There is a fine line between absent-minded genius and idiot savant. Gordo Gordon keeps a foot planted firmly on either side. Father Al knows this better than anyone. Father Al watches over Gordo and tolerates the young man’s endless — and useless — inventions. When Gordo creates a theory to track “prayer energy,” however, Father Al will find a religious secret that puts his faith to the test. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NFL Security agent Lawrence Cutter’s standard background check of number-one draft prospect Eugene Patterson should have been easy work. It was – until he learned of the animal sacrifice, and that was just the beginning of his unfortunate discoveries. It's past midnight in Memphis, and Cutter is on the run, trying to avoid the “Pitter-Patterson” of little feet. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is “Dead Silence” by Vasya Sakal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the high-stakes world of the National Football League, a wasted draft choice can cost careers and damage a franchise for years to come. When they investigate sure-fire number-one pick Eugene Patterson, however, they find far more than they want to know. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tranquilizers and sledgehammers in hand, the Penniless Quartet set out to catch a Snipe. It may very well be the last thing they ever do… Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The “Penniless Quartet” have their final exam assignment – to demonstrate their zoology skills and creativity in an exercise looking for an urban species that, technically, should exist. What they will find will take them down an unexpected path. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is “Dead Silence” by Vasya Sakal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nature abhors a vacuum. One such vacuum exists in the “urban ecologies” of our cities. From bacteria to insects, from rodents to hawks, from feral cats to the mass numbers of pigeons, plants, and animals weave together a web of life that goes mostly unnoticed by humans. What is missing from this mosaic? Four college students set out to find this mythical creature, the “Snipe,” and learn that a vacuum isn’t the only thing nature abhors. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the storm coming in, the family seals the house and arms up. Kevin and Martha want out fast, but will Bobby and the others let them leave? All does not end well in Fenders Pointe, IA. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is “Dead Silence” by Vasya Sakal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come visit Fenders Pointe, IA. We'd love to have you stop by, see the trees, smell the flowers, and relax with our Midwestern hospitality. Only you should try to schedule around the rainy season. If you're here when the typhoons hit, we'll be happy to welcome you as a permanent resident. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is “Dead Silence” by Vasya Sakal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To be marked as a sex offender, a pedophile, or a child rapist is to carry a stigma that all but banishes you from society. And if that mark is literal - a permanent, inoperable face tattoo - anonymity vanishes, and all who see you know of your crime. For a man who is wrongly convicted of horrible deeds, this mark becomes his life. This story won a Parsec Award. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is “Dead Silence” by Vasya Sakal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the time before man, one animal ruled the Americas – the wolf. Wolf packs roamed the continent, hunting and killing and breeding. But before any wolf ever saw the death that would walk on two legs, there came another danger… Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is “Dead Silence” by Vasya Sakal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More SLAY questions and a ton of questions about Scott, the Siglerverse, writing, and everything else.  Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions from fans about SLAY Season 1. Scott and co-author Rob Otto answer them all. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t finished Slay Season One yet, do that first. NOTE: We had an echo for Rob and ARealGirl courtesy of Zoom. We can’t fix it, so hopefully, you can bear with it.  Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The aftermath of the final battle(s) has left Linc and Billy battered and broken, but a new danger is already closing in. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby, Gary Satyr, Mercutio, and all the club kids are down for the count, leaving only a badly wounded Lincoln and a battered Callista to stand against Dante, Oleus Oakbeard, Boss Hawg, and the last of Dante’s Miami thugs. Meanwhile, at the Old Stone Church, Billy is trying to free Dragon from the meshwork net that keeps her from attacking Butch and the Rolling Outlaws. The story of SLAY concludes with this episode (but there is an epilogue episode next!) Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy, Magda, Ariella, and Dragon are at the Old Stone Church, under assault from Butch and the Rolling outlaws. Billy and Butch fought one-on-one. Billy broke Butch’s knee, but his celebration was short-lived — Money Monday beat Billy down, leaving him a limp mess atop the now fifteen-foot-long Dragon, who has been bound up in a ball by a meshwork net provided to Butch by Boss Hawg. Magda did some damage to B’Lockay and to Money Monday, but she collapsed in fear brought on by memories of her fight with Vestinian and the Umataken. Ariella used her limited magic to drag Magda into the nave and shut the doors tight, leaving men to try and shoulder their way through. Across town, the club kids and Dante’s Miami thugs are battling it out at Callista’s club. Callista hurt Oleus Oakbeard, but she was knocked silly by Boss Hawg. She’s down, with only Gary Satyr to protect her against Dante’s forces, but Lincoln and Bobby are about to enter the fray. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Butch and the Rolling Outlaws followed Billy to the Old Stone Church and used a spell given to him by Boss Hawg to bind Dragon in a golden meshwork net. Magda and Ariella tried to fight Butch and his men, but Magda’s flashback from her fight with Vestinian left her helpless in the fetal position. Ariella rescued Magda. The two women are likely somewhere in the church, being hunted by Butch’s men.         Butch then told Billy it was time for Billy to pay for Big Hack’s death. Dante and his bounty hunters are coming for Callista. Outside her building, Lincoln and Mercutio attacked the Flechette Sisters and their giant panthers. Lincoln landed a near-killing shot on Betty Flechette, then fled for the secret passage that led into the building where he and Mercutio could connect with Callista, her Club Kid troops, and her bodyguard Bobby the Minotaur. Mercutio used the passage's door to cut a pursuing panther in half, but Veronica Flechette blew up that door, filling the passage with smoke and broken brick. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Butch followed Billy back to the Old Stone Church and was able to lead his Rolling Outlaw gang members into the entryway. Dragon the dog turned into Dragon the dragon, but Butch used a meshwork ring given to him by Boss Hawg to bind the protector. Magda and Ariella came out of the nave to face off against Butch and his men. Ariella used her threadwork necklace to make the Outlaws’ guns heat up to the point where the men could not hold them. Meanwhile, Mercutio led Lincoln through the tunnels beneath Callista’s building. The unlikely duo is about to take on the Flechette sisters and their big cats in a skirmish that could determine the course of the battle.  Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Callista ordered Lincoln to protect her from Dante’s assassins, a murderer’s row that includes Boss Hawg, the Flechette Sisters, and the druid-sorcerer Oleus Oakbeard. Shitbird signaled to Lincoln that Dante’s troops had been spotted. Callista sent Lincoln and her boy-toy Mercutio out to take out an assassin or two before the real battle begins.  Meanwhile, Billy tried to go to his apartment to warn his Gramma to leave town, but he saw Butch’s men around the place — Billy bailed and pedaled for the Old Stone Church. Dante and Oleus were on the roof of Callista’s old four-story factory building, using a cockeye to search for Lincoln. If they can find him, they can send the others to take him out. Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lincoln and Shitbird left to fight for Callista, and Billy just plain left. Frustrated and upset, he figured out how to break Magda’s meshwork seal that kept him inside the Old Stone Church. Meanwhile, Dante gathered his mercenaries together to prep them for the coming fight against Lincoln, Callista, and her bodyguard, Bobby. Can Callista call up enough troops to take on Dante’s boys from Miami? Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things are heating up in Lumencia. Butch and the Rolling Outlaws are in cahoots with Boss Hawg, but Butch and his crew can’t handle the powers of the enlightened. Can Hawg help them out? Lincoln and Magda just finished a training session with Billy that saw the kid stomp off, furious that Lincoln didn’t remember killing Billy’s friend Joe. So heated was the argument that Dragon — Lincoln’s dog — went after Billy to console him. Meanwhile, Dante Oganov is putting the finishing touches on his campaign to eliminate Callista and take over as the head crime lord of Lumencia. What does he have in store for her and those who want to protect her? Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2023 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “They’re Watching Me” by SUPERWEAPON. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices