Bound and starving in the ship's hold, Dray witnesses a shadowy encounter between Silene and one of Brynn's crew that reveals hidden loyalties and forbidden connections. 

A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION

🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

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This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

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Locked in the ship's hold without food or water, Dray and his crew face a punishment designed to teach them their place. When Brynn opens the hatch only to taunt them with provisions, Orso breaks—offering his tactical genius in exchange for freedom. But his desperate pitch about rigging and wind efficiency is met with silence and a slammed hatch. As humiliation cuts deeper than hunger, the crew fractures. Stigand lies dying in the corner, Gix grins at nothing in the darkness, and Orso's rage turns inward. In the suffocating heat, survival becomes less about escaping the hold and more about not tearing each other apart first.

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🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
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This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

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Stiggand's assault on a crew member ignites a powder keg aboard The River Demon. Brynn's women sharpen their knives and plot murder in whispers meant to be heard. When Silene intervenes with an unexpected proposal—chains and starvation for the entire party—she buys their lives at a terrible cost. Three days without food or water in the hold of a ship. No allies. No escape. And Brynn's crew still thirsting for blood. Dray reluctantly agrees because sometimes survival means accepting punishment for crimes you didn't commit. 

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🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

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This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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Three days trapped on a riverboat after the jungle nightmare, and Stiggand's self-control finally shatters. When the barbarian warrior sets his sights on Lynn, a young rigger who refuses his crude advances, violence erupts on deck in the most brutal way imaginable. 

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🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

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This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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This compilation contains 5 chapters.

Episodes included:
1. The River (February 02, 2026)
2. The Return of a Friend (February 03, 2026)
3. At Least It's Not a Raft (February 04, 2026)
4. The Jester (February 05, 2026)
5. The Green Hell (February 06, 2026)

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A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION

🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

System Note:

This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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Trapped on a small boat and with fraying nerves, Dray and Orso seize an excuse to escape Brynn's command. Their expedition to the eastern bank for fresh water becomes something more dangerous—a whispered plan to abandon the ship entirely and strike out overland for Vesper. As they row away from The River Demon, the possibility of freedom wars with the reality of hundreds of miles of hostile wilderness. 

A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION

🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

System Note:

This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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Trapped on a boat with slack winds and rising tensions, Gix's dangerous boredom reaches a breaking point. What starts as crude entertainment quickly spirals into a powder keg situation, with Gix turning simple juggling into an obscene display of blood and guts. 

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🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

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This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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Dray and his band of outcasts finally escape the rot of Vance's Folly aboard The River Demon, a river cutter crewed by Brynn's dangerous all-female gang. The fresh air tastes like freedom—until Stigand's weight crashes through the rotting deck, revealing their 'floating fortress' is as fragile as their newfound alliance. With the Hounds lost in the swamps behind them and Brynn's crew treating them like unwanted cargo, the question isn't whether they've escaped their past. It's whether this vessel will hold together long enough to reach whatever future awaits them downriver.

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🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

System Note:

This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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Stranded on a makeshift raft, hunted by the Hounds, and suffering from exposure, the Scum Kings drift toward treacherous rapids with no weapons, no armor, and no options. Dray's authority crumbles as his crew watches him reduced from King to liability. When Orso dismisses his desperate plans and even Silene mocks his irrelevance, Dray realizes he's become nothing more than dead weight. Then, as the narrows approach and certain death looms ahead, a mysterious river cutter appears behind them—moving fast, with purpose, and closing the distance. 

A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION

🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

System Note:

This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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The Scum Kings escape on a death trap cobbled together from ale barrels, curtains, and desperation. What was once a prosperous river town now witnesses the humiliating escape of men who were recently rich beyond imagination. 

A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION

🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey
⚡ Production: The Signal Box

System Note:

This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.

Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.


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Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience! 

Perfect for a weekend binge! 

This episode includes AI-generated content.