A grim road through a world that forgot humanity.
You Are All Alone is a serialized science fiction audio drama following DuPaul of Mordarium through a world where humanity fell a thousand years ago and no one remembers it ever existed. The narration stays close and physical: a companion turning savage at nightfall, a hiding place under the hay, a body tied to the oak at the center of town.
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You Are All Alone is a serialized science fiction audio drama with a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting. Its premise places the story about a thousand years after humankind fell, in a world that has lost any memory of people. DuPaul of Mordarium stands at the center, carrying knowledge the show calls cursed. The excerpted episodes are narrated in the first person, and the prose is close and bodily. A stomach growls in a dark hiding space. Sweat drips into the dirt. A candle flares bright enough to blind. Much of this stretch of the story takes place around Arbor and the road leading away from it. In one scene, bags are strapped onto a half-dead horse, and the travelers pass tree after tree with nothing but a few abandoned-looking huts to suggest anyone lives there. Another stays in town, where a crowd tears at a bleeding man as he is dragged through its midst. A third deals with the aftermath: a stripped body tied to the oak at the center of town while onlookers pick their teeth and count their wares. The danger does not come only from strangers. Zeus, a companion who barks and growls, turns on the group at nightfall and pins the narrator to the ground until a desperate hold calms him. In another scene Fig hides the narrator, Abe and Zeus in a compartment under the hay, orders silence and hands down a sack with bread in it while the whole village searches for them. Fig is one of the more layered figures here. He talks about sparring gloves over ale, comes in with blood drying on his clothes and calls the killing festivities, then quietly warns that DuPaul's questions could get him branded a disturber of the peace. He also says T'mai lashes out when she hurts. 'Supplemental Episode 4-BaBa' changes perspective. Its excerpt follows a teacher, whom her guest Kit calls Becca, over morning tea as the two talk about a fierce, one-armed leader named Vanya and Wyatt, who has to take orders from her. The tone is gentler, though Kit still calls the world a scary place. Numbered titles such as 'Episode 50-Demon' and 'Episode 47-The (Great) Leap Forward' make up the main run. Each excerpt begins with an advisory about graphic violence, and the dialogue includes strong language. Nick Richardson closes episodes by thanking listeners and pointing to alonepodcast.com, where the episodes are free and have no ads. In 'Episode 48-The Outsiders' he marks four years of the show and says everything released before was building toward the arc now underway.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants serialized, first-person audio fiction set in a bleak far future and is comfortable with graphic violence, mob cruelty and rough language.
What sets it apart: It tells a far-future collapse at ground level, through one narrator's hunger, fear and bruises. That grimness sits beside Nick Richardson's warm, direct thanks to listeners at the end of episodes.
1,100 from the present, 1,000 years after the rapid fall of man, DuPaul of Mordarium encounters an entity that changes his life and the world forever. With cursed knowledge bestowed upon him, he must wade through the memory of the world to determine what really happened, and why the world had so thoroughly forgotten humanities existence. A fraught journey awaits DuPaul as he sets out to change the world with the knowledge entrusted to him, but the fear of failure is real when compared to the rest of the world, You Are All Alone.
A missing horse and a snarling Zeus make for the sort of night you can't half-hear.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A dry flight through hostile country turns brutal when Zeus attacks, the horse vanishes, and Abalon lies unresponsive beside fresh water.
Episode 50-Demon keeps its danger close to the ground. Abalon and the narrator cross a dry, abandoned stretch with a failing horse, little usable water, and pursuers who stay just far enough away to feel disciplined rather than desperate.
A town's cruelty follows the narrator from the oak outside into every choice behind the curtain.
Episode 48 frames a town killing as a pressure test for everyone forced to keep living after it. When a man is stripped and tied to an oak, the focus stays close to the narrator behind the curtain, the repeated look toward a sword, and Zeus's fear, which makes the violence feel…
A town's violence turns errands, supplies, and escape into a test of whether outsiders can survive.
Episode 48 keeps its attention on a town where public cruelty is not background noise but a warning. After a crowd strips a man and ties him to the oak at the center of town, the narrator watches from behind a window, aware of the sword on the bed and of Zeus's fear inside the…
A brutal contest gives way to a grounded farewell shaped by caution, brotherhood, and one heavy letter.
Episode 46, "Safe Travels," turns a hard physical trial into a farewell with real emotional pull. After wrestling Jackson, the narrator has to size up a much larger opponent and trust speed over brute force.
A punishing training lesson turns fear into the episode's sharpest test.
Episode 45, "Catch me if you can," treats preparation as a moral test as much as a physical one. Abe tells Dupal that tomorrow's training will be hell, then cuts past the bravado to name the fear both men are carrying.
You Are All Alone episode 50, 'Demon,' follows Paul and Abalon through dry woods outside Arbor as eight horsemen shadow their escape on a half-dead horse.
Fick hides Dupal, Abe, and Zeus beneath his barn as villagers search Arbor for the pair.
Episode 48 of You Are All Alone follows the narrator, Abe, DuPaul, and Zeus after Noodle Yves is publicly executed for murdering Megan, Arbor’s medicine woman.
Episode 48 of You Are All Alone follows the narrator and Abe after a village crowd executes Fran Dupal for killing Megan, Arbor’s medicine woman.
Episode 47 of You Are All Alone centers on Abe’s discovery that old gloves contain an extraordinary metal.
You Are All Alone episode 46, Safe Travels, follows a fight in Arbor, a dockside family farewell, and a second spar that tests the narrator's training.
Episode 45, "Catch me if you can," centers on Abe forcing Dupal into conditioning work in Arbor, starting with a warning to use the restroom and "be prepared to vomit." Dupal chases Abe for four hours, ends up cramping, and gets a blunt lesson about water, potassium, lactic acid, and muscle recovery.
The narrator says short baths help him stay centered as he tries to survive a difficult journey in body and mind.
A man named DuPaul receives cursed knowledge from an entity and must uncover the truth about humanity's forgotten existence in a post-apocalyptic world.
In a post-apocalyptic world, DuPaul of Mordarium gains cursed knowledge from an entity and must uncover humanity's forgotten history.
The host introduces episode 40 of a serialized post-apocalyptic fantasy story, thanking listeners and hinting at future plot developments.
The host introduces a new arc of a post-apocalyptic fantasy fiction podcast, discussing the completion of the first arc and upcoming improvements.