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They watch, they wait, they wager. They hear you've made some friends. They see you through their scope. They know you play pretend. Keep your head down. 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 ...
Heads up! Worlds Beyond Number has officially partnered with Skybound to launch our very first graphic novel! THE WIZARD, THE WITCH, AND THE WILD ONE BOOK ONE is coming to Kickstarter on June 16th. In addition to that, the massive 157 track OST for WWWO is out NOW, so there's plenty of Umora available for you while you wait. Get the OST here: https://taylormooremusic.bandcamp.com/album/worlds-beyond-number-the-wizard-the-witch-and-the-wild-one-book-one-original-soundtrack Sign up for Kickstarter...
A gift delivered at terminal velocity. Sender unknown, but the intent is clear. A deadly dance unfolds before us. One step, two step, boom! Content Warning : This episode contains depictions of violence and drug use. 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...
A cryptic warning scrawled in red. The Captain is no longer taking orders. Stranded en route, we are bound by contract: Do we thank or fear our liberator? Content Warning : This episode contains depictions of blood, violence, and alcohol consumption. 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 Bowm...
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: Sha...
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/...
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. CONTENT ...
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....
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 Me...
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 an...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 vi...
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 Har...
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 Iyenga...
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...
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, Melan...
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 design...
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...
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!
The Worlds Beyond Number team unveils a wealth of upcoming content, celebrating the Book One finale with special Patreon features like a producer's chat and NPC playlists. They detail two thrilling miniseries: "Hint!" GMed by Erica using a modified Clue system, and "The Flight of the Icarion" GMed by Lou, set in a sci-fi world using Star Wars 5E. Additionally, fans can anticipate new Umora interludes, Aabria's upcoming long-form sci-fi campaign, and an ambitious plan to get the Book One soundtrack to the top of the Billboard charts.
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. ...
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 an...
To make the new world, to free tomorrow from the clutches of not done, we must bury the old world, shove ourselves inside the bone white sand, and there meet ourselves and everyone we have known. A wizard in her tower, oh let down your hair. A wild one, his one foot out the door of the prison cell. And a witch astride the world, who simply cannot leave any door closed, any stone not flipped like a table in the temple. We are all the pallbearers of what was. Roll up your sleeves. It's time to cle...
GET TEASED, LISTENER! With this, a teaser of our first Horner Corner and our first guest*, Grant O'Brien. Join this infamous Dropout sex-haver as he is RAILED by questions from our hosts Aabria and Erika. Feelin teased? Then come and get the, ahem, hole thing on our Patreon! Horner Corner show art by the indomitable Britt Anderson ( @brittajj26 ) We'll return to our regular schedule with episode #52 next week! As always, for all news and updates about schedules, merch drops, etc, make sure to fo...
This is our endeavor. To blade! To tongue! To plow! To grind our name into the bones of tomorrow, until the horizon is lucid smooth as liquid mirror, sharp as cut glass, clear as cool water rising, Irrigating in our throats the dry river bed of ambition. A witch in the gut of the tower. A wild one embraced by blood. A wizard in the court of the sword. All days divided into the days before and the days after, like the two sides of a shut window of black glass. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika I...
Everything that rises must converge. In the gloaming, where the tide of one world washes and runs across the sands of another, we pass through the center of things like a gate, like a river, like the sea of the sky, champions on parade at the crossroads, a place we know, a place we find familiar, before the night, as it ever does, arrives. 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 des...
Shining, shimmering, splendid. Endless open doors, in a countryside of vapor. Everyone's invited. Do we have enough food? This is what you wanted. You leapt out the window, you walked through the door, you sent up the flare. But that's the past, and we're not headed there...are we?Worlds Beyond Number is: 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 SPECI...
You are weightless and powerful. Whatever you were on the way to being, this can be done too. This world is a dream, yes. But whose? It's time to go home. Worlds Beyond Number is: 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...
