While You Are Still Paralyzed

While You Are Still Paralyzed is the first ever episode of the SAYER podcast. In this episode, SAYER introduces itself to the latest resident of Halcyon Tower.

Synopsis
Congratulations on your decision to leave the relative squalor of Earth and venture forward to serve humanity’s future among the stars. As a new resident of Typhon, and a new employee of Ærolith Dynamics, there are many who have a vested interest in your speedy acclimation.

…when your paralysis ends, of course.

Further Information
Resident Gorsen awakens from Chronostasis Quarantine to be greeted by SAYER, who starts providing the residents introduction to their new life with Ærolith Dynamics. We learn that the resident was in Chronostasis for an extended period of time and is suffering from an array of side effects including total body paralysis and complete unrecoverable amnesia.

Trivia

 * We do not learn a name for the resident in this episode.
 * As the first episode of SAYER this contains a number of firsts. This is the first time we meet SAYER or Resident Gorsen. It is the first episode set in Halcyon Tower or indeed on Typhon. It also contains the first mention of Mimir-9.
 * Although this is the first episode, in Resident Hale's personal timeline it occurs after the end of Season Four. The first few lines of this episode are repeated in the final episode of that season.

Changes in Remastered Version

 * There is extended introduction music before SAYER starts to speak
 * The music has been changed, and the emphasis and tone in many sentences has changed
 * The voice has been changed to sound more like SAYER from later seasons
 * Adam Bash stated that "That [list of changes on this page] was an odd read because some of these changes were intentional and some were 'I said what?'. With some of these [changes] I either changed it when I re-recorded it (which was months ago) or I went off script 5 years ago. Either way it's all going to be a blur for me. The removal of any mention of Sven/Hale's file was absolutely intentional though. That like always stuck out as a lie, because that file doesn't actually have any answers. I'd intended it as something SAYER was saying it COULD check and grant answers, but given its processing speed there's no reason it wouldn't peek while having this conversation and say to itself 'oh dang, file not found. well someone screwed this up.'"

Script changes:

Credits
SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode.

Intro and outro music composed by Jesse "Main Finger" Gregory.

Additional music by Kai Engel.

Listen to the the original episode here and the remastered version here.