MAG 195 - Adrift

Case ########-35

An approach to hidden depths.

Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

Content warnings:

• Second person POV
• Thalassophobia & drowning
• Suicidal ideation
• Mental disorientation (inc vertigo)
• Futility / Inconsequence
• Mentions of: loss of time, scopophobia, cults, death, isolation, police, spiders, injury, nausea, mass suffering
• SFX: extensive water sounds, coughing, crying

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Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead, Jeffrey Nils Gardner & Alexander J Newall

Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Sensitivity consultation by Alexander Linde Nielsen

Performances:

- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims

- "Basira Hussain" - Frank Voss

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