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Speaker 2: Good morning, father.
Speaker 3: Sorry you start with me. I didn't expect anyone in
Speaker 3: this early.
Speaker 4: Today's the big day, isn't it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: I suppose it is.
Speaker 4: If you've come to help, then just give me a task.
Speaker 6: Well, at the altar, there's a stack of pamphlets that
Speaker 6: can be passed out on the.
Speaker 3: Seatbacks, six per pew on it. I must say, you
Speaker 3: seem especially chipper today.
Speaker 2: Who me, don't so, just my normal charming self.
Speaker 3: Things are going well?
Speaker 7: Then, well, let's see, still locked up in a labyrinthine prison,
Speaker 7: with no idea as to the reason, no autonomy as
Speaker 7: to what happens to me, and little to any hope
Speaker 7: about a future that includes freedom.
Speaker 2: Soon, I'd say, about the same. But who's counting?
Speaker 5: I see there is.
Speaker 8: Something something more like someone someone here, Yes, someone special.
Speaker 4: You remember the woman I told you about, the one
Speaker 4: I saw barefoot outside my cell the first night I
Speaker 4: was here, The one who was singing to you, Well,
Speaker 4: she was singing. I wouldn't necessarily say to me, but uh, anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 4: we've seen each other again a few times.
Speaker 5: You don't have to explain. But would you mind if
Speaker 5: I say I'm happy for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It's nice, right.
Speaker 5: We all need other people.
Speaker 6: It is through those relationships that we learn about ourselves. Paradoxically,
Speaker 6: it is only by learning about ourselves that we may
Speaker 6: honestly understand others. And to that end, it is most
Speaker 6: important that we not lose sight of our own individuality
Speaker 6: in the reflection of another person's mirror.
Speaker 4: Why would you say that, I.
Speaker 5: Must be thinking about myself.
Speaker 2: Six pamphlets per pew. What's next?
Speaker 5: Syh? I appreciate the help, but I think you'd better
Speaker 5: be off.
Speaker 4: Wait, you're sending me away?
Speaker 6: Never but I understand you have your first day of
Speaker 6: work today. What the captain told me to start up
Speaker 6: work detail this morning? I am he asked for my
Speaker 6: recommendation if I thought you were ready for the responsibility,
Speaker 6: and I gave an emphatic yes.
Speaker 3: Didn't they tell you?
Speaker 4: Why won't you tell me where we're going work detail?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 2: Got that? But where?
Speaker 5: Religious? Gitsuru?
Speaker 4: Right? What the machine shop?
Speaker 2: What kind of machine shop?
Speaker 5: This mushoe woman?
Speaker 2: What the kind with machines.
Speaker 4: Why is it so quiet?
Speaker 9: What wouldn't it be?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Aren't machines loud?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to be doing? You'll find out inside,
Speaker 2: won't you?
Speaker 4: Well? This is interesting. I wonder what.
Speaker 10: I'm supposed to You must be SIORI. Yeah, I'm Thomas,
Speaker 10: your foreman. Didn't mean to startle your siary now now? No?
Speaker 2: No, I mean just sigh.
Speaker 10: Is mine so glad to have you as our newest
Speaker 10: edition salary. And I can see on your face that
Speaker 10: you're already getting a good sense of how wonderful it
Speaker 10: is here.
Speaker 3: This isn't isn't like the rest.
Speaker 7: Of the pen.
Speaker 5: You're right, it's not. It's special.
Speaker 3: I think it's okay to say that. Look around you,
Speaker 3: everything has order? Does it follow me? There is no
Speaker 3: fighting here, no chaos, none of the disruption and politics
Speaker 3: are the rest of the pen.
Speaker 5: Do you know why that is? No?
Speaker 3: See that poster on the wall, Um, read it?
Speaker 5: Tell me what you think.
Speaker 4: Balance, Let work be work and let life be life.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure I know what that means.
Speaker 10: All of those things I mentioned those are life life
Speaker 10: here anyway, But what happens in this room that is work?
Speaker 3: Work is here, life is out there?
Speaker 2: And what about the Christmas music?
Speaker 3: Have you worked with Bettel before, Siguri?
Speaker 10: You know?
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 3: That's funny. You strike me as someone who has This
Speaker 3: is your station, right next to Josiah, Sir Josiah, this
Speaker 3: is Siuri. She will work on the machine.
Speaker 2: In place of side. And who's Robert?
Speaker 3: Show her how to cut the blanks. I'll leave you
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 10: Welcome again, Salary.
Speaker 2: You can just call me.
Speaker 5: Sk See these are blanks, the different sizes. Okay, you
Speaker 5: match them to the size of your template.
Speaker 2: But how do I know which?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: Just watch you take one of these and then you
Speaker 5: open this box. This is your template. Okay, every day
Speaker 5: you'll have a different one. But you take your blank,
Speaker 5: you line it up with the template.
Speaker 2: Okay, sure, and you don't on.
Speaker 5: The machine, and then you grind the blank along a
Speaker 5: template like this and that's it. Okay, right now, just
Speaker 5: follow the template.
Speaker 2: What is this? It's just a part a part of what.
Speaker 5: That's not a thing to ask.
Speaker 4: You don't know? Do you do I get anything for
Speaker 4: my eyes or gloves?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe eyesight is good for working right?
Speaker 5: Well, I suppose you could ask why not anyway, that's
Speaker 5: your job in a nutshell, not much to it?
Speaker 2: Thanks? How many do I.
Speaker 5: Till you're out of blanks?
Speaker 2: Well? Here goes nothing?
Speaker 4: Okay, one down, I'll a jillion to go.
Speaker 10: Everyone lunch?
Speaker 2: Say uri, where are you going to the cafeteria?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no no, they'll bring it to us. Come
Speaker 3: on into the break room.
Speaker 4: First day of school all over again?
Speaker 3: Can I uh if you want?
Speaker 4: This is crazy? We get our own lunch room.
Speaker 2: This is so much nicer than.
Speaker 5: The food is here?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 5: Don't you smell it?
Speaker 4: Steik steak, steak steak? Where did this even come from?
Speaker 5: Listen to me. It ain't gonna get better than this
Speaker 5: anywhere else, So don't ask stupid questions, eat your food,
Speaker 5: be happy you're here.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this never ends.
Speaker 11: Good afternoon, project for your workday is over. Please proceed
Speaker 11: to security screening.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: That's it until tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Good morning project for have a pleasant work day.
Speaker 4: Oh, different sized blanks today, different template?
Speaker 5: What is this new day? New part?
Speaker 4: The shape seems so specific, like it's familiar to me,
Speaker 4: But I don't know why?
Speaker 5: Remember what I said? I know he seems nice, but
Speaker 5: he's just like all the other screws.
Speaker 3: Just do your job, siary. Do you have a question?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: All good, thank you. Food seems normal today.
Speaker 5: Not every day is special.
Speaker 4: Listen. I just want some idea of what we're making here.
Speaker 5: Everything in this world has a maker. Good things, bad things,
Speaker 5: things that help, things that hurt. Whatever it is, somebody
Speaker 5: had to make it.
Speaker 4: Do you always speak in riddles?
Speaker 5: There once was a king, and in celebration and reverence,
Speaker 5: a blacksmith came to him and presented him with a
Speaker 5: weapon that he'd make just for the king. And it
Speaker 5: was beautiful and special and unlike anything else. And the
Speaker 5: king was touched. And so the king went to war.
Speaker 5: His armies decimated their opponents without contest, and the king
Speaker 5: felt he owed it all to the blacksmith, and this weapon,
Speaker 5: it was made just for war. So the king called
Speaker 5: the blacksmith back, and he said to him, I want
Speaker 5: all my generals to have these, to which the black
Speaker 5: smith replied, my King, it takes months of dedication and
Speaker 5: skilled to build even one. I can't possibly make enough
Speaker 5: for all of your generals. I'll need to train apprentices,
Speaker 5: but then the technique will no longer be secret. So
Speaker 5: I need your blessing. Then the king gave his blessing, saying,
Speaker 5: whatever it takes so that each one of my generals
Speaker 5: have one. And so the blacksmith went to train five apprentices.
Speaker 3: Noah hol me.
Speaker 10: Something how then Sory back to your station. Nahi project
Speaker 10: for machine shop needs attention, medical extraction, biohezard, cleanup, repair, inact, replacement.
Speaker 3: What a mess could be a lot worse. At least
Speaker 3: he isn't screaming.
Speaker 10: Grab his arms.
Speaker 2: I'll get the machine.
Speaker 3: I've got biohazard. I can see the concern on your
Speaker 3: face that man no longer works here and is no
Speaker 3: longer our concern. When he leaves his room, that will
Speaker 3: be life.
Speaker 6: Remember, let life be life, Let work be work.
Speaker 5: The blacksmiths apprentices were able to build weapons for each
Speaker 5: of the generals, and the King's army continued to expand
Speaker 5: and conquer. Then the generals went to the blacksmith to say,
Speaker 5: these weapons are incredible. If all of our soldiers had them,
Speaker 5: the King's glory could spread even further. And so the
Speaker 5: blacksmith went to his apprentices and told each of them
Speaker 5: to train more apprentices. But the apprentices were haunted by
Speaker 5: the hundreds of souls whose lives had been claimed, and
Speaker 5: so the apprentices trained the soldiers to make their own weapons.
Speaker 9: Good morning, project for have a pleasant workday.
Speaker 4: New day, New Part.
Speaker 5: Now that every soldier had a weapon themselves, the army
Speaker 5: was unstoppable. The King's dominion continued to expand as they
Speaker 5: conquered lands far and wide. Still they needed more weapons,
Speaker 5: for the greater the kingdom grew, the more there was
Speaker 5: to protect and defend. But now the soldiers were haunted
Speaker 5: by the ghosts of those slain, and they needed to
Speaker 5: find someone else to build the weapons for them.
Speaker 4: So who did they train the slaves.
Speaker 11: Good afternoon, Project Fall. Your workday is over. Please proceed
Speaker 11: to security screening. Good morning, Project Fall, Have a pleasant work.
Speaker 2: Day, a day New Part.
Speaker 5: Things in the Kingdom were good, but in order to
Speaker 5: build all of these weapons, they had depleted the resources
Speaker 5: of the land. Mills had been built all along the river,
Speaker 5: so the fish were getting harder to find and catch.
Speaker 5: There was a hard winter, and the crops died, and
Speaker 5: the animals and wild game were thinned out. And when
Speaker 5: there wasn't enough food, the first people to beat denied
Speaker 5: were the slaves. So while the king sat in his castle,
Speaker 5: safe and sound, with all the food in the world.
Speaker 5: The slaves were out in the barren lands, starving. Many
Speaker 5: had come from the lands the king had conquered, remembered
Speaker 5: their burning homes, the dead families, death with no conscience,
Speaker 5: but never without consequence. Altogether, the slaves outnumbered the soldiers
Speaker 5: and the guards and the generals, and they overthrew them all,
Speaker 5: even the king, with the same weapons that had conquered them.
Speaker 4: But then, weren't they haunted by the ghosts?
Speaker 5: Did you understand the story?
Speaker 3: Project for room needs attention, medical extraction and bile hazard only.
Speaker 9: Good morning, project for have a pleasant work.
Speaker 4: Day, New day, new part. Wait, this is not a
Speaker 4: new part today. One of the parts repeated.
Speaker 5: You don't say.
Speaker 4: Look, can I ask you something? What was the weapon?
Speaker 5: You ever notice when you leave here? How Thomas only
Speaker 5: sort of half pays attention to the metal detector.
Speaker 4: I guess I hadn't really thought about it.
Speaker 5: What about yourself? The screws? Ever? Toss it? Toss it,
Speaker 5: you know, search through it, check the mattress, snack the toilet.
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 2: No, they never have.
Speaker 5: Some of these people they don't belong here, and the
Speaker 5: pen knows it. Listen. Your parts are repeating. This place
Speaker 5: wants something from you, or to show you something, or
Speaker 5: maybe it wants you to do something.
Speaker 4: You're saying, what that the pen has a consciousness.
Speaker 5: At least an influence. Haven't you felt it?
Speaker 4: What is it supposed to feel like?
Speaker 5: You ever leave somewhere? Sure you forgot something but can't
Speaker 5: remember what it is. It's that sort of feeling. It's
Speaker 5: not constant, but I bet you feel it, don't you.
Speaker 4: I feel like that every single day. But just saying,
Speaker 4: you're right, how do I know what it wants?
Speaker 5: Think of it as a puzzle.
Speaker 11: Good afternoon, project Ful. Your workday is over. Please proceed
Speaker 11: to security screening.
Speaker 3: Siary.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, you know what? I left the blank in
Speaker 2: my pocket.
Speaker 4: I was just about to start a piece right before lunch,
Speaker 4: and I totally forgot about it.
Speaker 2: Could you please hand this to Thomas.
Speaker 3: Thank you, siriy Please be mindful in the future, naturally.
Speaker 9: Good morning, project for have a pleasant work.
Speaker 4: Day, New day, old part. I did exactly what you said.
Speaker 4: I've got one of each of the parts in my cell.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 4: They took the blank from my pocket but didn't even
Speaker 4: think to look at my sock. It's such an obvious trick,
Speaker 4: I can't believe it actually worked.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was supposed to them.
Speaker 4: Okay, but what do I do now? How do I
Speaker 4: put the pieces together?
Speaker 5: How should I know?
Speaker 3: Project four room needs attention, medical extraction, biohazard clean up,
Speaker 3: mechanical repair.
Speaker 11: Good afternoon, project for your workday is over. Please proceed
Speaker 11: to security screening.
Speaker 2: Light's apt.
Speaker 8: Okay, if it is a puzzle and there must be
Speaker 8: a solution, somehow, these all have to fit together, maybe
Speaker 8: like this, maybe like this.
Speaker 4: Maybe this is impossible. Maybe I'm insane. The pen doesn't
Speaker 4: want anything from you, Syarie. It's not the fucking Overlook Hotel.
Speaker 4: The only influence that has over people is to crush
Speaker 4: their spirits into submission, to make them crazy, a remaningless
Speaker 4: minutial like this, and steal their souls in the process.
Speaker 4: They have the kingdom, the generals, the soldiers, and all
Speaker 4: the weapons.
Speaker 2: All you have is a contraband stack of scrap metal.
Speaker 4: That's going to get you throw them back in the
Speaker 4: fucking dungeon bad and delusions of grandeur that anything you
Speaker 4: do in this life could actually make a difference. Holy
Speaker 4: Mother of God, it's a key. At least I think
Speaker 4: it's a key, but it's.
Speaker 2: Not a normal door key.
Speaker 4: It sort of looks like like.
Speaker 5: This could be a key, could be anything.
Speaker 4: Let's say it is a key, what do you think
Speaker 4: it opens?
Speaker 5: Well? Do you think it opens?
Speaker 4: I have no idea, and.
Speaker 5: I don't know anything more than you. But you put
Speaker 5: facts and observations together, and sooner or later you'll understand things,
Speaker 5: or at least you think you do. Anyway, that was fast.
Speaker 5: It took me hundreds of tries before my part's finally repeated.
Speaker 5: You mean I already finished my puzzle. I've just been
Speaker 5: waiting to use it. What is that device?
Speaker 4: A device that.
Speaker 5: Does what we're about to find out?
Speaker 10: Wait?
Speaker 5: Hold on, do you understand the story? Now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: The pen is the kingdom.
Speaker 4: We are the.
Speaker 5: Sleeves, but we're also holding weapons because they taught us
Speaker 5: how to build them.
Speaker 4: You're saying that things.
Speaker 5: When we go back to the shop, you leave. Do
Speaker 5: you understand, no questions, no looking back, just to leave. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 5: there's no time for that. This is what I'm saying
Speaker 5: supposed to do. I feel it? This is it? You're
Speaker 5: sure no, But I'm taking the leap of faith. Now
Speaker 5: go pardon me.
Speaker 3: Saiary, Where are you going? Work hasn't ended?
Speaker 4: Hey, let work be work and life be life.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, if work isn't here, I guess I'm going back
Speaker 4: to life unacceptable.
Speaker 10: If you walk out, there will be consequences.
Speaker 3: Do you understand?
Speaker 2: I hope so.
Speaker 10: Somebody get her back. She can't just just tire?
Speaker 5: Where is that?
Speaker 10: What do you think you're.
Speaker 9: Protect? Repeat Project four Perched Cycle forty three Initiate Rebuild.
Speaker 2: Oh Yeatha.
Speaker 4: Maleetita, maquier Ala gra Colomachita, Alaciton Oksito.
Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween penance starring Natalie Morales, Episode nine,
Speaker 1: Occupation written by Matthew Riddle, editing in sound design by
Speaker 1: Noa Amy Griffin. Featuring the voices of Chris Jay, Alex
Speaker 1: Morgan Brown, Rachel Rosenbloom, Raphael Corkil, Wayne Bastrup, Sonny Bowling,
Speaker 1: Steve B. Greene, Miguel Perez, and Trevor Young. Directed by
Speaker 1: Alexander Williams. Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Noah Feinberg, Chris Dicky,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and
Speaker 1: Josh Thain. Producers Jesse Funk Rima, Ilkali, Noami Griffin, Chandler.
Speaker 3: Mays and Cassy Bias.
Speaker 1: Script editing by Lauren Vogelbaum, Story consultants Ben Bolan and
Speaker 1: Matthew Riddle. Casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA.
Speaker 1: Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Production assistants Jenna Johnson and Winona Lowe.
Speaker 1: Theme music by Rose Azerti with vocals by Anna Hummler,
Speaker 1: recorded at This Is Sound Design Studios in Burbank, California.
Speaker 1: Engineered by Ross Arnot. Special thanks to Romelia Osorio, Nathan Rule,
Speaker 1: Glen Nishida, and Rob Mosca. Thirteen Days of Halloween was
Speaker 1: created by Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams and is a
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