The hour of judgment is upon the Second Citadel, and its self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner sharpens his blade in wait. It may not be true that might makes right -- but if the mightiest are wrong, who can stop them from saying otherwise?

Some people will do anything to protect their home. The trouble arises when others who live there disagree on what they must be protected from.

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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Milo Mars -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

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Trigger warnings:

-Misogyny

-Sudden loud noises

-Violence and threats of violence

- Racism and xenophobia

- Ableism

- References to alcoholism, sexual assault, and abuse of power

- Death and grievous bodily harm

- Violence against children

- Violence against animals

Five years of the Penumbra Podcast is coming up on March 18th, 2021! Sophie and Kevin talk exciting announcements for the anniversary and our lead-up to the Season 3 finale, including a TON of potential bonuses for our Patreon supporters. 

The fun begins TOMORROW (2/18) at 12 PM EST on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepenumbrapodcast.

Sunset. The precise moment the Kite promised his assault on the Second Citadel would come. Two women now return to a land that does not want them to save it from itself... but why?

We can't choose our families and we can't choose our homes. But we can choose how much of ourselves we give to them.

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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Milo Mars -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

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Trigger warnings:

-Misogyny

-Sudden loud noises

-Violence and threats of violence

SUSPECT NAME: Juno Steel

OCCUPATION: Former police detective and private investigator

INCIDENT DETAILS: Found in possession of Class X radical (see form DM10-894-91)

SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION:

ERROR. PLEASE ENTER SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION:

DIRECTOR. PLEASE ENTER SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION.

(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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Sharon Oh -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

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Trigger warnings:

-Guns

-Sudden loud noises

-Violence and threats of violence

-Mention of torture and fatal illness

In the days following the fall of the First Citadel, humanity's last survivors looked to their Saints for guidance through drought, exhaustion, and famine. And many, many years later, four humans and a lizard-bug-man-thing found themselves with a daunting task of their own: to make it through a family dinner without driving each other completely insane.

Which had it harder?  It's a toss-up, honestly.

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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Milo Mars -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of The Bridge Sound & Stage

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Trigger warnings:

-Mention of armed conflict

-Mention of death

-Mention of starvation

-Sudden loud noises

Juno Steel has been feeling a little out-of-body, lately. Kind of like... well, it's been so busy he hasn't even had time to listen to his own thoughts. But the day of a wedding demands reflection: on where we came from, and where we are going.

And at the end of a good thing, is there any question scarier than "where are we going?"

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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Sharon Oh -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

Lights by Donnie Drost (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/donniedrost/33582 Ft: Fireproof Babies

Plucked Contemporary Boom by Kara Square (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/mindmapthat/43975 Ft: Doxent Zsigmond

Nanyang Journey (Instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/ramblinglibrarian/33455

“Spaceship rumble bg.wav” by Hoerspielwerkstatt_HEF https://freesound.org/people/Hoerspielwerkstatt_HEF/sounds/270598/

“Mechanical.flac” by Halleck https://freesound.org/people/Halleck/sounds/19336/

“Droooone.wav” by digifishmusic https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/66960/

“Weird_scifi_computer_sound3.wav” by JarAxe https://freesound.org/people/JarAxe/sounds/85193/

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Trigger warnings:

-Death/dying

-Guns

-Sudden loud noises

-Violence

You can find all of our transcripts here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Milo Ellersick -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

"Giggles - teenage girl young lady.wav" by AderuMoro https://freesound.org/people/AderuMoro/sounds/213290/

“Steps on a wood branch - actions” by julius_ galla https://freesound.org/people/julius_galla/sounds/434893/

“Sword Drop Medium” by eminyildirim https://freesound.org/people/eminyildirim/sounds/536102/

“Greve feu.wav” by bogus https://freesound.org/people/bogus/sounds/104632/

“LandslideSeriousExtraCred.wav” by tayingalive https://freesound.org/people/tayingalive/sounds/442552/

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Trigger warnings:

-Injury

-Discussions of death

-Xenophobia

-Sudden loud noises

-Violence

-Violence towards children

On the eve of the Kite's assault: a story of two awakenings.

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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Milo Ellersick -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

“Drone airy satan screech eery.wav” by ztitchez https://freesound.org/people/ztitchez/sounds/370302/

“Calm Synthesizer, C” by InspectorJ https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/361529/

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Trigger warnings:

-Gaslighting

-Blood

-Injury

-Discussions of death

-Xenophobia

-Sudden loud noises

-Violence

-Violence towards children

A legend can only die when the stories surrounding it stop being told. But a life, even one that generates legends in its time... a life is very, very fragile.  

Which is worth saving, then? A legend that will go on for ages... or a life, fleeting and delicate and precious?

Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Travelers. 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/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Sharon Oh -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

"Future City ambience" by bolkmar https://freesound.org/people/bolkmar/sounds/502896/

“Dumping Soup into Toilet” by fordps3 https://freesound.org/people/fordps3/sounds/222029/ “Soundbed.wav” by justkiddink https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/87022/ “Laser Charge” by GeronimoGeronimo https://freesound.org/people/GeronimoGeronimo/sounds/338067/ “Pour3 - PERFECT COCKTAIL.wav” by davethetech https://freesound.org/people/davethetech/sounds/360438/ “Pouring tea” by MrAuralization https://freesound.org/people/MrAuralization/sounds/324937/

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Trigger warnings:

-Alcoholism

-Addiction reference

-Body horror

-Chronic illness

-Depictions of violence

-Sudden loud noises

-Vomit

It's showtime -- and what a show lies ahead of us. Tonight we steal a legend, darlings, and no one in this galaxy is more prepared for the task than we. Why, nothing could stop any one of us, I should think, which does raise an interesting question: if none of us can be stopped, what happens if one of us attempts to do the stopping?

Welcome to the Penumbra, darlings. I do hope you enjoy your stay.

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

You can find all of our transcripts here:  

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

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

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

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

Sharon Oh -- Promotional artist

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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode  

“Compactor1.ogg” by PhreaKsAccount https://freesound.org/people/PhreaKsAccount/sounds/46486/

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Trigger warnings:

-Alcoholism

-Addiction reference

-Body horror

-Chronic illness

-Depictions of violence

-Sudden loud noises