Worlds Beyond Number

Worlds Beyond Number

Worlds Beyond Number
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Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson hang out together and use games to make stories. It's pretty good.

Episodes (50)

Worlds Beyond Number

Fireside Chat for Chapter Four and All of Book One

August 26, 2025 1h 39m
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: Music Chat! A whole...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The New Worlds Beyond

August 19, 2025 14m
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....
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WWW #53: The Queen of Swords

July 29, 2025 1h 39m S1E53
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...
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WWW #52: No Loose Ends

July 15, 2025 1h 48m S1E52
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...
The Horner Corner with Grant O'Brien!

The Horner Corner with Grant O'Brien!

July 08, 2025 5m
GET TEASED, LISTENER! With this, a teaser of our first Horner Corner and our first guest*, Grant O'Brien. Join this infamous Dropout sex-haver as he is RAILED by questions from our hosts Aabria and...
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WWW #51: The Endeavor

June 27, 2025 1h 35m S1E51
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,...
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WWW #50: Axis Mundi

June 12, 2025 1h 39m S1E50
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...
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WWW #49: The New World

May 27, 2025 1h 48m S1E49
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...
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WWW #48: The Battle of Twelve Brooks Part 2

May 14, 2025 1h 12m S1E48
You are weightless and powerful. Whatever you were on the way to being, this can be done too. This world is a dream, yes. But whose? It's time to go home.
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WWW #47: The Battle of Twelve Brooks Part 1

May 01, 2025 1h 36m S1E47
In the sky, war. On the ground, blood. There goes the neighborhood.
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CLASS ACTION with Lou Wilson

April 22, 2025 26m
Lou Wilson hosts this special sample of his latest game show masterpiece: CLASS ACTION!
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WWW #46: Their Sorrow is My Sorrow

April 08, 2025 1h 26m S1E45
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, and the dry stone no sound of water. When the dead tree bears the fruit of empire, it will all be this. You can't shake it. You can't shake...
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WWW #45: Nothing

March 25, 2025 1h 19m S1E45
Across the night, with the dawn, this version of her, our gilled mage. Suvirin Kedberiket, amphibious and unalone. In the ice cave abattoir, our survivors, the otter and the otherworldly. The fresh...
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WWW #44: To the Bone

March 11, 2025 1h 20m S1E44
The keen mind is king, and you are not in your tower. You are here with us, underground, haunting the foundations of the world, a shadow, here to offer and support the force. In front of you is a...
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WWW #43: Speak With Animals

February 25, 2025 1h 25m S1E43
The road is a door, and it beckons wide and open. Turns out, you can, in fact, get there from here. If there is a town, a bag, the throat of the ravening beast, the back room of a humble butcher's...
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WWW #42: Match My Breath and Walk in My Footsteps

February 11, 2025 1h 26m S1E42
War makes strange bedfellows. Glasses clink like funeral bells. We become the fox, at last, or at the very least: We are not the sheep. Every time we step out of that door, all we have are the words...
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WWW #41: Peace and Quiet

January 29, 2025 1h 31m S1E41
The spirit touches all things, but boots find sure footing on moss and stone. At long last, the long arm of empire legs it. The machine is repurposed. Love your mommy and listen to the mirror for...
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WWW #40: Aid and Comfort

January 14, 2025 1h 26m S1E40
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,...
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WWW #39: Into the Woods

December 10, 2024 1h 41m S1E39
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...
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WWW #38: Abassin

November 26, 2024 53m S1E38
Confusion is the brother of death, but my water is good and fast and clean. There is something wrong with your friend, and yet you fight alongside them. Someone will fly and someone will die on the...
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WWW #37: Who Goes There

November 05, 2024 1h 11m S1E37
The fog of war floats in the valleys and ravines of the Shroud Mountains like a ghost. It erases. It confuses. It hides. It lies. And through the veil, those unlucky few soldier on, to take in the...
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WWW #36: Sending

October 22, 2024 1h 5m S1E36
The mountains want blood. The birds are in on it. The only way out is up. Or down so deep your friends forget your face. Just when everyone finally came together, so many people have to go.
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WWW #35: Different Days

October 08, 2024 1h 47m S1E35
In this, the final chapter of the first book of our tale: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, for our wizard, our witch, and our wild one. Far above the mist-cloaked scree of the Shroud...
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WWW Interlude #2: The Clearing

September 24, 2024 1h 15m
[To hear this episode and its mind blowing conclusion, ya gotta come and join us by the fireside, on our Patreon.]

There is an idea, buried deep within every human being, that says "Anywhere I can...
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Fireside Chat for Chapter 3

September 10, 2024 59m
Join the cast as they lift Arc 3 over their heads, take off its head and gulp up that delicious Arc juice. Look out for the juice, you're in the SPLASH ZONE! Would you believe we do one of these for...
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WWW #34: Something to Remember You By

August 27, 2024 1h 57m S1E34
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...
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WWW #33: The Witness

August 13, 2024 1h 36m S1E33
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...
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WWW #32: The Vote

July 30, 2024 1h 38m S1E32
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.
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WWW #31: The Souvenir

July 16, 2024 1h 38m S1E31
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...
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WWW #30: The Snake

July 02, 2024 1h 19m S1E30
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...
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WWW #29: The Spy

June 18, 2024 1h 19m S1E29
Everybody's gotta serve somebody. But who? Who exactly is calling the shots? And how can you tell who anyone else is working for? Finding out can be expensive. It takes sacrifice, subterfuge,...
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WWW #28: The Staff

June 04, 2024 1h 0m S1E28
The gang splits up. The stars align and cast no shadow. In separation: terror and revelation. But it's pressure that makes the coal into diamond isn't it? And oh what stories that diamond could tell,...
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WWW #27: The Agenda

May 21, 2024 1h 14m S1E27
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...
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WWW #26: The Conclave of the Witches of the Coven of Elders

May 09, 2024 1h 44m S1E26
The surviving members of the Coven of Elders gather in the Palace of the Wind and Stars for their conclave. Meanwhile, the gang says goodbye to a horse.
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WWW #25: The Retinue

April 23, 2024 1h 20m S1E25
The stars at the top of the world begin to align, and the meeting of the coven draws ever nearer. Old debts are paid and new collateral is put on the line. Ame plays politics, Eursulon plays cowboy,...
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WWW #24: Knock Knock

April 09, 2024 2h 13m S1E24
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes company. The Italians call it "hospitaliano," that open armed attitude that makes guesting and having guests *molto* fun. Whether you're hosting, being hosted, or...
Interlude: Twelve Brooks

Interlude: Twelve Brooks

April 02, 2024 15m
Behold! A generous teaser of our first "Interlude," an in-world canon one-shot where the cast gathers to create, expand, and play hitherto unseen people and places within the world of Umora. It is a...
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From the Fireside: Bag It or Tag It with GM Lou Wilson

March 26, 2024 39m
Lou invented a game called Bag It or Tag it where he generates random characters and the other cast members decide to bag them or tag them. We play it on the Patreon feed from time to time. People...
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Fireside Chat for Chapter 2

March 12, 2024 1h 15m
The cast discusses which Pokemon they would sleep with. They also answer questions and spill behind the scenes tea on Chapter 2 of The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One, but mostly the Pokemon thing....
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WWW #23: On Your Way

February 27, 2024 1h 47m S1E23
The gang is scattered. Bridges are burned. Where friends falter, new allies grow like mighty oaks. There are wars and rumors of wars, but be not afraid, sisters. We are all on our way to somewhere....
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WWW #22: Bring Them to Me

February 13, 2024 1h 20m S1E22
When there is no path, you make a path by walking. The rest of us are just following orders. Slow down, you're moving too fast, you got to make the moment last. Is a trap a trap if you like it? Bad...
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WWW #21: The Taboo of Passage

January 30, 2024 1h 34m S1E21
Mom's home.
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WWW #20: Later Than You Think

January 16, 2024 1h 48m S1E20
Tick tock. Tick tock. What time is it? How much is left? Can we have five more minutes? The gang's investigation has pierced the veil of the Citadel, and peering back at them through the penumbra is...
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WWW #19: Kith and Kin

January 02, 2024 1h 33m S1E19
History, almost everybody's got some. Very hard to get rid of. Keeps repeating itself. If you're lucky, and work hard, you can just maybe learn from it, but you're gonna need a team. A family. You're...
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WWW #18: Between the Lines

December 05, 2023 1h 59m S1E18
Wars and rumors of wars. Thrilling new weapons to titillate the thanatos urge of even the most inured imperial citizen. Heroes-to-be assemble and depart. While the Citadel mobilizes for battle, the...
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WWW #17: Say My Name

November 21, 2023 1h 41m S1E17
Names are great. They let people know what to call things. You can read them, write them, put them on a list. If you know someone's name you can send them things, invite them places, say it quietly,...
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WWW #16: Everything

November 07, 2023 1h 49m S1E16
Reunited, the gang must now face, waste, and taste the avalanche of revelation and experience that the Citadel provides. This is why we run.
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WWW #15: Hold On Tight

October 24, 2023 2h 0m S1E15
Everything that rises must converge, and baby, we are FLYING. It's good to be back.
Fireside Chat for Chapter 1 of The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One

Fireside Chat for Chapter 1 of The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One

October 10, 2023 1h 1m
The cast gathers to answer questions and look back at Chapter One of The Wizard, The Witch and the Wild One. If you want to taste this chatty magic for every single episode, and even more "bone cone,"...

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