0:02

Hey everybody, this is Dan, the real

0:04

person. Not the character from Archive 81. But

0:07

aren't you really the character from Archive 81? Well,

0:10

it depends on the day. Yeah.

0:13

And this is Mark, also the real

0:16

person. Not the character from Archive 81.

0:19

I am not a weird post-human creature thing,

0:21

at least. At least not right now. Okay,

0:23

okay. You made the joke before I could

0:25

make it. Whatever. The fan wiki

0:27

says my body is no longer replaced with

0:29

a recorder now. Yeah, no, we fixed that

0:31

at the end of season three. Thank

0:34

you, people on the fan

0:36

wiki, for keeping up to date on lore.

0:40

I do not keep track of lore, and

0:42

you guys do a much better job than

0:44

I do. I

0:47

very much appreciated it. Dead signals, we would

0:49

be nothing without our lore volunteers. Yeah,

0:53

so we should probably stop bantering. People are

0:55

not listening to this for the banter. I

0:57

like the banter, personally. Anyway,

1:00

we've got some exciting news to share. Yeah,

1:02

so we know it's been a while, but

1:04

we have been busy with a bunch of

1:06

other stuff. Yes, a lot of it we

1:08

can't talk about, although I did

1:10

release a couple of dance music tracks a

1:12

couple weeks ago called Party Coffee. There'll

1:15

be a link to that in the description. Party Coffee

1:17

is really, really good, even if you are not

1:19

a dance head, and

1:22

it's great exercise music. Nothing's touched me more

1:24

since releasing this to get so many kind

1:26

words of affirmation from my friends who are

1:28

not rave freaks. A family friend said, oh,

1:30

this was so good for doing chores, too.

1:32

I worked so much faster, so party coffee.

1:37

Try it in all sorts of scenarios in your

1:39

life. Yeah, but we

1:42

have been busy. Oh, I wrote a

1:44

novel and a play, currently

1:46

shopping them around. So

1:48

if you're a literary agent, hit

1:51

me up on Twitter, I guess. They're pretty good,

1:53

I think, at least. I've read

1:55

both the novel and the play, and I can

1:57

attest to them being very good. Aw, thank you.

1:59

Thank you. And if you are a

2:01

literary agent, you don't want to miss out

2:03

on this. Thank you. Trust.

2:06

Thank you. So the big news

2:09

is that Mark and I made an

2:11

album that's right, not a podcast, a

2:14

music album called

2:16

Generation Crossing. Yes. It

2:18

is a series of monologues that

2:21

I wrote that are scored with

2:23

some incredible music that Dan wrote.

2:26

It's basically about an 800-year

2:28

journey to a distant planet

2:31

and the society that forms during that

2:33

voyage. The only consistent

2:36

character is the ship's AI. Something

2:38

we really love to do at Dead Signals is stretch

2:40

the boundary of what audio storytelling and the audio medium

2:43

can do. And this feels

2:45

like a really exciting new step for us. We

2:47

would almost describe it as a spoken

2:50

word space opera. It's

2:52

also probably our vibiest project to

2:54

date. Yes. It

2:56

is extremely, extremely vibey. What

2:59

I really hope is that people lie

3:01

on their bed and stare at the

3:03

ceiling and listen to it for a

3:06

little bit, for a good chunk of time. It's

3:08

a very, very vibey little piece,

3:10

I think. Yes. If you happen

3:13

to run an ambient music festival

3:15

or thing with a chill out

3:17

room, we're open to

3:19

discussing how this could be adapted to

3:21

installation format as well. Yeah.

3:24

It is not Archive 81 or

3:26

default related, but it is definitely

3:28

in that spirit. Plus, it

3:30

does have a lot of voices that you might be

3:32

familiar with if you're a fan of our podcast. Oh,

3:35

yeah. You'll hear some old favorites in there for sure. It'll

3:38

be out Tuesday, November 12th

3:40

on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp,

3:43

wherever you find your music online. Yes. Tell

3:45

your friends. Here on social media, we are

3:48

very, very, very proud of it. And

3:50

honestly, we're just really excited to have something

3:52

that we made that you can listen to.

3:55

Yeah, it's been really, really heartening after all these

3:57

years to see that people are still talking about

3:59

our of Archive 81 and The Deep Fault. There's

4:02

fan art, there's fan theories, people

4:04

discussing character relationships on Discord and

4:06

social media. It really means

4:09

a lot to us that you're all still so

4:11

invested in this universe we created. Yeah, yeah, and

4:13

then we may have created it, but

4:15

we've worked with a lot of really, really talented

4:18

actors and people to bring it to

4:20

life. To answer a question, a

4:22

lot of people have been asking us, no,

4:25

Archive 81 is not over. When

4:28

we feel like we can do something new and

4:30

fun with the world, we'll return to it. Yeah,

4:32

with every new season of Archive 81, we

4:34

want to try to do something new and really

4:36

push our boundaries and experiment. We wouldn't

4:39

want to just put something out there for the

4:41

sake of putting it out there when we haven't really

4:43

thought about how it's going to evolve the vision of

4:45

the show in a thoughtful way that would be exciting

4:47

for us and entertaining for you. Yeah, so without

4:50

further ado, we want

4:52

to give you a little taste of generation

4:54

crossing. Yeah, so this will be the first

4:56

couple minutes of generation crossing, the launch of

4:58

the ship, and the very first monologue from

5:00

one of the crew members. Remember,

5:02

it's out on November 12th on

5:05

Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, wherever you

5:07

listen to music. We're so excited

5:09

for you to listen. Final

5:14

inspection of PSV ward status prior to

5:16

departure. Pod

5:19

energy levels. Optimal.

5:26

Founder vital signs. Optimal.

5:32

Redundant pod systems. Optimal. Redundant

5:36

pod systems. Optimal.

5:42

Anti-matter reserves. Optimal.

5:48

O'Neill gravity. Functioning.

5:54

Oxygen levels. Optimal.

6:01

Soil integrity. Optimal.

6:07

Fertilized over temperature controls. Optimal.

6:13

Crew members present. Accounted

6:17

for. Located in

6:19

Terraria Agora. If

6:27

final check has been performed successfully

6:29

and systems are functioning.

6:32

And all levels are

6:35

optimal. Then

6:38

play recording B92. Founder

6:42

Malia Patterson speech for crew

6:45

members. I

6:53

am not one for speeches. Or

6:55

talking for that matter. If

6:58

you have met me in person, then I am sure

7:00

you are well aware of that. But

7:03

I feel it is appropriate for me to

7:05

say a few words. At

7:08

the beginning of any grand undertaking, there is a

7:10

moment. Right before diving off the edge.

7:13

Of hesitation. Of

7:15

doubt. Will

7:19

the baby bird's wings unfurl? Will

7:22

the parachute deploy? Will

7:25

this stone cause a

7:28

ripple in the water? It

7:32

creeps into everyone's head. It

7:35

has most surely crept into mine. When

7:40

I abandoned my family's home. When

7:42

I founded my first company. When

7:45

I announced the construction of this very spaceship

7:47

that is now your home. Doubt

7:51

is normal. And

7:55

at this, the grandest undertaking

7:57

in human history, doubt. is

8:00

expected. But

8:04

doubt cannot be allowed to

8:07

prevent progress, to

8:10

prevent the best of us from

8:12

achieving that which we are destined

8:14

to do. And

8:17

once you have stepped on that path, once

8:20

your wings have unfurled, that

8:22

doubt will evaporate.

8:30

You are the shepherds of civilization. You

8:33

will guide this small fragile seed

8:35

through a vast ocean until it

8:38

sprouts anew on a distant world.

8:42

I envy you, in a way,

8:44

this maintenance. Guiding

8:48

your children, and your

8:50

children's children, and

8:52

so on, for generations,

8:55

maintaining language, culture,

8:59

our very ways of being, it is

9:02

a sacred task. Though

9:06

I, along with the rest of the

9:08

founders, am already in stasis, I am

9:10

with you in spirit. You

9:15

are not alone. Though

9:18

we are not consciously aware of the

9:20

fact, we are watching over you in

9:22

our pods, from the top

9:24

of the very Terraria Agora you are now

9:26

sitting in. And

9:30

your ship's very computer has been

9:32

constructed with my essence in mind,

9:34

my personality. Though

9:37

you may not talk to me,

9:39

feel free to talk to it,

9:41

to ask it questions, to unburden

9:44

yourselves to it. It will serve

9:46

as your steward, as you will

9:48

serve to shepherd the founders, and

9:50

shepherd yourselves to a virgin world.

9:54

With this doubt now cleared from your mind, I

9:57

bid you a farewell. I

9:59

will see you again.