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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...

Travis catches up with his old friend who some might say he shares far too much in common with. Orimar tries to be patient through this reunion knowing that the cutting stone is at their backs. Gable arrives to confront Rusalka and discovers many familiar faces that they were not expecting to see. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror, cognitive degradation, the feeling of being hunted, loss of a lo...

Nodoze finally manages to say to Gable the things he has been allowing to sit silently for so very long. Gable revisits a pivotal memory that explains why they did the most significant thing they can't remember. Then Gable presses on to investigate the trap that has claimed so many victims. Jonnit and Teacher Wei look back at one of Wei's memories, one that explains the passion that lead them to t...

Jonnit faces one of the most traumatic moments of his life, the first time he took a life. Teacher Wei takes a hard look at what violence has come to mean to this child, to judge both if he is worthy to receive the gifts of the temple and if he is strong enough to claim them. Meanwhile, Travis and Orimar continue their stakeout for the changing Travis has been compelled to kill. A poorly timed vis...

Gable, Wendell, and Nodoze try to investigate the cavern around Le Plume Creux for any information that might help them claim the treasure. Wendell discusses his uneasiness around strange and powerful magics then stresses over what his life might be like after marrying his second spouse. Gable repeatedly faces the memories they recovered from the feather they touched at the start of the arc. CONTE...

Travis and Orimar are still hunting Travis' changeling friend. To pass the time, they decide to make a wager with very high stakes and undertones that will frankly drive shippers absolutely wild. Gable, Nodoze, and Wendell finally reach the small cavern that is home to Le Plume Creux. Wendel is enthusiastic to try and recover it, the others are skeptical. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Gambling, struggli...

Jonnit revisits a painful memory as a part of his trial. Through his journey, he has become powerful but he has also changed in other ways and that can be difficult to accept. After the midroll: Before the stars fell, in a village that would one day become Lastaloom a young woman dreamed of one-day finding love. She was not prepared for the full gaze of The Union. MAIN SHOW Revisiting trauma, mort...

Travis and Orimar take a ride on a boiler boat (a term that only exists in the summary for this episode) while heading to confront Travis' old friend. They run into a pair of hunters who warn them of the Chasseur Saumâtre- a beast that stalks the mangrineel groves. Jonnit enters Teacher Wei's pocket space, jonnit learns more about how he will be tested. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: James still cannot p...

Gable, Wendell, and Nodoze arrive at the entrance to the cave rumored to contain a path to the mysterious and dangerous Plume Creux. They learn that the price to even begin this adventure is blood. They also learn some distressing things about the Deauxmignon economy. Before they descend, Gable is struck by another fragment of memory from the feather they absorbed. Even a powerful and destructive...

Gable thinks back to their first day on the job and what it was like to meet an important co-worker. Also, we learn their for real actual name. All of the names they have held up to this point were fake-outs and we totally got you. Secretnames all the way down. Jonnit prepares to face Wei's examination and trials as he fails to explain a strong motivation for learning from The Liquid Swords. CONTE...

Jonnit encounters Teacher Wei, the Liquid Swords Monk who Hewano sent him to meet. Wei will decide if Jonnit can be trusted with the location of the Liquid Swords Monastery and perhaps secrets that will help him understand and control his powers as a seer. Travis is hurried along by The Forest Queen to a dangerous job, and Orimar decides to tag along. Gable awakens to have a difficult conversation...

The group heads off to the office of a "metaphysician" a spiritual practitioner who treats people with strange powers wrought by "science" and "pharmaceuticals." This "doctor" has diagnoses and prescriptions for Orimar, Travis, and Jonnit- but is it what they need? CONTENT NOTE An eye does pop out of a head but it's not violent or anything, lots of doctor's office and insurance jokes, we satirize...

Nodoze goes to alert the Captain's Council that Gable has collapsed after performing an unknown magical ceremony just after the ship landed. After hauling Gable to Dref's office, everyone tries unsuccessfully to rouse them and sort out the cause of their unconsciousness. Finally, Travis decides he knows someone in Deauxmignon who can help, a metaphysician. CONTENT NOTE seeming medical emergency TH...

The Uhuru pulls into a new port: Deauxmignon. A strange and sprawling city built in craters along a river delta that pours into a brackish swamp separating the river wetlands from the angry sea. Travis has business here and Orimar needs to plot the next move for the Uhuru after they take Jonnit to Akaron. All of that gets derailed when one member of the crew is discovered unconscious. Meanwhile, e...