#mag 008 burned out

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Two - Match 17

Today we have the first appearance of both the House on Hill Top Road and Agnes Montague up against the Sweariest Statement Giver Ever. #ReleaseTheSwearCut

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

MAG 014 - Piecemeal | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

[fractal-voidling]

MAG008 - #0071304 │ Burned Out

feeling like one's sanity is slipping is something I can strongly relate to tbh

even though I have a feeling that Ivo's dad's delusions sound far too specific to be just a result of a disturbed mind

Canadian vampires would've loved that tree for sure though, lmao

can't wait for statement #0218011, the place really does seem like it has a complicated (and very paranormal) history

Agnes Montague sounds super sus, can't wait to learn about that potential correlation

[6-and-7]

Creeptober 26 - Hanging Tree The Tower: MAG 008 - Burned Out

"People had always whispered about Agnes, but now the whispers got nasty. Nasty enough that when smoke was seen pouring out of the old Fielding house a week after little Henry disappeared, no-one did a thing. No-one phoned the fire brigade or tried to help. They just watched. Agnes must not have phoned for assistance either, as by the time the fire trucks arrived, there was nothing left to save.

Through it all, nobody saw any sign of life from within the building. No screaming, no movement, nothing but the roaring of the flames. When the fire was finally put out, they did find human remains, but it wasn’t Agnes, nor was it Henry White. The only body they found was that of Raymond Fielding. All that was left was a badly-charred skeleton, missing its right hand."

[itchyeye]

IMO Burnt Out was really good, not just because of the creepy Desolation things happening in the background, but because of how mask-off it gets w/the Institute. There's some real horror in the statement-giver being 100% right about the Institute: they're not going to do anything to help him or his family, but they'll maybe put the pieces together in 10 years

do you mean mag 008 burned out? this is a unique choice! i'll confess i don't remember this one well because i tune out of all the hilltop road episodes

but also yes my best beloved 👁️ doesn't like to get her hands dirty... she just listens and she watches and she feasts...

[rainyhideoutartisan]

SOUTH PARK REFRENCE IN THE MAGNUM ARCHIVES?!?

(MAG 008 "Burned Out")

[magallifreyannus-archives]

MAG 008 - Burned Out

[colin-becher-death-countdown]

JOHN RESEARCH

Okay ready to show my findings, I'm not doing repeats

MAG 001 Anglerfish

John Fellowes

MAG 002 Do Not Open

John no last name given

MAG 008 Burned Out

John Radcliffe Hospital

MAG 011 Dreamer

John Uzel

MAG 015 Lost John's Cave

Cave named after a story of 2 men named John

MAG 022 Colony

Jonathan Sims is referred to as John (Jon) for the first time

MAG 034 Anatomy Class

John Doe

MAG 036 Taken Ill

John Amherst

MAG 043 Section 31

John Spencer

MAG 045 Blood Bag

John Snow

MAG 053 Crusader

St. John

MAG 058 Trail Rations

Fort John

MAG 066 Held In Customs

John Ruskin

MAG 070 Book of the Dead

John Kendrick

MAG 072 Takeaway

John Haan

MAG 082 Eyewitnesses

A body is referred to as a John Doe and I'd be remiss to not mention it

MAG 098 Lights Out

John Franklin

John Heyrick Macaulay

MAG 100 I Guess You Had To Be There

'John Smith' obviously a not their legal name but I'm an ally

MAG 108 Monologue

John Flamsteed

MAG 114 Cracked Foundation

John Hector Lettings

MAG 122 Zombie

Lorell St. John

MAG 133 Dead Horse

John Franklin

MAG 136 The Puppeteer

John Carpenter

🟩 - Person named John in some capacity

🟦 - Location

🟥 - Just for fun

That means in 200 episodes of The Magnus Archives there were 20 different Johns

So 10% of The Magnus Archives has an episode with a different person called John

doing some vital john research, will report back in an hour or two

[eyemarked]

agnes montague & the beholding

She couldn’t have been more than eleven when she turned up, and didn’t really talk, other than to tell people her name if asked. Everyone just started to notice this child with mousey brown pigtails staring at them through the windows of Raymond’s house. As far as anyone could tell, that’s all she ever seemed to do - stare at people from the windows.

MAG 008 - Burned Out

And so the years passed and Agnes lived on in that old house. Hardly ever seemed to leave it, just watched from the windows.

MAG 008 - Burned Out

...when smoke was seen pouring out of the old Fielding house a week after little Henry disappeared, no-one did a thing. No-one phoned the fire brigade or tried to help. They just watched.

MAG 008 - Burned Out

...when the man from the Children’s Committee came with the papers for Ray to sign, she was standing at the bottom of the stairs, watching me with an expression that looked almost playful.

MAG 059 - Recluse

But she was so beautiful. She, she was tall, with long, straight, auburn hair and these eyes that, when they looked at you, it didn’t feel like she was seeing you so much as was trapping you. I never understood the phrase “like a deer in the headlights” until she looked me in the eyes for the first time.

MAG 067 - Burning Desire

She never actually put any milk in it. She never even drank it. She’d just take it over and sit there, staring out the window into the street for an hour or so. It wasn’t like there was much of a view, just a normal street, and outside Sheffield city centre, that’s not much of a view at all.

MAG 067 - Burning Desire

He walked over and started saying something or other, cocky as anything. Agnes - though I didn’t know her name back then - just looked up and met his eyes. I could see him start to falter. Sweat began to roll down his forehead, but he kept talking. Then Agnes went to stand up.

It was only a very small movement, but the man started as though a gun had gone off, knocking into the table and spilling coffee all over his hand. It had been sat there almost 40 minutes, but I could see his flesh start to redden with burns where the liquid had touched it. He screamed, and suddenly all eyes were on him.

MAG 067 - Burning Desire

It was only after Agnes had left her undrunk coffee and headed out to wherever she went that I realized we’d never made any actual arrangements.

I spent the next day in a funk, kicking myself for having been so stupid...  About 3:00 in the afternoon, though, there was a knock on the door.

Standing on the other side was Agnes.

MAG 067 - Burning Desire 

(note: the eye manifestation in the above bit is extrapolated from the way agnes knows jack barnabas’ address without him ever telling her where he lived. sure, there are other explanations - maybe she followed him home the previous day, who knows - but given the theme of this post, i thought it was worth including.)

[bubonickitten]

Literally no one asked, but I compiled a list of all the times someone suggests or commits arson in TMA

...up to MAG 162, anyway. [Spoilers ahead, obviously.]

MAG 004 – Gerry buys Ex Altiora for £5,000, then immediately slam-dunks it in the seller’s wastepaper bin, sets it on fire, and then just leaves. With the smoldering wastepaper bin. Patently refuses to explain himself, as is his way.  

MAG 006 – Timothy Hodge sets his flat on fire because worms.

MAG 008 – Does an incorporeal Raymond Fielding leaving scorch marks on the floor count as attempted arson? Probably not, but eh. Hill Top Road and arson are sort of inseparable.

MAG 010 – Trevor Herbert sets two (2) vampires on fire.

MAG 012 – Diego Molina and Gerry have some sort of fire-based showdown at a construction site and both end up in the hospital.

MAG 014 – Lee Rentoul sets a box (once containing his own soon-to-be-severed finger) on fire in a fit of petulant rage.

MAG 016 – Carlos Vittery puts his foot through his TV screen to kill a spider and then just straight up burns his shoe afterwards for good measure.

MAG 034 – Dr. Lionel Elliott burns the note that his anatomy students left with the tooth apple. He probably should have also burned the tooth apple.

MAG 036 – Trevor and Julia burn Ivy Meadows Care Home to the ground.

MAG 037 – Jason North fucks around and finds out at a spooky ritual circle in the woods and then his whole life goes up in flames. Literally.

MAG 043 – Diego Molina sets his own house on fire for personal (Desolation-related) reasons.

MAG 055 – Jordan Kennedy sets John Amherst’s sleeve on fire (valid). Then Arthur Nolan sets both his flat and himself on fire for personal (Desolation-related) reasons.

MAG 056 – Trevor Herbert discovers that human corpses aren’t as flammable as vampires.

MAG 059 – Statement giver Ronald Sinclair, like most reasonable people, strongly supports the incineration of Hill Top Road.

MAG 060 – Rosa Meyer wanted to flood the Magnus Institute with petrol and drop a match long before it was cool.  

MAG 061 – Daisy talks about vampire cremation.  

MAG 067 – I mean… Agnes. She is kind of the incarnation of arson. Also she casually incinerates some cobwebs, just to be petty. The Web knows what it did.

MAG 068 – Joseph Russo sets garbage on fire and calls it art.

MAG 070 – Masato Murray tries to burn the evil book of the dead. It does not work, because it’s an evil book of the dead.

MAG 072 – Not intentional arson, but the abandoned takeaway does go up in flames after some candles fall on a stack of bibles.

MAG 087 – Jude Perry burns down Gwydir Forest because an evil clown asked her very nicely.

MAG 089 – Jude Perry’s treatise on arson and self-immolation as a form of self-care.

MAG 100 – Does a ghost on fire count as arson?

MAG 102 – Gerry recommended setting Benoît Maçon’s house on fire but Gertrude said no.  

MAG 107 – Does a ghost train on fire count as arson?  

MAG 110 – Alexia Crawley burns a Leitner. And: “If I ever track down the man who used to own it, I might just burn him too.” #mood, Alexia.  paypal.com/IFuckingHateJurgenLeitner

MAG 111 – Gerry talks about his book burning hobby.  

MAG 117 – Jon burns Gerry’s page. Also, Martin gets really excited about the fact that he’s gonna get to do a little arson, as a treat.

MAG 118 – MARTIN GETS TO DO A LITTLE ARSON, AS A TREAT. (Get fucked, Elias.)

MAG 127 – Albrecht von Closen has his groundskeeper burn down a tree. In the rain. For some reason. Also, not arson, but Dr. Jonathan Fanshawe does make a point to basically end his letter with, “I had this guy’s body burned after the autopsy, seeing as he was FULL OF EYES. Eyes, Jonah, what the fuck. They blinked at me!! All of them!! In unison!! Don’t like that!! P.S. Don’t write me back.”

MAG 139 – Eugene “arson has always been my thing” Vanderstock suggests burning the Magnus Institute to the ground, because Jonny Sims (presumably) wants to hit us over the head with (what I assume is) foreshadowing as often as possible. Eugene also talks about how he and the rest of the Desolation squad burned down five acres of forest to create a pyre for Agnes’ birth, because they are nothing if not dramatic. 

MAG 145 – Arthur Nolan talks about how much he loves arson, as avatars of the Desolation are wont to do.

MAG 147 – This exchange that happens as the squad leaves Hill Top Road:

Jon: Are we burning it? Melanie: The statement or the building? Daisy: Both? Basira: Don’t tempt me.

MAG 154 – Gertrude burns Eric’s page.

MAG 157 – Adelard Dekker, who has never once half-assed anything in his entire life, builds his own funeral pyre so he can go out with a bang on his own terms – but only after he sits down and writes an email to Gertrude about how he totally pulled a Cask of Amontillado on Amherst and regrets nothing.

MAG 158 – Gertrude tries to burn down the Magnus Institute. Even stops to complain about how she “used to be able to torch a building in half the time.”

MAG 160 – Martin mentions that Basira managed to convince the police not to burn the Institute to the ground. (Pretty sure TMA is actually a podcast about failed attempts to torch an evil building that will probably end with a successful attempt to torch said evil building.)

MAG 162 – Gerry says “can I burn this book” and Gertrude says “knock yourself out” and Gerry says “excellent, I need to borrow your wastepaper bin and some lighter fluid, brb.” Also, Martin suggests getting some actual use out of that spider web lighter and burning the cozy cabin to the ground, but Jon says no -- you know, like a buzzkill. 

[cardest]

Philadelphia (PA) playlist

Sudden urge to play my Philadelphia and Pennsylvania playlist. I wonder why!? Last time I was in Philly was 2006. That was when Relapse Records had the shop not far from the Liberty Bell. It was a small shop with a little staircase and stacks of good shit that I bought that day. But as I walked around the town, down to get my steak sandwich from Geno’s I knew I had to make a Philly playlist some day. I wish I had it with me that day. Even the Amish can get behind this playlist! I wonder what Edgar Allen Poe would think of these songs. Also, I will admit, watching Nardwaur interview Questlove and how he spins his mind out 360 with all these records and posters and bands from Philly/PA, I learnt a lot, watching those video clips and therefore found songs for this playlist. Salute to them both. Hope you enjoy it. But...let’s get through the Civil War songs first. 001 Ruby The Hatchet - Planetary Space Child 002 Gettysburg Soundtrack_ Fife and Gun 003 The A's - A Woman's Got the Power 004 The Last Day at Gettysburg 005 Megadeth - We The People 006 Halestorm - Uncomfortable 007 Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses 008 Frank Yankovic - Pennsylvania Polka 009 Guns N' Roses - Civil War 010 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Fall in Philadelphia 011 Everclear - Pennsylvania Is 012 Civil War - Gettysburg 013 The Wackjobs - Sweet Home Pennsylvania 014 Iced Earth - The Devil to Pay 015 Clutch - Abraham Lincoln 016 The Brandos - Gettysburg 017 Billy Bernstein - Civil War Song 018 Ugly Kid Joe - Jesus Rode a Harley 019 Fred Darian - The Battle of Gettysburg 020 Greenskeepers - Lotion 021 Ween - I'm In The Mood To Move 022 ECSTATIC VISION - Dont Kill The Vibe 023 Live - this town 024 Cinderella - Hell On Wheels 025 Incantation - Invoked Infinity 026 Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot 027 Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise 028 Mark Knopfler & James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia 029 Ike and Tina Turner - Philadelphia Freedom 030 Devil Master - Desperate Shadow 031 1776 OST - Sit Down, John 032 Sounds Of Liberation - Billie One 033 Hall and Oates - Maneater 034 Barbara Acklin - Am I The Same Girl 035 The Meters - Funky Miracle 036 The Silhouettes - fonky first 037 Cold Case - Theme Song 038 Scorched - Blood Splatter Eclipse 039 ROBERT PLANT  -  Philadelphia Baby 040 Ice Cream Tee    - Cant Hold Back 041 NAZZ - Open My Eyes 042 HellRad - Staring at the Walls 043 Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia 044 MFSB TSOP  - The Sound Of Philadelphia 045 The Roots - How I Got Over 046 Crowhurst - I Will Carry You To Hell 047 George Thorogood - Delaware Slide 048 The OJays - I Love Music 049 Tav Falco's Panther Burns-Snake drive 050 Ween - Freedom Of '76 051 Jocko - Rhythm Talk 052 Queen - Nevermore 053 Hall and Oates - Out of Touch 054 Prince of Bel Air theme song 055 Arcturus -  Alone 056 Byard Lancaster - Just Test 057 John Coltrane - Straight street 058 ROCKY BALBOA - Theme Song 059 Ascension of the Watchers -  On the River 060 Jimmy Smith -Hobo Flats (Pt. 1) 061 Boyz II Men - Motownphilly 062 Frankie Smith - Double Dutch 063 Fat Albert Theme Song 064 Surgeon-Forest of Ghosts 065 Soul Survivors - The City Of Brotherly Love 066 Lady B - To The Beat Yall 067 Pure Hell - Hard Action 068 The Trammps - Love epidemic 069 Hivelords - Soothsayer Worm 070 Jimmy Mcgriff - Funky Junk 071 The Silhouettes -  fonky first 072 Intercity Sound Association - City Train 073 Torpedoes - Walk Away 074 The Philadelphia All Stars - Let's clean up the ghetto 075 Bang! - Redman 076 Nazz - She's going down 077 Sheer Mag - Meet Me in the Street 078 Green Carnation - Alone 079 Material Girls - Drained 080 Devil Master - Black Flame Candle

[facelessoldgargoyle]

MAG 008: Burned Out

The image of blood gushing from a tree was pretty horrifying. It gave me the subsequent image of a living body being trapped in the tree, unable to scream as an ax chops into them. The route the episode actually toon didn’t do as much for me.

When the man said something about “I wasn’t dumb enough to bite into the apple I found” I did really want him to bite into it. When it burst into spiders, I really wanted him to have bit into it. Oh well. It wouldn’t have been a reasonable thing for a person to do, but still, how delicious the horror.

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 50

The Show Must Go On must go on! It's coming in with 146 votes from Round Two and a total of 283 votes so far! Burned Out earned 204 votes in Round One.

MAG 116 - The Show Must Go On | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Abraham Janssen regarding an incident in the Court Theatre of Buda.

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

[benchofindigo]

[ID: Black and white Artwork of MAG 008 - Burned Out. The title is written at the bottom. It's a burned tree that is just branches and roots. End ID]

Day eight of doing a doodle for every episode of the Magnus archives, until I get bored. Bada boom, welcome to the House on Hilltop Road baby, first statement involving Agnes Montague my beloved, and the very first hint of a mention of the distortion. I didn’t spend a huge amount of time on this one, but I had a decent idea of what I wanted to do, plus I’m honestly treating this as an exercise, and you don’t get irritated for one of your push ups isn’t as good as it could be, you finish it and do another set tomorrow.

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 25

For some reason I thought I had written these already. Burned Out comes with 121 votes, and Web Development earned 167 votes last round!

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

MAG 123 - Web Development | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Angie Santos, regarding a website developed by one Gregory Cox.

[themagnustournament]

The Magnus Tournament: Round One Part Two Masterpost

So as to not create horrifically long masterposts, there will be a Round One Masterpost (pinned) which links to the subgroup Masterposts.

Round One Part Two is open for voting March 25-31

Find the full Round One Masterpost here!

[Image ID: Matches 10-18 of Round 1 and the following matches (89-96) of Round 2. The content of the bracket is described below. End ID]

The Matches:

MAG 054 Still Life vs. MAG 174 The Great Beast

MAG 034 Anatomy Class vs. MAG 031 First Hunt

MAG 171 The Gardener vs. MAG 033 Boatswain's Call

MAG 044 Tightrope vs. MAG 173 Night Night

MAG 127 Remains to be Seen vs. MAG 178 The Processing Line

MAG 142 Scrutiny vs. MAG 176 Blood Ties

MAG 003 Across the Street vs. MAG 18 The Man Upstairs

MAG 008 Burned Out vs. MAG 014 Piecemeal

MAG 123 Web Development vs. MAG 71 Underground

Polls will be linked once they are posted and when I have time to edit this post (within 24 hours maximum, I have a day job). Each poll will have links to the episodes, wiki pages, and transcripts.