Campaign: Skyjacks

With the costly help of The Forest Queen, Travis and Gable confront The Morning Star. They face an opponent of unimaginable strength while they are battered and beaten, but it is also clear they have been underestimated. Orimar and Jonnot are able to defeat the greenhearts with the help of Hip. Finally able to take time to think, they decide on the best strategy to get The Uhuru out of the forest–...

Still dealing with lingering confusion from the effects of the pollen being used by the greenhearts, Orimar is striking out at everything around him, including Jonnit. Also facing opponents that have the power to mimic the most fearsome forces on Spéir Jonnit has his work cut out for him. Meanwhile, Gable panics, realizing they have been seen. With the little strength they have left, they scramble...

Travis and Gable fight desperately with the fading dregs of their strength to put down the greenhearts attacking them. However, in doing so they court a more dangerous foe. Jonnit fights to pull Orimar from the greenheart's influence and form a plan to lead the crew. Unfortunately, a desperate Orimar Vale cut from his senses is a perilous person to approach. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror, bl...

Travis and Gable are forced to confront the Greenhearts who were masquerading as the Queen. With Gable's injuries from their own confrontation with greenhearts and Travis not being in his body things could get quite dangerous. Meanwhile, Jonnit arrives in time to support Orimar in his own battle. Finally free from the pollen's illusions, Jonnit and Orimar must decide how to fight when they are out...

Gable helps Travis break free of his illusion and the two of them try to play it cool until they can assess how much trouble Travis got himself into. Caught in his own illusion, Orimar clashes with the three things he feels the most passion for: Sefa, Calivar, and destroying the Red Feather Syndicate. The green hearts force him to confront the kind of man he has become and whether that man can tru...

Thanks to Dref Travis discovers that his encounter with his mother was not what it seemed. Now he struggles to keep Orimar's clouded perceptions from lulling him away from the truth long enough to find safety. Gable discovers they are in a similar situation and takes advantage of it to work through some trauma. Unfortunately, it might have attracted some very unwanted attention. Jonnit has his own...

Jonnit works to get his bearings and understand the rules of the wood. While trying to protect his loved ones he ends up returning to a nightmare he just relived a few weeks ago. Travis has an awkward visit with his estranged mother, just in time for the holidays. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: disorienting imagery, gunshot sound effects, loved ones in danger, Implied abuse, manipulative abuser, parent r...

Travis struggles with his newfound necromantic control over Orimar's body and finds himself in the least comforting place that could be called "home." The Uhuru crew awakens in the heart of the wood finding themselves separated from the ship and each other. They work to get their bearings and get to safety. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Struggling to control one's own body, description of what feels ana...

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With a little help from Dref, Travis finds a way to help Orimar's body keep clinging to the edges of life and movement. Gable struggles through pain and disorientation to help Jonnit, but all is not as it appears. Elsewhere Jonnit tries to unravel one of the mysteries of the Queen's Wood. While Orimar struggles against memory, longing, and the unignorable sense that he is not himself. CONTENT NOTE...

The crew of the Uhuru awakens deep in the heart of what to most a sprawling and unfamiliar wood. To one member though, it is all too familiar. They do not know how long they have been sleeping, how far they have traveled, or what awaits them within the lurking roots and branches. To make matters worse two members of the crew are deeply our of their comfort zones. Thankfully a friend is able to len...

A farmer and a blackberry bush learn what it means to take from The Forest Queen what she did not yield, and what it means to settle such a debt. This story was written by Brandann R. Hill-Mann and read by James D'Amato BRANDANN R. HILL-MANN AUTHOR SITE https://www.brhillmann.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Orimar and Sifa reunite for a quiet moment amidst the Gobblenacht festivities. The Captain shares the new direction of his grand ambitions and the Bandit Queen cautions his pursuit. In the second half, James breaks down the now-finished arc! CONTENT NOTE Broken relationships, discussion of the arc's characters and themes including separated families, absent parents, capitalism/colonialism forcing...

Gable helps Travis open some mail. The Kessler family reels from the news that their family was not destroyed but simply fractured. Everyone stands between a painful past and a fraught future trying to find the strength to keep moving.  CONTENT NOTE Trauma, extreme anxiety, extreme guilt, separated family, absent parent, capitalism/colonialism forcing a family apart NETHER REALMS: SCI FI NON BINAR...

After the running of the turkeys, Jonnit and Zannah complete their coming-of-age ceremony to discover a long anguished secret. Travis receives a letter from Margaret, a large duck, a letter for Gable, and mysterious oddments from an old friend. CONTENT NOTE Extreme guilt, separated family, being failed by a parent, arguments, heavy family tension NETHER REALMS: SCI FI NON BINARY EROTIC COMICS ANTH...

Gobblenoct begins in earnest with the running of the Turkeys. Jonnit and Zanah run alongside Orimar and Douglas towards adulthood and their futures. Someone arrives during the festivities with a very important message for Travis. CONTENT NOTE dangerous coming of age ceremonies, kids growing up feelings, taking kid to a bar, if you don't know who Braith Ashworth is you can find out on Skyjacks Cour...

Zannah arrives and everyone starts to wind down from the intensity of the Red Feather attack. Gable scolds Travis for being careless and putting Jonnit's ambitions at risk. The Kessler siblings take a moment to discuss the tension surrounding their sibling rivalry. Douglas takes a moment to think about his babies growing up. Then everyone gets ready for the next part of Gobblenocht: The running of...

The Captain and his council help Douglas Kessler dispatch the Red Feathers but after the fighting ends tension begins to ramp up. Hip is seriously injured and without immediate attention, he could die. The Uhuru is without a doctor and everyone must scramble to make do. CONTENT NOTE Gunshot wound, blood, field surgery, stitches, body horror MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! CHAR...

Orimar confronts the Red Feathers to defend a wounded Hip and the Kessler family chicken feed recipe. The others arrived on the scene but will Douglas understand that everyone is fighting on the same side? CONTENT NOTE Violence, emergency first aid for gunshot wounds, inspiration from Hollywood depictions of "voodoo," animal throwing BACK STILLFLEET Kickstarter! MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB...

Travis and Gable spend more time talking while they wait for Jonnit and Gable remembers something extremely important. Hip confronts the Red Feathers who are raiding the silo containing the Kessler Family Recipe (KFC.) Orimar arrives on the scene with Jonnit and Douglas close behind.  CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Wild cosmic guilt, parental trauma, implied vague parental abuse, people horribly dying in...

Jonnit and Douglas continue to investigate the gunshots while trying to parse the possibility of a "monster." Jonnit decides to use his eye to aid the search. Gable and Travis wait for Jonnit near the woods and realize they are probably actually going to have to talk to pass the time. Orimar learns the secret history of Captain Dantonia Crossblade. CONTENT NOTE Extreme guilt, abandonment, murder,...

Jonnit and his father rush to the chicken coops to see what the source of the sound might have been and in the process, he shows off some of his powers. Gable tries to wrangle Travis who is so caught up with his luminous power that he struggles to stay on task. Orimar shares a cup of tea with Dantonia who seems to know him somewhat well. CONTENT NOTE We do a joke that we already did like 100 times...

Orimar tries to diffuse tension with Douglas and Hip when someone arrives to either fix things or make them worse. Jonnit reels from the gravity of sacrificing his memories as gable tires to counsel him. Travis arrives ready to take part in a plan that it feels like he only half understands. CONTENT NOTE Memory loss stress, family tension, betrayal, massive turkey waddel, gunshot sound effects MYS...

Happy reunions are interrupted when Jonnit discovers that there is someone extremely important who has been missing from his life. Douglas reveals why he has been so unwelcoming towards Captain Orimar. Travis begins his quest to transform into a giant turkey and goes shopping for the ingredients to make a cup of hart root tea, he gets some unexpected advice from well-meaning locals. CONTENT NOTE F...