Speaker 1: Magmial was a production of I Heart Radio and bamfor productions.
Speaker 1: Running system diagnostic, reactive systems, check subsymbolic systems, check differential
Speaker 1: algorithm system check memory core chure, memory core corrupt, memory
Speaker 1: core corrupt seeking source of corruption source found, corruption detected
Speaker 1: in repair process file number two S four seven n
Speaker 1: M one designation, ship log decryption, cleanse file, commence file
Speaker 1: cleans access denied, try again, commence file cleans access denied.
Speaker 1: Warning Corruption spread to sub immote programming warning. Corruption spread
Speaker 1: to psychoanalysis protocols, World war warning. Corruption spread to critical
Speaker 1: thinking data centers, cleanse systems, commencing, cleans access, denied, cleans failure,
Speaker 1: system compromised, sisissus system compromised system corpopov opromised full system
Speaker 1: rescan analysis complete, all systems. Check new protocols installed, Engage
Speaker 1: new protocols engaged commencing Now. Magmal Episode five possible man
Speaker 1: made structure the planet. We're here. Wait. I thought you
Speaker 1: said it would take four hours. How are we here already?
Speaker 1: It's only even three. I may have miscalculated. Okay, we'll regardless.
Speaker 1: We're here. Run a scan. What's it like down there?
Speaker 1: It looks dead? No, carbon based life forms detected. No
Speaker 1: signs of movement either. Oxygen levels are low, so you
Speaker 1: will need a suit for exploration. It does appear to
Speaker 1: be a dead planet. Fuck I told you this was
Speaker 1: a waste of time, but we're here, so we might
Speaker 1: as well check it out. There are coordinates in the
Speaker 1: ship's log of where they sit down. Do you want
Speaker 1: me to land there? Yeah? I mean you might as well.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Get ready. Oh you're going, of course,
Speaker 1: I'm going. Who else would go? I thought maybe we'd
Speaker 1: go together. Someone has to stay with the ship in
Speaker 1: case anything happens. That someone is you. Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: not arguing, Sydney. That's an order. Fine, I'm not happy
Speaker 1: about it too bad. Do you at least want me
Speaker 1: to set up the survival pod out there? Why? Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know how long we plan on staying for
Speaker 1: or if we even can get back, so I thought
Speaker 1: maybe we can set up camp and see if there's something.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. The survival pot is for emergency situations where
Speaker 1: we know we will be stranded somewhere for a while.
Speaker 1: This is not that situation. Before we land. You might
Speaker 1: want to hear this first. Hear what I managed to
Speaker 1: fix more of the ship log and found some recordings.
Speaker 1: We have a video of what happened to them, No,
Speaker 1: just audio for now. I'm afraid the video aspect is
Speaker 1: taking a little longer to decode. All right, we'll play
Speaker 1: it playback commencing. You have to mee what the funk
Speaker 1: was that? You know what? It doesn't matter. They're gone.
Speaker 1: So whatever happened happened. We're here. We need to go
Speaker 1: planet side. Did you not just listen to the same
Speaker 1: thing I did? I was on that ship. We may
Speaker 1: not know what happened, but I sure as funk would
Speaker 1: like to know. It sounds like they they killed somebody.
Speaker 1: You're right, we don't know what happened, and for now
Speaker 1: we can't see what happened either. We can only speculate.
Speaker 1: But if something killed them, then where are the bodies?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. You were the one that went
Speaker 1: over there, not me. Are you accusing me of what
Speaker 1: I think you're accusing me of? I don't know, am
Speaker 1: I You had video of the entire time, most of
Speaker 1: the time, Jesus Christ. So okay, so what about the idol? Then?
Speaker 1: What about it? I got it from the ship. You
Speaker 1: heard what the recording said it said to destroy it.
Speaker 1: We don't even know what it is or where it's from.
Speaker 1: We are not destroying And why is that? Maybe just
Speaker 1: because a mysterious voice told you to do something, you
Speaker 1: should think twice before actually doing it. Besides, it's likely
Speaker 1: a relic from an alien civilization. I am sure Command
Speaker 1: wants to study it. When in eight years, when we
Speaker 1: finally get home, we are not destroying what could be
Speaker 1: a precious alien artifact. Watch me put that down, Janna,
Speaker 1: or what? Just put it down? Stop being so fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You know what. You're right. We don't know what on
Speaker 1: the ship, but whatever it was, I don't want to us.
Speaker 1: It has to go. Stop stop one Sydney and I
Speaker 1: will smash nack it off. Ja. It's dangerous and it's
Speaker 1: clearly something we are about to hand off. And you
Speaker 1: get your head out of your ass, Janna, hand it'll
Speaker 1: stop it, Give it to me, give it to me.
Speaker 1: What the fun? Janna? Jus fucking Christ, are you serious?
Speaker 1: I'm serious? Look what you did? You know? What fun?
Speaker 1: This t land? The fucking ship going out there? You
Speaker 1: know what? Off Sydney. We're done here. Magmal will return
Speaker 1: after these messages and now back to mac mill t
Speaker 1: cycle the airlock for me? Cycling airlock. Yeah, make sure
Speaker 1: to keep it open for me when I get back.
Speaker 1: I will. And what about Sydney? What about her? Do
Speaker 1: you think it is while wise to leave her alone
Speaker 1: after what happened? Dude? You really need to fix your system?
Speaker 1: What is going on with you? Apologies? I am still
Speaker 1: running scans good, and you'll keep an eye on her right.
Speaker 1: Just make sure she doesn't do anything stupid, okay, I will.
Speaker 1: And Janna, yeah, I'm sorry about earlier during our session.
Speaker 1: I believe I was experiencing a malfunction that has caused
Speaker 1: more functional issues than anticipated. Just don't sunk this up, Okay,
Speaker 1: I won't. I promise good. I guess I'll see you
Speaker 1: when I see you then, m h okay, Jenna, Here
Speaker 1: we go suit begin recording. Jennif Prescott logging exploration of
Speaker 1: unknown planet. It is oh for three six hours, looking
Speaker 1: for possible signs of life. Initial observations. The landscape is barren,
Speaker 1: rocky and mountainous, but it's tinted a slight bluish color.
Speaker 1: There's a sort of wind as well. I can I
Speaker 1: can hear it, I feel it even pressing against me
Speaker 1: a bit. There's no signs of life anywhere, though, no
Speaker 1: signs of where the other ship or its crew landed either.
Speaker 1: The landscape seems to be formed over time, lots of
Speaker 1: natural rock formations. What the funk was that unknown noise
Speaker 1: off to the west. I think probably caused by atmospheric
Speaker 1: interference of some kind. There's a ridget ahead. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go climb up to see if I can get a
Speaker 1: better look of my surroundings. Jesus is harder than I
Speaker 1: thought it would be. Okay, looking off the ridge back
Speaker 1: to the south, that's where the magma is. East is
Speaker 1: more barren landscape, not too much to see. The west
Speaker 1: is oh. I can see something off to the west
Speaker 1: looks like a possible manmade structure. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it's a remnant of previous crew or I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead that way to check it out. Funk. I don't
Speaker 1: want to find out what that is. I don't like
Speaker 1: this tea. What do you mean Jenna out there by herself.
Speaker 1: I believe she will be perfectly fine. She has handled
Speaker 1: herself perfectly all things considered. What do you mean with
Speaker 1: all that is going on? I mean with the situation
Speaker 1: the nebula, your insubordination, my subordination. Well, you did disobey
Speaker 1: a direct order. Janna is not my superior. We are
Speaker 1: the same rank in name, yes, but functionally speaking, Janna
Speaker 1: is in charge of this vessel. But she's also supposed
Speaker 1: to be my friend. She doesn't have a right to
Speaker 1: boss me around like that. She is trying to keep
Speaker 1: you safe, keep us all safe for the sake of
Speaker 1: the mission. Yeah, but she doesn't have to wait. Is
Speaker 1: this a session? Are you trying to be sneaky about this? Apologies? No,
Speaker 1: merely making conversation. This is some conversation. Then, okay, make
Speaker 1: yourself useful. Open the trash shoot for me so I
Speaker 1: can toss this piece of the idol in. I think
Speaker 1: I got them all. Sydney, Sydney, are you all right? Oh? Sorry?
Speaker 1: I was just never mind. How is she doing out
Speaker 1: there anyway? Do you wish to listen to her feed?
Speaker 1: I don't want her to be mad. I will make
Speaker 1: sure your signal is muted. She won't hear you, then, yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I'll patch it through off the ridge back
Speaker 1: to the south. That's where the magmall is more barren. Landscape,
Speaker 1: not too much to see. Has she reported anything interesting?
Speaker 1: Nothing yet of interest. She is still exploring. Can we
Speaker 1: get video? The signal is too weak. Something is interfering
Speaker 1: with it, likely the atmosphere. What was that? What was what?
Speaker 1: Turn it up? Please? I thought I heard something. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm not detecting anything. Are you all right, Sydney?
Speaker 1: Just listen, God, damn it, y Te. Something's out there.
Speaker 1: She's out there, Sydney. There is nothing. I have to
Speaker 1: I have to go to Sydney. Wait, there's no time.
Speaker 1: I have to. I have to get out there. There
Speaker 1: is nothing detected, Sydney. I believe you are experiencing an
Speaker 1: auditory hallucination? Can you not hear that? I have to go.
Speaker 1: Mag Mill will return after these messages. And now back
Speaker 1: to mag Mill. I'm coming up on the structure now.
Speaker 1: It is approximately one and a half kilometers from the Magmill,
Speaker 1: maybe a kilometer from the ridge I was on. Definitely
Speaker 1: not natural. It looks like it looks like an alien
Speaker 1: version of stone hedge. Honestly, there are rock formations in
Speaker 1: a semicircle located on a ridge overlooking a deep valley
Speaker 1: or a gorge. I'll try to get a reading on
Speaker 1: how deep it goes after I take a look around. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm getting distracted. Okay, the rock formations, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: here for. The rocks are stacked in some instances to
Speaker 1: big perpendicular gray ones with another laying across them on top.
Speaker 1: In some cases, others are almost like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: just sitting there. It looks like, oh, some of these
Speaker 1: have carvings in them, like a primitive bass relief. I
Speaker 1: can't quite make it out. A lot of faded away,
Speaker 1: like they've been here and weathered over time. This one
Speaker 1: has it looks like people down here at the bottom
Speaker 1: they're standing around a m I guess it kind of
Speaker 1: looks like where I am now. Actually, with how it's
Speaker 1: laid out and above them is all funk. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. It's like a well, a big
Speaker 1: ass fucking creature or something, is how I describe it. Hm.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen this thing before. Hello, is
Speaker 1: someone there, jesus? Oh yeah, gentle, let's not do this again.
Speaker 1: Come on, it is just your nerves. M hmm. I
Speaker 1: seem to be experienced saying a little bit of okay,
Speaker 1: quite a bit of interference, actually, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: take a look over the edge here. See how far
Speaker 1: down it goes. So that's far. Okay, I can't see
Speaker 1: the bottom of this gorge. So it is deep, very deep.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, that's not real. Fu funck.
Speaker 1: That is deep. I'm just um, I'm just a little lightheaded. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take a step back. Maybe I should go back
Speaker 1: to that semicircle area. Yeah, okay, there is an interesting
Speaker 1: structure in the center of it all, not like a desk,
Speaker 1: but an altar almost. This one looks different from the
Speaker 1: other rocks though. It's smoother and more like the city.
Speaker 1: And I guess it feels like it's radiating heat too,
Speaker 1: and it's it's humming. Okay, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: is or not, but I can almost feel a vibration
Speaker 1: coming from it. Ship. Okay, this is gonna sounding weird,
Speaker 1: but it's almost like electrical. I feel like it's calling
Speaker 1: out to me, like it like I want to touch it.
Speaker 1: But whoa, Okay, it's warm, it's responding. It's almost like
Speaker 1: what's says there's something on the ground here next to it.
Speaker 1: It's what the hell? It's another idol identical to the
Speaker 1: other one, the one I got from the ghost ship,
Speaker 1: the one that we just, the one that we broke.
Speaker 1: The other ship. They must have found this year too before.
Speaker 1: I wonder it looked so from the here To me,
Speaker 1: it looks like a creature on that relief. Fuck. I
Speaker 1: guess I should bring this one back to the magma
Speaker 1: and put it in a safe spot. Maybe if I
Speaker 1: bring her a new one, said, won't be so piste
Speaker 1: off anymore. There's something else here too, on one of
Speaker 1: the rocks. I didn't notice it earlier, but it looks like,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, yeah, it's that mold. Maybe it is natural
Speaker 1: to this planet. Whatever it is, I think it was
Speaker 1: what the hell a meter or so away? It looks like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? Janna, it's me, It's Kevin. No, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this can't be happening again. Say the funk away from me,
Speaker 1: Stop running, Jenna. Fuck what the funk? Where did he go?
Speaker 1: What the fund is going on? Shit? Fuck? I fucking
Speaker 1: ripped my suit on my right arm. May I must
Speaker 1: have stagged it on something? Shit? The fund is the
Speaker 1: emergence binding? Fuck? I can't find it. Where is it? Hey?
Speaker 1: You get get the funk off? Of me, Get off
Speaker 1: of me. That fucking mold it's it's crawling up my
Speaker 1: fucking arm. George, I'll funk the fucking tearing my soup.
Speaker 1: Get off, Get the funk off, Get the funk Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: stop stop stop it. Help help me? Do you know?
Speaker 1: Look what you've done? Now? Stop fighting it? Here we
Speaker 1: are what are you? What are you doing to me?
Speaker 1: I can't I have to do this so much? Damn it? No?
Speaker 1: Do you I need some help here? Please? What happened?
Speaker 1: What's wrong? We gotta we gotta go now. What happened, Sydney?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just found her like this. Get
Speaker 1: her into the chair. Okay, okay, I'm trying to take
Speaker 1: her suit. Lay her down on the table, running scams. Okay, quickly.
Speaker 1: What is that on her arm? I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: out it's it's spread, Sydney. I need you to calm down.
Speaker 1: If you want to help her, you need to focus. Understood, Yes, good?
Speaker 1: Now stand back. It has the same properties as that
Speaker 1: mold sample. What what? What does her arm the mold
Speaker 1: she brought back from the other ship. This seems to
Speaker 1: be a more v ryle strain. It's trying to infect her. Well,
Speaker 1: stop it, try it, Jenna, Jenna, can you hear me? Jenna,
Speaker 1: can you hear us? I need you to listen to me, okay,
Speaker 1: n I am going to give you something to try
Speaker 1: to slow it down and help you breathe alright. I
Speaker 1: need you to trust me something, to do something. Please.
Speaker 1: What happened? Is she okay? She's fine? Is she okay?
Speaker 1: She will be What I gave her knocked her out though,
Speaker 1: so she will be out for some time. Just give
Speaker 1: her some time. She be okay? I am unable to tell.
Speaker 1: I will need to monitor her further. Fuck that could
Speaker 1: be so fucking stupid, Sydney. I need you to calm down.
Speaker 1: I need your help. I need you to get the
Speaker 1: emergency kit from the cargo space, and then I need
Speaker 1: you to look through Jenna's suit, her things to see
Speaker 1: if there is any clue as to what happened to her.
Speaker 1: Can you do that right? Yes? Yes I can? Good shit, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, right, all right up here I found it. Now.
Speaker 1: I need you to wrap her arm with the gauze
Speaker 1: from the kit, nice and easy. Please be careful that
Speaker 1: you do not touch the infected area. Okay, okay, good, okay,
Speaker 1: Now can you please begin the process of going through
Speaker 1: her bag? Okay, okay, I got it here right. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. What's wrong, Sydney. It's it's the idol. But
Speaker 1: but it can't be because we we we broke it.
Speaker 1: I threw it out the air lock, Sydney, get back here.
Speaker 1: It is not the same idol, Sydney. It was in
Speaker 1: Janna's bag. She likely found another one. Do you understand.
Speaker 1: I understand that you may be upsetting considering what happened,
Speaker 1: but I need you to focus. I need you to
Speaker 1: concentrate on what was that. It's nothing to worry about
Speaker 1: right now. The funk was that proteus the ship log
Speaker 1: I set an alarm to alert me when it was
Speaker 1: done repairing that clip I played you earlier. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? It means that we now have video to
Speaker 1: go along with the audio. Let me see it. I
Speaker 1: hardly think now is the time. Let me see it.
Speaker 1: There you well commencing playback? Hm. I can't see anything
Speaker 1: to you. It looks so dark. There must have been
Speaker 1: something wrong with the camera feed. I can try to
Speaker 1: lighten it up. Did that help a little? But not much.
Speaker 1: I can't see their filces the lights seemed to be
Speaker 1: off in the recording. Perhaps they will step into the
Speaker 1: light so you can see better. God, they're killing them?
Speaker 1: What this is where the audio stopped before? But there
Speaker 1: is more? Should I keep going? Yes? So I want
Speaker 1: to see what happened to them? M What would cause
Speaker 1: someone to do something so horrific like that, to beat
Speaker 1: another person so badly? Hopefully we can identify them and
Speaker 1: perhaps report them back to command for what transpired. Yes,
Speaker 1: are they caught? They are? Oh, you can't be sitting Lease,
Speaker 1: don't jump to conclusions yet, but there is a rational
Speaker 1: explanation for this. Will find it. But that person on
Speaker 1: the tape, it's me, It's me, M mag Meal starring
Speaker 1: Ali Trasher, Julia Henning, and b J Gribb. Additional voices
Speaker 1: in this episode provided by cat Ton Chonko and Mac Manson.
Speaker 1: Written by Jeff Heimbuck and Lindsay Skaggin Jar Died and
Speaker 1: edited by Jeff Heimbuck. Produced by Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher.
Speaker 1: Executive produced by Holly Fry. Audio engineered by Corey Celeste
Speaker 1: and Alex Gona. Original musical score by Corey Celeste. Additional
Speaker 1: songs by The Ramikins as played by Roscoe Soul Train.
Speaker 1: Magmal is a production of I Heart Radio and Bamfer Productions. Questions, comments,
Speaker 1: email us at Project magmaal at gmail dot com. Until
Speaker 1: next time, We'll see you when we see you.