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    Hopefully you're familiar with Machinima (in short, making a movie by controlling characters and environment within a video game) - well, we have been featured by Bioware, in PC GAMER UK, and have been called "The Bill & Ted of Machinima!" as well as the "Bill & Ted of RPG!" (Apparently people associate the two main characters to Bill & Ted!)

    Anyway...

    By the Goddess Nen!

    You won't believe this... but after two years, Episode 43 ...

    IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD!!!

    http://www.neverendingnights.com/archives/275

    Please pass it around! Post it on forums! Post it on your facebook! Your MySpace! Your Twitter! Tell everyone! And I do mean EVERYONE!


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    It's been awhile since I have visited... cranking these out once a week has kept me busy!

    Episode 43: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3lXi3A41GA
    Episode 43 Bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG356etidH0
    Episode 44: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-LBAWLhP8o
    Episode 45: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2bA44HlSMY
    Episode 46: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39eEze4ZMK0
    Episode 47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkgvP8UdlsA
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    Started watching from the beginning. Good stuff you got my man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forever Curious View Post
    Started watching from the beginning. Good stuff you got my man.
    Our beginning stuff is pretty rough. The first ten episodes ... We did a lot of experimenting with the series!

    Thank you! I promise it all gets much better as you go along! From writing, filming, acting, quality - the whole bit!
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    Episode 48 now available for viewing!
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    Episode 49 released!

    Fan favorite goblins make their return!

    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/388
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    Episode 50 Released: http://neverendingnights.com/archives/415

    Also Neverending Daze - all six episodes and some! - http://neverendingnights.com/archives/403

    Neverending Daze was made with Neverwinter Nights 2, exclusively to promote NWN2. You can read about it on our video page.

    Would love to see some more feedback, questions, etc! :)
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    At long last - the newest episode of Neverending Nights!

    If you thought things couldn't get worse for our heroes...

    Episode 51 - "Wanted: Dead Or Alive."
    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/423
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    LOL! This is really good! I'm impressed. I think you'd get more responses if you posted this in the Gaming Forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Loss View Post
    LOL! This is really good! I'm impressed. I think you'd get more responses if you posted this in the Gaming Forum.
    Thanks! I have a great amount of fun doing these! (I avidly ask folks to check out out video page, because I do little write ups about each episode, usually tricks, comments, even my own thoughts about how the episode turned out) - http://neverendingnights.com/nenvideos

    At any rate, more responses would be awesome!

    Is there a way to just get the thread moved over to the gaming forum?

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    Hrm. I can't seem to find where to locate a moderator to get this thread moved to the suggested forum section.

    In the meantime...

    Episode 52: "These Aren't The Heroes We're Looking For" has been released!
    Come get you some!
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    And now presenting...
    Episode 53: Forging Destiny!

    Come by and pick your poison!

    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/454
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    Episode 54 is now available!

    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/459
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    Kicking rocks and taking names.

    Yes. I just finished ANOTHER episode.

    Episode 55 Now Available!
    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/462

    This episode debuts Al Lowe - an icon to my childhood and shaping the person who I am. If you don't know who Al Lowe is ... I am sad for you. If you have missed Leisure Suit Larry, Torin's Passage, Freddy Pharkas, among many other games he's developed, written and created - well, you need to make up for that - and get to those games. Al Lowe's incredible humor in Leisure Suit Larry, his story telling in Torin's Passage, and his quirky jokes in Freddy Pharkas were all parts of shaping who I am, and as a result, how the series of Neverending Nights was developed! Needless to say it was a HUGE honor having him aboard for a voice.
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    A third episode done in a week!

    Neverending Nights – Episode 56: “Funkafied!” This episode features another very special guest to me. This one is Greg Johnson. You may be asking yourself, “Who is Greg Johnson?” Well let me educate you in the ways of Greg Johnson’s Funkafied Fame! Greg Johnson is one half of the team that made the incredible series, “Toejam & Earl.” To say the outlandish humor and zanniness of this game was beyond amazing would be an understatement! I remember spending days on this game, especially with my good friends Tammy & Chuck Stevens! Greg is an extremely busy person, but he took a moment out of his hectic schedule to lend us a voice when I asked! I can’t thank Greg enough for doing this! So sit back and prepare to be Funkafied!

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    Episode 58 - "VisionQuest."

    Awyer the Astral Traveler takes our would be heroes on an interesting... trip... down memory lane!

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    Episode 59: "These Are My Confessions."
    Now available via Facebook, Youtube and Download by going here:
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    Two new episodes (episode 60 and 61)... but figured I'd bomb this thread with a ton of information about it (and us) and links to all the madness!

    First to explain the one thing you may not know - "Machinima." In short, the easy answer, is filming within a game's enviroment, manipulating it, voicing over, and doing something extra with it (like making little segments, videos, etc).

    The most popular Machinima out there, without a doubt is RedvsBlue (I won't even link their website - because it should be obvious) - but that's not who I want to talk about! I want to talk about Neverending Nights which uses the Neverwinter Nights game engine from Bioware to create a series.

    Personally my favorite is that Peter the Ranger character. He's so sauve. So cool. So funny. He's all around the best character. His side kick Grayson is all right.

    I figured I'd open up its own thread. I know people aren't always keen to going to yet another new forum - so if anyone watches our episodes - they can comment here.

    The first 10 episodes are rough. In the first five, we try SEVERAL different filming styles, and video capturing styles. In the first five, we're also using a cheap $9.99 mic. But Episode 10 we were using my Karokee machine through my PC because the sound was infinitely better. By episode 16 (or 17) - we had bought Shure Mics (200 bucks a pop), plus a full audio/digital converter, built a mini studio in a garage and gone the whole 9 yards with it.

    It's paid off, as I said before, because of PC GAMER UK, interviewed by Bioware on their site, Atari contracts, NWN2 for free (plus the expansion) all before it came out, entrance to E3 for free under Atari's badge, entrance to the San Diego Comic Con for free as professionals, etc etc etc.

    So if you're interested - head to the site - download the videos (all for free) - like I said just keep in mind the first 10 are pretty rough - and the entire Season 1 ended up being a HUGE learning processes so that Season 2 (all available for free to download also) was much better all around.

    Our website - neverendingnights.com

    Facebook Page

    Our Youtube Channel

    Our Twitter Page

    And I have to link Travis Richard's Page since he did so much incredible music for us in Season 3, that really put this series over the top!

    If you download the episodes, I'd recommend checking out our Video Page, which has writer comments and talks about the episodes (especially the first 10 episodes, when we were still learning how to make these...)

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    SEASON ONE:

    Episode 01: Heroes?!

    Episode 02: 20k?!

    Episode 03: Come On Baby Light My Fire...

    Episode 04: A Walk In The Woods...

    Episode 05: Ye Salty Dog!

    Episode 06: He's A Magic Man!

    Episode 07: Things That Make You Go... Boom?

    Episode 08: On Borrowed Gold...

    Episode 09: It's Not The Size (That Matters...)

    Episode 10: Racial Benefits

    Episode 11: Deep, Dark, Revenge (This Is How We Roll!)

    Episode 12: Where There Is Smoke...

    Episode 13: In And Out, A Hero's Tale

    Episode 14: Here Comes The Sand Again

    Episode 15: Reach Out With Your Feelings...

    Episode 16: Dessert City?

    Episode 17: Heroes Bar & Keep And...?

    Episode 18: Pepper Flavored?

    Episode 19: A Little Magic!

    Episode 20: Variety Is The Spice Of Life... And Death!

    Episode 21: Accumulation!

    SEASON TWO:


    Episode 22: This is 'Dragon' Too Long.

    Episode 23: Oh How I Treasure... Treasure!

    Episode 24: The Watchful Eye

    Episode 25: The New Recruits

    Episode 26: Reunited And It Feels So Good.

    Episode 27: Even Ghosts Have Racial Benefits?

    Episode 28: The Light At The End of the Tunnel

    Episode 29: The Plan.

    Episode 30: Good Elf... Bad Elf?

    Episode 31: Side Effect May Vary...

    Episode 32: Employment Opportunities

    Episode 33: There Be Pirates!

    Episode 34: Barking Up The Wrong Tree

    Episode 35: This Is Bull$#!+

    Episode 36: Mind Over Matter (Not That I Don't Have A Mind - It Doesn't Matter!)

    Episode 37: Crime Does Not Pay

    Episode 38: Mandatory Flashbacks

    Episode 39: Confessions of a Blade

    Episode 40: Something's Not Quite Right...

    Episode 41: Something Wicked This Way Comes...

    Episode 42: Oh Mother Dearest...

    SEASON THREE:

    Episode 43: Got Time To Kill?

    Episode 44: Seeing The Unseen

    Episode 45: A Friend In Need

    Episode 46: Dude, Where's My Sword?

    Episode 47: A New Hope

    Episode 48: The Assassin Strikes Back!

    Episode 49: The Return of the Goblins

    Episode 50: Destiny or Chance?

    Episode 51: Wanted - Dead Or Alive.

    Episode 52: These Aren't The Heroes We're Looking For

    Episode 53: Forging Destiny

    Episode 54: Back By (Somewhat) Popular Demand

    Episode 55: All Time 'Lowe'...

    Episode 56: Funkafied!

    Episode 57: Pawn of the Dead (... or Grave Situation... Again!)

    Episode 58: VisionQuest

    Episode 59: These Are My Confessions

    Episode 60: But I'm A Lover, Not A Fighter

    Episode 61: Reunited And It Feels So Good (Wait... Didn't We Use That Title Last Season?!)
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    I've been thinking out making my own Machinima. Can you offer any tips?
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    I've been thinking out making my own Machinima. Can you offer any tips?
    Certainly! I will say this - whatever game engine you plan on using - tinker with it and see if machinima is even possible with it. Some game engines obviously can't really be made to work into machinima.

    Some suggestions - For VIDEO CAPTURE - I'd strongly recommend FRAPS. This can be found at: http://www.fraps.com - it's rather inexpensive, especially if you're going to make Machinima a long term thing. FRAPS is by far the easiest to use, and does an awesome job.

    For AUDIO editing, I'd recommend GOLDWAVE - which can be found at: http://www.goldwave.com - others have recommended AUDICY - which is free - and can be found at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

    For writing - Use whatever word based program you have. I'd STRONGLY recommend writing AHEAD. Do not do it on an episode per episode basis. Also, write your "series" out (whether by season or by Point A to Point B and try to get ALL of your audio recording done before proceeding - because people may become unavailable later, or whatever, or keep promising to get those lines to you, and unnecessarily delaying you).

    RECORDING - If at all possible, try to get some medium (for beginners) quality microphones to record on. Do NOT record over XBOX LIVE. You're asking for horrible audio quality that programs like GOLDWAVE and AUDICY will never be able to clean up. (Goldwave for example, has a number of tools within that allow you to kill hissing and popping that's often recorded during dialogue).

    VIDEO EDITING - For starters, if you have anything above Windows XP (or higher) - it comes with WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER - a free video editor. Most would frown on Windows Movie Maker - but really - for starting - it's a great place to start, learn and see if this is something you want to keep doing.

    Um... I am sure there's more... Lord, been doing this since Nov 2004. So I am sure there's plenty more shoved in my head. I am by far not the best - or even middle class in terms of Machinima. There's an entire community out there that's simply amazing. But I'd be glad to share whatever I have to offer.
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    Some others that we did (Atari brought us on to help promote NWN2 before it was being released)...



    EPISODE 01: “The Real Daze.” - Writer’s Note: Neverending Daze was created because the folks from Obsidian/Atari had contacted us to do a contract with them and release some NWN2 Machinima pieces to help promote the soon to be released NWN2. It was definitely an amazing experience. Both Adam and I got to go to the Obsidian Office and meet the wonderful team behind NWN2, as well as tinker around with NWN2 while we were in their office. While we were there, they showed us some of the powerful tools that the NWN2 toolset had over NWN1, and answered a ton – and I mean, a ton! – of our questions on how we could make it work for machinima. We also got to go backstage at E3 into the Atari booth and meet with a handful of Atari executives and got treated like celebrities while we were back there! Definitely an amazing moment in our journey. We were given Alpha/Beta copies of the game to make these pieces in. Our first episode, we wanted to make fun of how popular reality television was these days – and thus created an episode that would introduce the characters by doing a parody of MTV’s “Real World.” When we were thinking of a title for the series, we wanted to keep it similar to our own – so, rather than Neverending Nights – we originally called it “Neverending Days” – and then laughed at the notion and rapidly changed “Days” to “Daze.” And we knew then – we had the perfect title for the series. Something unique about this series, we tackled it like “Bugs Bunny.” Simply, a character could die in one episode, and still appear in the next episode just fine. Each episode stood on its own merits, but still, we had the storyline sort of carry from episode to episode, regardless.

    EPISODE 02: “What Is Beauty? (Part One).” - Writer’s Note: Interesting to note about this episode – all of the episodes were written before the Beta copies of the game arrived in the mail. Now, since Neverwinter Nights is based in Forgotten Realms, and Beholders are a center piece of Forgotten Realms. So this episode was supposed to be about a Beholder. (The whole saying of, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” – which is why it was originally titled “What Is Beauty?”). We had already laid down the voice tracks and assumed the Beholder would be a part of the toolset. Much to our own horror and dismay – when the disks arrived – we discovered somehow (for whatever reason!) Beholders were not available in the toolset! We considered scrapping the entire episode and trying to come up with some additional ideas – but in the end we stuck with it. This episode actually connects to Episode 03, which is the second part to this story.

    EPISODE 03: “What Is Beauty? (Part Two)” - Writer’s Note: This story continues from Episode 02, where the main creature to be encountered had been intended to be a Beholder. Instead, in a mad scramble – we used one of the devil/demons and changed the dialogue around to reflect that in this episode. This episode (within the zip file, which is why it’s so large) – contains two versions of the episode. There is one episode with “subtitles” for the devil, which I had done the voice for (with no digital modifications! That’s actually one of the many voices I am able to do!) I really wished it had been a Beholder for this episode, because we were going to spoof the episode from the animated “Dungeons & Dragons” cartoon from the 80’s with this.

    EPISODE 04: “A Grave Situation.” - Writer’s Note: This was a fun episode to do. Knowing the fate of the characters by the time they reach the end of the episode, I went all out with this one. This is one of those times, where I said – characters can die and appear in the next episode just fine. With this episode, what we had wanted to do (other than have fun!) was high light how combat looked in Neverwinter Nights 2 compared to combat in Neverwinter Nights 1 (where it looked more like they were often dancing, rather than actual combat).

    EPISODE 05: “Giant Problems.” - Writer’s Note: This is one of the episodes where we ran into several issues filming. For example, when we “possessed” the Frost Giant, it had unexpected “teleported” itself to the far corner of the map – and we could not move the Frost Giant while we were possessing/controlling. This was an unexpected issue with the game – that we were suddenly forced to work around. We did this – by leaving the Frost Giant, not possessing him, and instead – to “show him approaching” we did a slow zoom on the Frost Giant in an attempt to make it look like he was moving forward. In this episode, we also wanted to high light Neverwinter Nights 2’s amazing ability to scale anything within the game. This can been seen as we scaled the house (and door) to a giant size, as well as the cat that they encounter inside the house. This ability to scale items was an amazing addition to the toolset.

    They even brought us back to promote MASK OF THE BETRAYER, which we did with this (new set of characters since it was the actual game and not a BETA version that we were using) -

    EPISODE 06: “Task of the Nay Sayer.” - Writer’s Note: Atari once again approached us when they were going to release the first expansion for Neverwinter Nights 2, entitled “Mask of the Betrayer.” This one was different in that I had done most of the work on my own – from writing, filming, editing. With the full release of Neverwinter Nights 2, all the models that we had used in the Beta versions of the game were no longer available. This is why this episode features a brand new cast of characters. Sadly, Paul who had done the previous voices of the dwarf (in the other episodes, as well as Neverending Nights) was not available to record and declined to return for the dwarven part in this episode. As a result, I did both the role of the Halfling and the Dwarf, once again, with no digital enhancements. Adam returned for the role as the leader. In this episode, we had wanted to high light a number of things that the expansion was bringing to the Neverwinter Nights 2 game – from new races, creatures, animals, and influence system – as well as The Blue Dragon. In this episode we had made fun of the ever increasing popular incident from the “Don’t taze me, bro!” that had happened.

    We even used MACHINIMA for one of our friends College Reports...



    Neverending Skewl Daze: EPISODE 01: “A NeN Project for Poppy’s Class.” - Writer’s Note: I had no hand in writing this episode. Poppy (our now famous “Salt Vendor” from the Neverending Nights series) wanted to do something unique for her class in College. Rather than do a normal video to present her thesis – she wanted to use Machinima to present it – and more so – use the characters with Neverending Nights to do so! She thought this would give her video a unique spin – and make it stand out from the rest! (Which I am sure it did… now that may or may not have been a good thing!) She did pass the class – so we can take comfort in that! Everyone – except for Adam, Poppy and myself – were new to recording in the studio. So some of them were very monotone – or some of them could not stop laughing – and some just got crazy. While the content of this video will undoubtedly go above the majority of people’s heads (since it was an actual thesis for College – and there’s a lot of big words in there!) – I would recommend at least hanging out until you get to the Out Takes – because this is where the fun comes in. PLEASE NOTE: The Out Takes do have a considerable amount of cussing in them! (Mostly Adam… But then whose surprised by that?)
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    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/655

    Grayson the Fighter, Peter the Ranger, Amiee the Armorer, Ruth the Redeemed and Pawl the Dorf reach <B>The Forge of Eternal Flame.</B> Learning what Pawl has from Sammy the Smith, Pawl must forge The Blade of Destiny anew as the heroes prepare for the ultimate and final battle against the fabled <B>Dragon of Silver Lake.</B> Is the Dragon of Silver Lake dead, like all the rumors say? Or is the Dragon Of Silver Lake alive, and luring heroes to their death with promises of massive treasure (from a dragon that many think is dead)! These questions will soon be answered; and everything will be made very clear - very soon!
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    I know some folks are leery of downloading things... So here's an easy mass of links to our videos on youtube. :)

    http://www.youtube.com/neverendingnights - Neverending Nights Youtube Channel.

    Episode 01: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3LXflc9np4
    Episode 02: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ab_vvrSrl4
    Episode 03: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZdCaTgTqOc
    Episode 04: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI39Wc88vtI
    Episode 05: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LjBfIC_io
    Episode 06: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6wSPB2Sgs
    Episode 07: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c87vHij7QJQ
    Episode 08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLWk4plIhQQ
    Episode 09: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4w0Ki8qm18
    Episode 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUQt_GQ_Bs
    Episode 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXF7tAb-QuE
    Episode 12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjZVa-p3sE
    Episode 13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugk_pbIcj4
    Episode 14: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0bXwt2rQtg
    Episode 15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSj6oumHSD0
    Episode 16: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAUdSyqsAE
    Episode 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__maYz_5bI
    Episode 18: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UK3M563gi4
    Episode 19: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OblfiScBl1A
    Episode 20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ddICSgnbQ
    Episode 21: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_BBgpdgyD4
    Episode 22: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzzNE6AQeA
    Episode 23: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQbiVNrPZpo
    Episode 24: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF3K1soDxeA
    Episode 25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuw9cxsEP2E
    Episode 26: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4Sxkw3q60
    Episode 27: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbLF_7BoYEE
    Episode 28: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aPrRgggiE
    Episode 29: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npEb2rl4gW0
    Episode 30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLs8D9piy84
    Episode 31: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SNrY_mDZlY
    Episode 32: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utYAxVWeQQ
    Episode 33: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iKOJpZKzbk
    Episode 34: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjtRQDClFc
    Episode 35: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA1nN8vbm-s
    Episode 36: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryDdRGdGVxs (No Subtitles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFyTckMgT_o (With Subtitles)
    Episode 37: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY_TsMMJQR4 (Version 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqiA7wkitKw (Version 2)
    Episode 38: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnlPpIy9CI8
    Episode 39: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNaGDZqp-7o
    Episode 40: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOonY1DIaU
    Episode 41: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6r01YYdtc
    Episode 42: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edBk1Yiu84
    Episode 43: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3lXi3A41GA (Episode) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG356etidH0 (Bonus)
    Episode 44: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-LBAWLhP8o
    Episode 45: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2bA44HlSMY
    Episode 46: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39eEze4ZMK0
    Episode 47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkgvP8UdlsA
    Episode 48: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQgaXQqvMg
    Episode 49: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcCKh3qXUtw
    Episode 50: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivz4g-Nq27o
    Episode 51: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9-7wsfSiU
    Episode 52: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiUcvyuD9A
    Episode 53: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEI-ZLKRy6U
    Episode 54: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzsO_1z0tw
    Episode 55: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSiM0g0McKI (Alternate Version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_YrtBIUFEc (Regular Version)
    Episode 56: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFPEy9aP4Y (Alternate Version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm26KdJmvqM (Regular Version)
    Episode 57: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLrErulmwNI
    Episode 58: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sWJHVGQBUU (Episode) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEIkQOEiQQ8 (Bonus)
    Episode 59: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr-rckX712Y
    Episode 60: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-lbik89xI
    Episode 61: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx2kI1jOsZo
    Episode 62: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-1VmJejlw
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    Neverending Nights - Episode 63: The Fall of A Hero.

    Our adventurers travel deep into the caverns of the Dragon of Silverlake… and as they do – they must make choices… sacrifices… and some may make the final sacrifice… as the secret of the Dragon of Silverlake is unlocked… is it alive, as some of the rumors have said? Or is it dead? The episode that reveals the secret … and changes the series forever.
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    Neverending Nights - Episode 64: The Rise of A Hero.

    Grayson has been killed by the undead Dragon of Silverlake. The world's greatest evil. Now Peter stands alone against the Dragon of Silverlake. What will be Peter's final fate? There's only one more episode after this one....
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    The final episode (almost a year later!) is finally released!

    http://neverendingnights.com/archives/1506

    Check it out, share it, enjoy it! :)
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