Due to an error that we explain in the episode, there is no narrative episode this week. Instead, James and Drew discuss Galoda: the City of Swords. It is a strange commune of martial artists and mercenaries devoted to the cultivation of strength and the development of swordsmanship. Many characters owe their skills to the culture of Galoda, like Orimar Vale and Corriander Swiftwell. So let's get to know this wild place! OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN Pre-order now! THE ULTIMATE RPG PODCAST Listen Here! OSN BOOK CLUB ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 Get notified for launch! HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! SKYJACKS: COURIER'S CALL IS BACK! Listen on Spotify (or any other podcatcher app)! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gable and Jonnit continue to face The Butcher, trying to be mindful not to harm Orimar in the process. Unfortunately, The Butcher is not taking the same courtesy with them. Orimar continues to needle Truss into a state of panic where she might be willing to surrender, but he finds she is quite stubborn. Nodoze realizes the Captain is working on a plan and tries to buy time stalling the guards. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, body stating, controlling humans mechanically Dear Uhuru: Sometimes it's just a segment about describing a sad and spooky sawmill OSN MICRO RPG COLLECTION Back here! OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN Pre-order now! THE ULTIMATE RPG PODCAST Listen Here! OSN BOOK CLUB ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 Get notified for launch! HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! SKYJACKS: COURIER'S CALL IS BACK! Listen on Spotify (or any other podcatcher app)! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gable finishes telling their story at the reference desk, head swirling with thoughts about The Sovereign and the empty throne, they decide to visit Aravetti's church. They spend some time contemplating the complex legacy of the church before meeting Aravetti himself and having an unexpected reunion with Orimar. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Religious trauma, complex intersections of community and harmful ideology Dear Uhuru: Our son is sick with magical goop eyes and he won't see the doctor HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! CAMPFIRE CARDS Review here! CAMPFIRE CARDS Order Campfire Cards! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Orimar and Douglas clash a little for reasons unknown to the crew. Travis makes friends with a local. Douglas gives jonnit a gift that he already owns. Jonnit tries to show off all of his amazing accomplishments and struggles to garner the reactions he envisioned. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Sibling rivalry, parental disappointment, non-abusive striking of a child by a parent (I want to emphasize on behalf of Beaz that the "punch" described in the episode was not intended as an act of violence. Everyone at the table understood what he was going for and the last thing we want is for folks to project stuff onto this character or performer that is not there.) Dear Uhuru: Mild body horror, discussion of animal personas MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! Review it here! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit tries to smooth things over with Denny Derf as Travis makes an absolute nightmare of himself. The crew prepares to meet Jonnit's father Douglas "The Stone" Kessler when they meet an unexpected person from Jonnit's past. Jonnit has no idea what kind of welcome he is about to receive. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Family tension, sibling rivalry, disappointed parent Dear Uhuru: Spin Doctors references CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! Review it here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Someone from Jonnit's past arrives to pick him up and take him home while a calamitous racket unfolds within the ship. Travis races to exit The Uhuru before growing to a form too large to comfortably fit through the doors. The others try to mitigate the chaos in order to keep up appearances and support Jonnit. CONTENT NOTE Mild body horror CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Uhuru lands in Akaron! Gable manages the crew, Orimar manages his hatchling griffin, Jonnit tries to manage his feelings and appearance to return home, and Travis... performs a dangerous magical experiment that is sure to cause a huge problem for everyone. Welcome to the new arc! CONTENT NOTE Body horror, gross transformation sound effects, CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James continues to reflect on the Deuxmignon arc! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James reflects on the most recent arc! Comparing his vision and goals to how it all worked out in execution. There were some unique production challenges and choices that made it change significantly along the way. There were also plans that turned out significantly better than anyone could have imagined! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit awakens to find a gift from Teacher Wei and a message from the rest of the Uhuru crew inviting him to join them in one of the famed Deauxmignon bathhouses for relaxation and boatmilk. The crew takes some time to relax and reflect after a tense arrival full of danger and adventure. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Bathing suit descriptions, budgie smugglers, mild comic body horror CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The time for confrontation has come. Manifestations of evil begin their assault on both parties, and they must each summon powers beyond themselves if they hope to make it out alive. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Ghostly horror, assisted suicide themes STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At The River, plans are made and paths are set. Travis enacts his trade with Raoul while The Rusalka makes an offer to Gable, before Orimar presents The Rusalka with a deal of his own. Jonnit and Wei continue their dream walk, witnessing the betrayal that set Wei on their current path. All the while, evil encroaches. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Betrayal by and of a loved one, a situation similar to cult indoctrination STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis, armed with the information of the true version of his story, must repay The Rusalka and free Raoul. To do this, he must craft a ritual and call upon his power as The Changeling. Meanwhile, Jonnit relives the moment he received the angel feather from Hip, when he touched it and first became a seer. Tragically his sacrifice in Burza Nyth means that he cannot see or remember the man who meant so much to him. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: The luminaries are deeply haunted, someone "taking over" and inhabiting a body, memory loss, feeling isolated from loved ones Dear Uhuru: None this week! I made a goof. STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit decides to chance to bringing Bayless to The Uhuru to explain the situation to the crew. With what he has learned there is a very real existential threat to everyone living around Sorrow's End. If there is no intervention everyone could die. Still, all ventures call for a vote. Jonnit and Bayless must convince the crew that things are dire enough to risk exposing The Uhuru by interfering. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: an oppressed person having to advocate for himself. Dear Uhuru: Difficult conditions for refugees HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! CAMPFIRE CARDS Review here! CAMPFIRE CARDS Order Campfire Cards! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rusalka tells Travis and the others The Changling's Tale and the way his story has been broken. Travis is left with the unsettling weight of what his mother stole from him and the question of what to do about it. Teacher Wei shows Jonnit the memory of the night in Janchi that led them to seek training in poetry from the liquid swords and to the event that would grant them the gift of a blind seer's eye. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Implied child abandonment, violence against animals, filicide, drowning, working against lessons taught by an oppressive and stifling culture, sex, extremely public– extremely queer– sex. Dear Uhuru: Johnny raps :( STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit shows Teacher Wei his life in Akaron around the time his mother disappeared and the way his father handled the loss and a struggling farm. Travis, Gable, and Orimar encounter The Rusalka who offers them useful information in exchange for varying favors. They must decide if it is wise to take bargains from the luminary of temptation. CONTENT NOTES Loss of a parent, being a child watching a parent struggle through financial hardship, a person choosing death, implied deep and murderous frustration with patriarchal bullshit THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis catches up with his old friend who some might say he shares far too much in common with. Orimar tries to be patient through this reunion knowing that the cutting stone is at their backs. Gable arrives to confront Rusalka and discovers many familiar faces that they were not expecting to see. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror, cognitive degradation, the feeling of being hunted, loss of a loved one, longing for a missing lover, Jom Carmy Dear Uhuru: An old friend whom many of us miss very much, a stinky bastard man   THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nodoze finally manages to say to Gable the things he has been allowing to sit silently for so very long. Gable revisits a pivotal memory that explains why they did the most significant thing they can't remember. Then Gable presses on to investigate the trap that has claimed so many victims. Jonnit and Teacher Wei look back at one of Wei's memories, one that explains the passion that lead them to the Liquid Swords. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Serious feelings discussions, being unable to return feelings, self-doubt/judgment, death, drowning, fear of persecution, thinly veiled homophobia/transphobia metaphors, cruelty in design and values, violent impression of non-conformity, violent rebellion against oppression, thinly veiled sex metaphor, displacement, oppressive/repressive host culture, parental expectations. Dear Uhuru: More singing, threatened violence against a child. THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit faces one of the most traumatic moments of his life, the first time he took a life. Teacher Wei takes a hard look at what violence has come to mean to this child, to judge both if he is worthy to receive the gifts of the temple and if he is strong enough to claim them. Meanwhile, Travis and Orimar continue their stakeout for the changing Travis has been compelled to kill. A poorly timed visit makes stealth difficult. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Death, doing a murder, freaking out over doing a murder, facing a terrible trauma, gunshot sound effects, body horror, description of leech teeth, "DILF deer" Dear Uhuru: Everyone's favorite terrible boss, an extremely particular kind of energy THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gable, Wendell, and Nodoze try to investigate the cavern around Le Plume Creux for any information that might help them claim the treasure. Wendell discusses his uneasiness around strange and powerful magics then stresses over what his life might be like after marrying his second spouse. Gable repeatedly faces the memories they recovered from the feather they touched at the start of the arc. CONTENT NOTE A soupçon of body horror disability, trauma, feeling directionless in life, imposter syndrome, worrying about how your trauma might impact your loved ones, divine creatures being cruelly dispassionate over violence and tragedy, drowning, suicidal ideation Seriously, Dear Uhuru returns next week. I will make it happen. BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis and Orimar are still hunting Travis' changeling friend. To pass the time, they decide to make a wager with very high stakes and undertones that will frankly drive shippers absolutely wild. Gable, Nodoze, and Wendell finally reach the small cavern that is home to Le Plume Creux. Wendel is enthusiastic to try and recover it, the others are skeptical. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Gambling, struggling with painful lack of agency, death, drowning, friends not coming back from adventures, contemplating risking your life, "maybe the real treasure is life itself" Dear Uhuru: Hopefully returns next week! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit revisits a painful memory as a part of his trial. Through his journey, he has become powerful but he has also changed in other ways and that can be difficult to accept. After the midroll: Before the stars fell, in a village that would one day become Lastaloom a young woman dreamed of one-day finding love. She was not prepared for the full gaze of The Union. MAIN SHOW Revisiting trauma, mortal peril, death, impossible decisions. THE SIREN OF BROKEN HEARTS Unfulfilled desire, loneliness, jealousy, infidelity, temptation, sex, some pretty sexy situations if we're being honest, fates worse than death probably. STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis and Orimar take a ride on a boiler boat (a term that only exists in the summary for this episode) while heading to confront Travis' old friend. They run into a pair of hunters who warn them of the Chasseur Saumâtre- a beast that stalks the mangrineel groves. Jonnit enters Teacher Wei's pocket space, jonnit learns more about how he will be tested. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: James still cannot pronounce french words, he is terminally not French Tales from Thornevale: I can't remember if we already featured this but it's an important story, family trauma, STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gable, Wendell, and Nodoze arrive at the entrance to the cave rumored to contain a path to the mysterious and dangerous Plume Creux. They learn that the price to even begin this adventure is blood. They also learn some distressing things about the Deauxmignon economy. Before they descend, Gable is struck by another fragment of memory from the feather they absorbed. Even a powerful and destructive force like Gable needs to learn somewhere. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Blood, chronic pain/disability feelings, feeling insecure within a group, religious trauma, high stakes job insecurity STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bayless has a moment where he is forced to question what he believes about the Ralé people. Jonnit works to form a plan about what he can do to protect the Ralé and the debtors from both the Red Feathers and The Butcher. But even in the light of all that, trust is everything. CONTENT NOTE Mains Show: Colonial terror Dear Uhuru: Difficult conditions for refugees HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! CAMPFIRE CARDS Review here! CAMPFIRE CARDS Order Campfire Cards! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gable thinks back to their first day on the job and what it was like to meet an important co-worker. Also, we learn their for real actual name. All of the names they have held up to this point were fake-outs and we totally got you. Secretnames all the way down. Jonnit prepares to face Wei's examination and trials as he fails to explain a strong motivation for learning from The Liquid Swords. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Religious imagery, pretty toxic work environment tbh, substance use, 15 year old ingesting a hallucinogenic (under the supervision of a metaphysician school dropout if that makes it better?) Tales From Thornevale: Death, haunted shit STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit encounters Teacher Wei, the Liquid Swords Monk who Hewano sent him to meet. Wei will decide if Jonnit can be trusted with the location of the Liquid Swords Monastery and perhaps secrets that will help him understand and control his powers as a seer. Travis is hurried along by The Forest Queen to a dangerous job, and Orimar decides to tag along. Gable awakens to have a difficult conversation with Nodoze, but Wendell has other plans. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Substance use, emotional conversations Tales From Thornvale: This one is a little spoopy THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The group heads off to the office of a "metaphysician" a spiritual practitioner who treats people with strange powers wrought by "science" and "pharmaceuticals." This "doctor" has diagnoses and prescriptions for Orimar, Travis, and Jonnit- but is it what they need? CONTENT NOTE An eye does pop out of a head but it's not violent or anything, lots of doctor's office and insurance jokes, we satirize harmful tropes exotifying aspects of non-western cultures by exotifying western culture THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nodoze goes to alert the Captain's Council that Gable has collapsed after performing an unknown magical ceremony just after the ship landed. After hauling Gable to Dref's office, everyone tries unsuccessfully to rouse them and sort out the cause of their unconsciousness. Finally, Travis decides he knows someone in Deauxmignon who can help, a metaphysician. CONTENT NOTE seeming medical emergency THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Uhuru pulls into a new port: Deauxmignon. A strange and sprawling city built in craters along a river delta that pours into a brackish swamp separating the river wetlands from the angry sea. Travis has business here and Orimar needs to plot the next move for the Uhuru after they take Jonnit to Akaron. All of that gets derailed when one member of the crew is discovered unconscious. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city, a stranger prepares to meet the child thrown into their path. CONTENT NOTE reference to drowning, being tangled and caught, lots of bathroom bits again, the exquisite fury of redaction, some post-traumatic themes, genuine emotional moments, baby crying sounds THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Goose arrives at Cret Azure to deliver their pallet of human bodies. The crew works to set up shop and Jack jumps in to take care of the bureaucratic nightmare created by their cargo giving Girace a chance to explore. She walks to a local cafe to unwind and enjoy the atmosphere, not expecting to see someone she knows. Jack learns the Count would like to meet with him and invites Margaret to Join him hoping it will help her manage the stress she has been feeling. CONTENT NOTE Corpses, light con artistry PRODUCTION NOTES There are pickups and audio dubs in this series. They will be explained in the production notes audio coming next week! CAST James D'Amato as Gamemaster and Margaret Patrick Rothfuss as "Jolly" Jack Tinkerson Amy Vorpahl as Girace EDITING Aly Grauer MUSIC Arne Parrott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack tries to let Girace and Margaret get acquainted but the frustrations both have been feeling with him start to bubble up. Margaret requests some time to speak with Griace alone, hoping she might learn new insight about Jack from his trusted friend that will allow her to help him. She finds that her own emotions might be getting in the way of her duties. Girace takes some time to inspect the goose and uncovers something very strange. Jack continues to keep his secrets while contending with the fact that Margaret also knows how to play his games. CONTENT NOTE Rejecting an unexpected non-verbal offer for a kiss, guilt, lies and deception within a close relationship PRODUCTION NOTES There is a significant pick up in this episode discussed in further detail in the Azure Blues Behind the Sails production notes episode we released last week.  CAST James D'Amato as Gamemaster and Margaret Patrick Rothfuss as "Jolly" Jack Tinkerson Amy Vorpahl as Girace EDITING Aly Grauer MUSIC Arne Parrott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weeks after his encounter with the couriers from The Red Audron, Jolly Jack and The Goose head to Yaris to pick up his long-time companion and second in command: Girace. Jack has a lot to explain as the Goose was damaged in a storm and he has a new person traveling with his crew: Margaret. It's clear that in an effort to learn more about the work she believes she is meant to do, Margaret has worked to ingratiate herself to the crew and settle in. Girace is concerned but tries to take things in stride as she has picked up some very strange cargo. CONTENT NOTE Corpses, jealousy, secrets, pointed nosiness, long-distance relationship angst Support us in the Audioverse Awards THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret tells the story of the origin of hart root tea. It follows the story of a talented hunter entering The Forest Queens sacred woods to flee the world of men. CONTENT NOTE Dysphoria, trans emotions, blood, violence, sacrifice, grief Support us in the Audioverse Awards THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week James, Aaron, Jeff, and Drew start by offering you a collection of romance traditions on Spéir. Then they dive fully into another prompt and discuss pearl diving uncovering a potential remedy against The Mariner's Mark and a collection of rare elemental pearls with strange and wondrous power. THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summary CONTENT NOTE Mains Show: Colonial terror Dear Uhuru: Difficult conditions for refugees HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! CAMPFIRE CARDS Review here! CAMPFIRE CARDS Order Campfire Cards! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James, Aaron, Jeff, and Drew take on the challenge of the moon in Spéir. What is it? What does it mean? Who controls it? What can it do!? These are big questions. If you are a lunar fan you will not want to miss this. THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James sits down with Aaron Catano-Saez and Drew Mierzejewski to talk about the mysterious yet wholesome subject of Necromancy on Spéir. Jeff Stormer is not in this recoding, therefore we don't have the franchise rights to call this All My Fantasy Skyjacks. Please refrain from thinking of it as such so we don't get sued. CONTENT NOTE  Death, loss, grief THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the vote complete and Orimar's Captaincy reaffirmed, Orimar has one last thing he's like to do before the Uhuru heads to a new port. He'll need help from everyone in his council in order to do it. CONTENT NOTE Mild body-horror SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the dead tended and their spoils won, the crew of The Uhuru must re-affirm their commitment to their captain. He may have died, he may have spent months reclaiming his body, he may have been betrayed by members of his council and crew, but this victory makes one thing clear: Orimar Vale is back. To reaffirm his captaincy, a vote is required. CONTENT NOTE Drinking, body horror, drug use, intense monologue about drug use, kinda lukewarm monologue advising responsible drug use SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The crew of the Uhuru readies two funerals while the captain's council participates in an impromptu gift exchange with the spoils of their recent conquest. Travis suffers a familiar but long-forgotten pain when lending the Captain a hand. Meanwhile, Jonnit and Gable find solace below deck, in their respective unexpected ways. Then, it's time to lay their friends to rest. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Very light body horror, claustrophobic peril, funeral ceremony and grieving Dear Uhuru: Comical discussion of adult films (non-explicit) SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Silver Bullet, led by Captain Armond Winchester, remains at the mercy of the victorious Uhuru crew. Captain Orimar Vale has made an offer: "Kneel to me as your king and the benevolence shall be provided." Winchester has an answer, alongside a warning. The man who hired him is no stranger to Captain Orimar, and his sinister intent is more than passing fancy. Later, the Uhuru crew pillages what equipment, trinkets, and supplies they see fit, whereupon the Captain's Council makes a sinister discovery of their own. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Crocodile description Dear Uhuru: Spooky Victorian Dolls and associated horror tropes SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After rallying from a coordinated surprise attack and mutiny to an overwhelming victory, the Captain's Council of The Uhuru and Orimar Vale specifically, have an important decision to make: What should they do with their contoured adversaries? This was a calculated attack, Uhuru lives were lost. They cannot appear weak. At the same time, The Silver Bullet is a corsair ship, even if they are not with The Tempest Armada they attack with less malice and brutality than Red Feathers. Orimar looks to his past to find what sort of captain he needs to be right now.  CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror, betrayal, discussion of punishment and treatment of prisoners Dear Uhuru: I honestly think this one might make people too happy? More than a reasonable amount of mentions for "terminal diarrhea." SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even with the enemy ship disabled, the battle is far from over. Jonnit, Jane, and Pliff square off against the last wave of birds sent by The Silver Bullet in an attempt to capture the featherweave jettisoned by the Rowdy R's. Meanwhile Orimar and Travis battle the remnants of the Rs in the cargo hold. Even with reinforcements, battle is uncertain and good people can lose their lives. Gable steps in to save their precious baby birds. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, Gunshot and bone breaking sound effects, blood, bones braking, body-horror, character death, religious imagery Dear Uhuru: Colonialism, Nicolas Cage SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit tries to right himself after dealing a devastating blow to the Silver Bullet, but the fight still isn't over as the Rowdy Rs have managed to push the remaining Civility featherweave out of The Uhuru's cargo doors– and deployed griffins to capture it. Thankfully Jane and Pliff have finally managed to launch Flea and Lucas to join the fray. Orimar is now surrounded by Rowdy Rs who realized they have no exit. Thankfully as the captain, he can call for backup. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Probably too much piss content in the cold open TBH, gunshot sound effects, violence, bodyhorror Dear Uhuru: Dear Uhuru to return next week! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After suffering a devastating blow to their furnaces at the hands of saboteurs who coordinated with the Rowdy Rs manipulation of the crew schedule to sneak into The Uhuru's sails the crew scramble to recover. Gable works to keep the ship aloft while giving Nodoze the chance he needs to aim the grapple. Travis continues to put down Rs while revealing more features of his Japanese! (Italian) gun. Orimar chases Rocco to the cargo room in order to claim his revenge. Jonnit turns his attention to attack The Silver Bullet in the one place the expect least: their sails.  CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Explosion and scream sound effects, reference to chronic injury, cleaning tool used as a pretty gruesome chemical weapon Dear Uhuru: THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit and Bayless find themselves in a village of the Ralé people. Thanks to Jonnit's tattoos, they are being treated as though they are diplomats, but they have to overcome a language barrier in order to be understood. With people dead and tensions high, they will have to think of something quick. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Colonial paranoia, unintentional appropriation, colonizer pretending he knows more about indigenous people than he does, our sweet child worrying about being treated differently because of his eye Dear Uhuru: Refugees struggling in an area that doesn't have the right infrastructure, drowning and deep water imagery SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! CAMPFIRE CARDS Review here! CAMPFIRE CARDS Order Campfire Cards! JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Right Here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit pulls away from the enemy griffin riders as they chase The Uhuru and sets his sights on a counteroffensive against The Silver Bullet. Pliff through sheer determination to help the rest of the crew, pulls himself back into the ship to face the Rowdy Rs. Gable plays a dangerous game to bait the bullet into a lower altitude battle and use the dangerous waters of the river delta to their advantage. Travis and Orimar wor to pursue the Rs and their leader Rocco into the aviary. Meanwhile, the crew of The Silver Bullet attempts a risky sabotage. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, knives, guns, discussion of injuries, description of heights, creepy laughing children sound effects. Tales from Tornvale: religious themes, family and legacy trauma. THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit struggles to regain control of the battlefield after barely surviving getting into the air and being shot at by enemy riders. Orimar and Tarvis battle Rowdy Rs trying to use surprise to overcome being outnumbered. Gable continues evasive maneuvers diving to skim above a river delta in order to create distance between the Uhuru and The Silver Bullet. Pliff and Jane take a big risk in order to help Jonnit in the air and it has disastrous consequences (predictably for Pliff.) CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Gunshot explosion and cannon SFX, zombie body horror, referencing the bad minion memes on Facebook Tales from Thornvale: This is safe for kids! Anti-capitalist kids. THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Orimar confronts Rocco who reveals a plan to get back at the captain for what he sees as poor leadership and a low payday for capturing feather weave from the Civility. Gable continues extreme evasive maneuvers for the ship causing chaos for the enemy ship and the mutineers. Jonnit uses his third eye to hitch a ride out of the frying pan and into the fire. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Heights, disorientation, vertigo, gunfire, betrayal, body horror Tales From Spéir: implied colonial violence, abusive workplace THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices