Campaign: Skyjacks

Gable, Jonnit, and Travis finally manage to find Spit. He does understand Orimar better than anyone else on the crew, but they'll need to prove to him that they have Orimar's best interests at heart. Which might be difficult because he's unwinding a bit too much. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Psychadellics, betrayal, anger, pervert sign Dear Uhuru: James can't pronounce names Skyjacks Setting Zine Volum...

The Captain's council meet with Liuto and learns about the past between Captain Orimar and The Bandit Queen. With so much at stake, they decide it would be best to learn as much as they can about their employer before heading into this meeting. CONTENT NOTEMain Show: We have to learn about the places spit has been in Family Circus-style trail, bullyingDear Uhuru: Arranged marriage Skyjacks Setting...

After a night of celebration and some heartache exploring, the crew of The Uhuru wake to greet the arrival of The Tempest Armada. The Bandit Queen and a small fleet of her most trusted generals have arrived, prepared to finish the deal struck at The Broker's Table in Bura Nyth. It should be an easy deal, but will the history between Captain Orimar and Sifa get in the way? CONTENT NOTE Main Show: N...

Travis and Jolly Jack go to The Well and try to outmatch one another in a game of secrets and honesty. Even for his companions, Travis' history with Jack is shrouded in mystery. Margeret senses a wound in Jack's heart shrouded in layers of artifice. Can Travis draw it from the well? CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Trauma response, feelings of abandonment, goodbyes Dear Uhuru: I think this one is actually...

The captain's council is thrown into confusion after Travis dramatically threatens Jolly Jack, a seemingly affable visitor to the city of N'Goni. Still, they seem determined to back his play. Thankfully Margaret is around to keep things from getting too bloody and nudge the council back on track. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Dear Uhuru: Mention of Nazis in the context of a pulp-hero type character figh...

Under the Spring storms of the hollow valley, a Lily is pulled from worship. A Skyjacks short story written and read by James D'Amato for the Worldbuilders End or Year drive. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: This is a sexy one folks, There is nothing explicit but we reference sex a ton, sex work, suicidal thoughts, grief. Dear Uhuru: None this week! World Builders End of Year Drive Skyjacks Setting Zine...

After a few short weeks of travel, The Uhuru arrives at the city of N'Goni. OR at least where the city should be. However, they are having a little trouble finding where to land. Once they arrive they encounter a mysterious stranger while awaiting The Bandit Queen. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Bullying Dear Uhuru: Robo hogs, diapers, meta bullshit, crying babies\ World Builders End of Year Drive Skyjac...

Gable, Travis, and Jonnit try to process what Dref told them as Margaret delicately tries to teach two immortals how to deal with emotions like a well-adjusted person. They discover Dref's shelf is full of secrets that were waiting to be discovered. Some buried for nearly a century. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Greif, guilt, justified anger, emotional development, implied cannibalism Dear Uhuru: NeoScu...

The crew holds a seance to commune with the spirit of their departed friend. He is not the same man he was in death that he was in life, but there is still much they have to tell him. They intend to learn more about the captain, but they discover unexpected danger. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: Death, grief, regret, ghost piss Dear Uhuru: Returns next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Margaret arrives to counsel our heroes on how to navigate the tricky social faux pas of using necromancy on a man's body to pretend he is alive while he happens to be haunting that body. We've all been there. Together they decide it might be wise to get some help and Travis thinks of the perfect person to do it. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Realizing the monumental scope of your fuck up, loss, grief, J...

The crew reacts to Gable's story in the Grandfire. Before they get too much time to process, Jane takes the stage and tells a story about Rusalka that a stranger told her in a bar. Then Travis is compelled to enter the fire and gets compelled to do something he only very recently has grown accustomed to: tell the truth. That obviously causes trouble and our heroes are forced to hide in Dref's offi...

We gave Casey the week off because the last two days have been A LOT. In place of an episode, we're bringing Patreon content to the main feed. This is the worldbuilding session zero that created Nordia! We also thew in James' thoughts on the Nordia arc and answered listener questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pulling away from Nordia victorious, the crew of The Uhuru is alerted by the ringing of the heart bell. The Captain is calling for a Grandfire – a tradition from his homeland that calls for the exchange of stories around a massive fire. Different members of the crew are called before the fire to tell stories prompted by stones drawn from the coals. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: Detailed description o...

The crew of the Uhuru say their final farewells in Nordia. Gable has to work out the best course of action with Il Sangue Dio deciding whether another ship is worth the trouble of drawing the ire of The Church. Jonnit tries to talk Adrienne down from preaching the gospel of The Slain God's newest prophet. Travis doesn't really do anything but we've probably had enough out of him for one arc. CONTE...

After banishing the Mariner from Nrodia the Uhuru pirates work to pick up the pieces. Travis and Margaret dance around where they might be now. Gable struggles not to lose themself in who they were. Jonnit tries to reign in the gifts and adoration this town has for a young man who must be a prophet and seer. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Gable has something akin to a dissociative episode, religious zeal...

The crew gathers for an epic stand against The Mariner himself. Jonnit and Orimar try to keep him pinned while Gable and Travis work desperately to draw his attention. Can any ship– even the greatest corsair vessel ever to touch the sky– stand against the wrath of the sea? It all comes down to a single bottle of bog wine. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, drowning imagery, body horror, cannon fire...

Gable and Travis are wrapped in 200 years worth of complicated tension and realize if they want to help Jonnit they will need to find a way to resolve it. Jonnit faces down The Mariner. Everyone who rushes to his defense is driven back by the hateful power of the sea. He must face a bitter truth: there is no one alive who can help him. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: Intimacy, violence, drowning imager...

Travis does that totally reasonable thing and takes some time to yell at Gable in the middle of a battle with The Mariner. Meanwhile, Jonnit and Margaret face off against La Llorona together only to discover that she isn't alone. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: Violence, old fashioned nightmare imagery, player vs player, more hand damage, very serious emotions, body horror Dear Uhuru: Travis badly misc...

Jonnit meets up with Margret but still being under the effects of The Underswell they will need more than a bit of luck to get to safety. Out in the bay waves crash to pull the rest of The Mariner's fleet into Nordia's shores and the Uhuru Death Chart claims its first victim. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, character death, James technically pronounced La Llorona correctly but its still embarras...

Margaret desperately defends herself from a group of drowned sailors while trying to make her way to safety. La Llorona the Drowned calls forth The Underswell to make Jonnit more easy prey. Then it basically becomes the Ryan Lochte show for a while because the dice actually hate James. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, James is still a few episodes away from learning how to properly say "La Lloron...

Toku faces down the water knives of La Llorina to defend fleeing civilians. We check in with the pirates who have taken Il Sangue Dio and the crew members riding griffins above the battlefield. Travis fights some boys. Gable struggles to reduce the number of drowned sailors getting to Upper Nordia and attracts some unwanted attention. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, James is still a few episodes...

Gable leads a contingent of Uhuru Pirates to hold back the procession of drowned sailors moving up the staircase towards the civilians in Upper Nordia. Travis and Marget reach safety up on the walls... for like five seconds before Travis screws it up. Jonnit faces off against La Llorona and feels the terror of a herald of the Mariner. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, people being controlled, Jame...

Tavis and Margaret brave the raging current to try and cross the bridge to Upper Nordia as the Drowned Fleet makes landfall behind them. Ryan Lochte foolishly convinces a cohort of Uhuru scouts to draw away numbers from the Drowned Sailors. Jonnit shows the forces of The Mariner that he has a power that no mortal being should: he can command the water. The initial assault is lead by one of The Mar...

After restoring his hand, Travis has one more choice to make. Gable, Jonnit, The Uhuru Crew, and the whole of Nordia brace for The Mariner's arrival. The seas boil and the dark of the storm is set alight by cannon fire and Ghostlight. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: Description of pain from a wound healing, Cannon Fire, old people having heart attacks Dear Uhuru: Teen interest magazines, toxic photosho...

Gable takes a veritable who's who of fan-favorite characters to try and capture Il Sangue Dio because Liz Anderson plays chicken with Fate. Jonnit helps the people of Adriane's congregation create barricades between Upper and Lower Nordia. Travis processes the fact that other people are also capable of lying. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Emotional conversations Dear Uhuru: People not taking fears serio...