Naked Save - Episode 14

What is this fantastical world Falk finds himself in? How did he come here? What happened to the World Crime Syndicate? Who’s the guy with the sword? What’s the key to unlock these riddles? This Gun in My Hand.

Naked Save, Episode 14 of This Gun in My Hand, was conjured by Rob Northrup. For show notes, credits, details on how to subscribe and to buy my books, visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com . What distinguishes the civilized man from the barbarian? This Gun in My Hand.

This episode is available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.

Music and Sound Effects Credits:

The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain.

Music during the “Choplivria” ad is a modified excerpt of “Worth The Struggle,” used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Jay Man - OurMusicBox
https://www.our-music-box.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox/ 

Thewgosh’s chanted musical sting was by me!

The four following modified clips were used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license:

Music for “This Glaive-Guisarme in My Hand” brief musical sting was an excerpt from
Title: Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A minor - Complete Performance
Performed By Malcolm Hamilton
https://musopen.org/music/43466-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-i-bwv-846-869/
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Bach, 1772

Title: Spring Peeper Frogs
By TheBoatman
https://freesound.org/people/TheBoatman/sounds/346747/

Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

Title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou 
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Modified public domain clips:

Title: Sword sounds compilation 
https://freesound.org/people/SamsterBirdies/sounds/345308/

Title: Sword hits the body.wav
https://freesound.org/people/vdovitsky/sounds/411122/

Title: Walking in Some Leaves.wav
https://freesound.org/people/thebabydinosaur/sounds/325405/#

Title: Cow - Moo 3 - 96kHz.wav
https://freesound.org/people/JarredGibb/sounds/233128/

Title: Body fall_02.wav 
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/

Title: R12-43-Old Car Horns.wav
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479995/

Modified public domain image from Out of This World No. 1 (Avon Comics, June 1950).
Pencils and inks by John Giunta. 

Show notes: 

1. Thewgosh was inspired partly by reading Thongor Against the Gods by Lin Carter. I counted at least six instances where he described the hero or some other character as “naked save for” a harness or loincloth or whatever. 

2. Thewgosh introduces himself with descriptors like Thewgosh the Wanderer, Thewgosh the Freebooter, Thewgosh the Usurper. These are all descriptors from titles of books about another sword and sorcery hero you may be familiar with. 

3. The name of the wizard “Chay-esh” is derived from Cheech Wizard, the comic character by Vaughn Bode. Yes, this is how I come up with most of my D&D and ttrpg character names.

4. Charlton Heston voice: It’s chopped liver! Choplivria is made of chopped liver!