Sunburnt Country E3: Unburnt Fuel

Ellie and Mark investigate Bill and find themselves drawn a little too close to the flames.

Content Warnings: This episode is not appropriate for children. It contains themes of horror, violence, death, discrimination, coarse language, and fire. Specific warnings and their timestamps can be found at the end of the description.

Sunburnt Country was inspired by the roleplaying game Tether by Adam Baffoni, which can be found at adambaffoni.itch.io/tether

Card Prompts:

Recording #1 - 7 of Clubs: An individual you were suspicious of is proven to be wrapped up in the terror. How? Recording #2 - 3 of Clubs: Someone dies. Who is it, and why is it obviously the work of the terror? Recording #3 - 10 of Clubs: You witness a gruesome or disturbing sight. What is it, and why do you think it is related to the terror? Recording #4 - Ace of Clubs: You learn a major flaw that you can use to defeat the terror. You try to fight it but fail. What is the flaw, and why didn't you succeed in defeating the terror? What did you learn from this?

Cover art: by Irit Mogilevsky - find them @irit.mog on Instagram or at https://iritmogilevsky.com

Music: Crowd Hammer; Overheat; SCP-x2x (Unseen Presence); Ice Demon Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

SFX from Pixabay.Com, Zapsplat.Com and SoundSnap.Com Horse SFX from SoundX

King's Hut Late Evening by kangaroovindaloo -- https://freesound.org/s/325501/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Content Warnings:

• Hunting/firearm mentions (06:59 - 10:08)


• Murder (09:21 - 09:57)


• Homophobia (11:19 - 11:34)


• Bushfire (11:58 - 13:05)


• Animal harm/death (graphic) (12:07 - 12:28, 13:30 - 14:02)


• Static/glitch effects (16:51 - 16:57)