Campaign: Skyjacks

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 harmful tropes exotifying aspects of non-western cultures by exotifying western culture 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 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 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 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, elsewhere in the city, a stranger prepares to meet the child thrown into their path. CONTENT NOTE reference to drowning, being tangled and caught, lots of bathroom bits again, the exquisite fury of redaction, some post-traumatic themes, genuine emotional moments, baby crying sounds 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 Goose arrives at Cret Azure to deliver their pallet of human bodies. The crew works to set up shop and Jack jumps in to take care of the bureaucratic nightmare created by their cargo giving Girace a chance to explore. She walks to a local cafe to unwind and enjoy the atmosphere, not expecting to see someone she knows. Jack learns the Count would like to meet with him and invites Margaret to Join him hoping it will help her manage the stress she has been feeling. CONTENT NOTE Corpses, light con artistry PRODUCTION NOTES There are pickups and audio dubs in this series. They will be explained in the production notes audio coming next week! CAST James D'Amato as Gamemaster and Margaret Patrick Rothfuss as "Jolly" Jack Tinkerson Amy Vorpahl as Girace EDITING Aly Grauer MUSIC Arne Parrott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack tries to let Girace and Margaret get acquainted but the frustrations both have been feeling with him start to bubble up. Margaret requests some time to speak with Griace alone, hoping she might learn new insight about Jack from his trusted friend that will allow her to help him. She finds that her own emotions might be getting in the way of her duties. Girace takes some time to inspect the goose and uncovers something very strange. Jack continues to keep his secrets while contending with the fact that Margaret also knows how to play his games. CONTENT NOTE Rejecting an unexpected non-verbal offer for a kiss, guilt, lies and deception within a close relationship PRODUCTION NOTES There is a significant pick up in this episode discussed in further detail in the Azure Blues Behind the Sails production notes episode we released last week. CAST James D'Amato as Gamemaster and Margaret Patrick Rothfuss as "Jolly" Jack Tinkerson Amy Vorpahl as Girace EDITING Aly Grauer MUSIC Arne Parrott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weeks after his encounter with the couriers from The Red Audron, Jolly Jack and The Goose head to Yaris to pick up his long-time companion and second in command: Girace. Jack has a lot to explain as the Goose was damaged in a storm and he has a new person traveling with his crew: Margaret. It's clear that in an effort to learn more about the work she believes she is meant to do, Margaret has worked to ingratiate herself to the crew and settle in. Girace is concerned but tries to take things in stride as she has picked up some very strange cargo. CONTENT NOTE Corpses, jealousy, secrets, pointed nosiness, long-distance relationship angst Support us in the Audioverse Awards 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

Margaret tells the story of the origin of hart root tea. It follows the story of a talented hunter entering The Forest Queens sacred woods to flee the world of men. CONTENT NOTE Dysphoria, trans emotions, blood, violence, sacrifice, grief Support us in the Audioverse Awards 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

This week James, Aaron, Jeff, and Drew start by offering you a collection of romance traditions on Spéir. Then they dive fully into another prompt and discuss pearl diving uncovering a potential remedy against The Mariner's Mark and a collection of rare elemental pearls with strange and wondrous power. 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, Aaron, Jeff, and Drew take on the challenge of the moon in Spéir. What is it? What does it mean? Who controls it? What can it do!? These are big questions. If you are a lunar fan you will not want to miss this. 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 sits down with Aaron Catano-Saez and Drew Mierzejewski to talk about the mysterious yet wholesome subject of Necromancy on Spéir. Jeff Stormer is not in this recoding, therefore we don't have the franchise rights to call this All My Fantasy Skyjacks. Please refrain from thinking of it as such so we don't get sued. CONTENT NOTE Death, loss, grief 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

With the vote complete and Orimar's Captaincy reaffirmed, Orimar has one last thing he's like to do before the Uhuru heads to a new port. He'll need help from everyone in his council in order to do it. CONTENT NOTE Mild body-horror SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods 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

With the dead tended and their spoils won, the crew of The Uhuru must re-affirm their commitment to their captain. He may have died, he may have spent months reclaiming his body, he may have been betrayed by members of his council and crew, but this victory makes one thing clear: Orimar Vale is back. To reaffirm his captaincy, a vote is required. CONTENT NOTE Drinking, body horror, drug use, intense monologue about drug use, kinda lukewarm monologue advising responsible drug use SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods 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 crew of the Uhuru readies two funerals while the captain's council participates in an impromptu gift exchange with the spoils of their recent conquest. Travis suffers a familiar but long-forgotten pain when lending the Captain a hand. Meanwhile, Jonnit and Gable find solace below deck, in their respective unexpected ways. Then, it's time to lay their friends to rest. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Very light body horror, claustrophobic peril, funeral ceremony and grieving Dear Uhuru: Comical discussion of adult films (non-explicit) SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods 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 Silver Bullet, led by Captain Armond Winchester, remains at the mercy of the victorious Uhuru crew. Captain Orimar Vale has made an offer: "Kneel to me as your king and the benevolence shall be provided." Winchester has an answer, alongside a warning. The man who hired him is no stranger to Captain Orimar, and his sinister intent is more than passing fancy. Later, the Uhuru crew pillages what equipment, trinkets, and supplies they see fit, whereupon the Captain's Council makes a sinister discovery of their own. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Crocodile description Dear Uhuru: Spooky Victorian Dolls and associated horror tropes SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods 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

After rallying from a coordinated surprise attack and mutiny to an overwhelming victory, the Captain's Council of The Uhuru and Orimar Vale specifically, have an important decision to make: What should they do with their contoured adversaries? This was a calculated attack, Uhuru lives were lost. They cannot appear weak. At the same time, The Silver Bullet is a corsair ship, even if they are not with The Tempest Armada they attack with less malice and brutality than Red Feathers. Orimar looks to his past to find what sort of captain he needs to be right now. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Body horror, betrayal, discussion of punishment and treatment of prisoners Dear Uhuru: I honestly think this one might make people too happy? More than a reasonable amount of mentions for "terminal diarrhea." SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods 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

Even with the enemy ship disabled, the battle is far from over. Jonnit, Jane, and Pliff square off against the last wave of birds sent by The Silver Bullet in an attempt to capture the featherweave jettisoned by the Rowdy R's. Meanwhile Orimar and Travis battle the remnants of the Rs in the cargo hold. Even with reinforcements, battle is uncertain and good people can lose their lives. Gable steps in to save their precious baby birds. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, Gunshot and bone breaking sound effects, blood, bones braking, body-horror, character death, religious imagery Dear Uhuru: Colonialism, Nicolas Cage SUPPORT OSN SHOWS The Audioverse Awards Discover Pods 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 tries to right himself after dealing a devastating blow to the Silver Bullet, but the fight still isn't over as the Rowdy Rs have managed to push the remaining Civility featherweave out of The Uhuru's cargo doors– and deployed griffins to capture it. Thankfully Jane and Pliff have finally managed to launch Flea and Lucas to join the fray. Orimar is now surrounded by Rowdy Rs who realized they have no exit. Thankfully as the captain, he can call for backup. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Probably too much piss content in the cold open TBH, gunshot sound effects, violence, bodyhorror Dear Uhuru: Dear Uhuru to return next week! 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

After suffering a devastating blow to their furnaces at the hands of saboteurs who coordinated with the Rowdy Rs manipulation of the crew schedule to sneak into The Uhuru's sails the crew scramble to recover. Gable works to keep the ship aloft while giving Nodoze the chance he needs to aim the grapple. Travis continues to put down Rs while revealing more features of his Japanese! (Italian) gun. Orimar chases Rocco to the cargo room in order to claim his revenge. Jonnit turns his attention to attack The Silver Bullet in the one place the expect least: their sails. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Explosion and scream sound effects, reference to chronic injury, cleaning tool used as a pretty gruesome chemical weapon Dear Uhuru: 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 pulls away from the enemy griffin riders as they chase The Uhuru and sets his sights on a counteroffensive against The Silver Bullet. Pliff through sheer determination to help the rest of the crew, pulls himself back into the ship to face the Rowdy Rs. Gable plays a dangerous game to bait the bullet into a lower altitude battle and use the dangerous waters of the river delta to their advantage. Travis and Orimar wor to pursue the Rs and their leader Rocco into the aviary. Meanwhile, the crew of The Silver Bullet attempts a risky sabotage. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Violence, knives, guns, discussion of injuries, description of heights, creepy laughing children sound effects. Tales from Tornvale: religious themes, family and legacy trauma. 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 struggles to regain control of the battlefield after barely surviving getting into the air and being shot at by enemy riders. Orimar and Tarvis battle Rowdy Rs trying to use surprise to overcome being outnumbered. Gable continues evasive maneuvers diving to skim above a river delta in order to create distance between the Uhuru and The Silver Bullet. Pliff and Jane take a big risk in order to help Jonnit in the air and it has disastrous consequences (predictably for Pliff.) CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Gunshot explosion and cannon SFX, zombie body horror, referencing the bad minion memes on Facebook Tales from Thornvale: This is safe for kids! Anti-capitalist kids. 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

Orimar confronts Rocco who reveals a plan to get back at the captain for what he sees as poor leadership and a low payday for capturing feather weave from the Civility. Gable continues extreme evasive maneuvers for the ship causing chaos for the enemy ship and the mutineers. Jonnit uses his third eye to hitch a ride out of the frying pan and into the fire. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Heights, disorientation, vertigo, gunfire, betrayal, body horror Tales From Spéir: implied colonial violence, abusive workplace 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

Taking no chances, Gable begins ordering evasive maneuvers preparing The Uhuru to battle The Silver Bullet. In the belly of the ship Jonnit finishes getting the orphans latched into safe places before rushing off to try and help. Travis comes to the realization that he and Orimar have unintentionally walked in on a group of rowdy Rs and they might be in danger. He scrambles for a way to warn Orimar without tipping off the mutineers. CONTENT WARNING Main Show: Pretty extreme stress, missing an absent partner, heights and people dangling from them, betrayal. Dear Uhuru: Bullying 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

MAIN SHOW Gable returns to The Uhuru with news of an unknown ship in the area. Orimar orders everyone to stand by and prepare. Not knowing if they face friend or foe means they have to be ready for everything. Tension mounts as the orphans are moved to a safe location at the heart of the ship and the battle leaders brace for conflict. CONTENT NOTE Preparation for emergency, fine mobility impairment THE MAIDEN AND THE HART Margaret tells the story of The Maiden and the Hart to a restless client. It is an old story, one from before the stars fell, before many of the things we know from our Spéir. It is an important story, one that everyone should hear. CONTENT NOTE Gender dysphoria, animal violence, allusion to suicidal ideation, sex, misgendering, death, bitter-sweet ending. MARGARET WEEK 2021 Twitter Tumblr 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

While everyone was having their own adventures last week, Travis was sitting with some of his gloomier thoughts, as a bird. After the sun sets he decides to visit Bathroom Barry, the ship's quartermaster for some advice. During this time he lets it slip that there might be a group aboard the Uhuru planning a mutiny. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Unfolding existential crisis, there are a few bathroom-related jokes because Bathroom Barry is in this one, you are forced to imagine younger hor body-builder Spit, bullying Dear Uhuru: Mention of Spit having a suspension fetish (that's a rough google,) there is one point where Spit is just screeching "pornography" in the background. I swear this is an otherwise tame segment! MARGARET WEEK 2021 Twitter Tumblr 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 Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We join Captain Orimar Vale in the process of trying to restore order to his life. His office, his ship, and his body have moved at the whims of wills other than his own for nearly a year. Finding a sense of normalcy will be slow work. Made all the slower by interruptions from aspiring starwatcher Jonnit Kessler. Meanwhile, Gable, Nodoze, and Pliff help Wendell Barge celebrate his upcoming nuptials with a new partner on week-long couture bachelor party hunting trip. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Chronic injury parallels, guilt, insecurity, hunting, giant wild animal death Dear Uhuru: Implied non-consensual message MARGARET WEEK 2021 Twitter Tumblr THE ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Get a copy! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sun begins to set as the dinner-bell rings. Travis decides to see how valuable the information he won from the Morrigan is. Jonnit and Gable bully Travis for being insistent on having a constant existential crisis. They decide to peep into the future to put him at ease, a choice that I'm sure won't have major implications down the line. Don't worry about it. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: kind of a reference to chronic pain, character reacting poorly to an emotional crisis, metaphorical religious trauma, a bit of grief Dear Uhuru: This is about Slick, Spit's current/former boyfriend. It's sexual. THE ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Get a copy! Watch James and author Alexandra Rowland go through exercises from the book on the OSN Twitch Channel July 29th 6:00 PM CT Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We join the Crew of the Uhuru in transit after leaving N'Goni. Their coffers are full (at least fuller than they were) and the crew is enjoying their time between ports while they determine what their next plan should be. Travis enjoys some light vanity reading, which turns out to be a nightmare. Jonnit takes some time to enjoy a smoothie and then joins Gable for a quick lesson on running the helm. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Implied cannibalism, murder, extremely unsanitary culinary protocol, cartoon violence Dear Uhurus return next week! THE ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Get a copy! Watch James and author Alexandra Rowland go through exercises from the book on the OSN Twitch Channel July 29th 6:00 PM CT Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Broker and Remmington Youngblood continue their negotiation. The Broker continues a risky gambit, sharing valuable intelligence in an effort to drive a wedge between the Youngbloods and their long-time allies: The Red Feather Syndicate. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: reference to violent murders BEN MEREDITH Rusty Quill Gaming The Magnus Archives Stellar Firma THE ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Get a copy! Watch James and author Alexandra Rowland go through exercises from the book on the OSN Twitch Channel July 29th 6:00 PM CT Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the Uhuru charts their course away from N'Goni, clouds gather over Burza Nyth. The Broker holds an audience with the head of one of the most powerful privateer companies in all of Spéir: Remmington Youngblood. These two are on the brink of open conflict following the events of The Uhuru's adventures in Burza Nyth. After weeks of correspondence, the two meet in an effort to prevent an escalation of hostilities that could be disastrous for their respective organizations. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: reference to violent death and bereavement letters BEN MEREDITH Rusty Quill Gaming The Magnus Archives Stellar Firma THE ULTIMATE RPG GAMEMASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Get a copy! Watch James and author Alexandra Rowland go through exercises from the book on the OSN Twitch Channel July 29th 6:00 PM CT Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James explains the rules to the original Powered by the Apocolypse system he developed for the Interlude episodes featuring the negotiation between The Broker and Remmington Youngblood. This system was developed in part thanks to innovations to the PbtA engine made by Brandon Leon Gambetta in Pasión de las Pasiones. Check out Pasión de las Pasiones here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The discussion continues as James, Liz, Tyler, and Johnny answer listener questions! We discuss the potential for a BIRDS musical, James expands on the fine arts culture originating with freelancer Cher P.'s Silver Chalice, and we do a little impromptu worldbuilding. Special thanks to Anansi O. Tempest for creating the concept for N’Goni. WORLDBUILDERS SKYJACKS MERCH Check out our store! THE ULTIMATE RPG GAME MASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Buy it now! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James sits down with Liz, Tyler, and Johnny to discuss their experiences making Skyjacks, with special attention paid to the most recent Nordia and N'Goni arcs. We start off talking about our favorite moments and surprises and dig deep into our process on approaching character stories. Special thanks to Anansi O. Tempest for creating the concept for N'Goni. THE ULTIMATE RPG GAME MASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Buy it now! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

N'Goni gathers to experience what is sure to be one of the most transformative pieces of theater ever staged: The Bathroom Barry Musical. The crew of Glas cleans The Uhuru to prepare for the performance and Gable settles a score. The party starts to wind down and everyone settles in to conclude the arc. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Spit is on his nonsense again, sexual content, drinking, smoking rope, bone gooping Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter THE ULTIMATE RPG GAME MASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Barbara's Bookstore June 23rd 6:00 PM CT Per-Order now! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The crew of the Uhuru turns N'Goni into one massive celebration with Gable running through the streets to start the festivities. They make some legally distinct friends along the way. Jonnit talks to Grace about their seemingly intertwined future and Travis talks to one of the worst members of the crew about his frustration with the way the sale of the featherweave went. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: drinking, getting cornered by a person who has been drinking Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter THE ULTIMATE RPG GAME MASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Next Chapter Books Event June 4th Barbara’s Bookstore June 9th Per-Order now! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a thrilling victory for the Uhuru in the Tronado Calling, N'Goni reacts to the possibility of a new school entering contention for the calling. Meanwhile, the captain's council untangles themselves from netting and prepares to bask in their victory. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: James slowly mentally unravels because of side-effects from a COVID vaccine, a person made of rats. mild body-horror, emotional moments about a complicated love, a major fan theory gets disproven Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter THE ULTIMATE RPG GAME MASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Next Chapter Books Event June 4th Barbara’s Bookstore June 9th Per-Order now! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tornado Calling rages on as Travis betrays Gable in the most mystifying way possible. Jonnit tries to keep up with the extremely confident and comparative Janni. Meanwhile Orimar and Sefa battle as only those who know one another very well can. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Surprise kissing, Travis signs up to do a murder Dear Uhuru: Instead of an Uhuru this week there is just a giant honkin' bonus content. Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter THE ULTIMATE RPG GAME MASTER’S WORLD BUILDING GUIDE Next Chapter Books Event June 4th Barbara’s Bookstore June 9th Per-Order now! Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In preparation for season 2 of Courier's Call Aaron and Drew sit down with James and discuss some of the most fundamental types of magic on Spéir: Luminary Cards and Starwatching. They also touch on some of the sources of magical power that allow magic to function and give Cici her first Luminary cards. Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The captain's council enters the Tornado Calling against a team representing The Tempest Armada. Even with training from Hewano can they really hope to challenge a more experienced team? Worse yet, Travis has entered a magical contract with The Morrigan to betray Gable. With half of their payment and likely the respect of the crew on the line, they'll need to give it all they've got. CONTENT NOTES Cold Open: The sound of a performer chewing popcorn. Main Show: Blood Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With little time left to prepare, Gable, Jonnit, and the Captain continue drilling dance techniques with Hewano in preparation for the impending tornado calling. Meanwhile, Travis continues his high stakes supernatural gambling match with The Morrigan. CONTENT NOTES Main Show: Gambling Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis takes all of the negative emotions he has been bottling and uses them to get absolutely blackout drunk and call the goddess who controls his life. The Morrigan helps him learn about being a better changeling while enabling him. Meanwhile Hewano collects Jonnit, Gable, and Orimar to give them essential training in his style of dance for the tornado calling. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Intoxication, alcohol abuse, alcohol poisoning, gambling Dear Uhuru: Masturbation, Jerk-off Jerry, poor hygiene in food preparation, food poisoning, reference to feet in food- this is a wild one folks Courier's Call Season 2 Kickstarter Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit, Gable, Travis, and Orimar sort through all the wild things that happened this evening. Orimar makes a startling confession about what he was doing on the island where he died. Hewano offers to aid The Uhuru for the coming Tornado Calling. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Tragic love, T'oni Hawk Dear Uhuru: Reference to Terminator and a bunch of other time travel movies, mild body horror, weird Spit sex stuff Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The captain's council of The Uhuru and The Tempest investigate the strange weave recovered from The Civility. They have precious little time to determine how different this substance might be from traditional featherweave and whether their deal can still stand. Time is not the only enemy that stands before them. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: scary creepy ghost stuff, difficulty communicating, Dear Uhuru: burns, difficulty with enunciation Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crew of the Uhuru must act quickly to calm a horde of angry corsairs and figure out what the feather weave they captured from The Civility is glowing gold. With Orimar still unable to speak, the crew has to rely on the persuasive power of Travis Matagot. Jonnit finishes his meringo jaunt just in time to get caught up in this mess. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Political intrigue, you have to remember a lot of the early plot Dear Uhuru: A reference to 80's cartoon PSAs, meat, a child in danger from a giant bird Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit goes cool teen dancing with Grace and Janni while trying to master a meringo. Meanwhile, the rest of the Uhuru crew begins the formal exchange with representatives of The Tempest Armada. Both of these activities surely go absolutely fine with no unforeseen problems. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: teen social situations, mild teen romantic tension, extreme sport going wrong, scaling to react to a tense situation Dear Uhuru: Phycadellics, Smurf bits, people making fun of someone for being short Project Bluejay Auditions for Orimar Vale are open! Character breakdown Send applications to [email protected] Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James invites game designer Jeeon Shim to chat about their upcoming setting work for Spéir: the City of Janchi. James refreshes Jeeyon on the basics of the setting and Jeeyon teaches James about food forests, diverse biomes, and thriving in environments where water is dangerous. This conversation will help Jeeyon build an amazing new piece of Spéir! CONTENT NOTE Main Show: We make some jokes about the grim state of the world and the US especially. Follow The Shape of Shadows Support Jeeyon on Patreon Field Guide to Memory Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James invites Aaron Catano-Saez and Jeff Stormer to join him in discussing a little community on Spéir that throws rocks into the sea to send The Mariner a very clear message: Fuck around and find out. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Anger management, actual muppet Aaron Catano-Saez does a cuss Auditions for Orimar Vale are open! Character breakdown Send applications to [email protected] PRIM Kickstarter PRIM Demo Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James invites Aaron Catano-Saez and Jeff Stormer from the All My Fantasy Children podcast to join him for some worldbuilding in the world of Spéir. This week they take a look at the Selkie myth and what place it might have in Spéir. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Murder, discussions of myths that had elements of toxic relationships in them Auditions for Orimar Vale are open! Character breakdown Send applications to [email protected] PRIM Kickstarter PRIM Demo Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gable discovers they have more in common with Cu than they'd like, and that challenging people to fights is not always the best idea. Travis takes an opportunity to make himself the center of attention. While Jonnit tries to unpack the things he saw about Grace. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Drinking, fighting, violence, mild body horror, reference to bodily fluids, James might have mixed up a snake with a type of lizard Dear Uhuru: Nebulous canon positive future, dismemberment Skyjacks Setting Zine Volume 1 Skyjacks Album Buy The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Join Our Mailing List Buy A Different Bird Shirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Uhuru Captain's council is presented with an interesting problem: politically it would be convenient for them to make nice with the crew of The Glas, but they just don't like them! Also, there might be a pig butt involved. Gable tries to settle their score with Cú Chulainn, Travis makes some wagers, and Jonnit notices something that pulls his attention away from all the chaos. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: Ill-advised pranks, implied underage drinking, vomit Dear Uhuru: Horny old people, mild body horror (non-horny) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonnit, Gable, and Travis take some time after their somewhat eventful conversations early in the day to clean more of Dref's office. They receive an unexpected invitation to an event that takes place just before the exchange in the evening. CONTENT NOTE Main Show: We mention Dref and sometimes that makes people sad, sibling baggage, ruthless retcon because Tyler gets what Tyler wants, James needs some dialect coaching with Aly- that's just not an Ulster accent to stat but he's not trying very hard on a central/southern either Dear Uhuru: we go off-book on the prompt almost immediately, drinking of blood, wearing of flesh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices