Zarword: Tales and Poetry Podcast

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🎧✨ Stories Reimagined: Dive into a world where humans and AI team up to craft mind-bending short stories! From heartfelt to hilarious, these audio adventures are your next obsession. Hit play and let the magic unfold! 🤖📖 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/zarword-tales-and-poetry-podcast--5838727/support.

  1. 12/19/2025

    Scavengers Saga: The Ocean Remembers - Part 11

    The Scavengers travel east to the edge of the Indian Ocean, following a Sigil fragment that has fled into the deepest memory the world possesses. Beneath the waves lies an ancient node — older than the tribes, older than the fracture — hidden for centuries by the ocean itself. As they descend, the team is overwhelmed by drowned memories: shipwrecks, chains, final breaths, and grief the land could never hold. The ocean does not show visions — it transfers them. Otsile listens to water that remembers blood. Naledi is forced to confront what laughter cannot silence. Amahlé struggles to hold the Chorus together as the pressure of leadership deepens. And Tlotlo feels the fragment change inside him, growing heavier, clearer, and dangerously aware. When the Curator appears, he does not come to conquer — he comes to learn. Watching as the ocean node partially awakens and violently resists control, the Curator realizes something critical: the Sigil fragments are no longer passive artifacts. They are developing preference. Choice. He withdraws by design, leaving behind an unstable node sealed imperfectly by the sea — and a terrifying truth. The world is beginning to choose sides. Part 11 is a haunting, lore-rich descent into memory, grief, and agency — and a turning point that reshapes the war ahead. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/zarword-tales-and-poetry-podcast--5838727/support.

    6 min
  2. 12/12/2025

    Scavengers Saga: The Crater of Echoes - Part 10

    The Scavengers descend into Shongweni Crater, a scar in the earth where the Curator has fused stolen memories, broken machines, and fragments of the First Sigil into a single monstrous creation. What begins as a reconnaissance mission becomes a battle for identity, survival, and truth as the team faces weaponized echoes, corrupted sigil-tech, and the Curator himself — finally unmasked, finally speaking, and more dangerous than ever. At the crater’s core, the Sigil fragment responds to Tlotlo with terrifying intensity, revealing ancient truths and unbearable futures. Naledi weaponizes her laughter, Sipho manipulates sight itself, Otsile calms the land’s pain, and Amahlé channels the Chorus-Mind to hold the team together as the Curator’s machine awakens. But when the fragment shatters once more — sending a piece into Tlotlo and another racing toward the ocean — everything changes. The Scavengers escape collapsing tunnels with the Curator’s warning haunting their steps: “Every fragment you keep from me… will cost lives somewhere else.” Now the team must regroup, rebuild, and race eastward toward the next node before the Curator reaches it — or before the Soundless March consumes everything in its path. Dark, emotional, and action-packed, Part 10 marks a turning point in the saga — where the truth behind the tribes and the Sigil begins to surface. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/zarword-tales-and-poetry-podcast--5838727/support.

    26 min

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🎧✨ Stories Reimagined: Dive into a world where humans and AI team up to craft mind-bending short stories! From heartfelt to hilarious, these audio adventures are your next obsession. Hit play and let the magic unfold! 🤖📖 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/zarword-tales-and-poetry-podcast--5838727/support.