The Mechadova Engine

Cover art for The Mechadova Engine. It features the front of a steam locomotive on an orange background. The train reads "THE MECHADOVA ENGINE" and behind it, you can see curved rails. Surrounding the locomotive, there are clouds of steam.
Cover art for The Mechadova Engine. It features the front of a steam locomotive on an orange background. The train reads "THE MECHADOVA ENGINE" and behind it, you can see curved rails. Surrounding the locomotive, there are clouds of steam.

The Mechadova Engine is an upcoming 15-episode queer steampunk mystery audio drama. The story follows Log, who has spent their entire life, as far as they can remember, alone inside a single library train carriage in the sky. Their only knowledge of the outside world is limited to books from a long time ago on earth.Log has never thought to question their existence or the world outside, until one day their carriage stops. Here, they meet Tinker, a member of a resistance group, who turns their world upside down.It's a story about meaningless structures, the power of community, and how knowledge is preserved and retold.The show is currently in pre-production.

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Cast

Timothy Rafael (he/they)

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Voice of Log
Timothy Rafael is just some guy that enjoys being creative and losing his mind over the stories people tell. He is a writer, aspiring filmmaker, and, for the first time, a voice actor. They hope to create and collaborate on many more stories in the future. You can follow his journey on Tumblr, Bluesky, and Instagram

Kirai (she/her)

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Voice of Zahra
Kirai is a streamer and voice actor based in France. She loves bringing characters to life and giving them a real story using just her voice.

7cfc00 (they/them)

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Voice of Robin
7cfc00, or 7, is an artist, writer and (kind of) a voice actor. They've contributed a few short horror stories to Fights by Fire, made the cover art to [REDACTED] and are always looking for more things to get involved in!They can mostly be found drawing fanart on Instagram, @7cfc00art or on Tumblr, @7cfc00.

Moira Daykin (she/they/xie)

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Voice of Hestia
Moira Daykin is a voice actor and writer, based in the rainy UK. They love a good story, and they love to natter about stories in every way they can think of. They have starred in The Dakota Gold Mysteries, Project: Daydream, and auditioned for many many more things!

Lumi Oakes (any pronouns)

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Voice of Cross
Lumi Oakes is a voice actor and storyteller. They've done various work on other podcasts in the past, and spends their spare time watching plays, and getting needlessly invested in various subjects. They love storytelling in all its forms, and is based in Denmark. You can find them on Tumblr and Bluesky as @lumoakes.

Ari Ochoa Petzold (they/them)

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Ensemble
Ari Ochoa Petzold is an artist in process that likes dancing to old music and history, one of their goals in mind is to bring to the world stories about the human condition told through the intersectionality of being queer and latine. You can find them on Tumblr or Bluesky as @aclickbaittitle

Reag Koster (they/she)

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Ensemble
Reag Koster has been voice acting for about a year, their first performance being Dream in the Audistorium finale episode. She has also been in Dead by Snow as Samantha, and Professor Pandemonium's Peculiar Panoply as Freddie. They enjoy crocheting, knitting, and making odd little noises. She can be found on Tumblr and Bluesky under @cherrymecha.

Alyssa Roldan (she/her)

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Ensemble
Alyssa Roldan is a member of the Ensemble of The Mechadova Engine. She has worked on other podcasts, and is most notably the co-producer of Nightmare's Unleashed. Based in the U.S., Alyssa loves to create and tell stories. You can find her on most social media platforms under the username sleepybrushes or on instagram @alyssarroldan.

David Ault (he/him)

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Ensemble
David is a voice actor from North Yorkshire, UK. He started voice acting with Darker Projects in 2005, moving through The Byron Chronicles, Pendant Audio, Colonial Radio Theatre to modern day antics with Fool & Scholar, the NoSleep Podcast team and Shadows at the Door: The Podcast. He’s a big fan of tea, ghosts and astronomy, and can be found online at www.davidault.co.uk

Melissa J. Lackie (she/her)

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Ensemble
Melissa is a voice actor in Vancouver, BC. She's lent her voice to podcasts, video games, commercials, audiobooks, and more. When she isn't in her booth talking to a mic, you may find her working on her screenplay, lining up a shot at the archery range, or soaking in the beautiful nature BC offers. Find her on Bluesky as @MissaJ0511 and Instagram as @melissa.j.lackie.

Rhys Tirado (they/them)

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Voice of Tinker
Rhys Tirado is a writer, voice actor, and all around nonbinary agent of chaos. They're an author of several award winning horror novels, written under the pen name Vincent Tirado. You can find them online on Bluesky as @v-e-tirado.com

Dontae Majors (he/him)

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Voice of Silas
Dontae Majors is a Canadian voice actor, and the voice behind Silas for The Mechadova Engine. For past work, he has provided his work on various podcasts and audio dramas including The Illusion of Choice, The LaFresian Chronicles, The Obsidian Archives, The Sheridan Tapes, and Eden. He has also lent his voice to various indie animated projects, as many characters, including Mammon Jr. in Belphegor's Traveling Circus, Detective Rowan in Double Down Collusion and Overlord Maximum in Dial Zoey. He is a huge fan of animation in the 90s, which he is also an artist, but currently prioritizes as a voice actor.

Adam Qutaishat (any/all shuffled)

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Voice of Tarek
Adam is an audio fiction and theatre artist and advocate based in Chicago, IL. Audio fiction acting highlights jnclude The Wanderer, Waiting For October, Psychopompos: A New Mythology, and the upcoming Our Wars Have Ended. Adam is also the writer and producer of Vigil, where they also voice the title character. Adam spends their free time reading, watching tv, playing games, and advocating for the liberation of all peoples.

Amelia Stephenson (she/her)

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Voice of Deighton
Amelia Stephenson is one third of the comedy trio Quirks and Foibles, and creator of The Random Sketch Generator podcast. She is an actor, writer and cat lover from London, England. Currently performing in the immersive theatre experience Bridge Command. You can find her on Tumblr or as @quirksandfoiblessketch on most platforms

Gem Aydın (they/them)

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Ensemble
Gem Aydın is an audio drama fan who sometimes works in audio dramas. You might see them enthusiastically talking about shows in many discord servers or check them mindlessly posting in most places as @gemaydin

Janet G. (she/her)

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Ensemble
Janet G. is a 22yo Dutch transfemme whose entire existance revolves around trains. Okay, not really, but they might as well. She writes about trains (and other things), she voice acts in projects involving trains (and other things), she builds and (badly attempts to) fix model trains, she co-produces a show that may or may not involve trains some of the time. Also likes horror, nature, animals, lobsters, lobsters, big lobsters and lobsters as well. The moment Lumi told her they were making a show based around trains she dang-near begged to be a part of this project. She's very glad it worked :3.
She can be found on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Tumblr and info about the show she co-produces can be found at nightmaresunleashed.carrd.co

Maddie Girouard (she/her)

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Ensemble
Maddie Girouard is a voice actor and writer dedicated to telling stories that move and entertain people. She is constantly working on creating new stories, and with each one she tells, she hopes to - in her own words - make people "feel all the feels, and make ALL the faces."

Bella Garcia (she/they)

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Ensemble
Bella Garcia is part of the Ensemble of The Mechadova Engine, and is very excited to be able to be a part of the show with so many creative and talented people! She has acted in a handful of projects, primarily audio dramas, and hopes to continuing to voice and explore a variety of characters. Some current projects include Embersong, RE: Frankenstein, and Service Station Omega. When not recording, she can often be found crafting, reading, or petting dogs. Thank you for supporting the Mechadova Engine!

Crew

José Machado (he/him)

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Dialogue editor/Sound designer
José Machado is the Sound Designer and editor of The Mechadova Engine. An Audio Designer and Multimedia Artist, he has worked on multiple podcasts, animations and videogames. He loves entertainment of all shapes and sizes, and is based in Portugal.

Marisa Ewing-Moody (she/they)

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Sensitivity Reader
Marisa Ewing-Moody is a sensitivity reader for The Mechadova Engine. She is the founder of Hemlock Creek Productions, an audio post-production studio that edits audio for podcasts, video games, and films. She is the creator, director, dialogue editor, and mixing/mastering engineer for the horror audio drama "Liars & Leeches," and has edited audio for dozens of other shows, including Transplanar RPG, Dark Dice, Dark Sanctum, The Last Days of Cabrini Green and more. You can also hear their work in the Last of Us Part 1 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.

Rawlyx (any pronouns)

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Cover artist
Rawlyx is the cover artist of The Mechadova Engine. They enjoy being creative and love being a part of new stories. While being an artist, they also dabble in voice acting. Their voice can be heard in Space Specks, Hamuel Burger and the American Dream, and more to come. You can find them on Tumblr as @rawlyx.

Eyre (she/her)

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Intro Music Composer
Ever obsessed with the cool, the colourful and urgent, Eyre is a composer, illustrator, director and developer based in Bristol, UK, where she's known for her light-up outfits and dazzling chiptune shows on a pair of Gameboys.She's been scoring indie web multimedia projects since 2017, scoring the webcomic Vindicaris, contributing to the work of Unredacted Productions and participating in the global trans chiptune fraternity in compilations organised by ChipT4T.Elsewhere, she writes, illustrates, scores and directs the sci-fi trans revenge motion comic Resilience and releases her own music and coding projects on her own site.

Lumi Oakes (any pronouns)

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Writer/Director
Lumi Oakes is the producer, writer, and director of The Mechadova Engine. They've done various work on other podcasts in the past, and spends their spare time watching plays, and getting needlessly invested in various subjects. They love storytelling in all its forms, and is based in Denmark. You can find them on Tumblr and Bluesky as @lumoakes.

Besidesthepoint (she/her)

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Sensitivity Reader
Besides is one of the sensitivity readers for The Mechadova Engine. She's an avid Dungeons and Dragons and video game nerd. When not studying for medical school exams, she spends her time catching up on the latest animated series and listening to all sorts of fiction podcasts.

Mesabzu Wodenscild (they/them)

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Sensitivity Reader
Mesabzu Wodenscild is a linguist from Australia, and helped with a sensitive read and discussion in relation to lived experiences with chronic pains. Outside of this, they are generally a language nerd lover, a sucker for horror of all forms of media (with horror podcasts being a particular fav), and a Fyrnsidere with a soft spot for history. You can find them on tumblr as @wodenscild

Doodles V. de Castro (any pronouns, neopronouns preferred)

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Character artist
Doodles V. de Castro is the character designer of The Mechadova Engine. It is an artist, writer and voice actor new to the world of audio drama creation, but here to stay. When not indulging in the podcasting sphere, ey spend aer time studying animation. It can be found on instagram, tumblr, and bluesky as @doodlespaulas

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Press Kit

Tagline: Log, an exciteable and curious inhabitant of a lonely library, ends up on the adventure of a lifetime around a world entirely confined to steam trains in the sky.Premiere: February 18th 2026Episode length: 20-30 minutesSeries length: 15 episodesGenre: Sci-fi steampunk mysteryDescription: The Mechadova Engine is an upcoming 15-episode queer steampunk audio drama. The story follows Log, who has spent their entire life, as far as they can remember, alone inside a single library train carriage in the sky. Their only knowledge of the outside world is limited to books from a long time ago on earth.Log has never thought to question their existence or the world outside, until one day their carriage stops. Here, they meet Tinker, a member of a resistance group, who turns their world upside down.It's a story about meaningless structures, the power of community, and how knowledge is preserved and retold.Cast
Log: Timothy RafaelTinker: Rhys TiradoCrew:
Showrunner/writer: Lumi OakesStory consultant: Timothy RafaelSensitivity Readers:
Marisa Ewing
Besidesthepoint,
Mesabzu Wodenscild.Cover art: RawlyxCharacter art: Doodles V. de CastroIntro music: Eyre

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Cover art for The Mechadova Engine. It features the front of a steam locomotive on an orange background. The train reads "THE MECHADOVA ENGINE" and behind it, you can see curved rails. Surrounding the locomotive, there are clouds of steam.

Transcripts

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Attributions

The Mechadova Engine could not exist in its current form without the important work of online library and archiving projects such as:The Gutenberg Project An online library of free eBooks, many of which are utilized, quoted, and referred to throughout the show. They work to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks, and is an incredible ressource for decades worth of literature.
Biodiversity Heritage Library A library collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world. In addition, they also publish illustrations and images through Flickr, either under the public domain or Creative Commons licenses.
The Internet Archive A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. They hold the valuable mission of providing universal access to all knowledge. Countless books, images, video material, and more is available for everyone to find.
Public Domain Review An online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. They also maintain the Public Domain Image Archive, which is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse.If you have the means, please consider sending them all a donation for their important work. This show could not exist without them.
You can also contribute for free to some of their projects, such as by volunteering for Gutenberg or BHL

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