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Hello, everybody. Hello. Welcome to the Kickstarter. I hope you like the place. We fixed it up just for you. Alex, I can't see anything. It's like I'm a disembodied voice. We should probably introduce ourselves being disembodied voices that we are. I am Alexander Jane Newell. I am the founder and CEO of Rusty Quill Limited and co-creator of the Magnus Archives alongside... I am Jonathan Sims, the other co-creator of the Magnus Archives, as well as its chief writer and main narrator. And we thought, you know what?

having made literally one of the most popular podcasts in the world because that's the thing don't don't think about it don't think about it so much you know what we should do let's do it again more and we are going to be making the magnus protocol a

true continuation of the Magnusverse with Rusty Quill. You might call it a sequel. I would not call it a sequel. What would you call it? Don't make me say it, Johnny. What would you call it? Johnny really likes the phrase sidequel, so apparently that's a thing now. It's a sidequel. It's a sidequel, yes. We are raising funds towards production costs and associated bonus content, and with this campaign we're hoping that we can include a

bunch more extras and rewards and stretch goals that we absolutely would not have been able to do if we did not crowdfund. So you know how the Magnus Archives right at the start of season one and right at the end of season five. After a mere pittance of 200 episodes. There was a slight difference in production value. Well we want to be coming in right at the top. Right from the start we want to be at the top of our game. Yeah you'd

probably explain how we came to decide to make this thing as well because way back when in the dim and distant we finished season five and like you know what that's it we're done yeah good i think we should have a have a sit and a rest and then we had a lot of meetings all sorts of meetings for various reasons but in most of them a question was asked that how would you do a sequel i mean you wouldn't know no obviously not it's done it's finished but i suppose like if you if you had to well i mean i guess like if you had to

I mean, you could do it like this. Yeah, I mean... Actually, that's really interesting. I think it's quite an interesting idea. You could do it like that. Now that I think of it. I mean, could isn't should, though. No, obviously, we don't... Just because you could. We don't have the time. No, I mean, time might happen later, sure. Yeah, okay, well, we don't have the money. No, money can be arranged. Oh, we could crowdfund it. Yeah, we could crowdfund it. That'd work. But we, I mean, we... I mean, we could. And it is really interesting. Really interesting, and it plugs in in a way I did not expect. Yeah, and if you stretch that over two years, that's basically...

Pretty much where we ended up, yeah. So talking about the project a little bit more, we're looking at three seasons if we can with 30 episodes of pop, 22 minutes each. And we are looking to make something that is not just appealing for deep diehard fans of the Magnus Archives, though if you are, trust me, there are some joyous world building Easter eggs and hooks in there for you. But even new listeners can use this as a jumping on point. Yeah.

If you've never listened to any Magnus stuff before, you'll still get a lot out of this show. But if you have listened to all 200 episodes of the Magnus Archives, there's going to be stuff in there for you as well. Also some stuff that is really going to annoy you in ways that...

I find very amusing. In terms of who we're about, we have new main characters for you as well. Completely new ones. So in fact, I should just hand over to you, Johnny. Tell people, tell people about the story. Yes, so Sam and Alice are a pair of low-level office workers, data analysts, number crunchers. Meaningless grunt.

For an obscure branch of the British Civil Service known as the Office of Incident Assessment and Response. Such a clear name. It's real. Don't bother looking it up. And they stumble across an old mystery. Some years ago, a long time in the past, there was an academic organisation that spent some time looking into weird, esoteric, paranormal events known as the Magnus Institute. What a stupid name. Unfortunately...

It burned down in 1999 and there were no survivors. And as they get drawn in to the mystery of what actually happened here, well, it might not be quite such ancient history. It's gonna be so bad for them. Yeah, it's gonna be pretty horrible.

We are looking at launching this project in October 2023 alongside bonus episodes, bonus content and all that good stuff. It will be available to the public for free, admittedly with ads. But if you are backing via the Kickstarter, a lot of these rewards are including the early access to ad-free episodes. Yes. In fact, we should probably go in and just start talking about rewards properly at this point. Yeah. So we have tiers ranging from 1 to 200 plus and that's in British Pages.

And for those tiers, you can get various, various rewards. It's all laid out on the page. That's going to include not just the ad-free access to episodes, but things like signed scripts, voice messages, even unique rewards like, I don't know, maybe having an entire episode dedicated to you, maybe some producer rewards, maybe even, you know, naming a character. No Michaels. Oh, go on. No Michaels. Just maybe like three or four. No f***.

And by engaging in this process, you can also help us get to the really juicy stretch goals, which are going to include things like a roster of special guest writers. Yes, so I'm going to be writing a lot of the episodes for this, and me and Alex between us are going to be doing most of the big picture story stuff. But we want to get a lot of guest writers in for episodes themselves, because, well...

At this point, you know really well what scares me. It's mostly teeth pits and pigs. Yeah, pigs in a teeth pit. And I want to find out what scares new writers, new blood. There are some names on this list I am really excited for and really want to work with.

And not only with the special guest writers, we're also looking at maybe a cheeky live show or two, more details on the Kickstarter page when it unlocks, video content, and even Johnny's particular favourite, which he will now explain in great, excruciating detail. Alex likes making me do this one because I can't give any details. Can't give any details. Because it is a...

spin-off mini-series that literally any details that we told you would be spoilers for early season one but trust us it's really cool it's in universe and it it's got teeth and it's interesting you can't promise teeth

You cannot promise teeth. Oh, I mean figuratively. Oh, okay. It's got metaphorical teeth. Figuratively. It's got metaphorical teeth. It will grab you. Trust me on that one. But yes, it's quite difficult to talk about. We will see how we can phrase that once the levels start to be revealed. But I think that's all of the details that people really need at this point beyond knowing that. You can back us on Kickstarter right now.

Now, from now until December 20th, 2022. That's from now until December 20th, 2022, at which point the Kickstarter will end. And if you wanted any rewards that are tied to that Kickstarter, they're going to be gone, so don't miss your chance. So it's finishing on 2012, 2022.

No. 2012, 2022. No. Sort of, yes. 20th of December, 2022. Americans change the dates, Johnny. Ah, for them it's 12-20-2022. Oh, stop. Stop. 12-20-2022 or 2012-2022. You can find more about the Kickstarter for the Magnus Protocol over at www.kickstarter.com forward slash projects forward slash the-magnus-archives2 forward slash the-magnus-archives-2 I think that's everything. Yeah, bye and thank you.

Yes, thank you.