Campaign: Skyjacks

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. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: More masturbation jokes, snakes, lots of continuity errors that are 100% James' fault Dear Uhuru: Implied underage drinking, references to Courier's Call 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 CAMPFIRE CARDS Pre-Order Campfire Cards! Email preorder receipts to [email protected] to win the right to choose the subject of the next Skyjacks short story. Join Our Mailing List Support Us on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 NOTE Main Show: Temptation, betrayal, abusive parental figure, guilt, sacrifice, reconciling with someone who was hurt Tales From Spéir: alcohol use, flirting 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 CAMPFIRE CARDS Pre-Order Campfire Cards! Email preorder receipts to [email protected] to win the right to choose the subject of the next Skyjacks short story. Join Our Mailing List Support Us on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 NOTE Main Show: body horror, guilt, betrayal Dear Uhuru: what has to be some kind of wild animal cruelty 2023 Convention Tour Schedule Emerald City Comic Con, March 3rd, Seattle Washington 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 [email protected] to win the right to choose the subject of the next Skyjacks short story. Join Our Mailing List Support Us on Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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– and it's a risky play. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Attempted gaslighting, emotional manipulation, grief, regret Tales From Spéir: Stong flirting, sexual innuendo, alcohol 2023 Convention Tour Schedule Emerald City Comic Con, March 3rd, Seattle Washington 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 [email protected] to win the right to choose the subject of the next Skyjacks short story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 to protect Travis from the most dangerous being they have ever known. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Blood and mild gore, hallucinations, being attacked by someone you trust, realizing you have hurt someone you care about, things are really starting to heat up! Tales from Spéir: Bird lore! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, blurred perceptions, the gathering clouds of a frightening narrative maelstrom. Dear Uhuru: Something coming soon! Pre-Order Campfire Cards! Email preorder receipts to [email protected] to win the right to choose the subject of the next Skyjacks short story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 outnumbered and deep in the clutches of their enemy. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror—plants growing inside people, bone swords, mild lack of care for specific Genesys rules. Dear Uhuru: Spirits keep coming inside me, mindfreakonomics, close-up magic, cryptocurrency (a subset of cryptozoology,) spiritual prophylactics, holy oils, vaping (spiritual,) spirit hands Pre-Order Campfire Cards! Email preorder receipts to [email protected] to win the right to choose the subject of the next Skyjacks short story. GHOST TRAKKERS Spirits Come Inside Me PDF Trak's Investigations Ghost Trakkers Pilot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 truly accomplish what he claims to be after. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Blood, guilt, fans hate it- continuity errors that will BOTHER you Dear Uhuru: Ghosts! Spirits Come Inside Me PDF Pre-Order Campfire Cards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 illusions to deal with but he has to determine what he would be comfortable doing to something that looks like his sister. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Descriptions of spooky plant-themed corpse-like creatures, a little bit of abuse tactics, religious trauma Dear Uhuru: Fake ass celebrity apology boss rush AUDITION TO HOST ONE SHOT Job Posting CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION 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

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 rejecting a child's ability to grow and love, alluded silicide, description of a creepy corpse-like monster Dear Uhuru: Some real youth group vibes creep into this one, public spelling exercises AUDITION TO HOST ONE SHOT Job Posting CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION 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

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 analogous to certain kinds of chronic pain, Jerk Off Jerry Dear Uhuru: A little bit of a father-son shaving thing, jokes about fitness supplements having unintended effects on your body, and somehow also Jerk Off Jerry AUDITION TO HOST ONE SHOT Job Posting CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION 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

James explains what to expect with our feed migrating over to Megaphone and dynamic ads being inserted into the show. If you run into an ad that should not be on our show be sure to report it with our Bad Ad Reporting Form Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Finding a will to live, disorientation, wound care, illusion, friends saying cruel things, dealing with trauma, dissociation, body dysmorphia AUDITION TO HOST ONE SHOT Job Posting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 lend them aid. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Blood, spooky woods stuff, disorientation, feeling lost, waking up in an unfamiliar place, not fully controlling your body, a dangerous level of what is either nihilism or solipsism, grief for a lost friend, poop jokes 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

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

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 a family apart NETHER REALMS: SCI FI NON BINARY EROTIC COMICS ANTHOLOGY Back it! MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 BINARY EROTIC COMICS ANTHOLOGY Back it! MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 ANTHOLOGY Back it! MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 Courier's Call MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 turkeys. CONTENT NOTE Mild body horror, blase attitude towards self-destructive behavior, sibling rivalry, children again and growing MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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! 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 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 Site Start Here! 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

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 a fire, memory loss, gunshot sound effects, characters getting shot MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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, brief description of a disfigured body MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 in this show's history. It's still good and I apologize for nothing. MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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 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 MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 Family tension, memory loss, unwitting betrayal, dramatic irony, someone draws a gun GEEKS DOING GOOD 2022 Fundraiser MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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 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 behalf of Beaz that the "punch" described in the episode was not intended as an act of violence. Everyone at the table understood what he was going for and the last thing we want is for folks to project stuff onto this character or performer that is not there.) Dear Uhuru: Mild body horror, discussion of animal personas MYSTERY COUNTY MONSTER HUNTERS CLUB Site Start Here! 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

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 references CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! Review it here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 Here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

James continues to reflect on the Deuxmignon arc! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 cult indoctrination 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 so much to him. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: The luminaries are deeply haunted, someone "taking over" and inhabiting a body, memory loss, feeling isolated from loved ones Dear Uhuru: None this week! I made a goof. 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 seer's eye. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Implied child abandonment, violence against animals, filicide, drowning, working against lessons taught by an oppressive and stifling culture, sex, extremely public– extremely queer– sex. Dear Uhuru: Johnny raps :( 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 parent struggle through financial hardship, a person choosing death, implied deep and murderous frustration with patriarchal bullshit THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 loved one, longing for a missing lover, Jom Carmy Dear Uhuru: An old friend whom many of us miss very much, a stinky bastard man THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 the Liquid Swords. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Serious feelings discussions, being unable to return feelings, self-doubt/judgment, death, drowning, fear of persecution, thinly veiled homophobia/transphobia metaphors, cruelty in design and values, violent impression of non-conformity, violent rebellion against oppression, thinly veiled sex metaphor, displacement, oppressive/repressive host culture, parental expectations. Dear Uhuru: More singing, threatened violence against a child. THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 visit makes stealth difficult. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Death, doing a murder, freaking out over doing a murder, facing a terrible trauma, gunshot sound effects, body horror, description of leech teeth, "DILF deer" Dear Uhuru: Everyone's favorite terrible boss, an extremely particular kind of energy THE MEREDITH BROTHERS Listen to all of Trexel's planet creating adventures on Stellar Firma! Watch the Meredith brother on Twitch! 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 on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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. CONTENT NOTE A soupçon of body horror disability, trauma, feeling directionless in life, imposter syndrome, worrying about how your trauma might impact your loved ones, divine creatures being cruelly dispassionate over violence and tragedy, drowning, suicidal ideation Seriously, Dear Uhuru returns next week. I will make it happen. BALLAD OF CONJURERS Get it Here! CHARACTER BACKSTORY GUIDE: GENRE EDITION Pre-Order Here! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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, struggling with painful lack of agency, death, drowning, friends not coming back from adventures, contemplating risking your life, "maybe the real treasure is life itself" Dear Uhuru: Hopefully returns next week! STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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, mortal peril, death, impossible decisions. THE SIREN OF BROKEN HEARTS Unfulfilled desire, loneliness, jealousy, infidelity, temptation, sex, some pretty sexy situations if we're being honest, fates worse than death probably. STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 pronounce french words, he is terminally not French Tales from Thornevale: I can't remember if we already featured this but it's an important story, family trauma, STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 force like Gable needs to learn somewhere. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Blood, chronic pain/disability feelings, feeling insecure within a group, religious trauma, high stakes job insecurity STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site See Lex on Tour! THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Religious imagery, pretty toxic work environment tbh, substance use, 15 year old ingesting a hallucinogenic (under the supervision of a metaphysician school dropout if that makes it better?) Tales From Thornevale: Death, haunted shit STAR CROSSED Buy it here! LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST Site THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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

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 with Nodoze, but Wendell has other plans. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Substance use, emotional conversations Tales From Thornvale: This one is a little spoopy THE ULTIMATE RPG GUIDE SERIES Get the Worldbuilding Guide! Get the Gameplay Guide Get the Backstory Guide Get the Micro RPG Book 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