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Worlds Beyond Number

Worlds Beyond Number

Worlds Beyond Number

SEASON 1 BONUS

Interlude: Alf Gappen Was Here

In the frozen hills of Rhuv, the Sigrunsgjalfi Children’s Home sits silent beneath a sky of unfamiliar stars. No lights glow in the windows and no signs of celebration mark the coming of Alf Gappen’s Day. Yet in the stillness, a single sleeping child hums a quiet tune that carries impossibly far across the snow. Three spirits hear it and cross the tundra to a place stripped of joy, determined to bring warmth and wonder. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Produced by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse, original score by Will Savino, and edited and designed by Jared Olson. Transcript of this episode coming soon!

1h 32m
03/02/2023

The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One #1: The Open Door

After a lifetime apart, three childhood friends are drawn back together by circumstance, by command, and by a danger that no one can yet begin to comprehend. Welcome, to the world of Umora. Welcome, to The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One. Worlds Beyond Number is Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse We have so much more to show you. An entire campaign about Suvi, Ame, and Eursulon meeting for the first time as children, for instance. And would you believe, even more? Please, join us at Patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber Album art by the great Corey Brickley Transcript of this episode available here. Gustav Holst's Holst The Planets Op.32 VII: Neptune The Mystic, appears courtesy of Bright Cloud Media Limited.

2h 23m
SEP 2

HINT! ep1: Let the Boddie Hit the Floor

To whom it may concern, you have been cordially invited to the Boddie Estate, alongside many established as well as up-and-coming luminaries, gadabouts, learned scholars, loyal compatriots, mysterious servants, long-time friends with complicated backstories, blackmail artists with hearts of gold, liars from your past, traitors from your present, not-mysterious-at-all servants, and of course, one very, very wealthy corpse. Spoiler alert. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, and Archive.org La notte, S. 112/2 - Mauro Tortorelli (https://musopen.org/music/37594-la-notte-s-1122/) Broadway (Manhattan Mary) 1927 Cass Hagan Orch. v. Frank Luther (https://archive.org/details/FavoriteShareFlagAudioFrankLutherPopularVocalRecordingsCollection1925-1935/z+Good+News+1927+Fred+Rich+Orchestra+v.+Frank+Luther.m4a) https://archive.org/details/JV-18202-1940-Qmd5eseFw7icWTHEX1fsM1HUoJeJwCAYyAR8AzBWCdgmyN.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-26792-1947-QmfW6Wz4vaz3ecX8ZBXLsjhoxSC4C7FFARt4bvKNB5W8kj.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-6591-1930-QmVUah4peJwEHcczgW8DYHFi8D5Xnqwazq1iA9syPbNnNa.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-1395-1924-QmVPw1kBvGMJkZysN5m8stCjVD5jpHwCYEgWZsHDodhW3E.mp3

1h 36m
03/14/2023

WWW #2: The Naming of Things

The world of Spirit shows its teeth. Not all the chickens make it. Pack your bags and travel light. There's ogres on the road. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse. Transcript of this episode available here. If you're into explosive pedal-to-the-medal narrative play that treats rules like nameless thugs in a John Wick movie, and WILL get you in trouble: you gotta check out our sister show Rude Tales of Magic! We have so much more to show you. An entire campaign about Suvi, Ame, and Eursulon meeting for the first time as children, for instance. And would you believe, even more? Please, join us at Patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber Our album art by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend. .

1h 49m
SEP 30

HINT! ep3: Will They, Won't They

Our interlocutors do as the Romans do and pipe up, sweating through their first interrogation, but Cass finds himself in the cruelest court of all when his paper trail leads the way to new suspicions and old desperations. Not even a nice liberal government can save you from some things, like the smoking, still-warm barrel of a gun. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, Archive.org and the public domain.

1h 10m
OCT 14

HINT! ep4: Just Deserts

And now, for our final course, the denouement. But how will it end? In confession? In violence? In the cold precision of a sickly sweet poison pill, or the white hot bite of black widow? Perhaps. The only things guaranteed in this, our final curtain call, are the same things that are always guaranteed to grow from the soil of spilled blood: lawyers, guns, and money. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, Archive.org and the public domain.

1h 9m
AUG 12

WWW #54: There Is a Path and We are On It

We gotta go. Thus ends Book One of The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One. Here's to many more. In the meantime, we have wonders piled high to share with you, dear listener. Come, join us, and see. There are other worlds than these. This Fall we'll be releasing mini-series, one shots, multiple talkbacks, and more across our public podcast feed and over on our Patreon as exclusives for our dear patrons. Our Patreon is already an incredible deal and it's about to become a WILDLY INCREDIBLE DEAL. Maybe a return to the world of Umora wildly incredible? No maybe about it. And then, in the new year, Aabria takes the GM seat and takes YOU to space. OUTER SPACE THAT IS. Heard of it? It's where the moon is from! And if you believe it, there's even more headed your way. The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One are taking a much deserved long rest, but Worlds Beyond Number? We're just gettin started. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon and Amanda Freberg, and now Mel! Welcome, Mel! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional environmental sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 47m
SEP 16

HINT! ep2: Hate the Player

As blood pools upon the thick pile of the Boddie Estate's imported rug collection, our players, and the game, are afoot. Bodies on the move in voluminous pants and long, dark secret hallways. Revelations and aspersions fill the air of the mansion like fingers between the keys of a grand piano, like a sky-darkening murmuration of starlings, as our heroes begin to uncover the culprit behind this murder most...fowl. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie, Amanda Freberg. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Our music appears courtesy of Artlist.io, Musopen.org, and Archive.org La notte, S. 112/2 - Mauro Tortorelli (https://musopen.org/music/37594-la-notte-s-1122/) Broadway (Manhattan Mary) 1927 Cass Hagan Orch. v. Frank Luther (https://archive.org/details/FavoriteShareFlagAudioFrankLutherPopularVocalRecordingsCollection1925-1935/z+Good+News+1927+Fred+Rich+Orchestra+v.+Frank+Luther.m4a) https://archive.org/details/JV-18202-1940-Qmd5eseFw7icWTHEX1fsM1HUoJeJwCAYyAR8AzBWCdgmyN.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-26792-1947-QmfW6Wz4vaz3ecX8ZBXLsjhoxSC4C7FFARt4bvKNB5W8kj.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-6591-1930-QmVUah4peJwEHcczgW8DYHFi8D5Xnqwazq1iA9syPbNnNa.mp3 https://archive.org/details/JV-1395-1924-QmVPw1kBvGMJkZysN5m8stCjVD5jpHwCYEgWZsHDodhW3E.mp3

1h 43m
06/06/2023

WWW #8: The Catch

Welcome to the apparatus. Have a cigar. Or maybe a matchstick. Want a drink of water? Some new clothes? No? What's the matter, you don't like it down here? Don't be silly. Lie down. Stay awhile. We've got a lot of catching up to do. There ya go. That's the spirit. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse. Transcript of this episode available on our Patreon. We have so much more to show you. An entire campaign about Suvi, Ame, and Eursulon meeting for the first time as children, for instance. And would you believe, even more? Please, join us at Patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend. .

1h 41m
04/25/2023

WWW #5: Water, Water Everywhere

Turns out a fox is good for some things after all. The killer is caught. A volunteer steps forward with a break in the case. A friendship is bent. Another door of vines opens. Another volunteer steps forward. Further down and deeper still, our work is not yet done. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse. Transcript of this episode available here. We have so much more to show you. An entire campaign about Suvi, Ame, and Eursulon meeting for the first time as children, for instance. And would you believe, even more? Please, join us at Patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend. .

1h 36m
NOV 25

Fiasco! (Part Two)

Our fiasco continues—Italian style! Can the Holy Trinity escape Heaven in time for the wedding? How are they possibly paying for all those chicken taters? And will a tiny pistachio man derail everything? One thing’s for sure: sometimes all you need for nuptial dreams to come true are your lungs, your heart, and a mostly-intact spinal cord. This is Fiasco! — our first video podcast and a GM-less free-for-all. Join us as we plan a wedding, face sworn enemies, and fully embrace chaos. Watch the video on YouTube or wherever you watch video podcasts. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan as Barck Harmblinb Lou Wilson as Leaf Harmblinb Erika Ishii as Frances McDormand Aabria Iyengar as Purell Fitzgerald With sound design from Marty Scanlon Edited by Zach Delaune Co-produced by Laservision Productions Fiasco is brought to you by Bully Pulpit Games. We are playing the Dragon Slayers playset written by Logan Bonner SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon, Melanie Bowman, and Amanda Freberg Transcript of this episode coming soon!

55 min
10/24/2023

WWW #15: Hold On Tight

Everything that rises must converge, and baby, we are FLYING. It's good to be back. Miss us? We missed you! Look, we got you something: The Witch Class for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Yeah, the one Erika plays! You HAVE been listening! It's really fun, it's beautifully put together and it's one of the many, many incredible things you'll get when you join our Patreon. Come on in comrades, the water (Witch Class for D&D 5e) is fiiiine. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend. .

2h 1m
JUL 29

WWW #53: The Queen of Swords

Remember this when you wake up: The greedy, hungry awful things. Some small part of you will miss them. The lost letters, the old home movies, the people you put on the same path as you, the dumb and silent stars of the southern sky. One last show, and then I can't be here. Don't ever let me forget this: who to kiss, and who to kill. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. If it's not there, it's on the way ;) Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional environmental sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 39m
SEASON 1 BONUS

Interlude: Fortune Found

The forgotten town of Fortune's Fields lies in the shadow of a mesa. Desert winds stir across the Free Roads, carrying the low, mournful calls of jackals. The streets lie quiet, sun-bleached and cracked, littered with the remnants of shops and abandoned homes. Across the train tracks, half-buried in sand and shadow, a mine shaft waits, its mouth dark and inviting. Fortune is found only by those desperate enough to follow it into the unknown. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson Produced by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse, original score by Nic Neves, and edited and designed by Jared Olson. Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon.

1h 18m
06/20/2023

WWW #9: The King of Cups

[BREAKING NEWS: Our first mini-campaign drops on the Patreon NEXT WEEK! Erika's running their first game ever! Not all the characters "make it" if you know what I mean. See* you there!] What can't you get used to? What can't you learn to ignore? What, you think you can save every starfish? Not my circus, not my monkey, pal. It is what it is. Gotta take care of yourself first. Take a look in the mirror, love what you see. Speaking of monkeys, you seen my fox anywhere? He was right here a second ago. Hey where are you going? Wait. Come back. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse. Transcript of this episode available on our Patreon. We have so much more to show you. An entire campaign about Suvi, Ame, and Eursulon meeting for the first time as children, for instance. And would you believe, even more? Please, join us at Patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend. .

1h 35m
07/30/2024

WWW #32: The Vote

The defense makes its closing arguments. The pillars of Umora shake beneath the firmament. A guest speaker makes a short presentation. Weird. Feels like we've been here before. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Tazer Army, Shannon, and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 39m
08/27/2024

WWW #34: Something to Remember You By

The arc is now over and it's time to part ways. You've got a long trip ahead of you, why don't you take one for the road? A memento of our time together in the North. Now that the accounts are settled and the elders have a new project to keep them busy, collect your parting gifts, consolation prizes, gift bags, powerful arcane devices, your phone charger and the doggie bag, and then a wandering we will go. Be careful out there, the weather can get rough. Thanks for coming along with us on our journey to the North Pole, and keep an ear out for our announcement about the release lineup for September! Lots of good stuff coming your way, especially if you join us on our universally beloved and respected Patreon, it's only $5! See you there! Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Tazer Army, Shannon, and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 57m
JUN 27

WWW #51: The Endeavor

This is our endeavor. To blade! To tongue! To plow! To grind our name into the bones of tomorrow, until the horizon is lucid smooth as liquid mirror, sharp as cut glass, clear as cool water rising, Irrigating in our throats the dry river bed of ambition. A witch in the gut of the tower. A wild one embraced by blood. A wizard in the court of the sword. All days divided into the days before and the days after, like the two sides of a shut window of black glass. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Shannon and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. We're a little behind, but we're gonna catch up! Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional environmental sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 35m
07/16/2024

WWW #31: The Souvenir

Everyone comes together in the Keep of the Woodland Green. But time keeps on slipping into the future, like a tree slips towards the sky, with hours left until Ame's judgement day, and still so many muddy rivers to cross. What wouldn't you do to save your true friend? To keep the big guys from knowing what you're up to? Would you look in a place you've never looked before? Yeah? You would? Then a wandering we will go. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Tazer Army, Shannon, and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 39m
08/13/2024

WWW #33: The Witness

REUPLOAD: Original upload was missing some fun stuff. But this one? This one's got it all, baby. Two great big lenses, like unblinking eyes, spread out upon the table. The better to see you with, my darling. The better to catch you. The better to use you up. Don't ask which, you can't handle the truth, and honestly? Same. Someone's game is over. Someone's done messing around. Someone's time is up. But worry not, for what goes up, must come down. Strap in. Worlds Beyond Number is: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson SPECIAL THANKS TO: Tazer Army, Shannon, and Amanda Freberg! Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon. Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

1h 36m

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