PLAY NOW! Maxine Miles and the Loose Ends

After the events of Season 1, Max is at a loose end. She found her friend Riley and exposed corruption in her small town of Hastings but her trusty partner-in-sleuthing Ross is still in the hospital after the investigation went south. 

Without Ross by her side, Max doesn't know which of the lingering mysteries to explore next! But with your help, maybe she can tie up one or two loose ends.

MAXINE MILES AND THE LOOSE ENDS is an interactive web-based game, where you make decisions that lead you through text and audio scenes. With dozens of pathways and three distinct endings, you can play again and again! Just go to maxinemiles.com

Maxine Miles and the Loose Ends is created, written, and directed by Lauren Shippen. The voice of Maxine Miles is Jordan Cobb. Mike Cefalo is Ross Teller, Andrew Nowak is Ransom Archer, and Briggon Snow is Riley Stevens.

All of the beautiful original artwork was created by Shae McMullin. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, let's try this again. We found Riley and it
turns out he'd been kidnapped after all, which I was
right about the whole time. I knew he didn't run away.
H never mind. Okay, On a Monday night, mister Beatty
took Riley to his secret cabin in the woods and

(00:21):
locked him up there, and by Sunday mister Beady let
him go. He still hasn't really told me about that.
Neither of them have. Why Beatty let Riley go? I
guess he just felt bad, even though he knew it
would make How furious because it wasn't mister Beatty's idea
at all to kidnap Riley. How made him do it

(00:43):
after he found out that Riley figured out the new
mining project was going to poison the town. Hal must
have some kind of power over Betty, blackmail or something.
But neither of them are saying a word. So now
there's no new mine at all because Minotaur Mining got
all freaked out by me stopping the demolition. Thanks for

(01:05):
your pocket knife, by the way, I'm taking very good
care of it, which means a lot of people have
lost their jobs, when not even How has lost his
job mister Beatty refuses to throw him under the bus,
so he's the one being charged with kidnapping, and then
no one is being charged with attempted murder because whatever
goons trapped Riley in that mine are in the wind,

(01:28):
and we have no proof that how hired them or
paid Betty to get out of the way, which is
a my word about what Hal told me, and Riley's
word about what Hal was hiding about the new mine,
which isn't enough to dethrone him. I guess it's such
a mess, and Joe has told me to stay out
of it, that Sheriff Combs has everything under control, and
that he's looking for the environmental impact report that proves

(01:51):
the mine is dangerous, and that How new that he's
trying to find hard evidence of what happened to Riley.
But unless there's a paper trail, I think there might
be a paper trail. I think. I think if I
was able to sneak into the Mayor's office in City Hall,

(02:12):
I could find some proof. I mean, we found the
papers stolen from Ransom, so maybe I'll get lucky again.
But oh my gosh, Riley didn't steal those papers. At
least I don't think he did. I didn't ask him
right out because well, I didn't know how to have
that conversation. Oh hey, Riley, I found those documents you

(02:35):
stole from Ransom, And I know you know he's your dad,
but I'm not sure he knows. I don't think so.
I might be the least subtle person on the planet,
but even I know that wouldn't have been very tactful.
So I just kind of PopEd at his time hiding
in the Inn and what he may have hidden away there.

(02:59):
And he truly didn't seem to have a clue of
what I could be talking about. I don't think it
was him. So then who was it who stole those files?
And what do I do with this information? Do I
tell Riley? Do I tell Ransom? If the papers were

(03:21):
at the Inn, that must mean that miss Honeywell is
involved somehow, but I just don't know how. Oh, even
all laid out on paper, there's so many holes. Shit.
Every time I really thought this was going to be

(03:41):
the one, I mean, not like it has to be
perfect or anything, but I know you get annoyed when
I start to ramble too much, because you get this
kind of weird look on your face where you don't
blink in your mouth goes a little crooked, like you're
daydreaming or something. Not that I'm looking at your mouth.
I'm just observant human behavior. That's my specialty, right well, whatever,

(04:09):
I don't want to give you a whole rambling rant
when you wake up. I want to be able to
explain everything that happened that day and since so that
you can help me sort it all out. Maybe I'll
just let you read my notebook, let you see every
attempt to try to summarize it all. Oh but gosh,

(04:34):
what if you have memory problems? What if I actually
need to rewrite the whole debrief to include the week
leading up to the demolition or the month. Should I
start at the beginning of the school year, just to
be safe. It's been two weeks, and I really need
you to wake up. Ross. I know I should be
grateful the fact that you're still I mean, it could

(04:55):
have been so much worse, but you weren't even supposed
to be there, not in the mine. And I can't
keep sitting here every night writing and rambling. Do you
know how much talking I've done in here? Even the
doctors who told me that it's good to talk to
Komba patients are giving me looks, but I just can't stop,
because I usually only stop when you say something snarky

(05:17):
or clever or really surprisingly kind in that way you have.
But right now you're just not saying anything, and you
always have something to say, So please please wake up.
Not that I really am going to stop. When I
said I can't keep sitting here, I obviously didn't mean

(05:38):
that literally. Not that I'm always here. I'm not some
creepy stalker. It's just there's still so many loose ends Ross,
and I've gotten so used to having you to bounce
things off of sitting in your tree house looking at
a bunch of guards and string. Isn't all that helpful

(05:59):
when you haven't organized. It turns out you don't just
organize things the way I would, you do it better,
And that is something I'm not going to include in
my report. You're going to have to earn that information
by waking up and then staying awake. If you're awake

(06:24):
right now, what would you say? I got all these
broken bits and no way to connect them. No solution
explains everything. Miles, You've got to start looking at the
tiny pieces right right, The stolen files might not have

(06:50):
anything to do with the fact that Riley is Ransom Sun.
There were a lot of papers there, so there could
have been a million motives for taking them. Either way,
I should ask Miss Honeywell. And if the birth certificate
wasn't the motive at all, there's nothing to say that
whoever stole them even noticed it, which means I might

(07:14):
be the only person besides Riley's parents and his birth
mother who actually knows the truth about him. Unless Riley
does already know somehow. He didn't steal the files. I'm
pretty sure about that, but when we were talking, he's
hiding something. I just don't know what, maybe what he

(07:37):
fought with his parents about. You wouldn't know what to do,
ross do I meddle in the whole Ransom Riley business
by telling one of them. I still owe Ransom the
truth about the fact that I found his missing files.
But should I talk to Miss Honeywell try to find
out who stole them first? Or is all of that

(08:01):
just a distraction from the thing I'm scared to do
but no I should do, which is go digging for
evidence that hal is doing dirty business. In the Mayor's office.
What do I do?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
What you just heard is the beginning of Maxine Miles
and the Loose Ends, which is not an episode or
series or new season of Maxine Miles, but an interactive
web based game. In Maxine Miles and the Loose Ends,
you are Max living in the world post the season
one finale that you, as the audience chose, one in

(08:44):
which your trustee sleuthing partner Ross is still injured from
the mind collapse, and while some mysteries are solved, there
are still quite a lot of loose ends. There are
different pathways that you can investigate and different endings that
you can get. This game is a mix of tech
and choices and audio scenes, and you can play it
right now at Maximmiles dot com for the full experience.

(09:06):
I would recommend playing on your laptop or whatever desktop
computer you have. I hope you enjoy sleuthing in the
town of Hastings as much as Max does, and thank
you so much for listening to the show and following
along on this journey. Maxim Miles and the Loose Ends
marks the conclusion of our story. You can go to
a tipical artist dot com for more audio fiction and

(09:27):
you can play the game as many times as you want.
Just go to maximiles dot com and as always, keep
curious