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James answers listener questions after the Akaron arc of Skayjacks. 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

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...

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 b...

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 referen...

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! T...

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 He...

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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...

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 o...

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 cu...

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...

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 s...

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 p...