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We are not deserters. We are not thieves. But we have been named as such by the imperial navy. We are hunted by the ships we once called our allies. The empress gave our captain a precious treasure as a gift. It was but a gesture. In truth, the treasure belongs to the empire, as all things do. Our captain has taken it.

The warship Mynotragon.

The figurehead of a naval ship that has served its empire for five generations of rulers hides a dishonorable secret. Or so sayeth the legend.

Genre: Fantasy, Mythology

Tags: captain, empress, first mate, Mynotragon, pirate, squid-folk, squids

CREDITSStory: "Mynotragon" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Mynotragon" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by Benjamin Carr (Scythuz)* "Miscellaneous Battle Theme 1" "Miscellaneous Battle Theme 4" "Orchestral Battle Theme 4"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Emblem (seamless)" "Medieval fiesta" "Deep lands (Part 2)" "Pirate attack!"

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Medieval Track #1 (looped)" "Percussion Loop #1" "Lyric Voices" "Be a Hero"

Music by Andy Ray* "A Long Journey)

*These tracks were part of music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Benjamin Carr, Nicholas Jeudy, Andrew Sitkov, and Andy Ray is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Benjamin Carr, Nicholas Jeudy, Andrew Sitkov, and Andy Ray at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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"We know where it is. We've known for a while. We just can't get to it. It would require some fairly fancy flying." The secretary crossed his arms and gazed at the faces of the officials surrounding him.

"Then what are we still waiting for? Let's throw some Mac n' Cheese at it," the old general said, cracking a pistachio and adding the shells to the napkin he had neatly laid on the conference table.

The secretary smiled wryly. "Based on their scores, that's exactly what we'll be doing."

The MacAllister brothers fly a classified mission to recover an object that might end up being a thorn in their sides.

Genre: Science Fiction

Tags: Bob, Chester, general, Mac N'Cheese, MacAllister, Maggie, plasmic resonance generator, plasmic space, Rodney, rose, Sebastian, secretary

CREDITSStory: "The Daring MacAllisters" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "The Daring MacAllisters" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)* "Ground Control" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart" "Forest Bathing"

Music by TRG Banks "After midnight" "Smooth jacket" "Cigar"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Cosmic Drifting" "Max Flashback"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Andrea Baroni is licensed from GameDev Market Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Lee Rosevere and TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more music by Andrea Baroni at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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Note of caution for sensitive listeners: This episode contains descriptions of a fly being harmed.

"I have a story to tell you that you will not believe," the fly said.

I listened. Because if I believed that a fly could speak, then I was more than ready to hear what she had to say.

And I did believe, after a fashion, when I realized that the tiny voice I'd heard whispering my name was coming from the fly that was perched on the edge of my mantel.

It is no ordinary fly that has landed upon one unsuspecting person's mantel. She has a story to tell.

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Tags: Algrinash, disciple, fly, magician

CREDITSStory: "The Fly Upon My Mantel" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "The Fly's Disciple" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Monochromatic stain" "Secret water (seamless)" "Between two worlds" "Deep" "Sacrifice" "Dark fields" "Once upon a time"

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Ice and Fire"

Music by ROZKOL "Ambient I-IV"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market Music by ROZKOL is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by ROZKOL at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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This is what we wanted. This is what we feared.

Encountering new life. Endangering our lives.

These were some of the last words I heard from my mother on the last transmission from Marv.

It was difficult to watch from afar. Not even to watch. To wait. To wonder. It helped me to write the reports. To smooth out all the roughness, pare down all the inessential, and restrain all the rawness from the contents of the data packets that the crew sent before that last transmission. When I saw my mother as a member of a crew on a daring first mission, performing her duties, exhibiting solidarity with her crewmates, I am able to let go of that lurching dread that wakes me almost every morning.

Humanity at last discovers an inhabited exoplanet and learns its first lesson about first contact.

Genre: Science Fiction

Tags: explorer, Ghost Shark, MARV, URSULA-9

CREDITSStory: "Marv and the Ghost Shark" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Plokamisaur Encounter" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)* "NightTime (No Percussion)" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)" "Ground Control" "The Longest Year"

Music by Jonathan Shaw (www.jshaw.co.uk)* "A Dream of First Flight" "A Tale of Water" "A Tale of Peace"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Andrea Baroni, and Jonathan Shaw is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Andrea Baroni at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by Jonathan Shaw at jshaw.co.uk and gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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In the heart of our galaxy, there abides a supermassive black hole. One of the grand mysteries of our age, and of the last age, and the one before. We call it the ultimate ocean, but with its relentlessly swirling energies, it is more like a monstrous whirlpool. We seek to know what lies in its mysterious exotic depths. Depths that are protected by an unforgiving mouth, slurping matter as a person would slurp a noodle soaked in broth. A mouth lined with spinning molecular razor-teeth that can shear those noodles of matter into subatomic soup.

In the heart of our galaxy, there are mysteries no human has ever encountered before, except maybe we have in the oldest of our stories…our myths.

Genre: Mythology

Tags: Destiny, Fate, nebula, Nerochroma, supermassive black hole

CREDITSStory: "Nerochroma" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Nerochroma" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by Chris L. Sound* "Level 1"

Music by TRG Banks "Insideoutworld" "Lake in the woods"

Music by Andrea Baroni (Cyberleaf)* "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart (no percussion)" "Fugue for One Synthetic Heart"

Music by Andrew Sitkov (MuzStation Game Music)* "Medieval Track #2 (looped)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Music by Chris L. Sound, Andrea Baroni, and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more music by Chris L. Sound, Andrea Baroni, and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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When I first arrived in the desert city, raw and untried, eyes wide with wonder, heart filled with longing, and head filled with air just like the myriad dirigibles that crowded the skies, I could never have imagined where my path would lead me.

The dirigibles of the desert city transport goods, residents, and visitors; but only one class of airship can take its passengers to the city's most treasured and mysterious locale.

Genre: Fantasy

Tags: Absolute Zero, airship, desert city, dirigible, Horizon, Stratus

CREDITS

Story: "The Stratus Class Dirigibles" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Dirigibles in the Desert City" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by TRG Banks "Cigar" "New world" "Horse ride 3" "Lake in the woods" "After midnight" "Keith in 1987" "Insideoutworld" "Horse ride 4"

Music by Lee Rosevere "Quizitive" "I Bet You Wonder Why"

Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Music by Lee Rosevere is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by TRG Banks and Lee Rosevere at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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"There is no cure," the baker said as she peered into the mage's eyes.

Around the table with them sat the renowned warrior and the titan merchant. Everyone at the table, the mage included, were trying not to appear as awed as they felt in the warrior's presence. And everyone at the table was trying not to make it obvious that the titan's four well-muscled arms were taking up all the space. He shifted his right upper arm, the one that the mage noted was tattooed with the mark of the merchant's guild, and knocked over an empty pint of mead. The warrior wordlessly righted the mug.

A baker, a warrior, a merchant, and a mage all set out to find a legendary sword that may lead to a cure for a terrifying bleeding fever that had afflicted their land and the ones they hold dear.

Genre: Fantasy, Mythology

Tags: baker, betrayer, disciple, giant, mage, merchant, skull, sword, titan, warrior, wizard

CREDITSStory: "Sword of the Giant Wizard" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Sword of the Giant Wizard" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by ROZKOL "Ambient I-IV"

Music by Nicholas Jeudy (Dark Fantasy Studio)* "Home (seamless)" "Dark fields" "Secret water (seamless)" "Emblem (seamless)" "Shadow forest" "Dungeon of shadows (seamless)" "Shadow forest (seamless)" "Peacefull place (seamless)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundle I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Nicholas Jeudy is licensed from GameDev Market Music by ROZKOL is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Nicholas Jeudy at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by ROZKOL at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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Shame and sorrow were to be her lot in life. The legacy given to her and the legacy she herself would pass on.

Endora was born below the earth in a realm so little thought of that it had no name. That was why the many peoples who lived there took such care with and pride in their own names. "Endora" meant "light." Oftentimes, her name was the only light in the cozy but humble hollow where she and her family made their home.

Endora must prove worthy of marrying a fairy lord by completing a daunting quest with her burrower friend Lio.

Genre: Fairy Tale

Tags: burrower, cave fairy, dirbeghh, dragon, Endora, fairy lord, gnome, Lio

CREDITSStory: "The Fairy Between Light and Dark" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Portrait of Endora and Lio" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by TRG Banks "Father Green" "The silver bus" "Lake in the woods" "Packed lunch" "Interchange" "Swanhead"

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Exploration_Cave (loop)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundle I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Albert Fernandez is licensed from GameDev Market Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Albert Fernandez at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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Six fools ran from the dragon's fire, but only one of them was her husband.

There was the wizard in blue robes with a green-jeweled magic staff. There was the armored knight who bore a shield that guarded against flame. There was the jungle barbarian and the mystical fire-cat. There was the sprightly archer. And then there was the mustachioed scoundrel, who had assembled them all. His beloved wife had been lost to an enchantment, an enchantment that was impossible to break. Impossible, that is, for a single man, even if he were a devoted spouse.

A scoundrel gathers allies to face the impossible task of undoing the enchantment that has befallen his wife, all because she sought to pay his debts.

Genre: Fantasy

Tags: archer, barbarian, blacksmith, dragon, fire-cat, knight, moneymonger, ruins, scoundrel, wizard

CREDITS

Story: "Six Fools and the Dragon" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Six Fools and the Dragon" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by TRG Banks "Packed lunch" "The silver bus"

Music by Albert Fernandez (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* "Locations_Happy Village (loop)" "Exploration_Cave (loop)" "Exploration_Mystical Place (loop 1)" "Exploration_Forest Of Magic" "Humorous_Exploration (loop)"

Music by Andy Ray* "A Long Journey" "Combat #1" "Peace in My World (final theme)"

Music by Dark Fantasy Studio (Nicholas Jeudy)* "Home (seamless)" "Emblem (seamless)" "Shadow forest (seamless)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundle I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Albert Fernandez, Nicholas Jeudy, and Andy Ray is licensed from GameDev Market Music by TRG Banks is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal License Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Albert Fernandez, Nicholas Jeudy, and Andy Ray at gamedevmarket.net Find more music by TRG Banks at freemusicarchive.org and bandcamp.com Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]

"Captain!" Marlowe yelled out. The coils of the grasping tentacle slid past each other, tightening their grip around Santi's waist.

That was when I knew. In the midst of chaos, with half the crew—swords and daggers drawn—converging on the barrel where Santi had been hiding, with the ship trapped in the grip of a whirlpool, with the hull shattering from the force of those monstrous tentacles, when I heard Marlowe speak that word, that was when I knew that all my suspicions were true.

The captain has departed, a strange passenger has boarded, and a mysterious sea creature is following a cargo ship headed to the farthest of all known ports.

Genre: Fantasy

Tags: captain, Dream of Milady, Glaros, Marlowe, Santi, sea creature, sea demon

CREDITSStory: "The Captain's Creature" Copyright © 2017 by Nila L. Patel Episode Art: "Captain's Creature" Copyright © 2017 by Sanjay Patel Narration and Editing: Nila L. Patel

Music: "Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background" by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by Dark Fantasy Studio (Nicholas Jeudy)* "Pitch black" "Peaceful place (seamless)" "The village (seamless)" "Captain's tribute" "The ocean takes it all" "Ex nihilo (seamless)" "Leviathan" "Dungeon of shadows (seamless)" "Eternity (seamless)" "Immortals (seamless)"

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundle I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Dark Fantasy Studio (Nicholas Jeudy) is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net Find more music by Dark Fantasy Studio at gamedevmarket.net Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com Instagram: @storyfeather Email: [email protected]