In pursuit of their missing poet, Rilla and Lord Arum take a lesser-known route leading directly through the undersea palace of a very regal -- and very hungry -- monster.

Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay.

(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.)

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You can find all of our transcripts here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLddnnYamZuglgZc8pM2gqToPOwEBccM?usp=sharing

Transcripts will come out along with the public release of the episode.

On staff at the Penumbra:

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Ginny D'Angelo -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

Milo Ellersick -- Promotional artist

Harley Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer

Joelle Kross -- Transcriptionist

Noah Simes -- Production manager

Grahame Turner -- Script editing team

Kevin Vibert -- Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer

Ryan Vibert -- Composer and performer of original music

Recorded by Mertz at The Bridge Sound & Stage

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Attribution: Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode "Kind of Girl" by Jeris, featuring spinningmerkaba

“Splash, Jumping, C.wav” by InspectorJ https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/352099/

“Harp.WAV” by RepDac3 https://freesound.org/people/RepDac3/sounds/348655/

“Come Here.wav” by Benboncan https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/66546/

“Dragging Kayak” by brunoboselli https://freesound.org/people/brunoboselli/sounds/488335/

“Spinifex Wind #1” by kangaroovindaloo https://freesound.org/people/kangaroovindaloo/sounds/397445/

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Trigger warnings:

- Sudden loud noises

- Enclosed, claustrophobic spaces

- Violence and threats of violence

- Threats of warfare and genocide

- Religious persecution

- Starvation and torture

- Sexism and xenophobia

- Discussion of illness and death

- Deception by authority figures

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