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No Return

No Return: An Audio Drama by Kier Zhou

No Return is a darkly comic British fantasy audio drama set in a vast, doomed world of gods, mercenaries, lost cities, political disasters and very bad decisions.

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The Orillian Regiment — Episode 5: He's Not Going To Make It, Is He?

April 05, 2025 • Season 8 • Episode 5

0:00 | 24:33

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Gazi and Von Overton return to the lines just in time for the fight back... Von Overton receives some bad news. Luobo leaves Dagrun at the Row and goes looking for the Guard Commander. Tommo gets some peculiarly timed grief from one of his Vir.

Content warnings

Strong language
Violence, injury and blood
Death and mortality
Confinement, coercion or torture
Alcohol or drug use

Cast

Anan — Skyler Giordano
Bezeroa — Tyler Moody
Chermise Vermillion — Dragonbait
Dag'r — Lilly Inverse
Dagrun — Kier Zhou
Deky — Cameron Gergett
Door Man — Graham Capobianco
Gazi — Graham Capobianco
Ivanic — Justin Fife
Jinu — Anna Gąsecka, also known as Ren_Overshares
Kane — Tyler Moody
Layna Jareg — Rae Witte
Luobo — James Hart
OR Guard — Tyler Moody
OR LT — AJ FidLAGO
Rufus Sark — Chris (One Wall)
Sendat — Rae Witte
Sharp — Kier Zhou
Tommo — Jack Duncan
Von Overton — Rachel Pulliam
Wedder — Chris (One Wall)
Wilifred — Ed Craggbarber