The Magnus Archives

We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Cold Tapes. Created by the talented team at Free Turn Production.

Cold Tapes is an award winning murder mystery Audio Drama inspired by true crime. ,

In this first episode called “Operation Antelope” The brutal murder of Andrew Fairfield on a remote Antarctic base thrusts DCI Tessa McCallister into the claustrophobic lives of an isolated community of international scientists and crew.
Through police interviews, covert recordings, and audio diaries, Tessa hears hidden agendas, concealed criminal histories, violent psychosis, and dangerous conspiracy theories that help her uncover the truth behind the murder.

With the murderer still on the base it’s a race against time to untangle the maze of deception, revealing chilling truths buried beneath the ice.

16 Suspects. 1 Murderer. Can you solve it?

Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza. Listen to Cold Tapes on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Cold Tapes on its official website.

Credits:

A Free Turn production.
Written by Alexis Zegerman and Jonathan Myerson
Developed and Story Produced by Chris Croucher and Emma Lamont
Directed and Produced by Sian Williams
Associate Producer: Thisbe Barnett
Executive Producers: Jon Hamm, Gemma Batterby, Ron Downey, Emma Lamont, Chris Croucher and Robbie Ashcroft

Content warnings:
Mentions of Death, Medication, Isolation, and Mental Health.
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This week’s short horror story, Well Fed, inspired by the prompt "Waste", is written by Luka Suk and read by Imogen Harris

Content Notes:
- Description of food/eating

Directed and Produced by April Sumner
Written by Luka Suk
Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring
Imogen Harris as Narrator

Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese
Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones
Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

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This month we are featuring an episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series.

The Program audio series is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is our present.

In this episode called “All unsaved progress will be lost” a beloved System Administrator suddenly disappears, leaving Sam a poor stonemason to embark on a lifelong quest to preserve her memory.

You can find the episode transcript at programaudioseries.com/32-all-unsaved-progress-will-be-lost/ including credits and a list of references.

The Program audio series is created and produced by IMS. Introduction and outro by Helen Gould

You can listen to The Program audio series on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Content warnings
Permanent Bodily Harm


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This week’s short horror story, Clunk, inspired by the prompt "Deep Space", is written by Nairis Santini and read by Shahan Hamza
The author would like to dedicate it to Serafino, "who read my stories when I was little and inspired me to continue writing."

Content Notes:
- Family arguements
- Thalassophobia
- Loss of Time
- Loss of Space

Directed and Produced by April Sumner
Written by Nairis Santini
Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring
Shahan Hamza as Narrator

Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese
Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones
Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

Support Rusty Quill directly by joining our new membership platform at members.rustyquill.com or on Patreon at patreon.com/rustyquill

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill
Support Rusty Quill by purchasing from our Affiliates; DriveThruRPG – DriveThruRPG.com

Join our community:
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The Magnus Protocol is a derivative product of the Magnus Archives, created by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.
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Thank you for your support over the last ten years of Magnus!

The Magnus Protocol returns 16th July, with Kickstarter backers and paid members at the Knights and Nobles tiers getting 48-hour ad-free early access on 14th July.
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Other useful links:
The announcement for the Rusty Fears 7 winners: https://rustyquill.com/news/2026-01-12-announcing-the-winners-of-rusty-fears-7/
Pre-order links for From the Library of Jurgen Leitner: https://rustyquill.com/novel
Knock Thrice The Magnus Archives collection: https://knockthrice.ca/collections/magnus-archives
Purchase tickets to Statement Begins at Crossed Wires: crossedwires.live

Transcript: Ten years of Magnus - April 2026 Update - Transcript.pdf
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