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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.

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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.

Comments

Nym

Yaaay it’s here!

Sven the Scribe

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Genna

Bring us to the stars Lou ✨🌌🚀

Sven the Scribe

Brennan has promised the fireside a map. Give us the map! (with all polite patience in reality)

xyz chaos

If it's not too much trouble, you could upload a version with just the voice tracks, without music & background sounds. I am having a migraine and voices are less painful than gun sounds and Basedrums

Steph Sokol

That seems like it would be a lot of trouble lmao

VibeWolf

Brennan suffering through his own DM'ingisms along with the tension of the scenario is so peak lol

Just a Fox

Probably easier to just read the transcript friend ❤️

xyz chaos

If I am the only one for whom that would be beneficial, I agree, if others also have a similar issue, it's two clicks in the daw ☺️

Elf0004

The phrase is "written off as collateral damage", not just collateral.

shai

Oh how the table tops...

C

DAMN LOU! pulling no punches and absolutely crushing it. i’m loving this.

shai

Kiki and Fishcakes: hauling ass, taking names Andrei: can I somehow weld my daughter into the bathroom???? 10/10 party, no notes

Dain Saint

Borat voice *my knife*

renderly

Lou got me all the way fucked up

Jess A

I paused the *second* Brennan said there was a ship map available on the fireside. Checked here, with dreams of general schematics sketched by our brave DM. Only the failed promise of a map would let my poor little heart down like this! I shall endeavor to forgive Brennan. Amazing episode, folks!

Michael Link

The little "ding" after it made me die.

Liu

LOOOVE THIS EP!!! Lou is so good!!!!!! Such good pacing and tension and editing and I’m so charmed by the party and the worldbuilding is so clear it’s such a precise vision!!! Cannot wait for the next ep

Miyaa

Oh the paranoia. Brilliant.

worldsbeyondnumber

Avid listeners, a map exists and it's coming just not TODAY... Soon...

Sven the Scribe

Fishcakes voice: Please go get the map. Special treat map (But, seriously, take the time you need. We can wait)

GC

epiosde is really fun to say, i'm kind of sad they changed it

GC

sorry about your migraine!!! you've probably thought of this but a bandpass filter (to focus on the voices) and compressor with quick attack (to bring down the gunshots) might get you part of the way there

Strange Universe

Brennan getting a taste of the Box of Doom tension. Oh how the tables have topped.

Jordan Charles

Migraines are terrible, it’s true, but this is a wild request. Perhaps wait until you’re in a better space to listen?

The Wizard Skip

Fishcakes so far is like if you took Ame but adjusted parameters to 0% kind and 100% cunning. I love Fishcakes

Alyssa

The sound design is so dang good!!! Especially the little ✨ding✨ after Brennan said map on the Patreon 😂 like a cartoon smile shining

Deyla

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Deyla

i feel the need to ask if there are droids in this campaign…?

Alyssa

Episode 1 Fishcakes: haha, cheese heist! High stealth roll to sneak some cheese 🧀 🤪 Episode 2 Fishcakes: I rolled high to slash his fucking neck 🗡️🤫 I’m with Kiki, maybe I don’t know what a child looks like but I know I freaking love Fishcakes!!

Kurt Spears

I’m sorry…do we need to start calling him Lou ‘I produce bangers’ Wilson? Damn that was cool!

Roger

Big fan of Lou in the GM chair!

DiamondPWrites

Me: aw yeah a new episode of Flight of the Icaron Me, after 5 minutes: 😨😨😨 This was the perfect amount of story tension and I’m loving Lou’s GM style!

Lee Chirtel

Fishcakes strikes me as kind of a "celebrity river tam" character. Especially as there is some oddness in the background, and the quasi super human stabbing and fighting seems to suggest some kind of secret experience.

Ed Atherton

Lou is absolutely thriving as DM. Can't wait for more!

Nym

GIVE US THE MAP, BRENNAN! (Please 🙏)

Bog Station: Remembrance

Wow Space Firesiders, I don’t know about anyone else, but the first 8 minutes of this episode really got me. Maybe it was the surprise shooting of a likable woman character but it hit close to home this week—some real sympathetic dissociation going on… but still a banger of an episode!

Bog Station: Remembrance

TOP 10 HOT HITS: 10. Seriously rethinking neck tattoos in all timelines. 9. Brennan’s accent giving soft Mario as he talks about sliding down the plumbing. 8. Mars Protectorate: are we thinking scary like House Harkonnen, or scary like Greg Bovino? Wait. 7. Never fuck with a bitch in an expensive dress. 6. More nat 1s played just as fucked inner monologues ❤️‍🩹 5. Lou gave Bogo a Cowboy hat so we’d immediately trust him with the kids… and because he knew the name Bogo needed some help. 4. canapés: too elevated 3. Erika making “Murder Kid” a playable subclass. 2. “Ceremonial Multitool” is definitely a love language. 1. MVP of the episode: Aabria’s dressing-up of her SW5e force powers in this setting.

Saoirse

I def want to see that Icaron map!

Jules

Oooh the sound design! The ever-present tension and the background hum of the ship! AAARGH i didn't want the episode to end. I listened to this at 5 am, keeping quiet the whole time except for Kiki's "maternal" line. v glad i didn't have any water in my mouth at that moment.

Jules

i'm a fellow migraine sufferer; thankfully there are 2 weeks in between episodes - plenty of time to catch up when you're feeling better (soon, hopefully!) I doubt they'll upload audio without the sound design, but I don't fault you for asking :)

Yanick Pips

Can we talk about the Sound Design after Brennans scary calm "I go insane in my own mind and I am in Hell" FUCK

pfreya

Also getting the vibes of Anne of Green Gables who saw Just A Bit Too Much Shit(tm) in her formative years

Ooloi Jackal

I can't be the only one out here asking what the hallowed hell is a huckleberry.

Kin Madu

It's from the movie Tombstone. One of many great scenes from Val Kilmer's character, Doc Holiday

Martian

Dang, this is so good that I can't even pretend to complain about the anti-Martian propaganda. Lou is killing it as a DM!!

Alissa Zachary

Here me out, abrias the witch, brennans the wizard, and erika is the wild one

Lane

I don’t know if anyone clocked it, but Brennan mentioning the “Venomous look” Dalka gives when Kiki says “Yes we do.” Was beautiful!! I hope that we get to learn more about what that means for Andre Dalka’s backstory!!✨😆 LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!

PriscillaG

A force blast, crackle crackle. Lou as GM is a delight and I find myself trying to figure out how much of bag it or tag it and Class Action made it into the campaign if at all . The thrill of listening to Brennan being a PC and Lou creating compelling emotional stakes is so fun and funny. It just feels really good listening to a bunch of friends, making a story together, for the thrill and love of the art and each other. Also, brutal moves by Fishcakes but if her breath smells so bad wouldn't they have smelled her coming? Or is the smell only when she's talking? Doesn't matter.

The Wizard Serendipity

It’s too short Lou! It’s too short 😭 Loving this series and all its characters. Lou is doing an amazing job as GM and Brennan is so fun to see as a PC! I hunger for more!

Skeletal Cleric

"I slit his throat not to kill him but so he doesn't scream."

Charlie Utting

Just here to throw in a little “damn this is great! Lou, acing it! Everyone, great stuff!”

Ooloi Jackal

Thank you! I would've guessed that in a million years. And I love Val Kilmer. What's the context though? What's a huckleberry in that movie?

Emily C

JESUS CHRIST FISHCAKES

Emily C

Yes!!! Very much River Tam energy

Meg

The tension in this is WILD. Lou Wilson, you're doing amazing things as a DM. I want a million more episodes.

Alexander Alexandrov

Hello I am here looking for the map of the Icaron as was promised, nay, prophesied, some 40 seconds ago in the episode I am still listening to

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Brennan narrating Andre's action: "I am not doing anything heroic. I am getting on the floor." That was painful especially in our current timeline. And then Andrei wanting to weld Sophie into the bathroom, and Aabria saying, "A glimpse into Brennan's future," was great.

Adam D.

Lou Wilson is killing it. I hope we return to this world and learn more about weird deep space magic and how the world lives both out with and within earth society

PissGrizz

This is absolutely fantastic, keep hitting Brennan in the feels! Get em!

Evelina Meiklejohn

If they ever crossed dimensions, I think Kiki and Moonshine Cybin would be absolute party animals together. 😆

The Wizard Subjudice

My blood stayed cold after Brennan interpreting that Nat One as André believing his kid was dead and possibly froze in terror/ disgust when the kid was grabbed by the neck. Maybe a deep cut, but if anyone's ever made the mistake (in my opinion) of watching Ransom, the scene where the mother vomits after hearing the bullets fire on the phone comes to mind. I get why you asked Erika to not make a small child, Lou, jfc. If they had, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to this. Also, from a country with adequate gun laws, fk the NRA.

Alyssa

Brennan’s immediate reaction of essentially “DON’T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME, RICKY BOBBY!!!” was so relatable 😂

Virtual Spaceman

This series is nuts I fucking absolutely love the way it's devolping absolutely amazing

Just_another_queer

Sophie's sick huh... or is she in on it... or do I have trust issues from brennan Seriously though this is absolutely incredible!!! I am Loving this and already sad that its not a longer. We definitely need more DMing from Lou in the future!!!

Bog Station: Remembrance

Experiencing Brennan rolling like Aabria is really quite beautiful proof of GM karma

Mike Hamrick

Looking for that map by the fireside 👀

Amanda - Witch of the Winding Thread

So here’s the thing: my rational and logical self wants these beloved creators to have all the time and space in the world to create these incredible, enchanting stories. I am just one billion percent on board for ANYTHING these people make together. And the release schedule is in fact a good and predictable schedule, that any reasonable person would look at and say, “yes, this is good.” So, why do I, immediately upon finishing an episode, queue it up to restart immediately, and then I commence to tearing my hair out that there isn’t MORE, RIGHT NOW???? Give me more of your beautiful stories! Feed them DIRECTLY INTO MY BRAIN! How dare you create such delightful, meaningful, thoughtful content, honestly? I’m sorry I’m like this, at least some of it’s the adhd but the rest of it is just me

Hope

The description of Fishcakes slitting that guy's throat just so he couldn't scream was perfect. Just in general, I love the care Erika gives to their characters' complex backgrounds. Having been the traumatized eldest child in a survival situation, I can vouch that you do embrace a kind of effortless brutality after realizing that it allows you to (finally) protect the other children in your orbit. And kid brains also just don't have a lot of room for nuance, so they will tend to go for the jugular (literal or otherwise). 10/10 character choice, and I'm excited to see what happens next.

Phillipe Bojorquez

Definitely feels like she is in on it whether accidental or purposefully. An NPC that is building tension for brenan who will eventually have to have a deep emotional reaction with consequences... Suspish for sure 🤣. Honestly any NPC that knows any of these story tellers I'm betting on betrayal, a complex duex machina, or a thread that will unravel and connect the entire story throughout it's arc.

Luke Powell

Kiki removed her sari to bribe that goon. What is she now wearing?!

Ammar Khalid

The dichotomy of having my heart drop when Andre thinks Sophie is already dead and me giggling my head of at Andre shouting about her messy room and suggesting to weld her shut in her bathroom

Matthew Benedict

Will the map be shared in the fireside post?

DaphneDawn

I’m beginning to think we’re not playing any slideball…

Sven the Scribe

We know there is no Icaron Fireside this Tuesday. Should we expect no content, bone cone of some 'wait and see' variety, or (least likely) right into Icaron E3? Just trying to plot out my schedule appropriately.

Grace Bee

I want to listen so bad but I can't do violence rn 😭

Chock Full O' Butts

Long time listener, first time caller. I'm in love with the vibe in this campaign. I've been DMing dnd since 4e. It's actually annoyingly really hard to deliver a visceral action setting, to the point where players feel both adrenaline and the deep emotions which caused it, in the turn based tabletop system we love to tell stories together. Video games make it look so easy, but translating that sort of emotionally fulfilling experience into SW5e, well Lou seems to be a savant.

Erica Klein-Meisenhelter

I may have missed this info somewhere but do we know what system this game is being run on? Is it still DnD with custom sci-fi flavor or something totally different? I'm totally fascinated by the effects of Andre's tech and Kiki's.... what I assume passes for magic in this world, and so curious if Lou homebrewed all this or if its out-of-a-box somewhere. (Also Lou is AMAZING as a DM and I hope he keeps up with it)

Jo Carter

This is D&D 5e Star Wars, which Lou knows well from the Starstruck Odyssey season of Dimension 20. https://sw5e.com/ They just reskinned The Force into something a little more tech-based and a little less woo-woo.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

This reminds me of Brennan's comment on one of the Adventuring Parties for Crown of Candy, when he sent love to the audience that was watching this very dramatic story week to week. He pointed out that people who came to the story later would be able to go straight into the next episode and not be stuck hanging over the cliff each time. It was running during lockdown and that made it worse.