The Boy's Adventures

The ongoing adventures of a strong, fast and smart 15-year-old boy. He lives in medieval times, with plenty of castles, magic, dragons, an elderly gryphon, giants, and the occasional Viking or pirate for good measure.

Episodes

4: The Duke and the Raiders Part 4: Another Attack!

December 26, 2007 • 14 mins

In which the Raiders attack again, The Boy fights well and is aided by his secret allies. This is the second-to-last episode in The Duke and the Raiders. Enjoy this episode. There is lots of cool fighting.

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4: The Duke and The Raiders, Part IIIB - Gathering Eggs

December 6, 2007 • 9 mins

In which The Boy finds out where the red and white eggs are coming from and starts to deal with the problem.

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4: The Duke and The Raiders, Part IIIA - Little People

November 26, 2007 • 6 mins

In which The Boy seeks out the Little People Who Wear Green and finds out a lot of things that you might be wondering. The picture foreground shows the Little People Who Wear Red hatching out of the striped eggs. Behind them are two pikers with a knight between them defending against the raiders. The raiders are the two dark figures with swords coming through the breached wall.

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4: The Duke & The Raiders, Part II: Battle!

November 11, 2007 • 18 mins

In which the raiders attack the Duke's castle and we find out what The Boy already knows about The Little People Who Wear Red. Our theme music also debuts. There is a lot of fighting and destruction in this episode. People hit with swords "fall down." They never explicitly die, but most kids will realize that is probably what happened.

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4: The Duke and the Raiders, Part 1

November 4, 2007 • 18 mins

In which the king sends The Boy to help The Duke defend his lands against raiders. Mysterious red & white striped eggs appear. This is the first podcast featuring an entirely new story. The first three podcasts in The Boy's Adventures were first told in the fall of 2006 and have been retold three or four times since then. Many things have happened in the roughly 200 improvised non-recorded episodes of The B...

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3: Smart

November 2, 2007 • 5 mins

In which The Boy helps the castle's engineers figure out how to build a tower on a slope--without guy wires. This is the last introductory story. Now that you know about the boy's strength, speed, and smarts, we can move into wilder stories. This is also the last old story. The next one will be improvised.

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2: Speed

November 1, 2007 • 11 mins

In which the boy attends a tournament for knights and races an unlikely opponent.

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1: Introduction and Strength

October 29, 2007 • 13 mins

In which The Boy leaves home for his adventures and uses his incredible strength to help an unfortunate farmer.

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