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The Scum Kings

Mike Daltrey | grimdark fantasy, epic fantasy

Meet the Scum Kings, a dysfunctional band of bottom-feeding marauders led by the ruthless Giddray "Dray". They are not clever masterminds or noble rebels. They are a pack of beaten dogs, driven by hunger and greed, whose every attempt at villainy seems to end in fresh wounds and humiliating failure. They are the fever in a sick world, a symptom of the rot.The Scum Kings is a daily, short-form, serial grimdark fantasy audiobook told from the perspective of their captain. Each 5-15 minute episode is a

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The Scum Kings: Vol. 16 [Uncut] - Chapters 9-13

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/20

This binge compilation contains 5 episodes.Episodes included:1. The View From The Hill (December 15, 2025)2. The Open Hand (December 16, 2025)3. The Splintered Gate (December 17, 2025)4. The Mayor's Neck (December 19, 2025)5. The Toy Box (December 19, 2025)---A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.Signalbox: Fiction’s

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The Toy Box

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/19

In the aftermath of the Mayor's defeat, the Scum Kings descend upon Vance's Folly, turning its silence into chaos. As Stiggand leads the charge into The Gilded Tankard, the crew erupts into a frenzy of indulgence and destruction. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.-----Want to

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The Mayor's Neck

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/19

When the Scum Kings roll into Vance's Folly, a town of decay and desperation, they confront the audacious Mayor Vance. His attempt to assert authority with outdated laws leads to a chilling display of power. As the Mayor dangles perilously from their wagon, the Scum Kings send a stark message to the townsfolk. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our

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The Splintered Gate

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/17

A gold-laden wagon becomes a runaway vault, crashing through the gates of Vance's Folly. As the town erupts into chaos, the Scum Kings reveal their ruthless prowess. But as they leave a trail of destruction, what will they find in the wreckage?A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.Signalbox: Fiction’s Next

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The Open Hand

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/16

Orso has the perfect plan—a silent infiltration through drainage ditches, throats slit in darkness, conquest before sunrise. It's surgical. It's safe. It's everything a master thief could devise. Dray kicks dirt over the map and orders his crew into the stolen armor of the Stern Guard they butchered at the Abbey. No more sneaking. No more shadows. The Scum Kings will march on Vance's Folly in broad daylight, wearing the polished steel and gold trim of their betters—a statement written in blood and

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The View From The Hill

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2025/12/15

After a brutal climb up a ridge of broken flint, Dray and his crew of outlaws finally lay eyes on their prize: Vance's Folly, a rotting timber town trapped between river and forest. Where Orso sees a death trap with crumbling walls and impossible odds, Dray sees something else entirely—a throne waiting to be claimed.A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production

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The Scum Kings: Vol. 15 [Uncut] - Chapters 4-8

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/13

This binge compilation contains 5 episodes.Episodes included:1. The Mark Of The Sun (December 08, 2025)2. The Mud And The Wheel (December 09, 2025)3. The Lions Of The Tangle (December 10, 2025)4. A Feast Of Scraps (December 11, 2025)5. The Crossroads (December 12, 2025)A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform.Signalbox:

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The Crossroads

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/12

At a crumbling crossroads, Dray and Orso face a decision that will define their fate. Orso demands they flee west into the wilderness to hide their stolen fortune—melting divine gold in mountain caves until spring. But Dray sees something different in the map: Vance's Folly, a walled trade town with a garrison, constabulary, and eyes everywhere. One path leads to the life of frightened rats. The other? A gamble that could make them kings... or corpses.-----Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer

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A Feast Of Scraps

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2025/12/11

A dozen desperate bandits ambush the Scum Kings in a forest defile, mistaking exhausted men pulling a wagon for easy prey. They learn too late that beasts of burden are dangerously strong. What follows isn't a battle—it's pest control, executed with the cold efficiency of men who've just slaughtered the Stern Guard. When four survivors beg for mercy, they're given something far worse: a lesson that Gix will carve into their flesh, a story meant to spread through the forest like wildfire.-----Want to

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The Lions Of The Tangle

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2025/12/10

With their horses dead, the Scum Kings become beasts of burden themselves, dragging two tons of stolen gold through the Grey Tangle by hand. But the empty forest isn't empty—scavengers and bandits circle like jackals, waiting for exhaustion or the See's soldiers to do their work for them. When Orso proposes the unthinkable—bury the treasure and return for it later—Dray's rage explodes. Is he protecting their prize, or has the gold's weight broken something inside him? As the crew watches their

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The Mud And The Wheel

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2025/12/09

The Scum Kings wagon of gold teeters on the edge of a ravine as a brutal storm turns the Tangle into a drowning pool. Dray and his crew struggle to save their stolen fortune before the earth swallows it whole. With the bank crumbling and the weight of the Abbey's hoard pulling them into the void. Sometimes the mud doesn't just trap you—it forces you to decide what you're really willing to lose.-----Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the

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The Mark Of The Sun

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2025/12/08

The Scum Kings finally count their prize in a hidden hollow deep within the Tangle—and discover they've stolen enough wealth to buy a duchy, hire armies, or pave roads in silver. But Silene's ledger reveals a devastating truth: every coin, every ingot, every piece bears the Stern Visage mint mark. This isn't currency meant to circulate—it's consecrated treasury gold, poison to spend and impossible to hide. The crew's greatest heist has become their most dangerous burden. What do you do when the

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The Scum Kings: Vol. 14 [Uncut] - Chapters 1-67

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/06

This uncut compilation contains 5 episodes.Episodes included:1. A Sermon in Red (December 01, 2025)2. The Vault Beneath the God's Face (December 02, 2025)3. The Golden Anchor (December 03, 2025)4. The Bleeding Trail (December 04, 2025)5. The Paranoia Of Kings (December 05, 2025)---Episode 1: A Sermon in RedThe raid on the abbey turns into a brutal display of violence as the Scum Kings tear through the supposedly elite Stern Guard. While Stigand smashes through their lines like a battering ram and

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The Paranoia Of Kings

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2025/12/05

The Scum Kings flee into the Grey Tangle with their stolen fortune, but the suffocating forest becomes a pressure cooker of paranoia and greed. Stigand sits atop the gold like a rabid dog, his infected wound rotting as he threatens anyone who approaches. Gix crowns himself with stolen regalia, whispering to his reflection. Brynn calculates her next move while their leader watches the crew fracture under the weight of their prize. In the crushing silence of the ancient woods, the gold stops

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The Bleeding Trail

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2025/12/04

The heist is over, but escape proves deadlier than the theft. The Scum Kings crawl through mountain passes with a wagon full of stolen gold, their iron wheels shrieking against stone and announcing their position for miles. When Brynn spots twelve cavalry riders closing fast, Orso begs to hide their treasure and ambush from the shadows. But Dray refuses to cower like a common thief. With enemy lancers galloping toward them and no cover in sight, he makes a choice that will define what the Scum Kings

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The Golden Anchor

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/03

Welcome to Season 2 of The Scum Kings!Dray and his crew of thieves stand surrounded by a mountain of gold in the conquered vault—but a military vanguard is breaching the walls above them. Orso demands they flee with what they can carry. Silene calculates impossible logistics on her knees in a pile of coins. Stigand stares at the treasure like a scoreboard of his worth. But Dray refuses to run with scraps after breaking down a god's door. With an army minutes away and two tons of gold to move, he

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The Vault Beneath the God's Face

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2025/12/02

Stigand's axe becomes the key that no priest expected, prying open the thirty-foot stone Visage to reveal a hidden stairway descending into cold darkness. Dray and the Scum Kings leave the chaos of battle behind, dragging their captive priest down ancient steps that lead to a vault untouched by time. The air smells of metal. The torchlight reveals not a chapel or treasure room, but something else entirely—a warehouse carved from bedrock. What the corrupt temple has been hiding beneath their god's

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A Sermon in Red

The Scum Kings ·

2025/12/01

The raid on the abbey turns into a brutal display of violence as the Scum Kings tear through the supposedly elite Stern Guard. While Stigand smashes through their lines like a battering ram and Gix dances with his blades, the team pursues their quarry deeper into marble halls dripping with gold.-----Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening

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The Scum Kings: Vol. 13 [Uncut] - Chapters 61-65

The Scum Kings ·

2025/11/29

This compilation contains 5 episodes.Episodes included:1. The Madman's Map (November 24, 2025)2. The Prophet of Gold (November 25, 2025)3. The White Lie (November 26, 2025)4. The Hammer of Faith (November 27, 2025)5. The Breaking of the Visage (November 29, 2025)---Episode 1: The Madman's MapA brutal mountain ambush ends in unexpected treasure as the Scum Kings discover more than just supplies among their victims' belongings. When Orso uncovers a military-grade map from their slain cartographer,

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The Breaking of the Visage

The Scum Kings ·

2025/11/29

A desperate midnight assault erupts as the Scum Kings launch a blazing attack on the Abbey's gate. With pitch-coated arrows flying and improvised fire bombs raining down, they unleash chaos in a perfectly coordinated strike.-----Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience! Perfect for a weekend binge!

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