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The complete audio diary recordings made by OrbiForge employee Adrian Ashcombe, documenting his response to the disaster.

The first astronaut to encounter alien life finally finds out why it's taken so long to find them. Music Credits: Underwater Exploration - Godmode Ether Oar - The Whole Other Attraction - Density and Time Icelandic Arpeggios - DivKid No. 7 Alone with My Thoughts - Esther Abrami Sunrise in Paris - Dan Henig Dream Escape - The Tides PELAGIC - Density and Time Arp Ascent - DivKid Dark Toys - SYBS

Your commute is killing you. Music Credits: Final Girl - Jeremy Blake PELAGIC - Destiny & Time The Six Realms - I Think I Can Help You On the Island - Godmode Underwater Exploration - Godmode No. 7 Alone With My Thoughts - Esther Abrami Frightmare - Jimena Contreras

We reexamine the story of Erland and the tall dark creature, this time from an entirely different perspective. Which is better: to be afraid or to be feared by others? Follow me on X for updates on when episodes are coming out: https://x.com/Martarus_?t=lqipw6S2PnVN1c5aks-hjg&s=09 Music Credits: Minor Lament for Solo Bass - John Patitucci Spooked - Mini Vandals Horror Bass Choir - John Patitucci

Erland is an engineer stationed alone on an arctic base. Tasked with looking after the equipment over winter, Erland is utterly isolated and alone at the peak of the world. Or at least he thinks he is... Song Credits: Medieval Astrology - Underbelly & Ty Mayer On Foot - Underbelly & Ty Mayer To Pass Time - Godmode Dreamer - DivKid A Hand in the Dark - Underbelly & Ty Mayer Arp Ascent - DivKid Digifunk - DivKid Dark Toys - SYBS

The conclusion to Emilia’s adventure at the enigmatic Apfelgarten School of Computing Science. Music: Creep - Emmit Fenn; Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No.3 (Orchestrated by Debussy); The End - Coyote Hearing; To Pass Time - Godmode; Wolf Mother - Loopop; Dark Toys - SYBS; No.8 Requiem - Esther Abrami. Note: this episode did not go as I had envisioned it, which is why it took so long to come out. To those who have been patient enough to wait this whole time: thank you.

We rejoin Emilia as she searches for the truth about her best friend. An unlikely ally presents himself. Music: Medieval Astrology - Underbelly and Ty Mayer; On Foot - Underbelly and Ty Mayer; Creep - Emmit Fenn; Resolver - Amulets; Wolf Mother - Loopop; The End - Coyote Hearing

Emilia, a student at an elite international coding school, enjoys a luxurious and high-tech existence with her best friend and classmate, Sofia. The school, nestled at the heart of a lush orchard, seems like a paradise for the computationally gifted. However, futuristic living has a hidden cost that Emilia could never have expected. Niall Ewart provided and applied distortion filters and effects for the videocall scene. More information at: https://www.niallewart.com/ Music: Sunrise in Paris - Dan Henig; No. 7 Alone With My Thoughts - Esther Abrami; Dream Escape - The Tides; Nocturnally - Amulets; Stillness - Futuremono In The Void - Amulets; Medieval Astrology - Underbelly & Ty Mayer.

We rejoin Lewis has he struggles to find the solutions - and the willpower - to get him out of his predicament in the Mariana Trench. An encounter with an inexplicable entity could give him the extra time he needs... or it could send him spiralling into madness. Music in chronological order: 'No.8 Requiem' - Esther Abrami 'Dark Toys' - SYBS 'The Hungry Ghost' - I Think I Can Help You 'Medieval Astrology' - Underbelly and Ty Mayer 'Worse' - Tower of Light 'Ether Oar' - The Whole Other

Lewis, the lone crew member aboard a vast submarine, makes a living by harvesting a rare and mysterious mineral from the seabed in the Mariana Trench. The mineral's strange qualities make communication with the surface impossible. Utterly alone, surrounded by nothing but the watery void, Lewis will face an impossible dilemma. Lewis's tale will continue in Colossus Part 2. Music in chronological order: Dark Toys, SYBS  Ether Oar, The Whole Other Lost Highway, Au.Ra Hangin' with the Worms, Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions

Lilly finds her summer job uniquely relaxing, in an odd sort of way. That is, until a fateful encounter with an unnerving aquatic giant.