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Sticks & Stones: The Building of a Kingdom

Summary:

Greetings, and welcome to Sticks & Stones: The Building of a Kingdom*, the inaugural exhibit of the newly renovated Museum of the Kingdoms.

 *and by Kingdom, we mean all systems of human government, inclusive of non-monarchical experimental systems of varying duration

Notes:

A pod-together project. Art by gigglingkat, audio by fleurrochard, and text by somnolentblue.

Author's notes: I would like to thank everyone involved with this. You are all delightful, and it was so much fun to work in this world and on this project with you! :D Fleur, thanks for venturing down the paths of pod-together with me once again and being a great partner. Kat, thanks for joining us and creating beautiful art and helping this project come alive. You are amazing collaborators!

I'd also like to thank Clex chatting with us as ideas burbled forth and bouncing concepts back and forth. Finally, I'd like to thank Scintilla for a lightning fast beta as I wrote, once again, until the very last minute. ♥

Podficcer's notes: Blue, thank you for being a wonderful partner again (and once again indulging my fondness for fairy tales and singing. You're so good to me! :D) and letting me be - well, Roaring Briar. ♥
Kat, thank you so much for the fantastic art and giving our project another dimension. ♥
I loved doing this with both of you!

Artist's notes: Do you have graphic arts skills? Do you enjoy collaboration? Do you want to play in fairy tale fandom? I admit it, I didn't read past "fairy tale fandom" and clicked reply. Then there was THIS ENTIRE WORLD and I haven't done it half the justice it deserves, but wouldn't trade it for anything! Just what DOES pure magic look like? (A rainbow tidal waving in the dark, by the way.) And giggling gchats about Beau Peep and the time Midas played paddycake - and DAMMIT ALL LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO THE GOLD STANDARD, KING MIDAS! AGAIN! I had a blast playing in your sandbox, babes.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Sticks & Stones: The Building of a Kingdom

Chapter Text

MP3 DOWNLOAD (main tour) (37 MB) | MP3 DOWNLOAD (bonus tracks) (9.8 MB) | PODBOOK DOWNLOAD (24 MB)
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Cover art for Sticks & Stones: The Building of a Kingdom. Written by: somnolentblue. Performed by: fleurrochard. Art by: gigglingkat.

Welcome to Sticks & Stones: The Building of a Kingdom. We hope that you enjoy your time with us today.

You can listen to the entire tour by streaming it as a single audio file or by downloading it as an .mp3 or podbook. You may also listen to it one room at a time; at the beginning of each room on the tour is streaming audio for that room accompanied by artwork.

After the main tour, you may examine two of the items on exhibit, a selection of tabloid articles and a ballad, more closely. These are accompanied by streaming audio embeds.

Finally, should you wish a full transcription of today's tour, the entire text may be found in Chapter 13: Tour Transcript.