I’ve been assigned scanning for a suitable location for the Huntsman to conceal his new mission, urban pacification, from the local authorities as well as the local criminal element here in San Ternion. The requirements proposed for this location were quite exotic, as such the Huntsman has been as of yet unsuccessful in his quest thus far. Based on the outcome of the last four locations he’s transported too, all pronounced wholly inadequate by him, and considering the state of the current location I’ve presented to him here my systems indicate an additional unsuccessful outcome…..

“You take me to the nicest places Tower. You really do. What is that smell?” Tom Spenser, Huntsman R7R, jested with the artificial intelligence.

“Analyzing.” The Watchtower didn’t even notice.

“Skip it Tower, this place is all wrong anyhow.”

The Huntsman made a full rotation in the center of the dank molding basement to take it all in. Only seconds after appearing out of thin air – transporting into the sub structure, his body was still adjusting to the new environment he’d been transported into from across the city, the bitter cold air was attacking him as aggressively as the odors that waifed out of the filthy building’s moldy crevices. Shining his light around he exposed a few piles of rotting wooden shipping crates, a few pieces of broken furniture, and an old bed role presumably from a squatter transient that was more than a few days old. The location wasn’t even suitable for the homeless. Worse yet, it was not as secure as Spenser needed it to be.

“Despite your disregard for your standing orders which forbid this activity my systems have identified this location as aligned with over eighty five percent of your requirements: one hundred meters square or larger, limited or no access, hidden away from the city proper.” The Watchtower chimed in in defense of it’s findings.

“The access isn’t all that hidden or limited after all Tower. And please, enough with the standing orders routine. I was sent here to make a difference, and that is what I’ll be doing.” Spenser kicked at the bed role as he passed by it, sweeping across the remainder of the concrete sub basement with his light.

“My systems can not access local records produced with ink and paper, but the surrounding geography clearly indicates that the building that once stood above this sub basement has been knocked down and completely removed from this plot. There may not even be records of this location to research further.” The Watchtowers comms began to beep and whir with background noise as it continued to compute the data from the location they were currently at.

“Even if we could seal up the multitude of ways in and out of here, it’s too close to the river. It will always be cold, moldy, and probably flood during the rainy season.” Spenser located what he thought was a door and continued in that direction to complete his inspection.

“May I remind you that San Ternion is built at the junction of four rivers. The city proper claims over one hundred bridges within its borders. The percentage of locations fitting your description not being near a river are decreasing exponentially with each outing you take.”

“Exponentially? Wow.” Spenser thought he’d found the handle to the door in the back wall when something along the opposite edge of the cavernous sub basement caught his attention. He swung the light around in a fast arch, seeing nothing he clicked it off as the noises continued so that he could focus on listening.

“I”m telling you Jackson you’ve got the wrong girl. I didn’t hear anything. I don’t know anything, honest. I swear!” A woman squealed.

“Shut up. I’m done talking.” A gruff voice shouted, echoing off the concrete.

“Be advised I’ve detected unsubs within your vicinity Huntsman.” The Watchtower, utilizing a sub-vocal routine like a whisper in his very skull, spoke quietly directly to Spenser.

“Thanks for the tip.” Spenser whispered back. He moved behind the far set of rotting crates to wait the new arrivals passage through the sub basement.

“Your supposed to bring the food and the drinks. Wiggle a little when I tell you too but no, not you. Always looking for a new angle for your self aren’t you Roxy?.” The large man drug the woman by the arm, shouting in her face. Spenser noticed that neither of them had a light and yet the man was able to guide the woman through the mess down here with perfect execution. He’d been here before.

“I can do better, I swear.” Roxy begged, even shouted near the end of the sentence as she was dragged to the left. Hard.

“No more chances, I’m done wasting time on you.” The large man tightened his grip on the womans arm, lifted her in the air, and tossed her against the concrete wall. The wall with the door that Spenser had just come from. The large man went to work on the lock in the hidden handle.

A sound chirped in the Huntsman’s ear.

“What is it Tower?”

“My analysis of the odors within the chamber you asked for upon arrival is now complete.”

Spenser pulled out the Flechette pistol that had been strapped to his thigh only partially paying attention to the Tower’s ill timed report. He’d have to remember to use the appropriate language. Belay that, instead of “skip it”, next time and this wouldn’t happen at the worst possible moment.

“Not now Tower, prepare for…”

“It’s decaying human remains Huntsman, several different instances in fact, located in the far eastern corner which coincides with an additional cavern sixty feet deeper than the room your in now.”

Behind the door.

“No! I didn’t hear nuth’n, honest!” The woman screamed. The large man, Jackson, backhanded her like he was in a boxing ring. The impact caused the back of her head to smack up against the cement and the woman to slump to the grimy floor. Jackson bent down, pulling the woman up to his face by gripping her by the shirt front with one hand, and her hair with the other.

“I’d like to take my time with you Roxy. You know I would. But the boss don’t want it that way so it’s the garbage shoot for you.” He rumbled, laughing at his own joke, as he picked the woman up like a sack of potatoes and prepared to toss her into the hole behind the locked door.

“Freeze police!” Spenser shouted, shining the light in the back corner exposing both Jackson and Roxy who was hefted over his head.

“Let the woman go.” Spenser stated, moving into a firing position.

The large man just growled as he tossed the woman into the hole, grinning at Spenser the entire time. An instant later Spenser shot him with the Flechette pistol. A hundred needles impacted into Jackson’s body which sent him falling backwards into the hole him self after he bounced off the rough stone wall.

“No!” Spenser shouted as the events unfolded against his loose plan.

The man screamed as loudly as any woman as he began to fall and bounce again.

“Get me down there Tower.” Spenser ran toward the opening, the once locked door swinging wild.

“Specify.” The Watchtower beeped in his comm.

“The hole! Now!” Spenser dove into the air as if to dive down into the hole accept he vanished into thin air before he reached its opening.

An second later he reappeared at the bottom of the slimy chamber. Instantly Spenser was waist deep in a bath of chunky bile and mud. Jackson screaming up above him once more before he hit his head with a splat, descending down the hole in a lifeless heap that scraped and bounced along the edges. Each impact sending gobs of dank debris down atop Spenser and the woman.

Spenser only had a moment before the large man would crash down on them both. Also, he wasn’t sure how much more of the smell and taste of what was down here he could actually take before he lost it. He wanted to puke, needed to puke. Badly. Just as he was about to ask Tower to find the woman with its sensors Spenser’s hands reached her in the muck. He yanked her close to him, causing more fluid to splash up on him.

“Get us out Tower. Now.”

An instant later they were gone, seemingly vanished into thin air, the product of nothing more than a dying man’s over active imagination as he plummeted to the unconscious death he had surely caused multiple times over and no doubt deserved now.

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The Masked Marauder Matinee is proud to present our very first Audio Drop (short form) style Audio Drama (full cast) adventure featuring Seth Bramwell, Laura Pirard, and Glenn Hascall.  We’ve partnered up with a top notch production company and are in the process of making more audio drama style productions featuring The Huntsman so stay tuned.

☆ Cast:
Seth Bramwell (link): Agent Spenser/ The Huntsman
Laura Pirard (link): Watch Tower
Glenn Hascall (link): Cabby

☆ Engineering:
The Masked Marauder Matinee

☆ Script:
SFX: Outdoor rain and traffic
Cabby: “Where too mac?”
Spenser: “Follow that cab”
Cabby: “Are you serious?”
Spenser: “Very.  The red radio cab, right there.”
Cabby: “In this weather, I’m going to need danger pay bud.  Up front at that.”
Spenser: “You’ll get what you have coming too you, IF you don’t loose the other cab.”
Cabby: “You got it Mac.”
SFX: door closing, tires squealing
Cabby: “Lucky for you that traffic down here is a mess with this storm dumping on us all night.  There’s your radio cab right up there on the left two cars up.”
Spenser: ‘Perfect.”
SFX: Rustling between the bars
Spenser: “Here’s your ‘danger pay’.  Lets keep our distance, but don’t loose the radio cab.”
Tower: My systems have become alerted to an emergency within your current vicinity Agent Spenser
Spenser (mumbling): “I can’t really talk right now Tower.”
Tower: I’ve activated the subvocal system with the communication net, your current levels are fully audible Agent Spenser.
SFX: Traffic noise, squealing tires
Spenser: “I’m on the trail of an embezzler who’s swindled millions from the city.”
Tower: Your alter ego – The Huntsman – is needed now elsewhere Agent Spenser.  It is a matter of vital importance to this city.
Cabby: “Look out!”
SFX: squealing tires, crash
SFX: Teleportation Sound
SFX: Intense Weather sounds high up in the air
Tower: I’ve taken the liberty to outfitting you in your operational gear Agent Spenser, time is of the essence.
Spenser: “You can’t just…”  “I was on the trail of…”  “Why do you have me up here on this roof?”
Tower: The bottom three levels of this building have flooded due to its proximity to the river.
Spenser: “Where are the authorities?”
Tower: Trapped behind six blocks of raging water flooding the city
SFX: Gear Rustling & Weather
Spenser: “I’ve got two rebreathers Tower…”
Spenser (with something in his mouth): “Get me as close as you can to a group of survivors.”
SFX:Teleportation Sound

★★★★★★★★★★ NOTES ★★★★★★★★★★

★★Thank You:★★
I’d like to thank Keith Hughes of Penslinger.com and the Time Out podcast for the amazing character intros he’s produced for me (at the drop of a hat). Laura Pirard for her continued commitment to the Masked Marauder Matinee.  Check out her ReverbNation page, it’s great!  Seth Bramwell of the Ides of Ouran and Glenn Hascall of Drama Speak both deserve many thanks for agreeing to act in this audio drop style audio drama with little more than an email from me.

★★Contact the Management:★★
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The Huntsman Legion was born.

One hundred special agents, most genetically enhanced, were drafted into the Legion and each one sent through the Nexus Gate into a Multiverse crisis hot spot in order to quell the spreading disaster before it could spread.

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★★★★★★★★★★ CREDITS ★★★★★★★★★★

★★Thank You:★★
I’d like to thank Keith Hughes of Penslinger.com and the Time Out podcast for coming through with yet another round of character narration at the drop of a hat. Keith is currently gearing up for his forth year in NANOWRIMO and we wish him luck!

★★Music Used:★★
BJ & Busted Frog by .22 from the Podsafe Music Network☆

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★★★ A new schedule ★★★

• Monthly (12) all new audio adventures averaging twenty to thirty minutes in length
• Weekly (52) ‘Masked Minute‘ showcases
• Sporadic Reviews of ‘Masked‘ characters

★★★ A new format ★★★

• So far our podcast has consisted of the author reading into the microphone then enhancing the episodes with sound effects.  While this is not necessarily going away we are beginning our transition to full cast audio adventures – where each character in the story is voiced by a different actor and it is our goal to offer at least 12 full cast audio adventures in the year 2013.
• We’ll be partnering with other audio production companies across the internet like ‘Nother‘ and ‘Misfits Audio‘ to bring you larger stories on a grander scale.

★★★ New features ★★★

• A new feature in 2013 will be the ‘Masked Minute‘ where in we showcase a ‘Masked‘ character from a comic book, movie, television show, cartoon, game, or piece of prose fiction and celebrate what is great about that character and all Masked Marauders in general.
• Another new feature:  reviews of ‘Masked‘ characters in media that strike our fancies across all formats and genres.  The first breaks today with a review of the pilot episode of ARROW on the WB.  While these reviews will always have a text base post, many should be accompanied by a podcast episode as well.

★★★ New markets ★★★

• The Zune Marketplace
• Miro
• Blubry
• Stitcher

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If your interested in the WB series yet not familiar with Green Arrow as a character…well that’s actually a good thing.  Green Arrow is one of those comic book characters who hasn’t been kept under the same “lock and key” standards as Batman and Superman, meaning DC allows creators more longitude when writing Green Arrow and launching a new series.  In even simpler terms this means that there are more than a couple versions of Green Arrow out there, a couple of them differing greatly from the others, depending on which creative team was in charge of the book.

Created in 1941 by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, Green Arrow has been published for 72 years fairly steadily so you can expect which ever ‘type’ they choose to base the television series on it will no doubt be a strong character that will grow with the series.  So, who is Oliver “Green Arrow” Queen?  He’s a spoiled rich boy who’s family secretly makes their riches in less then moral ways.  Out to sea with his father as a young man Oliver’s dad confesses this fact to him before the ship goes down leaving everyone but Oliver dead.  Oliver him self is stranded on a rough and deserted island and forced to hone himself into a living weapon in order to survive.

Rescued and returned home, Oliver is a changed man: filling his time with booze, broads, and boats before the accident and vengeance, violence, and victories after.  Oliver Queen dons several pieces of equipment: some he’s come up with on his own, some he’s adapted from what he had when he washed up on shore, and others still he’s built with the vast Queen resources in his quest for vengeance.  His appearance and chosen weapon all lead up to him being called “Arrow” in the series.

The series brings with it quite a strong support cast with: his new step father and mother (the Queen of Queens?); his little sister with the childhood nickname of  “Speedy” (a name that both should ring true to die hard DC Comics fans, and give you insight into her role in the series); his best friend Tommy Merlyn (again another name that should ring true) who was much happier before his best friend was changed by his stay on that island; his ex-girl friend (Dina) Laural Lance, a crusading attorney from the other side of the tracks (yet a third name that should ring true) who’s very angry at Ollie for living after the crap he pulled before the accident – and the list goes on.

Paired with the drama is the action!  Ollie has honed his skills on that island.  Not only a world class archer he’s also a combatant with the instincts of a jungle cat all complimented by his city boy upbringing and ability to navigate polite society make him a very formidable opponent for the best his opposition has to offer.  The show doesn’t pull any punches either.  While they do not showcase the violence (arrows pulled from chests are dry metal, not dripping with blood) it exists and quite frankly, in this bloggers opinion, there aren’t enough shows like that for men to watch!

On a final note I feel that the title “Arrow” is fitting as the character is far more than just one version of the Oliver “Green Arrow” Queen from the many that exist.  In fact, I can see elements of other archers of the DCU in this televised version of Oliver Queen such as Roy Harper, Conner Hawk, and Mira Dearden.  If you like action movies, archery, the DCU, or any combination there of then I think you should give this show a chance.

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As a massive storm converges on Brownsville Island a mysterious lone vigilante invades a well known mafia residence, but for what purpose?  She’s found her way in but can she get out just as easy?  We hope you’ve enjoyed the show today.  If so, Lady Raven operates in a much larger universe filled with self styled mysterious pulp heroes a plenty known as Serpent City!  Simply click on one of the ‘Subscribe’ links over on the right to hear more, or if you prefer ebooks to audiobooks check us out on smashwords.  All of the Masked Marauder Matinee content is offered free to everyone…

★★★★★★★★★★ CREDITS ★★★★★★★★★★

★★Thank You:★★
I’d like to thank Keith Hughes of Penslinger.com and the Time Out podcast for coming through with yet another round of character narration at the drop of a hat. Keith is currently gearing up for his forth year in NANOWRIMO and we wish him luck!

★★Music Used:★★
BJ & Busted Frog by .22 from the Podsafe Music Network☆

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When one of his intelligence sources on the streets of Serpent City goes missing Iron Horse rescues him but with the Terminal Tempest hitting the city Iron Horse needs to regroup in order to continue his mission.  We hope you’ve enjoyed our story this episode.
If so, Iron Horse operates in a much larger universe filled with self styled mysterious pulp heroes a plenty known as Serpent City!  Simply click on one of the ‘Subscribe’ links over on the right to hear more, or if you prefer ebooks to audiobooks check us out on smashwords.  All of the Masked Marauder Matinee content is offered free to everyone…

★★★★★★★★★★ CREDITS ★★★★★★★★★★

★★Thank You:★★
I’d like to thank Keith Hughes of Penslinger.com and the Time Out podcast for coming through with yet another round of character narration at the drop of a hat. Keith is currently gearing up for his forth year in NANOWRIMO and we wish him luck!

★★Music Used:★★
BJ & Busted Frog by .22 from the Podsafe Music Network☆

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Comment on our audio adventures or text based stories ☆
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★★★★★★★★★★ CREDITS ★★★★★★★★★★

★★Thank You:★★
I’d like to thank Keith Hughes of Penslinger.com and the Time Out podcast for coming through with yet another round of character narration at the drop of a hat. Keith is currently gearing up for his forth year in NANOWRIMO and we wish him luck!

★★Music Used:★★
BJ & Busted Frog by .22 from the Podsafe Music Network☆

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Comment on our audio adventures or text based stories ☆
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★★★★★★★★★★ CREDITS ★★★★★★★★★★

★★Thank You:★★
I’d like to thank Keith Hughes of Penslinger.com and the Time Out podcast for coming through with yet another round of character narration at the drop of a hat. Keith is currently gearing up for his forth year in NANOWRIMO and we wish him luck!

★★Music Used:★★
BJ & Busted Frog by .22 from the Podsafe Music Network☆

★★Contact the Management:★★
Comment on our audio adventures or text based stories ☆
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