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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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38:25

The Scum Kings: Vol. 23 [Uncut] - Chapters 44-season...

The Scum Kings ·

2026/02/07

This compilation contains 5 chapters.Episodes included:1. The River (February 02, 2026)2. The Return of a Friend (February 03, 2026)3. At Least It's Not a Raft (February 04, 2026)4. The Jester (February 05, 2026)5. The Green Hell (February 06, 2026)---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 Green Hell

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2026/02/06

Trapped on a small boat and with fraying nerves, Dray and Orso seize an excuse to escape Brynn's command. Their expedition to the eastern bank for fresh water becomes something more dangerous—a whispered plan to abandon the ship entirely and strike out overland for Vesper. As they row away from The River Demon, the possibility of freedom wars with the reality of hundreds of miles of hostile wilderness. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem

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9:38

The Jester

The Scum Kings ·

2026/02/05

Trapped on a boat with slack winds and rising tensions, Gix's dangerous boredom reaches a breaking point. What starts as crude entertainment quickly spirals into a powder keg situation, with Gix turning simple juggling into an obscene display of blood and guts. 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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At Least It's Not a Raft

The Scum Kings ·

2026/02/04

Dray and his band of outcasts finally escape the rot of Vance's Folly aboard The River Demon, a river cutter crewed by Brynn's dangerous all-female gang. The fresh air tastes like freedom—until Stigand's weight crashes through the rotting deck, revealing their 'floating fortress' is as fragile as their newfound alliance. With the Hounds lost in the swamps behind them and Brynn's crew treating them like unwanted cargo, the question isn't whether they've escaped their past. It's whether this vessel

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The Return of a Friend

The Scum Kings ·

2026/02/03

Stranded on a makeshift raft, hunted by the Hounds, and suffering from exposure, the Scum Kings drift toward treacherous rapids with no weapons, no armor, and no options. Dray's authority crumbles as his crew watches him reduced from King to liability. When Orso dismisses his desperate plans and even Silene mocks his irrelevance, Dray realizes he's become nothing more than dead weight. Then, as the narrows approach and certain death looms ahead, a mysterious river cutter appears behind them—moving

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9:45

The River

The Scum Kings ·

2026/02/02

The Scum Kings escape on a death trap cobbled together from ale barrels, curtains, and desperation. What was once a prosperous river town now witnesses the humiliating escape of men who were recently rich beyond imagination. 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 binge

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

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/31

This compilation contains 5 chapters.Episodes included:1. The Machine (January 26, 2026)2. The Song (January 27, 2026)3. The Court of Filth (January 28, 2026)4. The Ignored (January 29, 2026)5. The Gate Opens (January 30, 2026)---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 Gate Opens

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/30

Dray faces an impossible choice as the Scum Kings prepare to flee: A fortune in cursed gold or his life. As the Hounds breach the city gates—not with swords but with bread—the truth about the siege becomes devastatingly clear. The citizens weren't defending against invasion; they were welcoming it. Now, stripped of armor, honor, and everything he fought for, Dray must decide what truly matters as he and Orso flee toward an uncertain future. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike

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5:28

The Ignored

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/29

A fallen king demands obedience in a port town that no longer fears him. When the townsfolk begin dismantling Dray's barricade—choosing death by the Hounds over his rule—Dray draws his sword against unarmed civilians led by a mutilated man with bandaged hands. But steel means nothing when an entire population flows around you like water past a rock. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey⚡ Production: The Signal BoxSystem Note:This human-designed series includes AI and other

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The Court of Filth

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/28

Trapped in a festering throne room, Dray commands his crew to build an armada from furniture and rope while covered in filth and delusion. The Scum Kings construct a desperate 'flagship' from oak benches and ale barrels as their leader's grip on reality crumbles. When Orso finally names the truth—that their grand vessel is nothing but garbage lashed together—Dray must choose between accepting his degradation or clinging to the fantasy that keeps him standing. In the suffocating darkness of siege,

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The Song

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2026/01/27

Besieged and starving, Dray watches his inner circle plan their escape from his rotting kingdom while enemy soldiers sing drinking songs outside the walls. Orso, Stigand, and Gix debate makeshift rafts built from ale barrels and bedding—a desperate river escape that excludes their fallen leader. As the Hounds celebrate their bloodless victory in four-part harmony, Dray shouts commands from the floor that no one heeds. The siege has broken more than the town's defenses; it's shattered whatever

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3:37

The Machine

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/26

Orso has stopped speaking to Dray. Without announcement or confrontation, the power dynamic among the Scum Kings has inverted—the leader still holds the title, but the strategist controls survival. As Orso whispers secret plans with Gix and rations water without sharing, Dray watches his authority crumble from a chair he's too exhausted to leave. Something is being drawn in the dust, something quickly erased. A plan is forming, and Dray isn't part of it. When your second-in-command taps his knife

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The Scum Kings: Vol. 16 [Uncut] - Chapters 34-38

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/25

This compilation contains 5 chapters.Episodes included:1. The Horizon (January 19, 2026)2. The Cook Fires (January 20, 2026)3. The Prison (January 21, 2026)4. Paper Rain (January 22, 2026)5. The Rats (January 23, 2026)---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 binge The

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The Rats

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/23

Stigand hunts rats in the ruins and serves them as a feast in the lightless Mayor's Hall. What was once a warrior who broke abbey gates now swells with pride over snapping rodent necks. As the Scum Kings eat in darkness while their enemies feast on pork, Silene emerges from her quarters with a chilling observation: they've eaten the cleaners. First the cats vanished, now the rats are being consumed. When the vermin are gone, the filth piles up. And after the flies come, something far worse awaits in

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4:42

Paper Rain

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/22

The enemy doesn't launch rocks or fire—they launch propaganda. Expensive paper flutters down like snow over the starving town, each sheet bearing a crude drawing: an open gate, fleeing people, and a roasted pig waiting by the campfire. Dray orders the papers burned, but you can't burn snow when hundreds of desperate townsfolk are already stuffing the promises into their boots. As a child chases drifting paper down an alley, Dray realizes this siege won't be won with swords. The enemy is offering

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5:14

The Prison

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/21

Dray watches his kingdom crumble as starving citizens abandon the city, walking through broken gates toward the enemy's cookfires and the promise of a hot meal. In desperation, he makes a choice that transforms him from conqueror to jailer—sealing the gates not to keep invaders out, but to trap his own people inside. With no food, no loyalty, and walls that now imprison rather than protect, Dray finally has the kingdom he wanted. But as he stands in the square surrounded by the pure, distilled

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5:33

The Cook Fires

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/20

The Hounds have stopped attacking with swords and started attacking with something far more devastating: the smell of roasting pigs, fresh bread, and wood-smoked bacon wafting deliberately toward the starving town. As massive fans push the aroma of their feast against the walls, the townsfolk transform from defenders into something more desperate—clawing at gates, sobbing for just one breath closer to the food, willing to throw themselves from the ramparts for a chance at salvation. This isn't

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The Horizon

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/19

Perched on the wall, legs dangling thirty feet above the mud, Dray watches an army emerge from the treeline like oil—slow, thick, relentless. As they set up camp with geometric precision just outside bowshot, the question haunts: why are they really here? For worthless gold? A rotting town? Or is he truly worth an army of mercenaries? With empty towers, absent sentries, and Orso nowhere to be found, the siege begins not with violence, but with the methodical patience of men who always earn their

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The Scum Kings: Vol. 15 [Uncut] - Chapters 9-13

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/17

This compilation contains 5 chapters.Episodes included:1. Treason (January 12, 2026)2. The Ghost (January 13, 2026)3. Enemies Everywhere (January 14, 2026)4. The Rift (January 15, 2026)5. The First Stone (January 16, 2026)---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 binge

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6:36

The First Stone

The Scum Kings ·

2026/01/16

Dray, the self-proclaimed king, walks through his market square and discovers the crowd no longer scrambles from his path. His armor hangs loose, his gold leaf flakes away, and for the first time in months, a commoner speaks to him without permission. When a washerwoman spits near his boot and asks "the king of what?", he draws his sword—but the silence that follows isn't fear anymore. It's something far more dangerous: indifference. As his blade rises and something strikes his breastplate, the

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