Announcing the winners of Rusty Fears 7!

The winners of our seventh Rusty Fears horror writing competition! ... more

Rusty Fears 7 - Horror Writing Competition Returns

Rusty Fears allows us to showcase the incredible talent in our audience, bringing new and undiscovered writing talent to the Magnus feed. Writers have until 14th December 2025 to submit short horror stories to Rusty Quill. ... more

Celebrating a decade of Rusty Quill

Here at Rusty Towers, we are gearing up for something rather momentous:

Rusty Quill’s tenth anniversary. June 2025 marks 10 years since Alex – with the help of some friends – founded Rusty Quill and launched our first podcast, Rusty Quill Gaming.

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The Magnus Protocol – Kickstarter Access

The kickstarter content has moved here

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The Magnus Protocol ARG: Full Summary

An ARG – an Alternate Reality Game – is an interactive puzzle game that employs both real-world and online elements to tell a story with heavy player involvement. When Rusty Quill ran a Kickstarter to fund The Magnus Protocol, one of the most exciting stretch goals was that we would run our own extensive ARG. If you weren’t able to participate, or want to recap what happened, here is a summary of everything that happened, how it was made, and some behind-the-scenes insights from the Rusty Quill ARG team.

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The Magnus Protocol Season 1 premiere

The premiere page has moved here.

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Cry Havoc: An interview with David K Barnes

Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later is a new podcast available to listen to now, wherever you find podcasts. Our intrepid reporter, David K Barnes, spoke to creator, David K Barnes, to find out a bit more about the show and why you should listen to it. ... more

Rusty Fears 6: Announcing the winners!

Rusty Fears 6 has been our biggest writing competition ever, with more than double our previous highest number of entries. Understandably, this has meant it’s also been one of our most hotly anticipated competition announcements. However, the writers who submitted entries did not make our judging panel’s lives easy, with an incredible standard across the board. ... more

The Magnus Archives Fanfiction Showcase

As a result of the incredible goals reached through the recent The Magnus Protocol Kickstarter, we reached the stretch goal of a live fanfiction showcase! So, Rusty Quill are inviting fans to send in their own fanfiction based on The Magnus Archives, for creator of The Magnus Protocol Alexander J Newall and Jonathan Sims to read live on stream. Please read the following carefully if you plan to submit your work for this livestream. ... more

The Magnus Protocol Announcement Codes and Ciphers

(AKA, the ARG “wash up”).

Fans of Rusty Quill have always gone the extra mile when it comes to theorising, code-breaking and collaborating. So, when we were ready to start telling people our plans for The Magnus Protocol, a new audio drama podcast returning to the world of The Magnus Archives, we could have just… announced it.

But that’s not very fun, and Rusty Quill is an entertainment production company.

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