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Dec 2024
1h 41m

WWW #39: Into the Woods

Fortunate Horse, Worlds Beyond Number
About this episode

The Battle of Abassin is won, but the escape, and the peace are anyone's game. Into the woods, we go, where the tall trees blind us and we cannot see the forest. The mask slips. We make monsters of men, and speak with animals. The chain of command is thus: hunger, water, music. Each family of sad adventurers is sad in its own way.

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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