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WOE.BEGONE is an on-going weekly Horror/Mystery/ScienceFiction/Comedy audio drama created by Dylan Griggs. The series was acquired in 2022 by the podcast network Rusty Quill. Each episode has a unique soundtrack.
In a search for an interesting ARG, Mike Walters accidentally stumbles into a brutal real life game, known online as WOE.BEGONE. What begins as an exploration of the game turns into a search for the powerful technology that makes the game possible.
Note: Due to the format of the story, there will be unmarked spoilers, although attempts will be made to mark larger spoilers.
This podcast provides examples of:
- Future Foil: Mike Walters meets two versions of himself, from five and ten years into the future. One of them is a cowboy.
- Have We Met Yet??: August meets Michael for the first time in Episode 73 where Michael calls August by the nickname for his middle name, Sly. August points out that he's never told Michael his middle name.
- Human Popsicle: Deconstructed. Characters are put into a stasis called Storage, where they can be taken out whenever and experience no passage of time. However it's made clear that this is not done using any sort of cryogenic tech, but rather using the time-travel tech to keep people in a state where they are not alive or dead.
- I Hate Past Me: Mike frequently laments this.
- Ominous Messagefromthe Future:
- In Episode 2 Mike hears a recording of himself saying he's going to cut off his own arm.
- Mike finds a mysterious parcel addressed to Edgar in their cabin that could have only been placed there using the tech. He imminently opens it to find out that it was actually meant for him because the person who sent it knew that addressing it to Edgar would make Mike react the way he did. It contains a message from a mysterious voice telling Mike to carry out these instructions or Edgar will die.
- One-Steve Limit:
- Averted. Not only are there two Ryan's and two Chris's, but one of the Ryan's is in a queer-platonic relationship with one of the Chris's and the remaining Ryan and Chris work closely together. This is remarked upon by Mike in his narration, who mentally (and sometimes out loud) refers to the Ryan and Chris in the queer-platonic relationship as Shadow and Chance.
- Lampshaded with various Mike Walters time iterations insisting that they all have a unique name to be called.
- Time-Travelers Are Spies: Played with in that the characters do actually use the tech to spy and commit espionage on rival groups. Mike Walters time iterations do accuse and suspect each other of being spies.
