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A Book of Gods and Territories, Vol V

Hey, wonderful people! 

It's been a while since we did one of these, so please enjoy another 20-page lorebook entry featuring nine new stray gods and faiths that we haven't had space to include in the show. Really hope you enjoy the read.

As a bit of fun in the evenings, I've also started running an actual play of the Silt Verses RPG with a few folks over on Youtube - 2023-12-24 09:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Update: Heading to Mid-Season Break A Little Early


Hey, amazing people,

As you know (if you're keeping count), we were due to have one more episode of The Silt Verses released (3.8) today and tomorrow before our mid-season break, which we’d already pushed back by a week.

We've gone back and forth on the topic, but after a lot of discussion, we’ve decided to shelve that episode for the time being and begin our break no...

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The Silt Verses Chapter 37: episode commentary

In which Jon takes you behind the scenes of individual episodes of The Silt Verses.


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Why do this episode? A few reasons, really.

I was keenly aware that the second half of the season will be very hyper-focused on our core cast - so it felt lik...

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The Silt Verses Chapter 36 (early release)

Hey, wonderful people - please find Chapter 36 of The Silt Verses attached as an early release!

As ever, really hope you enjoy the listen, and thank you so much for your support to help make episodes like this happen.

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At an empty motel along a lonely highway, a man comes looking for his sister - and the solution to a mystery from his childhood.

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The Silt Verses episode commentary - Chapter 35


In which Jon discusses the behind-the-scenes work on Chapter 35 of The Silt Verses.


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We have a lot of military propaganda this season so I did just want to include at least one minor advert - this is Steven Zivic here, who’s done a few ...

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The Silt Verses - Chapter 35

Hi, amazing people!

Please find attached your ad-free release of TSV Chapter 35. As ever, thank you, thank you, thank you for helping us to continue making such deeply weird and ambitious audiodrama, and really hope you enjoy.

As ever, the transcript can be found right here.


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The Silt Verses Chapter 35 - early release

Hi, amazing people!

Please find attached your early release of TSV Chapter 35. As ever, thank you, thank you, thank you for helping us to continue making such deeply weird and ambitious audiodrama, and really hope you enjoy.

As ever, the transcript will be live tomorrow right here.

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The Silt Verses RPG - full release!

Well, now, look at all this - it turns out those incredible people at The Gauntlet wanted to give all of us a very special Halloween gift with the full digital release of The Silt Verses RPG.

So - here you go!

Attached, you'll find an incredible array of materials for running your very own role-playing campaigns in the Peninsula, from dangerous assignments to overarching conspiracie...

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The Silt Verses Chapter 34: Episode Commentary

In which Jon discusses TSV Chapter 34 and talks through the behind-the-scenes production and creation of the episode. (As with the episode itself, this commentary contains discussion of real-life atrocities.)

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We obviously begin with an extended audio conten...

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The Silt Verses RPG Preview Is Here

Hi, folks - some seriously big and exciting news for you today!

The RPG mavens and mavericks at The Gauntlet have finalised the deluxe preview of the Silt Verses RPG (the full release will come at the end of the month).

While we all wait, they've kindly provided us, and you, with a deluxe preview edition containing everything you need to kick off a few games (y...

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The Silt Verses - Chapter 34 (early release)

Hi, folks - please find your early release of The Silt Verses Chapter 34 attached and in your Acast feeds!

Please also note that this episode comes with an audio content warning and introduction, which I've repeated in text below; the episode itself starts at the 2.00 mark.

Hope you enjoy the listen as ever, and thank you so much for your support.

And as we mention below, if y...

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Release schedule update

Hey, amazing people - hope you're well!

A quick heads-up: we've made the decision to factor an additional week-long quarter-season break into our release schedule (so this week's intended episode won't launch until next Thursday 19th with the early release coming next Wednesday 18th, and we'll insert a corresponding break into the second half of the season as well).

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The Silt Verses Chapter 33 - episode commentary

In which Jon takes you behind the scenes of production on Chapter 33 of The Silt Verses:


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Something we spoke about publicly after Season 2, and which has definitely been on our minds a lot this season, is the danger of Game-Of-Thronesing when it com...

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The Silt Verses Chapter 33: early release

Hi, amazing people! One early-release episode coming your way - hope you enjoy, as ever, and thank you so so much for helping us make this show and season happen.

Episode description:

Faulkner returns home in triumph. Roemont and Greve plot the downfall of the Prophet of the River. In the Linger Straits, Val makes a stop in hostile territory to reunite with long-los...

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Chapter 32: Episode Commentary


Episode commentary by Jon on the latest episode of The Silt Verses! Hope you enjoy.


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A big bugbear of mine is how progressive movements tend to be portrayed within popular fiction, because very often we end up with essentially a fallen-wo...

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The Silt Verses Chapter 32 (early release)

Hi, wonderful people - please enjoy your early release of The Silt Verses Chapter 32. The transcript will arrive here first thing tomorrow morning.

Huge thank you as ever for helping us to make this episode happen (and just generally for being an incredible community)!


In a ruined ...

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Chapter 31: Episode Commentary

Episode commentary by Jon on the latest episode of The Silt Verses! Hope you enjoy.

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I had a bit of nervousness around releasing this one, in full honesty. (Although how many times have I said that at this point?)

One of the big challenges about being tw...

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The Silt Verses Chapter 31 (early release)

Hey, folks,

Apologies - this one's coming hot off the presses as it had a few last-minute issues that needed fixing prior to release! 

Truly hope you enjoy The Silt Verses Chapter 31, delivered to you a day early as usual. (It features a few returning actors and some truly incredible new ones)

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The Silt Verses, Chapter 30 - episode commentary


It's launch day! But as you've already received Episode 1 of Season 3, please instead enjoy our episode commentary, taking you behind the scenes and through the episode's creation step-by-step.

Hope you enjoy!


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The Silt Verses, Season 3, Episode 1 (2 weeks early!)

The Silt Verses, Season 3, Episode 1 (2 weeks early!)

Hey, wonderful people!

August is almost upon us (where did the time go), and we've been working hard on getting Season 3 of The Silt Verses ready for our full launch on the 16th.

But in the meantime, we just wanted to say a huge thanks to all of you for backing us with a bit of a treat - the first episode of the season, released to you two weeks early. 

(At a little over ...

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TSV RPG Creator's Chat: Jon with Jason & Gabriel

Hey, incredible people - this is a cross-post from The Gauntlet's own Patreon feed, so you might have already seen it there.

For anyone who's interested in the upcoming The Silt Verses RPG, it's a really great hour-long listen as the amazing Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova from The Gauntlet talk about what they're cooking up (and I quietly nod and gurn a bit as well).


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The Silt Verses Season 2 Recap (early release)

Hi, incredible folks! Please enjoy your very early edition of the Silt Verses Season 2 recap (it'll go out on the public feed about a week before we launch Season 3 in August).

This recap features Méabh, Jimmie and B. guiding us through exactly what the hell happened during S2, in ways that may or may not be helpful, with recollections that are mostly accurate. Probably.

The transc...

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Hey, Ho, Let's Go (Timelines & Bonus Audio for S3)

Hey, amazing people!

OK, first things first - in your Acast feed (and right here in this post), you can find the complete set of Three Broadcasts that we've been putting out as teasers for our upcoming season.

(And if you'd like to listen to the first seven minutes of the season as an extra tease, you can do s...

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Third Broadcast

Third Broadcast

[Image Description: A ruined church wall, with plant-life clinging to the empty windows. Graffiti scrawled on the walls reads 'O Ge Su Lumilni'.]

Hey, there, amazing patrons! It's right about time for our third teaser broadcast for TSV Season 3 - solve the puzzle and unlock the page. 

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Soon it'll be time to tune in (#2)

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Scrawled over the top are the numbers 21 18 13 23 / 2 12 6 9 / 11 22 26 24 22.]


You've had one broadcast,...

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Soon it'll be time to tune in (#1)

Soon it'll be time to tune in (#1)

https://www.thesiltverses.com/first-broadcast

The game is simple: crack the code to hear the first broadcast.

Solution in the comments below.

[Image description: A radio and a notebook lie abandoned in the riverbed. The notebook has words written upon it: Cap, Tor, Two, Stop, Dash, Lie, Debt....

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In summer 2023, kill your gods.

In summer 2023, kill your gods.

...that is to say, it's full steam ahead on the production phase of Season 3 of The Silt Verses here at House Eskew.

We've had over 500 auditions come through in the past few weeks for some of our new and secondary/tertiary roles on the season - which, you know, hooray, but argh.

We've been working carefully through all of these as we set up our first recording sessions for the seas...

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Interview - the Skull Sessions w/ Hello from the Hallowoods

A little while back we had a chat with the amazing William A. Wellman of the wonderful Hello from the Hallowoods podcast (who also kindly hosted our Q&A) - William has kicked off The Skull Sessions, their own bonus series on the Hallowoods Patreon where they chat to other horror creators.

And just in case you w...

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Pitches for future shows (poll)

As we mentioned in our previous Patreon post, here at House Eskew we have a lot of ideas for future audiodrama productions that we could potentially work on in 2024 and beyond once The Silt Verses wraps.

We have too many of them, in fact. Far too many of them.

The audiodramas that we've pitched below are all ideas that we've been developing at some point over the past coupl...

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News: Awards, The Silt Verses RPG, and the future of us (poll!)

Audioverse Awards 2022

A huge thank-you to anyone who voted for us in last year's Audioverse Awards! The results have just come in overnight, and we're shocked and thrilled to have won 10 awards, including Best Existing Audio Play Production.

We also received wins for some of our bril...

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