Someone Dies In This Elevator

Jack and Charles are trapped in an elevator under threat of nuclear war while they face who they are to themselves and to each other.

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated R. Those Not Lucky Enough contains suicide, brief misophonia, references to homophobia, a brief reference to domestic violence, and death in an elevator. If you need help, 988lifeline.org is available.

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Writing and sound design by Nathan Lunsford of The Storage Papers (thestoragepapers.com). The voices of Jack, Charles, and Newscaster are Nathan Lunsford (horrificnathan.com). The voice of Lorraine is Ollie Bannerman. The voice of Mary is Hannah Semmelhack (hannahsemmelhack.com). Music: The Last Floor by Trace Callahan, bastardized by Nathan Lunsford.

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In which an end finally comes to the many ages of Moira and Fiona McMorran...

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. Great and Fair contains depictions of confinement, poisoning, and family trauma, and mentions of violence, war, miscarriage, misogyny, homophobia, colonialism, epidemic diseases, and religious discrimination. There is loud machinery, buzzing, and death in an elevator.

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Great and Fair was written, directed, sound designed and scored by Lou Sutcliffe, with script editing by Motzie Dapul and using sound effects from freesound.org. “Fiona” was Erika Sanderson. “Moira” was Fay Roberts. And the Concierge was CL Hendry. Executive production by Tal Minear. SFX credits are found at the end of the show notes.

Lou Sutcliffe is a nonbinary autistic audio sorceror from the North West of England - for more information about eir work, please go to: cytochromehear.wordpress.com

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Full Transcript Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nS7B77h_qhoPOKQoJrfpijouVeAIde2I00oTQlhB7qM/edit?tab=t.0

SFX Credits:

Foley

https://freesound.org/people/vmace/sounds/173123/

https://freesound.org/people/Sheyvan/sounds/475232/

https://freesound.org/people/ceejay/sounds/61078/ https://freesound.org/people/conath/sounds/531790/

https://freesound.org/people/Lasanga/sounds/750478/

https://freesound.org/people/Soundscape_Leuphana/sounds/210308/

https://freesound.org/people/Kyodon/sounds/153430/

https://freesound.org/people/NachtmahrTV/sounds/556698/

https://freesound.org/people/Coral_Island_Studios/sounds/277644/

https://freesound.org/people/NachtmahrTV/sounds/556715/

https://freesound.org/people/scarfield/sounds/52002/

https://freesound.org/people/scott0642/sounds/541501/ https://freesound.org/people/Moulaythami/sounds/574540/

https://freesound.org/people/maatre/sounds/735421/

https://freesound.org/people/el_boss/sounds/625655/

https://freesound.org/people/ra_gun/sounds/77470/ https://freesound.org/people/XfiXy8/sounds/467301/

VSTs

Spitfire Audio Labs Cello Moods, Strings: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/

Church Organ by C. Hackl: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/622/ (https://www.facebook.com/chackl1990)

DSK Overture: https://www.dskmusic.com/dsk-overture

Quilcom SIM-BP Bagpipes: https://flowstoners.com/quilcom

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Let's go to Vegas, they said. It'll be fun, they said.

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. The Incident in the Mall at Midnight contains gun violence, implied possession of illicit substances, and death in an elevator.

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This episode of Someone Dies in this Elevator was written by Noah Bell and sound designed by Rowan Odom of Twin Strangers Productions. Noah Bell is a writer and (sometimes) voice actor in audio drama. They are the writer and co-creator of the microfiction audio drama "All At Sea". You can find them on Bluesky @tipplersbane or their show @allatseapod -- check out their website noahbell.carrd.co for links to all their work, as well as allatsea.carrd.co for more information on their show.

This episode features:

Connie Chang as the voice of Victor. Connie Chang is the Game Master and Creative

Director for Transplanar RPG.You can find them @byconniechang on Bluesky and TikTok, or check out transplanarrpg.com

Faye Holliday as the voice of Juno. Check out her VA website fayeholliday.carrd.co. You can find her on Bluesky @holliday

Taylor Michaels as the voice of Walter. You may recognize him from shows such as The Grotto and Woe.Begone. Check out his linktree at linktree/taylormichaels for links to all his work, or on Bluesky @taytayheyheyva

Diego Herrera as the voice of Agent Grajales. Diego runs the Tlacuache Theatre Audio

Drama production studio, and has co-created the horror-comedy audio drama The Devil's

Plaything. You can find them on Bluesky @indtusk

Kit Patterson as the voice of Mrs Mairi. Kit is a writer and voice actor in upcoming

scifi series Minus 219. He is also the writer and director for upcoming Frankenstein audio

drama retelling: Rhapsody of the Exiled. You can find him @kit-n-kboodl on Bluesky.

Rahrah as the Elevator. You may know Rahrah from their award-winning TTRPG and Actual Play show — The Heart is a Dungeon, or their various appearances all over the AP space. You can find @rahrah or @theheartisadungeon on Bluesky.

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A PhD candidate discovers a solution for climate change, but her advisor determines that solution may never leave the room.

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. Parts Per Million contains violence, betrayal, gunshots, mentions of bacteria, and death in an elevator.

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Parts Per Million was written by Fiona Clare and edited with additional materials by Jenna Rose. Produced by Fiona Clare, Hannah Semmelhack, and Paige Elizabeth Allen of Three Fates. Dialogue editing by Jenna Rose. Sound design by Taylor Tillman-Tess. This episode featured Tal Minear as Allison Stevens, Anusia Battersby as Nora Alia, Isaac Johnson as Dr Adam, Aryn Myatt as Eric Fitzgerald, Jenna Rose as Security Guard, and David Ault as Bill. Someone Dies in this Elevator is executive produced by Tal Minear. Someone Dies in this Elevator theme was composed by Trace Callahan. See the bottom of the show notes for SFX credits.

For more info about Three Fates, check out You are the Ghost in This House, Points of Articulation, or our website at threefatescollective.org.

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SFX:

Nora footsteps

Allison footsteps

gunshot

gun slide

guard footsteps- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/c016ede1-684d-4b2c-82c8-16abe78939c7/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/ca237f66-6115-49cb-87a6-1858685052cd/

running pair footsteps

elevator- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/ee8c83f3-4502-48f7-aa9c-4802e1e8aa0f/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/cd1c9489-ffbd-49f7-a0e1-7322d058f332/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/7a720329-7652-43ab-8964-d4811e58f0cc/

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/freight-elevator-33694/

elevator button

ambiance- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/6f03a261-eb85-4cea-9562-e05b56548dc1/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/b02db458-0649-4977-a32f-aece7cce57b0/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/2548ab46-ec96-4b95-a987-c98a33677fc1/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/df171d9a-565b-43ea-b0d7-ecb8367e267d/

N/A hug

Keycard swipe

Keycard beep

male fighting- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/e37d49f9-7f59-4d53-ba60-9296950813fa/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/e89ca1ac-fd2d-447b-84a8-2c0aa9ad8226/

female fighting- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/2f7f2765-6bcf-4cb1-b6b8-43283c860234/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/5b2ff0ae-eede-479b-92cb-8477eba43ae1/

gasp

doors- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/e6106c07-d7e6-4173-ad90-9898b7e281a4/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/b445734f-8516-4b1d-b386-4942d176ad4a/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/db64c238-cc91-4143-bc73-af31d031b385/

phone dial

call ending

chairs crashing- https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/chair-thrown-crash-bolt-fell-out-after-crash-92306/

https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/fa5ef45c-48f0-40fc-8a79-82a25c0da32f/

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/single-chair-hits-floor-bounce-107814/

Additional sounds recorded with the help of Morgan Hart and Natalie Gassert

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Wren has a conversation... with Wren.

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated G. It Is What It Is contains death in an elevator.

Transcript here.

This episode was written by Caroline Mincks and performed by Leslie Gideon. It was directed and produced by Tal Minear.

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El the Elevator tries her best at her new job!

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. Break a Leg! contains major injuries, loss of employment, financial insecurity, brief but intentional misgendering of a trans person, and death in an elevator.

Transcript here.

Written & designed by Hannah Semmelhack

Fiona Clare as El E. Vator

Graham Cousins as Frank N. Stein

Aaron Olkin as Mr. Bigwig

Theme music by Trace Callahan

See bottom of show notes for SFX credits.

Check out Points of Articulation, You are the Ghost in This House, and Three Fates!

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SFX:

Heavy_mechanical_impact_sounds_various_pitch_sound by Artninja -- https://freesound.org/s/728170/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Elevator Movement and Ding.wav by maxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmax -- https://freesound.org/s/439432/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Elevator Bell by NachtmahrTV -- https://freesound.org/s/556700/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

closing elevator doors, moving elevator by crazymonke9 -- https://freesound.org/s/423827/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Car_handbrake_06082024_different_ptiches by Artninja -- https://freesound.org/s/740559/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

periodicals_machinery.wav by argos22 -- https://freesound.org/s/153163/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

Tool-case - Big Tool-case close by ldezem -- https://freesound.org/s/386404/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

toy mechanism by baryy -- https://freesound.org/s/163409/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

elevator-button.wav by Eirikr -- https://freesound.org/s/185880/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

imppact wrench bounce.wav by andrewgnau2 -- https://freesound.org/s/71534/ -- License: Sampling+

handling_metal_wrenches_sound.wav by Artninja -- https://freesound.org/s/706329/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Clang metallic 2.wav by deleted_user_2104797 -- https://freesound.org/s/164561/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Impact Metal Texture by chevyskulls -- https://freesound.org/s/505639/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

GARTION_Alexis_2013_2014_son5.wav by univ_lyon3 -- https://freesound.org/s/201852/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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When an elevator ride with a talkative lift operator goes awry, he passes the time by telling you a ghost story as long as the heat death of the universe.

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated G. Mobius Lift contains themes of claustrophobia, and death in an elevator.

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This episode was written, voiced and produced by William A. Wellman. Music and sound effects courtesy of Artlist.io.

William A. Wellman is a queer horror author, and creator of the ongoing horror podcast 'Hello From The Hallowoods'. You can find it wherever you're listening to this, or at hellofromthehallowoods.com.

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After getting into the elevator with two wannabe ghost hunters, Melanie finds herself on a one-way journey to the top floor of the Englewood Hotel, but once you’ve seen what lives up there, you can’t be allowed to leave…

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. Out of Order contains the sound of squelching and bone breaking, petrification, children in horror situations, claustrophobia, ghosts, and death in an elevator.

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Out of Order is an episode of Someone Dies in this Elevator from the Englewood After Dark team. Starring Emily Morse-Lee as Melanie, Phi Villanueva as Andy, Maddie Girouard as Sunny, Taylor Micheals as Archer, J.R. Snyder as the Manager, Hannah Brown as the Angel of Aspen, and Leslie J. Rising as Andy’s Mom. It was written by Dennis Ortman and Hannah Brown and Sound Designed by A. Rose. SDITE music by Trace Callahan. For more from us, please visit englewoodafterdark.com.

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The true inventor of the elevator shares his invention...

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG. Mal-elevate-nt contains gore, blood, and death in an elevator.

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This episode was written, directed, and performed by Harlan Guthrie. It also features music by Harlan Guthrie. Harlan makes a horror audio drama called Malevolent that you should absolutely check out:

Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness.

Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired.

As cosmic horrors seep into the world around, Arthur must ask himself whether this entity truly seeks to help him, or are its intentions more…

www.malevolent.ca

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Two scientists make a life changing discovery under the sea.

This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. Abyssal Zone contains implied drowning, sea monsters, and death in an elevator.

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Abyssal Zone was written and directed by Ali Hylton. Script editing was done by Becca Marcus. Dialogue editing was done by Hannah Semmelhack and sound design was done by Tal Minear. This episode featured Liz Plant as Wren and Stephen Indrisano as Everett. Thank you for listening!

Find Elizabeth's work at elizabethplant.com

Find Hannah's work at hannahsemmelhack.com

Find Ali's work at alihylton.carrd.co

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