20 Sided Stories

THE TWILIGHT SPACE

Introduction

Air Date: September 16, 2020

Introduction

[The Twilight Space intro music.]

Narrator: You unlock this door with a natural 20. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of dice, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of wonder and imagination, of things and…stuff.

Up until now, we’ve traveled to a world and we’ve stayed there for the better half of a year. But now it's time to assemble a variety. A sampler. An anthology within the anthology.

Five Improvised One-Shots, of wildly different worlds. Released back to back over the next couple of months.

And first up…is…A24’s The Green Knight.

Bartender: [shocked] Oye! The Green Knight ’imself?

Rebecca: Yeah.

Bartender: You know of the legend?

Stev: Know of it? We’re chasin’ it!

Elowyn: Sst! [warning] Stev.

Rebecca: [bragging] We’re living it.

Stev: We’re gonna bend them over and kick his green, lily-ass all the way back to yarkbergarg or wherever he comes from.

[Various birds cry out.]

Elowyn: [sarcastic] Oh good. Another forest.

Merlin: Yes, hello there. There are many dark secrets in the forest. You must be watchful!

Elowyn: [unimpressed] Yes, yes.

Man: It’s a magic fox, you understand?

[He takes a deep breath and sighs.]

Rebecca: Well—

Man: [whispers] You prob’ly think I’m crazy or somethin’.

Elowyn: Oh.

Man: I- I swear! I swear!

Stev: Oh, no, no. We got Merlin.

[Sage stifles laughter.]

Elowyn: Yea—

Stev: We’re right with you.

Man: [gasps] The Merlin?

Stev: Yeah!

Merlin: Yes.

Rebecca: [loud] Stop mentioning that he’s actually Merlin!

Man: Wow!

Elowyn: Not the time.

Man: Could you- could you sign my crossbow?

[Sage stifles laughter.]

Merlin: There! Fox has met my eye! Look!

Stev: Oh! Oh my god, look at that.

Sage: [amused] It’s pissing on a tree.

[Urine splashes.]

Merlin: Get it while it’s distracted, boy. We must keep it safe.

Rebecca: [sings] Juicy pool of meat. [clicks tongue] Ready to be eat…en! [clicks tongue]

Merlin: It’s time to tap into your bardic powers!

Stev: Goes a little somethin’…like…this.

[Blows on a kazoo.]

Sage: Stev, roll me Performance.

Stev: Oh boy.

Elowyn: You broke the line with my brother, but I will not break as easy.

[A sword rasps out of its sheath. Elowyn charges forward with a roar and stabs something]

[Music crescendos and fades out.]

[The Twilight Space music.]

Narrator: The Green Knight one-shot will be released next Wednesday, September 23.

The four that remain will be shrouded from you. You will not know their contents until the day of. But know they do lie between the pit of your fears and the summit of your knowledge.

That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, THE TWILIGHT SPACE!

[Music fades.]

Announcements

[20 Sided Stories music.]

Sage: THE TWILIGHT SPACE! A series of five wildly different one-shots will start next week with Part 1 of The Green Knight, followed by four more episodes of familiar but unexpected worlds and genres.

Of course, you know who we are. I’m Sage. Travis and Jess, can you just- also say that.

Travis: I’m Sage.

Sage: [stifles laughter] No. No, you’re Travis.

Jessica: No, I’m Sage!

Sage: No, you’re Jess [chuckles].

Jessica: No.

Travis: No, we’re all Sage.

[Emily stifles laughter. Sage chuckles.]

Sage: We have been the hosts for a while now, but we are also very excited to officially welcome Emily Ervolina and David Michmerhuizen into the fold—

Emily: Hello.

Sage: —as producers/cohosts.

[Jessica whoops.]

Emily: Hi, gang.

David: Uh, you messed up how to pronounce my name.

Sage: [amused] How do I say your name?

David: Sage.

[Chuckling.]

Emily: Got ’im.

Travis: See?

Emily: Got ’im!

Travis: He fits right in.

Jessica: See, they’re both just so funny and charismatic.

[David chuckles.]

They need ta stay.

Sage: You guys have both made immense contributions to the podcast. Emily, you were only supposed to be a seasonal host, but you did phenomenal. We can’t help but keep you on. We need you.

David: Yay, Emily!

Emily: I’m like a parasite [chuckles].

[Jessica laughs.]

David: Hooray for Emily!

Travis: Hooray for Emily.

Sage: David, you’ve already been basically a main character without being a player, so it’s like fuck it, let’s just commit [chuckles] you know?

[David stifles laughter. Jessica chuckles.]

So I’m so excited to have you two for the season and the five of us will, together, carry the mantle forward.

David: Super jazzed about it.

Travis: Whoo hoo!

Emily: Yes.

Jessica: Yaaay!

Emily: Very jazzed.

Sage: So couple updates. The past couple weeks that you might have missed. The RPG systems are out. So POKÉMON! Pen & Paper Version and MARVEL: Survivors of The Snap and the One System, which was used on our very old first season, MACABREVERSE, the booklets that I have designed. Twenty pages-ish each. They’re out, they’re free!

If you go to sagegc.com—

Emily: But give him money.

[Sage chuckles.]

He’s not gonna ask you for it.

Sage: No, no, no. They’re— It’s free. It’s donations.

Emily: But he worked very hard, and if you would like to give him money—

Sage: $0.

Emily: —you can give him some money.

David: I know you got $5. I know you got $5.

Emily: We—

Travis: We elected Emily Treasurer and it’s been…

David: We all know you got $5.

Jessica: Look under your sofas and whatever you find under there, just give it to Sage.

Sage: How ’bout this? Download it, play it, and if you have a good time and you like it, or at least just reading it was enjoyable, uh, then consider donating.

Travis: No matter what, if you play it, you’re legally obligated to tell us that you did, so we can say, “Oh! Cool!”

Emily: Yeah.

Sage: Yes. Tell us all about it. Uh, we’d like to hear.

Emily: We can go, “Nice!”

Travis: [fast] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

David: Nice!

Sage: And it’s helpful feedback as well, because every episode—aside from the Green Knight, which is a pre-designed system—every other episode is going to have a brand new mini-system that I’m gonna release with each of those worlds, so yeah. We wanna get better and better and kinda make this a feature of the show.

Jessica: So you can play with us too!

Sage: Yeah!

Emily: Yay!

Sage: All the RPGs are available at sagegc.com/games

One other thing, we have transcripts now as well! The very amazing—

Jessica: [cheers] Tiffany!

Emily: Whoo hoo!

[Clapping.]

Sage: —Tiffany Chapman of I Write 4 Myself, she has transcribed POKÉMON! and MARVEL. If you go to 20SidedStories.com/transcripts the full seasons are there and readable that you can download as a PDF or you can read it right there on the website.

If you know anybody who can benefit from this, please, please, please share it! It was a huge undertaking, they’re completely free ’cause we’re not monsters.

[Jessica stifles laughter. Travis snorts.]

And, uh, yeah.

Emily: Also, even if you’ve already listened, they’re still kinda fun to read. It’s just kinda cool to see some o’ the shit we say on paper. So I would definitely recommend looking at them even if you’ve already listened.

Jessica: And I can guarantee you that there’s gonna be some things you probably missed when listening.

Emily: Yes. True.

Jessica: And by “we” I mean Travis talks under his breath and says really funny things.

[Sage stifles laughter.]

Travis: [mumbles] I don’t know what the fuck you’re talkin’ about. You’re gonna go fuckin’ jump up your own ass.

[Jessica chuckles.]

Jessica: I’m giving you a compliment!

Emily: Master mumbler.

David: [loud and clear] I often get into trouble for being too quiet.

[Sage snorts. Jessica laughs.]

Travis: [sarcastic] Yeah. Yeah.

Sage: Alright! Yeah, that’s it. We’re excited to embark on a new season. It’s gonna be a little different, but it’s gonna be so much fun.

Of course if you wanna support the show, go to patreon.com/20sidedstories to help us get this thing produced and keep us on schedule. It helps so much. We have a session zero for each episode so you can learn how we made these characters, and our take on these different episodes that are gonna be super secret until they are released!

And of course, Xander’s Meanders will continue.

[Travis stifles laughter.]

Jessica: Whether you like it or not.

Travis: Yeah, whether—

Sage: [amused] Whether you give a shit or not.

Travis: —you like it or not.

[Emily and Sage chuckle.]

Emily: You’re gonna get ’em.

[Emily and Jessica chuckle.]

Sage: They’re there. Alright! Everything we just talked about is linked in the episode description. Otherwise, we will see you on the next 20 Sided Story. Thanks everyone!

Travis: Bye!

Jessica: Yay, bye!

Emily: Bye!

David: Bye!

[Music crescendos and fades.]