No Return
No Return: An Audio Drama by Kier Zhou
No Return is what happens when you give one person too much coffee, a microphone, and a world that won’t stop expanding.
It’s a fantasy series about gods, worlds, mercenaries, lost cities, and bad decisions… but mostly it’s about people trying (and failing) to make sense of the mess they’re in. The tone swings from absurd to sincere, from divine slapstick to quiet tragedy. Sometimes all in the same episode.
If Discworld got tangled up with The Wheel of Time and accidentally wandered into a Tom Sharpe novel, you’d be somewhere close.
The stories jump around the same world, exploring different but intertwined characters, stories and genres.
It’s made on a potato powered laptop, by a guy who clearly doesn’t know when to stop.
If you like things that are funny, sad, overcomplicated, and occasionally, accidentally, profound… you’ll probably like No Return.
But don’t take my word for it…
This show was nominated for Best Audio Drama at the New Zealand Web Fest and officially selected for the Cisco Web Fest, which is pretty good for someone who ran out of money to apply to any more festivals!
Here’s what listeners are saying:
“A journey through a creative mind like no other… I cannot begin to imagine how this creator keeps all his characters and plot lines straight, but it’s a marvel.”
“The quality and sound production are absolutely on point, but it’s the captivating writing and voice acting that keep you coming back.”
“Chaotic [affectionate]. Each arc has something unique - sometimes gut-wrenchingly funny, sometimes grounded — it keeps you on your toes.”
Extra lore, behind-the-scenes chaos, and stray thoughts at:
No Return
19: The Fate of Daya: The Elusive Answers...
Salryn (and Jorvin) didn't just sit idle these long weeks. They did everything they could to unpick the mysteries of Vita's plan, the machinations of Alaric Sylwraith and the mysterious 'Lessor' who wrote to the diplomat ... but... with Vita and Alaric dead, the party out of their depth, trapped and under siege... what did they expect? Even when they find clues they lack the knowledge to interpret them... and listening to Salryn and Jorvin flounder around trying to figure out what is signal and what is noise is just bad radio so we made the sensible editorial decision to cut all that out and just give you the few highlights.
If you really want to know what is going on with all that Jazz... I guess you are gonna have to keep listening to the rest of No Return :P
Episode Art by Jim Tuohy
Jim Tuohy Art
Gamesmaster provided by Hearthfire Tales
Want to learn more about Vash and the NoReturniverse? Why not check out The Lore of No Return
Bran: Cameron Gergett @Cameron_Gergett/@JasperZoink
Salryn Ilanora: Gemma Maclean-Mair
GM/Meh/Karaf: Kier Zhou
Pat D Bakr/Sophia: Dylan Smith
Brenna Anderson-Dowd
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Cameron/Jasper Zoinks (he/him)
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Dontae
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Dr Loup Sutcliffe
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Dylan (He/Him)
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Girunduu
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Kier Zhou
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Krissi (She/Her)
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Madeleine Buttitta (she/they)
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