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Vox Sanctum Gloriana

Evil Lighthouse Productions

Citizens, report for mandatory listening.

Vox Sanctum Gloriana is a grimdark-comedy horror broadcast set within the vast industrial hive-city of Gloriana, where daily life is governed through constant transmission, structured messaging, and institutionalised reassurance. Every broadcast is delivered with absolute authority by Host-Servitor 241, whose role is to interpret civic reality for the population and ensure that what is experienced aligns with what is permitted to be understood. In this world, information is not simply shared - it is curated, corrected, and reinforced until it becomes indistinguishable from truth.

Across the endless spires and layered depths of the Hive, civilisation persists through systems of control that are as much psychological as they are infrastructural. Civic announcements, devotional readings, industrial updates, and public advisories form a continuous stream of sanctioned reality, guiding behaviour, shaping perception, and maintaining stability in a society where even emotion is subject to regulation. Beneath the surface of order, however, there are cracks forming.

Vox Sanctum Gloriana explores a world where control and care are indistinguishable, where reassurance and instruction arrive in the same voice, and where the boundary between message and reality has long since begun to blur. It is a place of monumental scale and quiet unease, where the signal never stops - and neither does the sense that someone, somewhere, is ensuring it never needs to.

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Behind the authoritarian mandate of the broadcast lies Evil Lighthouse Productions, an independent creative studio specialising in highly immersive, micro-dose audio design.

  • The Team: Created and engineered by independent creators, with voice talent led by Richard Roberts as the chillingly compliant Host-Servitor 241.

  • The Mission: Crafting standalone, bite-sized episodes that push the boundaries of dark, atmospheric world-building.

  • The Production Philosophy: Prioritising immediate immersion, allowing listeners to jump directly into any point of the continuous, decaying narrative universe.

Every transmission is precision-engineered to make the bureaucratic nightmare feel uncomfortably close.

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  • Avg 12 min
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  • S2 · E7
    Friday · 16 min

    Blueprint Deviations

    Transmission authorised under Hive Continuity Mandate Sigma-Null. Signal degradation is expected. Understanding is optional. This week : Saint Edrin the Certain, learn of the new corridors and how to deal with imaginary fauna. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts This weeks Penitents - Kate Madison, Mike Garrett and Gavin Robinson (Von Boom) Music - The Choir Below

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  • S2 · E6
    September 4 · 13 min

    The Signal in the Sky - Pre Gloriana

    PERSONAL LOG – DR. GRANT VOSS, GLORIANA TECH TEAM, CONSTRUCTION PHASE Unfiled. Unsubmitted. Probably unwise. Dr. Grant Voss - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • S2 · E5
    August 28 · 19 min

    The Space Beneath

    Transmission authorised by the absence of objection. Objection has not been recorded. This week: Learn of Saint Veyr the Load Bearer, structural assessments in in the foundations, weather, and the continuing non-existence of subterranean creatures. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Guest Penitents - Mark Snowden, Andrew Clive Early and Philip Roy. Music - The Choir Below

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  • S2 · E4
    August 21 · 10 min

    Dive Team Gamma

    The following testimony from Exploration Team Gamma, designation Gamma-3, has been received, processed, and classified under Sublevel Architectural Variance with Minor Temporal Contamination. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Halix Dreve - Phillip Roy Music - The Choir Below

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  • S2 · E3
    August 14 · 17 min

    The Chapel of Blessed Absence

    This is a mandatory civic transmission. Failure to comprehend will be interpreted as compliance. This week - Learn of Saint Caldrex the Surveyor, the new symbol from Below, and understand about the new points of light in the sky. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Halix Dreve - Phillip Roy Music - The Choir Below

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  • S2 · E2
    August 7 · 9 min

    The Cleaner

    BROADCAST WARNING The following witness statement has been classified as partially compliant, structurally coherent, and interpretively hazardous. It contains references to unauthorised phenomena, including but not limited to; unconstrained illumination, structural permeability, and the re-emergence of function within spaces designated for absence. Host-Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Marlen Varro - Gavin Robinson Music - The Choir Below

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  • S2 · E1
    July 31 · 12 min

    After the Choir

    This is a controlled emission of information. Uncontrolled interpretation will be contained. This week - Learn that your eyes are deceiving you, latest updates on air traffic advisories, do not report your perception. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • July 17 · 3 min

    The Emperors Shipping Forecast

    Hive City Glorianas Naval Voxcast - The Emperor's Shipping Forecast issued at 0048 by the Departmento Meteorologicus under duress and flickering lumen. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below and Ronald Binge "Sailing by"

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  • July 3 · 7 min

    The Warden Speaks Alone

    Inmates are reminded that silence is a privilege, not a right. This week in Penitential Hive Kallix : Disciplinary announcements, musical interference, and are you part of Section Delta? Congratulations! The Warden - Andrew Clive Early Guest Prisoners - Richard Roberts, Mark Snowden and Kate Madison Music - The Choir Below

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  • June 19 · 18 min

    The Underhive: Persistence Beyond Design - Expanded Civic Orientation

    Today’s instructional sequence is entitled: “The Underhive: Persistence Beyond Design.” This presentation has been calibrated for survival awareness and controlled dread. Side effects may include fear, adaptation, and the realisation that no one is coming. This Week - Learn of the Underhive, the Foundations and the Sump. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • June 5 · 13 min

    The Mid-Hives: Function Without Distinction - Expanded Civic Orientation

    Today’s instructional sequence is entitled: “The Mid-Hives: Function Without Distinction.” This presentation has been calibrated for operational awareness and mild personal erosion. Side effects may include fatigue, compliance, and the gradual loss of singular identity. This Week : Learn of the Mid Hive, the Habs and Industrial Strata of Hive Gloriana. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • May 22 · 16 min

    The Sacred Architecture of Hive Gloriana - Expanded Civic Orientation

    Today’s educational sequence is entitled: “The Sacred Architecture of Hive Gloriana.” This presentation has been calibrated for spatial awareness and controlled disorientation. Side effects may include vertigo, devotion, and the sudden understanding that you have never been where you thought you were. This week : Learn of the Upper Levels of Hive Gloriana Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • May 8 · 13 min

    The Mercy of Iron

    Unauthorised reception constitutes an admission of guilt. The penalty for guilt is repetition. This week in Penitential Hive Kallix - The Iron Saint of Confinement, new Servo-Penance units are now in operation, and volunteer for the Integrated Condemnation Protocol. The Warden - Andrew Clive Early Music - The Choir Below

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  • April 24 · 7 min

    The Benevolent Structure of the Supervisory Apparatus - Expanded Civic Orientation

    Instructional Content As Authorized by the Office of Harmonised Continuity. This transmission is sanctioned by the Oversight and Corrective Presence Office, Unauthorized playback, comprehension, or emotional response is punishable by calibration. Please remain still and receptive. The Machine is listening. This Week : An instructive dive into the Supervisory Apparatus. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • S1 · E30
    April 10 · 7 min

    28 Minutes Later

    All frequencies sanctified. All deviations recorded INCIDENT REPORT: CHAPEL OF BLESSED ABSENCE, 28 MINUTES POST CLEANSING Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Music - The Choir Below

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  • S1 · E29
    April 3 · 6 min

    The Testimony of Keln Drass

    ⚠️BROADCAST WARNING ⚠️ Restricted Transmission Clearance : Oblivion Designation: Testimony of Redactor-Flamer Keln Drass Recovered from Sublevel Archive 19-C, Hive Gloriana Date: Cycle 7713.44 - The following recording was recovered during Silence Directive (Enforcement Phase) also known as the Purge of the Choir. Host servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Keln Drass - Bailey Frost Music - The Choir Below

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  • S1 · E28
    March 27 · 18 min

    The Silence Directive

    This Broadcast is monitored for devotional consistency. Please remain indoors until the sound has ceased. This Week - The Choir has been found. The Choir will be purified. The flamer teams are on their way. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Guest Penitents - Ben Cooper, Ivy Rack and Andrew Clive Early. Music - The Choir Below

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  • S1 · E27
    March 20 · 18 min

    A Guided Tour of the Abandoned Ruins

    This week: Take a journey with Tourism-Servitor 001 to the remains of once powerful buildings, now succumbed to time, apathy and budget cuts. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Tourist Servitor 001 - Mandy Rose Music - The Choir Below

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  • S1 · E26
    March 13 · 7 min

    The Second Testimony of Solme Varr

    ⚠️ BROADCAST WARNING ⚠️ This is a preventative clarification issued by the Departmento Vox Communicatus and the Ministry of Door Enumeration, in response to the unauthorized circulation of a recovered vox file incorrectly labeled “The Testimony of Solme Varr, Lay Preacher.” Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Solme Varr - Rowan Winter Music - The Choir Below

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  • S1 · E25
    March 6 · 17 min

    Below the Last Note

    Please remain... at surface level. Or slightly above, if possible. This Week - Learn of Saint Rellakar, be informed of the latest verifications of Choral tones and adhere to the Three Prohibitions. DO NOT DESCEND. Host Servitor 241 - Richard Roberts Explorers - Phillip Roy, Tate Devonald and Rowan Winter Music - The Choir Below

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