An Interlude: The Scenic Route

Old Gods of Appalachia

Horror, Folk Horror, Anthology, Science Fiction, Fiction, Appalachia, Eldritch

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

CW: Frank and intimate out of character discussion about the pandemic, death and suicide. In character mentions of child labor, child and parental death and disfigurement.

There is a darkness that can only truly fall in the deep woods. An enveloping shadow of some great beast that is at the same time soothing and terrifying and can only exist in the absence of electric light and full moons. The hours that pass beneath this hallowed veil are usually best spent sleeping so that you do not witness the world that only thrives while the living aren’t in it, unless they are spent by the watchful vigil-keepers who keep that world at bay. Join us for a late night encounter in the deep woods around the Virginia state line.

This is a special alternate episode offered in memorial to Rhonda Kay Dooley and Grey.

CW: Frank and intimate out of character discussion about the pandemic, death and suicide, in character mentions of child labor, child and parental death and disfigurement.

National Sucide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255

https://www.crisistextline.org

https://hotline.rainn.org/online

https://translifeline.org

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Rusty Quill presents.
0:03.0	Hey there family.
0:06.0	It's been a hard week or so for those of us here at Deep Nerd Media and Old Gods of Appalachia.
0:12.0	We lost two people from our past and from our family that we held very near and dear to our hearts.
0:21.0	Miss Rhonda Dooley of Wise County, Virginia was a friend of mine from the time that I was a young teen all the way up into my adult life and was one of the first people that got me into the medieval nerdery that I still participate into this day.
0:38.0	And as you may notice her last name is Dooley and yes in fact that is where I took the surname for our own beloved daughter Dooley.
0:46.0	We lost Rhonda to COVID at the age of 52.
0:52.0	So please wear a mask, be safe, take the vaccine when it's time.
0:58.0	I don't want to lose any more of y'all.
1:01.0	So after that I was notified by a friend that my former student Gray who I had worked with in the past couple of years had succumbed to their long battle with mental illness and had in fact passed on.
1:16.0	That's a loss as a teacher and mentor and as a fellow artist.
1:22.0	I feel very deeply and I still haven't processed that when yet, but hold those you love near and dear today's episode was delayed because frankly all I'm moving real slow when it comes to this kind of stuff and then just this craziness yesterday at the Capitol.
1:40.0	Everything's a lot there's help out there if you feel the darkness calling you in a way that might take you from us please look down at the show notes of this episode in the description we're going to provide some links and numbers for you.
1:54.0	The story we are going to share with you today has been an idea floating around and on an outline in a script somewhere that maybe we thought we would do is a Patreon bonus or as a live read.
2:06.0	And when we knew that we needed to change things up it was just a natural fit to take that idea and blow it up and turn it into a script.
2:14.0	It took a minute but we're here and it's a story about a lot of things but I think you'll get why we chose that all being said old gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences.
2:35.0	So listen to discretion is advised.
3:06.0	I hear her song in my heart goes all over.
3:14.0	There's not a lot of these words alone.
3:19.0	Best take to the roads out of the ghetto.
3:24.0	Best get home home.
3:27.0	Best get home home.
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