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FEED DROP: Dominus Episode 1: Tu Es Petrus

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A man confesses to shooting an intruder, describing how the bullet grazed his eye and shattered his skull.

1. 'Dominus' episode 1, 'Tu Es Petrus,' is a pilot of a Catholic-horror audio drama produced by Rusty Quill, dropped as a feed insert in the WOE.BEGONE podcast with a promotional note from the show's creator directing listeners to a Kickstarter at RustyQuill.com/fundraiser. 2. The show stars Taylor Michaels (voice of Chance in WOE.BEGONE), Devin Steffens, and Lissa Jay, also from the WOE.BEGONE cast, alongside voice actors from Disco Elysium, The Magnus Archives, and Protocol. 3. The episode's central premise is announced in the climax: three priests are trapped in a remote Ontario mansion during a blizzard and must exorcise a demon before it escapes — but the pilot spends most of its runtime building to that reveal through intimate character work. 4. The opening cold sequence features a series of confessions heard in voice-over: a student who cheated on a test to save her scholarship, an angry neighbor struggling with envy, a man wracked with guilt about a home invader he shot seven years ago, a child who hit his brother, a woman planning a divorce, and a teenager confused about masturbation. 5. The home-invasion confession is the most memorable of the sequence: the man describes in clinical detail how his shot went wide and struck the intruder's skull, causing it to shatter and dislodge one eye from its socket, and says he sees the dead man's blown skull in his nightmares and believes the man is waiting for him in hell. 6. Father Olujimi — a priest from a Filipino barangay, described as drawing larger congregations than the local parish — arrives at Our Lady of Providence in Toronto to pursue credentials at Trinity College, invited by Father Friedrich. 7. Father Friedrich is described by the church superior as 'more of a fisher of men than I ever could be,' despite theological disagreements; he is also described as recently shaken by an unnamed difficult event that week. 8. A businessman named Leonard arrives at the parish to ask Father Olu specifically to visit his niece Mary, who is being held at Bamford Estate — a 200-acre property that has been in the Bamford family for over a century — by her father, George Bamford. 9. Father Jonas, a third priest recently arrived from the Philippines and still adjusting to Canada, asks to join the group despite no apparent reason and explains he has lived his life by an unexplainable intuition, telling Father Olu: 'It's the reason I have one to live.' 10. The journey to Bamford Estate takes place in darkening weather despite forecasts of clear skies; Father Friedrich explicitly warns Father Jonas to suppress his dark jokes before meeting George Bamford, who has no apparent sense of humor. 11. George Bamford has left the estate before the priests arrive, leaving Leonard in charge; the staff includes Fides, a housekeeper from Tundupa, Manila, and Gordon, the groundskeeper. 12. Father Olu visits Mary alone in her room and immediately finds her responsive and eager — she wants to leave the estate and visit Our Lady of Providence, and asks if she could ride back with them. 13. Fides tells Father Jonas quietly during a tour of the grounds that Mary needs to leave the estate and it is not safe for her there; before she can explain further, Father Jonas spots a freshly severed deer head in the snow. 14. Gordon the groundskeeper reports that wolves have been approaching the property line repeatedly but have not crossed it; he had to clean up a deer carcass that appeared to have been abandoned mid-hunt by the wolves. 15. Trapped overnight by the blizzard, Father Jonas describes the estate to Father Olu as smelling like death — specifically like 'a grandmother's house after she passed away, with her rotting still lingering beneath the perfume' — and frames Mary's situation as a slow version of the same. 16. Father Jonas notes the wolves' behavior as anomalous: a successful kill abandoned by capable predators suggests something on the grounds frightened them, and he frames this as a possible omen. 17. The episode is structured as a slow-burn gothic mystery using intimate confessional dialogue and procedural conversation — the horror is never announced; it accumulates through small wrongnesses until the climactic reveal. 18. The tone is measured, literary, and restrained throughout, with brief moments of dark humor from Father Jonas and Leonard providing relief before the final confrontation. 19. Listeners who enjoy Catholic-themed horror fiction with slow-burn structure, character-first storytelling, and ensemble casts will find the pilot accomplished and worth backing. 20. Listeners unfamiliar with audio drama formats or who prefer fast-paced horror may find the first hour too leisurely before the exorcism premise becomes explicit.

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Three priests, a blizzard, and a demon in a remote Ontario mansion make Dominus an easy horror sell.

Dominus leans into a clean horror setup: three Catholic priests, a remote Ontario mansion, a strange blizzard, and a demon that has to be driven out before it gets loose in the world.

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Play this if you want your horror to arrive with priests, snow, and bad odds.

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