Season 1, Episode 10: The Optimist and the Only One

A world consumed by evil. A lone holdout clinging to good. And an Optimist determined to set things right.

This is not the flood story of your childhood.

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Text: Genesis 6:1-9:17

Players:

• Yahweh

• Noah

What's Spooky:

• Rape

• Mass animal death

• Mass human death

• Decaying corpses

Music Credits:

• Winds of Change, by Four Trees

• Murmur III, by Alicia Enstrom

• Memoriam, by Stephen Keech

• Despair, By Davis Harwell

• Go Where You Fear to Tread, by Davis Harwell

• A Welcoming, by Jordan Cruz

• Strange Things, by Jay Urban

• Kingdoms, by Third Age

• Portrait, by Young Collective

• Stasis Interrupted, by Dresden

• Missed Memories, by Luke Atencio

• From Dark to Light, by Alistair Sung

• The End, by Colossus

• Up Above, by Chelsea McGough

• A Moment of Clarity, by Stephen Keech

• Realm of Men, by Cody Martin

• Next Chapter, by Alistair Sung

• Medicine, by Davis Harwell

• Fine-Toothed Chrome, by Sam Barsh

Editing:

• Many thanks to JL Gerhardt for manuscript editing assistance.

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