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80 episodes
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English
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Yes
Date created
2023/02/08
Latest episode
2026/01/06
Average duration
93 min.
Release period
69 days

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An epic, improvised storytelling podcast where Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson hang out together, play games, build worlds, and make stories.

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Flight of the Icaron: Ep 1 - Maiden Voyage
2026/01/06
This is the maiden voyage of the Icaron - Earth’s first S-Class Battle Station. This demonstration flight has been certified as routine by all relevant oversight bodies. Systems have been tested, personnel vetted, and contingencies reviewed. Passengers are reminded that the Icaron represents the highest standard of planetary defense engineering. Please remain seated. We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson   Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io   Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska  Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/   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.
Flight of the Icaron: Episode 2 - Shots Fired
2026/01/20
The clink of champagne glasses and gala formalwear gives way to gunfire and chaos aboard the Icaron. With authority fractured and information scarce - who ends up on the right side of this conflict, who is written off as collateral, and what those decisions cost will shape everything to come.   We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson   Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io   Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska  Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/   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.
Flight of the Icaron: Ep 3 - Contact
2026/02/03
The Icaron locks down as Martian strike craft take position, turning the ship into hostile ground. With exits gone and command in question, three figures slip into its hidden spaces, moving toward a communications deck that may be the last place still speaking to the outside world. Signals are active, systems are rerouting, and something aboard the Icaron is making its move.   We are: Brennan Lee Mulligan Erika Ishii Aabria Iyengar Lou Wilson   Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty from Many Sided Media https://www.manysidedmedia.com/ Score by Will Savino https://wsavino.com/ Sound Effect library courtesy of artlist.io   Director of Operations: Melanie Bowman Social Media Manager: Shannon H Lorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska  Special Thanks to: Amanda Freberg at Big Giant Head and the team at Laservision Character Art Alecia Doyley https://tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Ship Art by Britt Anderson https://brittajj26.com/ Graphics by Lu Tomkiewicz https://www.lumadethis.com/   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.
HINT! ep1: Let the Boddie Hit the Floor
2025/09/02
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
HINT! ep2: Hate the Player
2025/09/16
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
HINT! ep3: Will They, Won't They
2025/09/30
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.    
HINT! ep4: Just Deserts
2025/10/14
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.    
Fiasco! (Part Two)
2025/11/25
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!
The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One #1: The Open Door
2023/03/02
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. 
WWW #2: The Naming of Things
2023/03/14
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. .
WWW #3: The Charter
2023/03/28
Masks off. The world blooms anew with purpose, as our trio take the first few proper steps of their quest. The band is back together, the open road of blue water calls, but what else lies in wait between here and there? Only everything. 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. .
WWW #4: In the Drink
2023/04/11
Blood, steel, and fire. Who needs a captain anyway? We do not have to be in community here. Another door opens. Blood, rain, and glass. Are we there yet? 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. .
WWW #5: Water, Water Everywhere
2023/04/25
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. .
WWW #6: Fresh Fish
2023/05/09
The new kids learn the ropes around Port Talon. Press the flesh, as it were. First impressions are so important. Making new friends is easy. Unless...you don't think someone might try to take advantage of the- no don't even say it. Who would do such a thing. Nobody in Port Talon, that's for sure. Great town. Good schools. 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. .
WWW #7: Kahuna
2023/05/23
The gang is undercover and overwhelmed. Office politics, a catering budget, special projects. Middle management, those implacable knaves. Morrow is a business, man. Field trips. Democracy. Bath time. Research and/or development. And finally. As if it wasn't bad enough: consequences. 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. .

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4.9 out of 5
3228 reviews
★★★★★
lemongoose 2026/01/04
Very captivating
The story is absolutely captivating, so much so that I found myself listening to the podcast at every opportunity I had. I was so enthralled by the ch...
★★☆☆☆
foxnblocks 2026/01/15
First hour was nice and then it wore me down
Amazing production quality, but a lot feels overdramatized and emotionally super saturated, as if every scene needs to be so momentous as to warrant a...
★★★★★
AppReviewer12345 2025/12/20
Slow burn
Absolutely brilliant. I prefer to wait until an entire arc is out because there's so much detail I'm want to forget what's happening if I wait weeks b...
★★★★★
Gooseaux 2025/12/19
When’s the next season/book
Suvi and Ame (not the actors, just the characters) pmo but the story is so worth it!
★★★★★
Celigoose 2025/12/14
Absolute Best
I understand how some people can’t continue because Suvi was so abrasive in the beginning. Power through it. Seriously. I listen to the entire podcas...
★★★★★
emilyconnelly 2025/12/10
Such excellent storytelling
I’m so glad I found out about this podcast, it’s become an immediate favorite not only for me but also for my daughter — we have a great time listenin...
★★★★★
CareuhDub 2025/12/09
None better
The production quality is incredible. There is an immersive soundscape on top of incredible performances from the players and Brennan. I have never go...
★★★★★
AndyyyyyG 2025/12/03
One of the best
Truly one of the best podcasts I’ve had the pleasure of listening to; highly recommend
★★★★★
Robiticus 2025/11/15
Cinematic mastery in improvised storytelling
If any or all of this show is adapted to the screen, the world will be better for it.
★★★★☆
indigospark 2025/10/19
Awe-some storytelling
Amazing— if you love rich worlds, high fantasy, unexpected laughter/sobbing, and immersive music and sound, you will like this podcast. It is one of m...
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