The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #554: Thirteenth Hour Sequel Update 5 - Worldbuilding the Food 2 - Archery and Hunting
23 March 2026

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #554: Thirteenth Hour Sequel Update 5 - Worldbuilding the Food 2 - Archery and Hunting

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This week, I recorded outside, the first nice spring day so far,  I wanted to take advantage of the weather so do some shooting outdoors. Unlike the static, more deliberate archery style | learned when I was younger, I have been experimenting with more dynamic ways of moving while shooting - different draw techniques (thumb draw, Slavic release) as well as shooting while walking and after rolling. For the past 15 yrs or so, I have been playing around with purely instinctive ways of shooting (no sights) - just aiming through intention alone, which fits many of the martial arts l’ve done over the years. I’ve used these experiences as background for writing the sequel to The Thirteenth Hour.  Here's a segment from the draft narrated by Aurora, reflecting on the past few years as she and Logan learned by trial and error how to catch their food after having grown up not really having to depend on things like hunting and fishing for protein.   

Excerpt at https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/the-thirteenth-hour-podcast-554-thirteenth-hour-sequel-update-5-worldbuilding-the-food-2-archery-and-hunting/

More coming soon!

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Once Upon a Dream, the second Thirteenth Hour soundtrack, is now out in digital form!  

It is out on most major streaming services such as ⁠Bandcamp⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠, and ⁠YouTube Music⁠.  (If you have no preference, I recommend Bandcamp since there is a bonus track there and you will eventually be able to find tapes, CDs, and special editions of the album there as well.)

-Check out the pixelart music videos that are out so far from the album:

-->Logan's Sunrise Workout: ⁠www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SM1RgsLiM⁠

-->Forward: ⁠www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VgILr1TDc⁠

-->Nightsky Stargazing: ⁠www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0p3jKRTBo⁠

-->Aurora's Rainy Day Mix: ⁠https://youtu.be/zwqPmypBysk⁠

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