Campaign: Skyjacks

It's time to start jousting! We play our first match games and finally see how the training Braith and June have been doing has paid off. Braith starts things off with a mounted joust, but he is still grappling with learning healthy caution. Will he be able to pull things together in time? CONTENT NOTE Competition, guilt, heavy pressure 2023 CONVENTION TOUR SCHEDULE ACD Games Day May 24-26, Madiso...

The Buring tails arrive at Robert's Ruins to begin their quarter-final match against Sterling Hawk Academy. The Tails have the talent and will to advance but can they get their teamwork to where it needs to be? If it's going to happen they'll have to pull it off mid-flight. CONTENT NOTE Big competition, difference in financial support between teams 2023 CONVENTION TOUR SCHEDULE ACD Games Day May 2...

Braith and June tend to their birds after a difficult session of training. Braith and Squall are able to steal a moment of peace but June and Augury are tempted by the call of wing whispering. Meanwhile, Torikoshi comes so close to bonding with the team... before he completely loses confidence again. CONTENT NOTE Generational pressure, emotional devastation 2023 CONVENTION TOUR SCHEDULE ACD Games...

Torikoshi and Valkyrie evaluate the skills of their new recruits. There is hope for the Burning Tails this year but Torikoshi struggles to see it from underneath the shadow of his new responsibilities. June and Braith have trouble adjusting to the training and high-strung captain. CONTENT NOTES A teen struggling in a high pressure situation of their own creation 2023 CONVENTION TOUR SCHEDULE ACD G...

Torikoshi Honda has just been promoted to team captain of The Buring Tails fledgling league jousting team. He dreams of impressing his grandmother and finally getting a win for the Burning Tails school, but the team they thought they had fell apart. Now he and his coach Divya have to scramble to train new recruits sent over from their sponsors The Swiftwell Courier Service. Are June Hymnal and Bra...

James sits down with Johnny O'Mara to reflect on his 8-9 (who's to say) years on Campaign. They reminisce, talk about production choices, discuss negative reviews, and answer listener questions. It's a good time between good buddies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite Johnny's best efforts, we hear the letter Braith delivered to Travis from Margaret. Then James shares some of his thoughts about the production of this arc. 2023 CONVENTION TOUR SCHEDULE C2E2 March 31st-April 2nd, Chicago IL ACD Games Day May 24-26, Madison WI Gencon August 3rd-6th, Indianapolis IN CAMPFIRE CARDS Pre-Order Campfire Cards! Email preorder receipts to contests@oneshotpodcast....

With the crew of The Uhuru reunited it's time to make a narrow escape. However, this escape was bought with dark promises and intends to be paid for which might make it narrower than anyone would like. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Big episode, big feelings episode, gunshot sound effects, character death, scarier than it is, but also pretty scary Dear Uhuru: More gay jousting talk 2023 CONVENTION TOUR S...

Jonnit, Orimar, and Hipp reach the ship to find the crew struggling to free the ship from overgrowth and a siege of aggressive forest creatures. Travis struggles to return to gable with the fruit of panacea as he finds Orimar's now living body much more difficult to push past normal limits. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Scary animal noises, peril for your favorite boys Dear Uhuru: MLMs, body shaming, be...

Negotiations with the Forest Queen are finished and the crew all work to find each other in the aftermath. There are ways to save those they love, but at what cost? 2023 CONVENTION TOUR SCHEDULE Emerald City Comic Con, March 3rd, Seattle Washington Level Eater 13 March 16th, 18th C2E2 March 31st-April 2nd, Chicago IL ACD Games Day May 24-26, Madison WI Gencon August 3rd-6th, Indianapolis IN CAMPFI...

Members of the Uhuru crew: Pliff, Carlos, Jerk-Off Jerry, and suddenly Toku instead of Bathroom Barry are still trying to find The Uhuru and the rest of the crew. Even with a heading thanks to JO Jerry's subdermal implant the forest has plenty of dangers to bar the way. Also, Nodoze isn't there. Look, memory is a trial with the schedule we had to keep for this one. The continuity is in shambles. C...

Jonnit has successfully guided Orimar and Hipp to The Queen's Glade. On the threshold of the impossible, they must now figure out their plan. Their mission is to see safe passage out of the forest for The Uhuru and her crew, but what price are they willing to pay? The Queen senses within Orimar, a deeper desire and makes him an offer. Meanwhile, Jonnit attempts to communicate with Hipp. CONTENT NO...

Jonnit, Orimar, and Hipp contend with the world's strangest language barrier in order to devise a plan to get The Uhuru safe passage out of the forest. It comes as no surprise their plan is risky and involves navigating toward the heart of danger. Travis and Gable are still locked in a desperate struggle against The Morning Star. It will take everything they have, but will that be enough? CONTENT...

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