logo
episode-header-image
Jan 2025
1h 26m

WWW #40: Aid and Comfort

Fortunate Horse, Worlds Beyond Number
About this episode

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. And within the rills and jagged boughs, a beckoning abyss drinks in the light. If you are not careful, if you do not listen, if you speak or move without thought, it will gobble you up, like a sweet tomato, or a useful child, or a secret name, or an empty boat, its lines knocking and bobbing unseen down a river, into night. 

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. 

Up next
Aug 19
ANNOUNCEMENT: The New Worlds Beyond
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! ... Show More
14m 41s
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 sh ... Show More
1h 47m
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 ... Show More
1h 39m
Recommended Episodes
May 2018
Twilight Mirage 53: Our Flaws in a Vacuum, or the Promise We Made To Each Other
Despite the faux-mornings and would-be-nights, the sun never rises or sets over the Quire system. Yet today, in the moments between light and darkness, the air hangs too quiet, the way it only does at dawn and dusk. As Fourteen Fifteen guards the scientist and artist Wind's Poem ... Show More
2h 23m
Mar 2025
The Disappearance at Joshua Tree
In the summer of 1999, two free-spirited young women set out on a camping trip to Joshua Tree National Park. They meet two strangers—Chris, friendly and easygoing, and D, whose unsettling energy immediately raises red flags. When Chris suddenly goes missing and D insists they wer ... Show More
40m 16s
May 2019
Spring in Hieron 30: A Safer Second
Above the waves of the Alcyonic Sea, the second sun has not yet hatched. But below its blood red light, a plan has begun to. But what sort of plan is it? Is it a former paladin’s plan to protect his family? Is it the plan of a druid and a lord to stop a threat that has grown too ... Show More
1h 25m
Oct 2020
Chapter 0: Prologue - Welcome To The Fort
Welcome to The Fort. Our humble little town is always a pleasure, even when the screams echoing from over the bog keep you up at night. Don't be afraid though, just make yourself at home. You'll be safe with me, I promise.  Written and Narrated By: Cole Weavers Sound Production a ... Show More
11m 57s
Jun 22
NoSleep Podcast - Sleepless Decompositions Vol. 20
We promise we're working hard on Season 23. Our promise extends to this episode of Sleepless Decompositions...the promise of horror. "A Few More Miles" written by Maxwell Marais (Story starts around 00:04:20) Produced by: Jesse Cornett Cast: Henry - Jesse Cornett, Ernest - Atticu ... Show More
1h 22m
Jul 14
385: This Is Not a Game - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
What if the world around you—its streets, its skyline, even the people you pass—was nothing more than a thin skin stretched over something else? In tonight’s harrowing descent into digital terror and metaphysical unease, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights invites you to peer behind t ... Show More
45m 31s
Jun 2024
Lore 256: Cursed
We often look to artwork as a source of inspiration, hope, and entertainment. But some examples throughout history have developed a reputation for something darker and more sinister. Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing and research by GennaRose Nethercott, and mus ... Show More
31m 28s
Nov 2020
Chapter 7: The Shadow of Tomorrow
There are ancient magics in the most unsuspected places, and for those who are pulled along by the strings of what can naively be called fate, that is a lesson often learned the hard way. An acorn is just alive as the ancient oak that towers above it. Written and Narrated By: Col ... Show More
29m 27s
Aug 2024
Lore 260: Ghostwriter
Our deep desire to connect to the world of the dead has taken humanity down some fantastic roads, but few compare to the stories that came out of the early 1900s in America. Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba ... Show More
33m 27s
May 2016
COUNTER/Weight 39: Just Another Machine
As the only clock that really matters ticks further and further down, The Chime find themselves facing one sealed door after another. But do the doors protect something precious or keep something dangerous locked safely away? AuDy makes one final attempt at convincing Maryland th ... Show More
1h 2m