Worlds Beyond Number

Hands up and walk casual. A blood artist’s kingdom crumbles around her. Wipe away your tears and force a wide smile. After all, the show must go on. Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of blood and violence. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Solari was produced by Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Jino Jang-Hansen at Big Giant Head Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Recording Engineer: Rainie Toll Character Art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey www.instagram.com/nikolasdraperivey/ Cover Art by Lu Tomkiewicz www.instagram.com/_fromlu/ This campaign uses the Stillfleet TTRPG system, created by Wythe Marschall and developed by Stillfleet Studio https://stillfleet.com/collections/stillfleet You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

Uninvited guests invade the Vice Rooms. The young scion of Iverex assembles his entourage. Questions hang in the air like bullets, flung towards the inevitable. Something isn’t adding up. This Pull was supposed to be simple… Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of violence. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Solari was produced by Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Jino Jang-Hansen at Big Giant Head Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Character Art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey www.instagram.com/nikolasdraperivey/ Cover Art by Lu Tomkiewicz www.instagram.com/_fromlu/ This campaign uses the Stillfleet TTRPG system, created by Wythe Marschall and developed by Stillfleet Studio https://stillfleet.com/collections/stillfleet You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

The era of seclusion is over. The 40 Suns reconnect and reunite and find themselves valuable. As borders are drawn across occupied space, the great powers of the galaxy begin their sweep of its dusty corners searching for any golden scraps that remain. Hungry eyes turn towards a tiny asteroid named Ghenopaar, a place where everything is permitted and nothing is forbidden. Strange shapes move through the shadows. The players begin the next phase of their game. History is being rewritten. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Solari was produced by Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Jino Jang-Hansen at Big Giant Head Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Character Art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey www.instagram.com/nikolasdraperivey/ Cover Art by Lu Tomkiewicz www.instagram.com/_fromlu/ This campaign uses the Stillfleet TTRPG system, created by Wythe Marschall and developed by Stillfleet Studio https://stillfleet.com/collections/stillfleet You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

In the dark of orbit, the crew of the Icaron makes its last stand. A desperate plan unfolds across steel corridors and open vacuum as the ship is pushed beyond its limits and an armada bears down. This is the final assault. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/ You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

The crew crashes back into Nadir Hab and straight into a nightmare: Martians on the bridge, an overwhelming presence lurking beyond the glass, and Earth dead ahead by morning. As trust fractures and long-buried secrets surface, our heroes are driven toward a choice that may cost them everything. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/ You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

The Icaron locks down as Martian strike craft take position, turning the ship into hostile ground. With exits gone and command in question, three figures slip into its hidden spaces, moving toward a communications deck that may be the last place still speaking to the outside world. Signals are active, systems are rerouting, and something aboard the Icaron is making its move. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/ You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

The clink of champagne glasses and gala formalwear gives way to gunfire and chaos aboard the Icaron. With authority fractured and information scarce - who ends up on the right side of this conflict, who is written off as collateral, and what those decisions cost will shape everything to come. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/ You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

This is the maiden voyage of the Icaron - Earth’s first S-Class Battle Station. This demonstration flight has been certified as routine by all relevant oversight bodies. Systems have been tested, personnel vetted, and contingencies reviewed. Passengers are reminded that the Icaron represents the highest standard of planetary defense engineering. Please remain seated. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/ You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.

In the frozen hills of Rhuv, the Sigrunsgjalfi Children’s Home sits silent beneath a sky of unfamiliar stars. No lights glow in the windows and no signs of celebration mark the coming of Alf Gappen’s Day. Yet in the stillness, a single sleeping child hums a quiet tune that carries impossibly far across the snow. Three spirits hear it and cross the tundra to a place stripped of joy, determined to bring warmth and wonder. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Produced by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse, original score by Will Savino, and edited and designed by Jared Olson. Transcript of this episode coming soon!

Our fiasco continues—Italian style! Can the Holy Trinity escape Heaven in time for the wedding? How are they possibly paying for all those chicken taters? And will a tiny pistachio man derail everything? One thing’s for sure: sometimes all you need for nuptial dreams to come true are your lungs, your heart, and a mostly-intact spinal cord. This is Fiasco! — our first video podcast and a GM-less free-for-all. Join us as we plan a wedding, face sworn enemies, and fully embrace chaos. Watch the video on YouTube or wherever you watch video podcasts. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan as Barck Harmblinb Lou Wilson as Leaf Harmblinb Erika Ishii as Frances McDormand Aabria Iyengar as Purell Fitzgerald With sound design from Marty Scanlon Edited by Zach Delaune Co-produced by Laservision Productions Fiasco is brought to you by Bully Pulpit Games. We are playing the Dragon Slayers playset written by Logan Bonner SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie Bowman, and Amanda Freberg Transcript of this episode coming soon!

A simple chicken-tater-funding contract goes horribly wrong when our heroes paraglide straight into hell. Dodging revenge plots, subteranean fish stomachs, and a devil with very specific terms, they just might make it to the altar… if they survive. This is Fiasco! — our first video podcast and a GM-less free-for-all. Join us as we plan a wedding, face sworn enemies, and fully embrace chaos. Watch the video on YouTube or wherever you watch video podcasts. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan as Barck Harmblinb (and also the Devil) Lou Wilson as Leaf Harmblinb (and also Dave) Erika Ishii as Frances McDormand Aabria Iyengar as Purell Fitzgerald With sound design from Marty Scanlon Edited by Zach Delaune Co-produced by Laservision Productions Fiasco is brought to you by Bully Pulpit Games. We are playing the Dragon Slayers playset written by Logan Bonner SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie Bowman, and Amanda Freberg Transcript of this episode coming soon!

The forgotten town of Fortune's Fields lies in the shadow of a mesa. Desert winds stir across the Free Roads, carrying the low, mournful calls of jackals. The streets lie quiet, sun-bleached and cracked, littered with the remnants of shops and abandoned homes. Across the train tracks, half-buried in sand and shadow, a mine shaft waits, its mouth dark and inviting. Fortune is found only by those desperate enough to follow it into the unknown. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Produced by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse, original score by Nic Neves, and edited and designed by Jared Olson. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon.

And now, for our final course, the denouement. But how will it end? In confession? In violence? In the cold precision of a sickly sweet poison pill, or the white hot bite of black widow? Perhaps. The only things guaranteed in this, our final curtain call, are the same things that are always guaranteed to grow from the soil of spilled blood: lawyers, guns, and money. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, Archive.org and the public domain.

Our interlocutors do as the Romans do and pipe up, sweating through their first interrogation, but Cass finds himself in the cruelest court of all when his paper trail leads the way to new suspicions and old desperations. Not even a nice liberal government can save you from some things, like the smoking, still-warm barrel of a gun. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, Archive.org and the public domain.

As blood pools upon the thick pile of the Boddie Estate's imported rug collection, our players, and the game, are afoot. Bodies on the move in voluminous pants and long, dark secret hallways. Revelations and aspersions fill the air of the mansion like fingers between the keys of a grand piano, like a sky-darkening murmuration of starlings, as our heroes begin to uncover the culprit behind this murder most...fowl. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, and Archive.org La notte, S. 112/2 - Mauro Tortorelli (https://musopen.org/music/37594-la-notte-s-1122/) Broadway (Manhattan Mary) 1927 Cass Hagan Orch. v. Frank Luther (https://archive.org/details/FavoriteShareFlagAudioFrankLutherPopularVocalRecordingsCollection1925-1935/z+Good+News+1927+Fred+Rich+Orchestra+v.+Frank+Luther.m4a) https://archive.org/details/JV-18202-1940-Qmd5eseFw7icWTHEX1fsM1HUoJeJwCAYyAR8AzBWCdgmyN.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-26792-1947-QmfW6Wz4vaz3ecX8ZBXLsjhoxSC4C7FFARt4bvKNB5W8kj.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-6591-1930-QmVUah4peJwEHcczgW8DYHFi8D5Xnqwazq1iA9syPbNnNa.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-1395-1924-QmVPw1kBvGMJkZysN5m8stCjVD5jpHwCYEgWZsHDodhW3E.mp3

To whom it may concern, you have been cordially invited to the Boddie Estate, alongside many established as well as up-and-coming luminaries, gadabouts, learned scholars, loyal compatriots, mysterious servants, long-time friends with complicated backstories, blackmail artists with hearts of gold, liars from your past, traitors from your present, not-mysterious-at-all servants, and of course, one very, very wealthy corpse. Spoiler alert. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, and Archive.org La notte, S. 112/2 - Mauro Tortorelli (https://musopen.org/music/37594-la-notte-s-1122/) Broadway (Manhattan Mary) 1927 Cass Hagan Orch. v. Frank Luther (https://archive.org/details/FavoriteShareFlagAudioFrankLutherPopularVocalRecordingsCollection1925-1935/z+Good+News+1927+Fred+Rich+Orchestra+v.+Frank+Luther.m4a) https://archive.org/details/JV-18202-1940-Qmd5eseFw7icWTHEX1fsM1HUoJeJwCAYyAR8AzBWCdgmyN.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-26792-1947-QmfW6Wz4vaz3ecX8ZBXLsjhoxSC4C7FFARt4bvKNB5W8kj.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-6591-1930-QmVUah4peJwEHcczgW8DYHFi8D5Xnqwazq1iA9syPbNnNa.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-1395-1924-QmVPw1kBvGMJkZysN5m8stCjVD5jpHwCYEgWZsHDodhW3E.mp3

The cast assembles to look back at the end AND the whole of Book One. Ends and wholes, that's what it's all about, baby! Join us on our Patreon for more like this! Coming soon to the Patreon: Music Chat, where we look back at the music and, gulp, music theory of Book One's incredible score! A whole episode about the "what ifs" of Book One (one of the best bits of bonus audio we've ever recorded, imho)! And so, so much more. See you there!

Behold the Future of Worlds Beyond Number! Here's a rundown of all the great stuff coming your way, taken from the most recent Fireside Chat where the gang goes deep on dissecting that WILD finale. Listen through to the end for an announcement about our upcoming album drop! What!? To hear the full Fireside Chat, come and join us by the Fireside! Our Patreon has so much stuff on it it's like, logistically annoying to even write them all out, and you can get it all immediately upon subscribing. Ame's witch class, Suvi's Wizard of the Citadel subsclass, Eursulon's Oath of Freedom, multiple one-off adventures set in Umora, soundtrack singles from the show, and just so much more, really. Not to mention early merch drops or discounts which miiiiiight become very useful very soon if you catch my drift. Wanna subscribe for one month, get all the cool stuff and then dip out? You can literally do that. That is something you can literally do. It's chilly out there in the woods. Come sit by the Fireside with us. [PATS LOG]

We gotta go. Thus ends Book One of The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One. Here's to many more. In the meantime, we have wonders piled high to share with you, dear listener. Come, join us, and see. There are other worlds than these. This Fall we'll be releasing mini-series, one shots, multiple talkbacks, and more across our public podcast feed and over on our Patreon as exclusives for our dear patrons. Our Patreon is already an incredible deal and it's about to become a WILDLY INCREDIBLE DEAL. Maybe a return to the world of Umora wildly incredible? No maybe about it. And then, in the new year, Aabria takes the GM seat and takes YOU to space. OUTER SPACE THAT IS. Heard of it? It's where the moon is from! And if you believe it, there's even more headed your way. The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One are taking a much deserved long rest, but Worlds Beyond Number? We're just gettin started. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon and Amanda Freberg, and now Mel! Welcome, Mel! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional environmental sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

Remember this when you wake up: The greedy, hungry awful things. Some small part of you will miss them. The lost letters, the old home movies, the people you put on the same path as you, the dumb and silent stars of the southern sky. One last show, and then I can't be here. Don't ever let me forget this: who to kiss, and who to kill. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional environmental sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.