THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #14 - Piecemeal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2017
- MAG014 - Case #0112905 - Lee Rentoul
Statement regarding their murder of their associate, Paul Noriega.
The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a disreputable London hardman looking for revenge on the guy who sent them down but finds that, in doing so, they lose part of themselves.
Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims
Writer: Jonathan Sims
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Jon: *seemingly pragmatic, no nonsense, skeptical dude*
Also jon but getting a new story to narrate: *cracking knuckles * “time to start flexing my theatre kid skills”
and we love him for it
But consider: no theater kid could say "he had it coming" without starting to sing
@@lilaboxx thAT’S WHAT I WAS THINKING SJDBJRBFFNHD
@@lilaboxx Cuts to about a dozen outtakes where Jon started to sing it and then had to redo the entire flipping recording. Cause he's trying to be professional but at the same time the theater kid within him just tries to throw that out the window (I've only been up to this point in the story but really hope he's a theater kid of sorts).
Well, considering I began uni as a Theatre major and finished as a physics major and now work as a historian...?
Statement: This isn’t a murder confession
*proceeds to confess to a revenge murder*
technically speaking as the statement was just written down it doesnt matter. remember that this wasnt recorded, Jon is making the recording from scratch
Statement of *exactly* the kind of mediocre criminal who's always convinced he knows what is and isn't admissible in court.
Well, beyond any of that. Later on, he talks about them having a very strict NDA
@@davidschutte2767I don't know anything about law, but I'm pretty sure NDAs don't apply to murderconfessions
(... Right?)
@@emthatyourefuse2494 Any decent defense attorney would be able to get this tossed out as hearsay, since they can't prove he's the one who wrote it
Oh my GOD I'm such a smoothbrain, I was under the impression for the last 14 episodes that the statements were being recorded as their authors were reading them out, and Rusty Quill just didn't bring in new voice actor's for every episode and trusted the audience to work with some suspension of disbelief. I can't believe Jon is apparently sitting down in an empty archive room and just,,,,, reading them off dramatically like this every time.
Absolutely superb, you funky little supernatural librarian man.
LMAO this was hilarious to read "Absolutely superb, you funky little supernatural librarian man." i have,,, no words,,,
your profile pic with this is great
Jon is best boy
I JUST picked this up
He. Literaly said that in the first episode introduction.
Jon really didn’t have to go that hard on the voice acting in the statement
lol rip jon
Pretty sure the statements are paranormal and force him to.
Personne May Personally I think that he’s secretly a total dork but yes that too
Bet he was a theater kid
Well I don't know, clearly the character was a bitter man, certainly sets the tone, imho. I will say its not my favorite, I definitely want to punch the statement maker 😂
This episode's moral: never try to do the thing youself after hiring a pro
This is brilliant. XD
I totally missed the jigsaw puzzles piece
Right? Dude couldn't wait 6 weeks after getting the hoodoo put out. Like he wanted Uber voodoo
I love this one because it runs off almost Fairy Tale Logic. “Oh? You got impatient with your deal and ~broke the rules~? Time to get your ass kicked by supernatural forces!”
I meaaaaan Im pretty sure she just needed a whole puzzle but the forceful death of the first guy stopped her from getting them
Some of my favorite TMA episodes are like that
Jonathan's low-key hatred of Martin is what I live for
Same
I don't think that's low-key.
If trying to get someone killed is low-key, I'm worried
Slowburn
;)
jon was a theatre kid, there is not other explanation for his amazing voice acting
So it's been six months, you still think that?
@@lemmetalkaboutthis the good old days when I thought that was why...
@@happy99soup82 it can be both, it can be both
@@damien678 ya'll are scaring me as a newbie to this podcast 😀💀
@@bubblegum3511 same =D
When people say “Patience is key“ THEY KINDA FUCKING MEAN IT.
"He had some excellent conversations about jigsaws"
Apparently our head archivist is the fool.
"the fool"? I'm confused
@@a.b.6689 i think his comment about the conversation about jigsaws is implying that Martin found the right Angela, and none of them realized it
For all the reading he does, jon has never had a brain cell in his life
@@okiedokie6619 But it wasn't just one. It was several, probably because jigsaws are a pretty common pasttime among the elderly and an old lady named angerla having jigsaws doesn't mean she is the killer in this case.
He was asking around about a lady who liked jigsaws right? Probably lead to several conversations about them
Lee's mistake was assuming that a simple, direct kill would have made Noriega suffer. The worst deaths are gradual, drawn out, painful, and horrific.
As he quickly learned thereafter
He didnt know what he wanted. He sayed he wanted him to suffer but what he acctually wanted was the satisfacion of being the one to kill him.
@@minuspi8372 Or rather, slowly*
Possibly…I think the lighter Lee gave to Angela is what caused the “curse” to pass onto him. Angela needed something that belonged to Paul for it to work, the lighter that he had borrowed from Paul and kept for years. Once he killed Paul, technically the lighter didn’t have its owner anymore. Like when someone passes away and you have items that you got from them that become yours. The lighter is what tied the curse to the victim, therefore Lee became the only connection to the lighter used in Angela’s curse.
I like this interpretation, the fact that the curse passed onto him made no sense to me at first
Yep, once Paul was dead, Lee became the de-facto owner of the lighter and therefore the target of the curse
I always thought it was because the price was his fear so when the statement guy killed him he needed to pay the price instead
@@sociallifeofafemboyI think this is just as valid. Angela said “why not” & something about hungers being too great(excuse my poor paraphrasing rn, I don’t wanna scrub through the video until I relistened🥲🤭). Like those are two contradicting or different reasons to do something like this but they both can go hand and hand. I think it was also his bloodlust and revenge along with the fear u mentioned that might’ve been the hunger she was talking about.
I always thought that the reason it passed to him was because Paul’s “puzzle” wasn’t finished. Angela needed more pieces.
Me 6 minutes in, putting together the episode's title, the statement author's strange comment about losing pieces of himself, and the fact Angela keeps pictures made of jigsaw puzzles in her house: ah ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ .
The foreshadowing in this series man.
vs me 24:37 min in realizing only after reading ur comment
The moment I realized it, I got chills
Ohhhhh I didn't get the jigsaw bit until now. Just thought it was a normal old lady thing that was coincidental
(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`) Im not smart enough to put these things together
"Useless ass"
- Jonathan Sims, 2017.
wait..that ending was creepy. If each box contained a body part or a part of him and he would lose it, hundreds of box implied he would've suffered that many fatalities before dying, if he did even die...
That's what really made this episode for me. When he got to that part it really hit what torture he was in for. Eeeehh.
He did say he lost track of how many teeth he lost
Eventually he's going to run out of body pieces
Jon really went full theatre dork and I adore that for him. You go funky archivist, you go.
Didn't expect Jonathan to have the cheek to call a lost tongue joke *tasteless*.
I just got it
" I'd have to think outside the box a bit" nice foreshadowing there.
Jonathan wtf did Martin do to you? leave my lad alone XD
Spoiler alert
Jon's a tsundere
Canonically, he accidentally let a dog into the archive the same day they met and also Jon is a grumpy little sourpuss
fr how can u hate some1 who jigsaw puzzles
hearing Jon swear so much is... sort of discomfiting. i’m just not used to it
According to a q+a, there was originally a lot more swearing in this episode, but Alex made him cut it to avoid the explicit tag
“I am dangerous” that is my favorite line by Jon so far 😂
I'm 14 and this is edgy
@@kellanlevi5663 im 4 days old &... googoo gaga
I AM THE MAN WHO KNOCKS
Remember, rather than trying to interfere with a professional you hired, check in on their progress, less dangerous and insulting!
S1 John: constantly berates and insults Martin
S5 john: literally in love with him
Literally the reason I started this
22:40 this was the moment I decided I was probably going to love Martin, and I was right
ONLY martin could have had a pleasant chat with someone affiliated with the Flesh
@@dreamer3725 Hmm is this a reference to some overaching lore, that shows up later?
@@St0nek
You probably know this already, but yes.
the voice acting in this one... flawless
"some hungers are too strong to deny"
huh
Taz fan?
@@ASeed17 👀
glad i wasn’t the only one who thought of The Hunger when he said that lmao
I had a craving that only hands could satisfy.
This one hit different. As the son of a carpenter who's had some accidents in his life, losing body parts is probably the most tangible fear I have. Seeing someone you love and care for deeply come home with fewer fingers than they left with can have an effect you, especially if you're young like I was.
That makes sense.
What if the missing teeth from Lee and Paul were the cause for the teeth bags in the thrown away episode? And the old lady from the thrown away episode could match :o
Idk, it's a longshot.
nah, jon said that it was the same over and over again, like someone had cloned then, so I think that it wasn't Lee and Paul's teeth or they would have had some very odd mouths
@@jonathanmeans506 shoot, you're right. I forgot about that lol.
She could’ve somehow collected every specific tooth from each one of her victims, Lee and Paul included. I know she had a husband in the other episode, but she could have had her meetings when he was away. Just a thought; also a long shot.
i thought that meant that they were all the same kind of tooth, like the frontal one. As if there were various victims
Nah it's described as being "the same tooth, in various stages of decay"
It wouldn't really be significant if it were just the same kind of tooth, rather than the exact same one
9:55 "NOT SCARED, I WASN'T SCARED OK?". You were. You were so freaking scared lol
Say fuck. It's funny
@@pearlescentmoon_enjoyer I'm too chickenshit 😔
ooh we've heard the "box that looks like an old-fashioned Christmas present" description before
Where?
@@TransilvanianHunger1334 the bin-men episode, the metal heart in a box in the trash bag full of packing peanuts
The trash bag was what they described as looking like an old fashioned Christmas present
Alright, please tell me that I'm not the only person who's now going to recommend these episodes to people and then wrap every Christmas present this year in an old-fashioned manner?
@@fiddlesticksmeow6269 omg great idea
lee: That scammer
also lee: literally paid nothing but a decade old lighter
lee: I was gonna wait another week but I was angy
lee if ur gonna not ask questions the bare minimum you can do is wait
its probably stupid of me to listen to this FIRST THING IN THE MORNING and late at night but im taking my lack of nightmares as a sign that my morbid curiosity is overtaking my anxiety LMAO. though i was getting heart palpitations because of the music ABSJDFJGK
Right at the end, while playing Minecraft, I got f**king jumped by a spider out of nowhere. Nearly had a heart attack
What a great time to have an amputation phobia. GREAT TIME
“Tasteless joke” talking about a dude who lost his tongue
Okay that's one terrifying curse, but what's more interesting I think its first time anyone asked for help, sure they deal with paranormal stuff. Others often just wanted to have peace of mind, but he was desperate to get help. Also I can't help but wonder if slowly dying piece by piece was really worth "that look on his face"?
Edgy boy did an uh-oh and got mixed up with some evil magic...
"I'm reminded of a somewhat tasteless joke of loose tongues" 😂😂 Very tongue in cheek
Tongue in box, actually.
So uhh I’ve been kind of forgetting about the stories after hearing them (like don’t get me wrong they’re super good, I’m just forgetful) but apparently they’re all connected so now I’m panicking that I’ve forgotten important plot points aahhh
Nyeh, if there is an important plot point, somebody will mention it in the comments. And fortunetly, this show has a decent wiki.
alejwkeks same--
i tried to take notes but that didnt go very well and guess ill die lmao 91:9;8/92&:)1)- ;-;
Someone will write the connection in the comments, don't worry. But don't go to the wiki because its full of spoilers
Don't worry, I do the same thing. But it helps that I like rewatching (or in this case relistening) to shows I really like. So I get moments where they mention an angry goth and I'm like "Gerry?! My son?! He's here!"
This one’s mostly just general lore stuff, nothing important. Aside from the brief mention of Salesa
This guy's so angy lmao
No talk me angy
I mean, I would be too if I started to lose body parts to make some old woman a new jigsaw puzzle
11:49 hardened criminal:“but after twee weeks”
beautiful simply gorgeous
17:02 he describes the first package like an old fashioned christmas present... isn't that the phrase that was used to describe the bin bag with alan's heart inside in ep 5? I may be reading too much into it though
there were teeth in that one too, weren't there?
@@m.austin7522 no the first one was doll heads, the second was a long slip of paper inscribed with an infinitely repeated prayer, the Third was the teeth, and the fourth was the heart.
Wow I don't latch onto the right details in this podcast, thanks for pointing this out
Jon really outdid himself this episode. And now I just visualize him locking himself in a room or some hidden corner somewhere in the archive just to fully awaken his inner theater kid and go ham on the voice acting XD probably does some pacing and stuff too, once he really gets into it.
And who is this Marting guy and what did he do to make Jon dislike him so much? I mean, hearing his disdain for the guy amuses me more than it probably should, but is Martin like a bad guy or something? Is he gonna be important later on or is he just one of those background characters who die offscreen to further the plot?
He he he
Martin accidentally let a dog into the archives the first time he and Jon met, thats why Jon hates him
@@skullape3281 so bad first impression?
@@koykoyonly1628 yes
Martin is Great, You’re gonna like him :)
If his wounds healed instantly then when the "incident" occurred on the premises of the archive, surely one of these investigators of the esoteric and supernatural noticed it was STRANGE
I love Jon roasting Martin, while he clearly found Angela hahaha
I'm re-listening to all of these, and I just noticed that at 20:21 with the line "Some hungers are too strong to be denied" there's a bit of static, which...
(SPOILERS)
...we know is associated with the entities flexing their power. So that's interesting
I'm not sure what entity this episode is about. The line about hungers makes me think it might be the hunt, but I'm not sure.
@@riley7183 I'd assume it's The Flesh, since it's all about loosing his body, but a lot of the earlier episodes don't have a clear influence from a specific entity so idk
Be should have kept the body parts and sewed them back on and become a Frankenstein badass.
Issue of that is that the skin has healed over so none of the cartridge or stuff could pass over
The body parts disappeared after being removed though. That's why there was never a body to be found. It was removed piece by piece, but the pieces disappeared
This is how you get into Justice League Dark
I’m kind of surprised that no one in the comments (from what I can see) are bringing it up, but I’m really focused on how Angela said that the item from Noriega couldn’t be a gift. So, possession of the item was important to the magic. Even though the item wasn’t a gift, since it was stolen by Rentoul I could see how the item may have defaulted to his possession once Noriega was dead. This might have been why Angela couldn’t have stopped it (though I doubt she cared to either).
I think it has to do with the intent & energy around the object. A gift is a choice, something being taken is a violation of hatred. And yes, I agree, she didn't care either way.
Hearing Jon say curse words is just such a novelty to me, I don't know why.
Also for anyone that hasn't pieced it together yet, Angela's jigsaw puzzles were all people, and every time she found a piece and put it in place, the person in the picture would loose a bit of themselves. The item she needed was probably so the power she was using would get the victims scent, though not in a physical way. A gifted item wouldn't work because it wouldn't be connected to them anymore
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This seems like it would either be in the Domain of the hunt or the flesh. I'd say the hunt since it's about causing pain in persistence and the bit about some hungers being too powerful to stop.
this is the first one that actually scared me, like holy shit, the voice acting was superb and the whole thing was just . . . wow and the tongue part was the cherry on top.
I mean to be fair, if I had a job like this, I'd pull out _my_ voice acting skills too out of sheer boredom and annoyance
This was definetly in my top 3 plot unrelated episodes. I'm not gonna lie, this episode on top of being scary is genuinely funny as hell. Just hearing the statement of this actaul murderer just losing his shit over everything is hilarious to me.
you can tell this is where the writers, directors, and editors really got into this project
Cannot believe Jon is deciding beforehand how he’s gonna read these out. Like, he has to look ‘em over and decide what character fits best. That hilarious.
First time listener here and I can't but noticed it's the second time something is described as "wrapped like an old-fashioned Christmas present" (first time was one on the trash bag in episode 5)
I wonder if Jon (the character) is aware of his innate acting skills
Apparently not entirely
a glass eye? there seems to be a theme here...
just noticed?
👁
"Useless ass" I'm at work and currently dying thanks
It's kinda funny relistening to this and seeing all the theories people make, because OH boi... You've got no idea what's coming hope you're ready
DUDE
@@St0nek first time listener? Because my dude, this ride will get a LOT wilder
@@lemmetalkaboutthis holy shit
20:20 i very much appreciate the sound of static in the recording quality/room swelling here. not entirely sure it it's important, but from what i've seen, every single detail is. no matter how small or easily overlooked.
i've just started. ready to have my heart ripped out, better late than never. i can already tell this series will have a very profound effect on me. thank you, Rusty Quill Productions :]]
Kudos to the episode that scared me so badly when I heard it the first time that I refused to listen to TMA again for 6 months after the fact.
Damned John! ". . . not that I wished for him to be cut into pieces . . ." give poor Martin a break!
🎶 HE HAD IT COMING! HE HAD IT COMING! HE ONLY HAD HIMSELF TO BLAME! 🎶
Why do I keep listening to this in the dark at night.
Jigsaws...
ive always listened to this on Spotify until now ( this is my 3rd time listing to it) when my friend told me to read the comments on YT and oh my god this is amazing these comments are so funny omfg
same here i listened to it first only on spotify but in my relisten im going though the comments while listening to it on yt
I've only made it this far and I already love this podcast. It's just so good. Maybe I should try more horror stuff; I've like, never read horror.
If you're a fan of this podcast you might like Welcome to Nightvale, which is radio broadcasts from a little town in the desert in the western US about the goings on there. Cecil, the host talks about all the normal little things of day to day life, such as updates on the candidates running for mayor -- Hiram McDaniels, a five headed dragon, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in All of Our Homes -- information on the city that was discovered in the pin retrieval area under lane 5 in the Desert Flower Bowling Alley, etc. You know, normal stuff that in small town america.
@Isabelle R. Can I just mention that you have my upmost respect for using a semicolon in the TH-cam comments section? Semicolons are the best.
I would also reccomend Horrorbabble here on youtube, if you want to get into more classic horror literature.
Oh boy this was an excellent episode, 1h later im suddenly jolting in my bed like "..... wait. The jigsaw puzzles. Does she fsksksnsing gain a piece every time her victim unravels??"
Love those ones where the writing allows for interpretation while still handing out food. Brilliant, brilliant.
Ah, the potty mouth episode.
lmao
Jon: Martin appears. "Useless ass."
I live for this, JAJA
After the second time I'd just stop opening the boxes
Headcanon: Angela is a Sarkic flesh sorcerer.
Yeah if you make a deal with some form of witch it's best to follow your end of the bargain.
Remember kids. Smoking kills
hooo boy i got chills when he said that he got a tongue in the mail holy sheiititttt. i just wanna know what tf happened
Lee could've just waited. Oh well.
okay this is by far one of the scariest so far, this concept is fucking horrifying
Don’t love the digs at jigsaw puzzles, they’re good fun Jonny!
While waiting for new episode of the latest season I decided to jump back and listen from the beginning and damn,,,, I missed it,,, poor Martin tho, it's gonna get better
Hey, buddy, I just wanted to check in. How are you doing?
@@sashaneumann doing very well, but still haven't finished the last season.... i need to pull myslef togheter bahahah
came back here after initially finishing the podcast since Angela was mentioned in a much later episode, glad to know the old woman giving curses to people is still thriving
It’s so weird hearing my name-
I love the ambiance in the episode and the LOVELY descriptions of stabbing and blood while kitting! (Not being sarcastic, btw)
"poor" Noriega is all I kept hearing, as though everyone secretly had sympathy for the unlucky fella... 😭😭😭
Amazing. Haunting
Did we ever hear the statement from Hester? The one who was "seeing ghosts"
solved cases wouldn't be in the archives
I like listening to this podcast on TH-cam because I can get to read theory and stuff, but this comment section is my favorite I swear
For some reason, I keep imagining Martin's "pleasant talk about jigsaws" being not about puzzles but about machines, and it makes it even funnier
Edit: ok, you know what's even more funny? English isn't my first language, so I got jigsaws and chainsaws mixed up
Patience is very important, especially in his case.
I love relistening to this episode knowing that the script had to be edited due to excessive swearing. You can really hear in his voice where certain insults were intended to be way more profane
Coolest 'monster/incident' so far.
Wow, this was so great. I can't get enough of these
Witches, man.
Science with out statistical tests is just witchcraft
@@tomdaly7088 I'm pretty sure that's why people thought there were witches in the first place. That apothecary cured someone's smallpox without prayer? WITCH!
i only started watching a couple days ago but this show is actually peak comedy to me. every episode is a bitchy british man dramatically retelling a spooky story and ending it with "well that was stupid. no sources were cited. they were probably just hallucinating. anyways, martin go fuck yourself."
this was a really fun one! i hope we get more statement givers who are real shit heads like this guy. this seemed like a pretty straight forward cautionary tale about patience. if you're going to go through the trouble to put a hit on someone via evil curse, you can't get impatient and stab the dude yourself and NOT expect weird magical repercussions. also, DID martin meet the angela described in this statement? she seemed like she enjoyed projecting an unassuming demeanour, so i'm sure she'd have no problem chatting about jigsaws without giving herself away. on the other hand, it's a bit rich for the narrator to call him a useless ass when all he gave him to go on was a first name and general area.
This episode must be my favorite
"Sir, is this yours?"
"No, it's a Rentoul."
so well done!!!
Julian 3 word
I'm re-listening to this series after finishing the whole thing and this is one of my favorite episodes
This episode could straight up be the plot of a Twilight Zone episode.
First time listening through. Ive been enjoying this series so far, but this is the first episode that genuinely shook me to my core (mainly because I absolutely despise body horror). Also i noticed that Angela was spending her time with puzzle *pieces* just like how his body was being pieces apart. Absolutely loving this series so far
On like my fifth relisten of this episode and this comment is what clued me into the significance of the puzzles, thank you for sharing your wisdom