Campaign: Skyjacks

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...

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. CON...

Gable and Jonnit confront The Butcher, trying to mitigate the killing intent within Sorrows End to avert disaster. Orimar takes a different approach, looking to pressure Edith Truss into surrendering to him. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror, gore, weird metaphysical spookiness, religious horror Dear Uhuru: Coming soon OSN BOOK CLUB ANTHOLOGY VOL. 1 Back here! OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN Pre-order no...

The Butcher uses Orimar's body to hunt Truss and preach his bloody gospel. He cuts down everyone in his path leaving a grim wake. Gable, Jonnit, and Nodoze quickly move to confront the wild Luminary. The Captain tries a different tactic. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, violent sound effects, body horror, misanthropy Dear Uhuru: We return to visit some fan favorites. Everything is fine but they a...

Orimar-in-Jonnit, Jonnit, and Gable-with-bird-talons hurry to choose their next move as the alarm bells of Sorrow's End continue to ring out. The Sorrow's End emergency response crew begins to move out - and the body of Orimar Vale (driven by The Butcher) hones in on Edith Truss' location. Gable breaks the final glass prophecy in their pocket to determine what Arrivetti is doing - and discovers ev...

The bells are ringing throughout Sorrow's End -- and the crew of the Uhuru are racing the clock to seek out the Butcher in Orimar's body. Orimar's spirit hitches a ride with Gable and then Jonnit as the crew scramble to unify their plan while Edith Truss and the other inhabitants of Sorrow's End try to hide from danger... CONTENT NOTE Main Show: more violent implications, mild spectral possession...

Gable and Orimar set off to look for The Butcher but get waylaid by the emergency bells tearing through Sorrow's End. They quickly detour into the factory to grab steal a bottle of mid-process dye which happens to be a potent toxin. Meanwhile, Jonnit, fresh of the heels of figuring out how to safely disable Red Feather cultivated grosovah reels at seeing the chaos of a poorly implemented sabotage....

Jonnit and Bayless put together a plan to see if they can figure out how to destroy the Red Feather created gardens of grosovah without exposing The Uhuru. In the course of enacting this plan, they make a disturbing discovery. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: reference to cults, dead body, toxic work environment Dear Uhuru: Gatcha game scams HELP TRACY Support their Gofundme SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPA...

Gable and Orimar try to get some distance between themselves and Aravetti, then begin to tackle the problem of tracking Orimar's body. No necessarily to stop the crime The Butcher intends to commit, but to mitigate collateral damage. Meanwhile, Jonnit works to figure out what the Uhuru is going to do about Sorrow's End. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Tense negotiations Dear Uhuru: Silly goofs, Spit is in...

Gable talks with Bishop Aravetti about the treatments the church gives to people afflicted with crimson. They try to uncover the true allegiances this man has and the source of his power– because they suspect it isn't the church. What they find only raises more questions. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Religious trauma, complex intersections of community and harmful ideology Dear Uhuru: Our son is sick w...

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 harmf...

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. C...

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 SK...

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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 kno...

Jonnit and Bayless find themselves in a very tense situation, surrounded by armed people who don't speak their language. Despite Bayless being from the area, Jonnit finds his expertise somewhat lacking. Thankfully, as fate would have it, Jonnit has all the tools he needs to de-escalate the situation. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Colonial paranoia, colonizer not understanding and vilifying indigenous gr...

Jonnit tries to prepare Bayless for what could be a very tense situation. Orimar tries to bite back the rising tide of killing intent after his meeting with Truss. However, his anger burns attracting unwanted attention. He soon finds himself face-to-face with The Butcher. Main Show: Colonial tensions, capitalist nightmare scenarios, psychic parasites, implied human butchery Dear Uhuru: Queer sex,...

Jonnit and Bayless try to follow Arielle's trail to one of the collection sites at the edge of Red Feather Territory. They find a chaotic scene as workers are already gathered reacting to the disappearance of someone else. While Jonnit worries about The Butcher, the workers worry about the Ralé people. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Colonial paranoia, displaced people, dead bodies Dear Uhuru: Still sad,...

In an effort to secure some extremely sensitive information from The Reference Desk, Gable offers an extremely sensitive story of their own. Jonnit realizes he has to duck out of the mission to infiltrate the pigment factory, leaving Carlos to invite Carmen for one of their classic adventures. However, there are unintended consequences. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Character death Dear Uhuru: Prison, d...

Jonnit Kessler decides to use his eye to track down latent killing intent within Sorrow's End in hopes of finding likely targets for The Butcher. His search leads him back to the Bar where he meets Bayless Gell, a debtor who is very concerned for Arielle. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Mild references to violence, Sorrow's End is just a really nasty place Dear Uhuru: This one is mostly just references an...

Orimar and Jonnit put on a tremendous show of Silly Buggers to lull Edith Truss into a false sense of safety. Once Jonnit leaves the room Truss entrusts Orimar with her monstrous plans to influence the Red Feather syndicate into somehow becoming worse. The captain must suppress his murderous rage in order to stay disguised. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Look- if you are struggling with capitalism and th...

Gable visits the Reference Desk and tries to gather essential information for the Uhuru. They need to balance their hunger for information with the ship's budget. Orimar and Jonnit begin to meet with Truss, putting a great deal of effort into keeping up their charade of being a father-and-son pair of loathsome socialites. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: I think this one is pretty tame? Dear Uhuru: Broad N...

Jonnit, Gable, and Orimar plan their next moves. Gable sets their sights on The Reference desk to find out what they missed in the last year and hopefully find Wendell a way home. Jonnit gets a lead on the Butcher he decides to follow. Orimar heads to meet with Truss. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Flat earth jokes Dear Uhuru: Lots of body hair jokes, not making fun of people with body hair but using hum...

Orimar, Gable, Jonnit, and the crew finalize their ideas of how to insinuate a revolution in the factory town of Sorrow's End while hopefully accomplishing their remaining goals there... CONTENT NOTE Main Show: ideations of revolution Dear Uhuru: discussion of murder, simulated murder by improv SKYJOUST FIGHT WITH SPIRIT EXPANSION Get it now! ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER'S GUIDE Pre-order now! CAMPFIRE...

Gable, Jonnit, Orimar, and the, uhhh... helpful hand... decide to 'talk it through as a crew' and fill the rest of the Uhuru pirates in on what's really happening in Sorrow's End and discuss options on how best to deal with it.  CONTENT NOTE Main Show: discussion of murder, blood ritual, disagreement amongst the crew Dear Uhuru: a silly little guy, repetitive dialogue, a main character is revealed...