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  • 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.


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  • 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

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  • 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


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  • 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


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  • The era of seclusion is over. The 40 Suns reconnect and reunite and find themselves valuable. As borders are drawn across occupied space, the great powers of the galaxy begin their sweep of its dusty corners searching for any golden scraps that remain. Hungry eyes turn towards a tiny asteroid named Ghenopaar, a place where everything is permitted and nothing is forbidden. Strange shapes move through the shadows. The players begin the next phase of their game.

    History is being rewritten.

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains depictions of sexual content, violence, blood, and drugs.

    We are:
    Brennan Lee Mulligan
    Erika Ishii
    Aabria Iyengar
    Lou Wilson

    Solari was produced by Worlds Beyond Number
    Edit and Sound Design by Jino Jang-Hansen at Big Giant Head
    Score by Will Savino
    https://wsavino.com/

    Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman
    Social Media Manager: Shannon H
    Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska
    Recording Engineer: Rainie Toll
    Character Art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey
    www.instagram.com/nikolasdraperivey/
    Cover Art by Lu Tomkiewicz
    www.instagram.com/_fromlu/

    This campaign uses the Stillfleet TTRPG system, created by Wythe Marschall and developed by Stillfleet Studio
    https://stillfleet.com/collections/stillfleet

    You can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached.


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  • Snow falling, over endless white sand...So begins the prelude to our first story, The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One. In this prologue, we meet our characters as children, and see them thrust from the known into peril, confusion, and new worlds they will struggle to understand. This is the first chapter in the story of how our trio met, and the events that would bring them back together so many years later. To follow along with the main story, simply keep listening to this very podcast. To hear the rest of what happened to our young heroes so long ago, come and find us at Patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber

    We are

    Brennan Lee Mulligan

    Erika Ishii

    Aabria Iyengar

    Lou Wilson

    Produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse

    Album art by the great Corey Brickley

    Transcript of this episode available here.


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  • The cast assembles to look back at the end AND the whole of Book One. Ends and wholes, that's what it's all about, baby! Join us on our Patreon for more like this! Coming soon to the Patreon: Music Chat, where we look back at the music and, gulp, music theory of Book One's incredible score! A whole episode about the "what ifs" of Book One (one of the best bits of bonus audio we've ever recorded, imho)! And so, so much more. See you there!


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  • Behold the Future of Worlds Beyond Number! Here's a rundown of all the great stuff coming your way, taken from the most recent Fireside Chat where the gang goes deep on dissecting that WILD finale. Listen through to the end for an announcement about our upcoming album drop! What!?

    To hear the full Fireside Chat, come and join us by the Fireside! Our Patreon has so much stuff on it it's like, logistically annoying to even write them all out, and you can get it all immediately upon subscribing. Ame's witch class, Suvi's Wizard of the Citadel subsclass, Eursulon's Oath of Freedom, multiple one-off adventures set in Umora, soundtrack singles from the show, and just so much more, really. Not to mention early merch drops or discounts which miiiiiight become very useful very soon if you catch my drift. Wanna subscribe for one month, get all the cool stuff and then dip out? You can literally do that. That is something you can literally do. It's chilly out there in the woods. Come sit by the Fireside with us. [PATS LOG]


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  • 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.


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  • 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.


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  • To make the new world, to free tomorrow from the clutches of not done, we must bury the old world, shove ourselves inside the bone white sand, and there meet ourselves and everyone we have known. A wizard in her tower, oh let down your hair. A wild one, his one foot out the door of the prison cell. And a witch astride the world, who simply cannot leave any door closed, any stone not flipped like a table in the temple. We are all the pallbearers of what was. Roll up your sleeves. It's time to clean up.

    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.


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  • 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.


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  • Everything that rises must converge. In the gloaming, where the tide of one world washes and runs across the sands of another, we pass through the center of things like a gate, like a river, like the sea of the sky, champions on parade at the crossroads, a place we know, a place we find familiar, before the night, as it ever does, arrives.

    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.


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  • Shining, shimmering, splendid. Endless open doors, in a countryside of vapor. Everyone's invited. Do we have enough food? This is what you wanted. You leapt out the window, you walked through the door, you sent up the flare. But that's the past, and we're not headed there...are we?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: 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.


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  • Our deliberations begin. You're probably wondering why I've called you all here today. Or maybe you're not. Maybe you already know. How could anyone tell with that mask on your face? Let's do it again, but this time: with stakes, a bird on my shoulder, my breath on your neck. Take a break, sure, but then, (if it is the right thing to do, and only then): have at me.

    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.


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  • Aren't you thirsty, brother? Here is the well of stars. Here, the dark waters of the river. There, a bubbling spring. Drink deeply, and consider what swims and writhes beneath. For like a forked tongue flicks back and forth, like the great claw taps against the glass (To be let in? To be let out?) a clock, somewhere, tiks and toks unceasing, making what will be what is. And we are all full of snakes.

    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.


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  • 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.


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  • 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.


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  • 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. .


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  • In the sky, war. On the ground, blood. There goes the neighborhood.

    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: Shannon and Amanda Freberg! And YOU, the listener, for your patience. You are braver than a troops.

    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.


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