becomes his life. This story won a Parsec Award.

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In the time before man, one animal ruled the Americas – the wolf. Wolf packs roamed the continent, hunting and killing and breeding. But before any wolf ever saw the death that would walk on two legs, there came another danger…

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More SLAY questions and a ton of questions about Scott, the Siglerverse, writing, and everything else. 

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Questions from fans about SLAY Season 1. Scott and co-author Rob Otto answer them all. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t finished Slay Season One yet, do that first.

NOTE: We had an echo for Rob and ARealGirl courtesy of Zoom. We can’t fix it, so hopefully, you can bear with it. 

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The aftermath of the final battle(s) has left Linc and Billy battered and broken, but a new danger is already closing in.

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Bobby, Gary Satyr, Mercutio, and all the club kids are down for the count, leaving only a badly wounded Lincoln and a battered Callista to stand against Dante, Oleus Oakbeard, Boss Hawg, and the last of Dante’s Miami thugs.

Meanwhile, at the Old Stone Church, Billy is trying to free Dragon from the meshwork net that keeps her from attacking Butch and the Rolling Outlaws.

The story of SLAY concludes with this episode (but there is an epilogue episode next!)

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Billy, Magda, Ariella, and Dragon are at the Old Stone Church, under assault from Butch and the Rolling outlaws. Billy and Butch fought one-on-one. Billy broke Butch’s knee, but his celebration was short-lived — Money Monday beat Billy down, leaving him a limp mess atop the now fifteen-foot-long Dragon, who has been bound up in a ball by a meshwork net provided to Butch by Boss Hawg.

Magda did some damage to B’Lockay and to Money Monday, but she collapsed in fear brought on by memories of her fight with Vestinian and the Umataken. Ariella used her limited magic to drag Magda into the nave and shut the doors tight, leaving men to try and shoulder their way through.

Across town, the club kids and Dante’s Miami thugs are battling it out at Callista’s club. Callista hurt Oleus Oakbeard, but she was knocked silly by Boss Hawg. She’s down, with only Gary Satyr to protect her against Dante’s forces, but Lincoln and Bobby are about to enter the fray.

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Butch and the Rolling Outlaws followed Billy to the Old Stone Church and used a spell given to him by Boss Hawg to bind Dragon in a golden meshwork net. Magda and Ariella tried to fight Butch and his men, but Magda’s flashback from her fight with Vestinian left her helpless in the fetal position. Ariella rescued Magda. The two women are likely somewhere in the church, being hunted by Butch’s men.        

Butch then told Billy it was time for Billy to pay for Big Hack’s death.

Dante and his bounty hunters are coming for Callista. Outside her building, Lincoln and Mercutio attacked the Flechette Sisters and their giant panthers. Lincoln landed a near-killing shot on Betty Flechette, then fled for the secret passage that led into the building where he and Mercutio could connect with Callista, her Club Kid troops, and her bodyguard Bobby the Minotaur. Mercutio used the passage's door to cut a pursuing panther in half, but Veronica Flechette blew up that door, filling the passage with smoke and broken brick.

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Butch followed Billy back to the Old Stone Church and was able to lead his Rolling Outlaw gang members into the entryway. Dragon the dog turned into Dragon the dragon, but Butch used a meshwork ring given to him by Boss Hawg to bind the protector. Magda and Ariella came out of the nave to face off against Butch and his men. Ariella used her threadwork necklace to make the Outlaws’ guns heat up to the point where the men could not hold them.

Meanwhile, Mercutio led Lincoln through the tunnels beneath Callista’s building. The unlikely duo is about to take on the Flechette sisters and their big cats in a skirmish that could determine the course of the battle. 

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Callista ordered Lincoln to protect her from Dante’s assassins, a murderer’s row that includes Boss Hawg, the Flechette Sisters, and the druid-sorcerer Oleus Oakbeard. Shitbird signaled to Lincoln that Dante’s troops had been spotted. Callista sent Lincoln and her boy-toy Mercutio out to take out an assassin or two before the real battle begins. 

Meanwhile, Billy tried to go to his apartment to warn his Gramma to leave town, but he saw Butch’s men around the place — Billy bailed and pedaled for the Old Stone Church.

Dante and Oleus were on the roof of Callista’s old four-story factory building, using a cockeye to search for Lincoln. If they can find him, they can send the others to take him out.

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Lincoln and Shitbird left to fight for Callista, and Billy just plain left. Frustrated and upset, he figured out how to break Magda’s meshwork seal that kept him inside the Old Stone Church. Meanwhile, Dante gathered his mercenaries together to prep them for the coming fight against Lincoln, Callista, and her bodyguard, Bobby. Can Callista call up enough troops to take on Dante’s boys from Miami?

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Things are heating up in Lumencia. Butch and the Rolling Outlaws are in cahoots with Boss Hawg, but Butch and his crew can’t handle the powers of the enlightened. Can Hawg help them out?

Lincoln and Magda just finished a training session with Billy that saw the kid stomp off, furious that Lincoln didn’t remember killing Billy’s friend Joe. So heated was the argument that Dragon — Lincoln’s dog — went after Billy to console him.

Meanwhile, Dante Oganov is putting the finishing touches on his campaign to eliminate Callista and take over as the head crime lord of Lumencia. What does he have in store for her and those who want to protect her?

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Lincoln beat the holy hell out of the guy who mugged Dillon Cantrell, got the gold he needed to pay off Bingles, and took ten grand for himself. Whatever will he spend it on?

Lincoln feels lost and alone. He’s been duped by Callista into protecting her, and now he’s contemplating going head-to-head with four deadly bounty hunters. And before he heads out on a mission from which he might not make it back, he needs to help Magda with Billy’s training.

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Lincoln went to Cordis to find out why Dillon Cantrell hadn’t delivered Lincoln’s gold to Bingles, only to learn Dillon had been mugged by some thugs shaking down Cantrell & Cantrell. Lincoln is unhappy with said thugs and is paying them a visit. Meanwhile, Billy needs to learn how to fight and fast if he’s going to survive the next few days. Can Magda teach him the basics? 

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Ariella came to Lincoln’s defense against Callista, but Callista’s lawyer Shocking-Cock Kahn got the upper hand. If Lincoln wants to change his contract with Callista and have her keep his son safe on the Shelf, he must protect Callista from deadly bounty hunters. Before Lincoln goes on the hunt for the Flechette Sisters, Oleus Oakbeard, and Boss Hawg, he needs to put his affairs in order and find out what happened to his friend Patrick Cantrell. 

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Lincoln tried to alter his deal with Callista, but before he could get to her, Finish The Job Johnson got to him. Lincoln wound up in chains, about to be beheaded by Callista’s bodyguard Bobby when Ariella Goldsmith came in with a gun to Gary Satyr’s head.

Now, Lincoln’s life hangs in the balance as Ariella attempts to put a lawyering on Callista and her team.

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Lincoln was on his way to pay a first installment of treasure to Callista when he was jumped by Finish The Job Johnson, who knocked Lincoln unconscious. Meanwhile, work on the Old Stone Church continues as Ariella takes on more debt from unknown sources. Eager to find some way to bring in money, Magda let Billy convince her to start a company that will sell funny T-shirts. All they need is the right idea.

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Lincoln successfully killed the Wyvern in Wyoming and earned the reward — Hernhol’s Bracelet, the magic item he will use to pay Callista and change the nature of his contract with her. As long as he delivers it to her, and keeps making payments, he’ll be free of her control, and she’ll be forced to continue protecting his son Sam, who is trapped in the purgatory known as “the Shelf.”

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Lincoln is in Wyoming, tracking down a monster. If he succeeds in killing it, he’ll be rewarded with a magical bracelet he can use to pay Callista to keep his son safe. 

Meanwhile, Ariella’s contractors continue to make improvements on the Old Stone Church, and Magda tries to get to know Billy. Is he relatively innocent kid he seems to be, or is he hiding the truth?

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Lincoln still has serious debts. He owes Bingles a helluva lot of gold. More important and more pressing, Lincoln has to start making payment on his contract with Callista, or she will stop protecting Lincoln's son, Sam, in the purgatory known as “the Shelf.”

To get the treasure he needs to give to Callista, Lincoln needs to get back on the bounty-hunting tip, which means a trip to Wyoming and track down a really, really big lizard.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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The bills are piling up. Lincoln owes Bingles a lot of gold and owes $10,000 to the contractors fixing up the Old Stone Church. He doesn’t have either, but Billy has ten grand stashed in his room at his grandma’s house. To get it, Lincoln has to make a solo run to a neighborhood where Oleus Oakbeard, Boss Hawg, and the Flechette Sisters might be waiting. 

Still reeling from the wounds of his last fight, Lincoln needs to bring home that bacon, or the entire gang will be fried up in a pan.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Scott had a bookstore appearance for THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE on Wednesday, so there was no livestream, hence, no live-read of SLAY, hence, no story episode this week (that’s a lot of hences, fam). So, the FDØ sat down with ARealGirl Herself to answer some great Junkie questions about SLAY. Will these questions impact the direction of the story?

Also, FDØ explains why you can’t see his work on Realm.fm yet, and some info on what’s going on with Empty Set Entertainment.

• Written and Narrated by Scott Sigler
• Produced by AB Kovacs
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Engineered by Steve Riekeberg
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 

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In Cordis, Lincoln and Billy escaped their pursuers and found their way back to the Old Stone Church. Home sweet home, but when they transited to the Church’s men’s room John, Lincoln succumbed to his wounds and passed out. What will Magda, Ariella, and Dragon think of Billy? Find out next on SLAY Episode 18.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Billy is on the run from a handful of bounty hunters out to collect his head. Lincoln was one of those bounty hunters but changed his mind and helped Billy run from the people who want him dead. They fled to Corids, a mysterious city in the supernatural realm known as “The Patchwork. There, Lincoln sought shelter from… well… from Bingles and his fellow Sex Gnomes.

And Bingles seems to think that Lincoln owes him money…

Meanwhile, Butch and Money Monday of the Rolling Outlaws gang want to work with Boss Hawg to collect the bounty on Billy, and they want to find out what happened to their friend Big Hack. When Boss Hawg drove his big-ass white pickup after Billy, Butch lost sight of him.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Lincoln and Billy are on the run from murderous bounty hunters who want to collect Billy’s head. A wild chase through the city led to the huge, old train station, where Lincoln hopes to escape their pursuers — by heading for the train station men’s room.

Billy has no idea what this entails, but he knows if he doesn’t go with Lincoln, he’s toast. On the run from the sword-wielding, spike-throwing Flechette sisters, the roaring truck of Boss Hawg, and revenge-minded mage Oleus Oakbearded, Billy will have to take his chances that Lincoln’s intentions are good.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Lincoln’s shootout with Pragman bathed the Nurp Perp’s alley in blood. Lincoln wanted to kill Billy and collect the 50-k bounty on Billy’s head but had a change of heart just as the Flechette Sisters were coming down the alley to cash in. The sisters were in hot pursuit, but Shitbird’s ariel bombardment bought Lincoln and Billy a bit of time.

With the Flechettes in hot pursuit, Boss Hawg closing in, and Oleus Oakbeard lurking somewhere nearby, Lincoln tries to get Billy to safety.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Pragman, a bounty hunter wielding a pair of old-school Western six-shooters using a lizard-like “hound” to track his targets, cornered Billy in the Nurp Perp’s alley. Pragman was about to shoot Billy down, but the Man in Gray used his crossbow to shoot one of the guns out of Pragman’s hand. The Man in Gray claimed the Billy bounty for himself and told Pragman to either walk away or drawdown.

Meanwhile, unaware of the faceoff between Pragman and Lincoln, Rolling Outlaws gang members Butch and Money Monday talked to Boss Hawg about joining forces to track down Billy. But wait, there are more bounty hunters in the neighborhood — the sword-wielding Flechette Sisters and the sorcerer Oleus Oakbeard are also hunting for Billy.

Now Billy -- and the Nurp Perp -- can do nothing but watch as Billy’s fate is decided for him.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Billy was trying to get answers from the Nurp Perp, but first, Big Hack showed up to spoil the party, then the Jerboa shadows appeared.

Several bounty hunters, including Lincoln, an unknown man with six-shooters at his sides and a giant lizard on a leash, hit the Nurp Perp’s neighborhood looking to cash in on a $50k bounty on Billy’s head, a bounty set by Dante Oganov to get revenge on Billy.

Another bounty hunter — known to Lincoln as “Boss Hawg” — also hit the neighborhood. While Lincoln sent Shitbird to hunt for Billy, Boss Hawg hit the 7-11 parking lot to talk to Butch and Money Monday, who, along with Big Hack, are members of the Rolling Outlaws gang that wants Billy to pony up five gees.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Billy is about to get his ass whooped – again – while Lincoln and Shitbird track down a bounty. That bounty is Billy. Man… Lil’ B is having a bad morning, and it’s about to get worse.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Billy seeks out the Nurp Purp to get some answers about magic, monsters, and the drug “nurple.” Ariella wants the Old Stone Church fixed up, no matter what Lincoln and Magda have to say about it.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Lincoln brought Ariella Goldsmith back to the Old Church. Ariella’s only chance at surviving Callista’s wrath is to take shelter under Lincoln’s roof, but that also means becoming roomies with Magda Magdalene — a culture clash that’s sure to ruffle a few feathers, and not just the black plumes of Shitbird.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Ariella gets her first look at the Old Stone Church while Billy tries to get past the DTs brought on by a one-hit nurple addiction.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Callista ordered Lincoln to kill Ariella Goldsmith, a lawyer. To keep his son safe, Lincoln had no choice but to comply. He had his hands full when Ariella fought back hard with powerful magic. Just as he was about to finish the job and bury a hatchet blade in her skull, she told him could get Lincoln out of his contract with Callista. 

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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It’s killing time. At Calista’s command, Lincoln sets out to assassinate Ariella Goldsmith, a lawyer he knows nothing about.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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A night of partying carries a powerful price for Lincoln as he prepares for a mission that will challenge his will.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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It’s killing time. At Calista’s command, Lincoln sets out to assassinate Ariella Goldsmith, a lawyer he knows nothing about.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Lincoln’s family drama thickens while Billy trips balls and goes all Rocky Horror.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Killing is the easy part. For Lincoln Franks, a.k.a. “the Man in Gray,” it’s living that’s a pain in the ass.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Billy Boyd’s first drug deal is about to go sideways in a hurry. The Man in Gray is watching, and he’s not happy. 

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2024 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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You got a monster, and you want it dead, but you ain’t got the guts? You better pony up the bucks because the Man in Grey doesn’t do freebies. Pay to slay, bitches.

• Written and performed by Scott Sigler
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2024 by Empty Set Entertainment 
• Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON.

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Scott wrote his first horror story in the 4th grade. We present to you this story, dramatically read by the grown-up version of the author.

• Written and Narrated by Scott Sigler
• Produced by AB Kovacs
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2022 by Empty Set Entertainment

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A live read of a _very_ short story I wrote during a one-hour panel moderated by Dr. Pamela Gay. Sometimes, horror tastes delicious.

• Written and Narrated by Scott Sigler
• Produced by AB Kovacs
• Production Assistance by Allie Press
• Copyright 2022 by Empty Set Entertainment 

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