Welcome! Come on in! This is a handshake, a how-do-you-do, a kiss on the cheek in the French way. Bienvenue, my friend. Consider yourself GREETED. This episode is like an instruction manual for the show, so If you've got no idea what's going on, or if you just wanna hang out with the cast for a few minutes, this is for you. We try to keep it short and to the point. We do...okay!

Early in January 2023, the cast and crew of Worlds Beyond Number gathered to record what was to be a public "Welcome" message for the main podcast feed, to explain Worlds Beyond Number for newcomers and fans alike. Instead: the cast dropped all artifice and immediately transformed into disgusting gremlins who did not produce one SINGLE MINUTE of audio that we could ever...ever...show to the public. But comrades. This is not the public. THIS is the Fireside. Hail, and well met.

The first session in a gargantuan player character creation session for our first story, The Wizard The Witch and the Wild One.

Under Grandma Wren's loving care, Ame and Suvi bond, enjoying their simple summer days as only children can. A world away, Eursulon learns no treasure comes without its price.

The three children finally meet, clashing in their first encounter. Fear quickly turns into curiosity and the girls agree to help Eursulon in his pursuit of honor. Meanwhile night, and all its dangerous mysteries, encroaches.

The children grapple with hard-learned lessons of consequence. In leaning on each other for support, a mythical friendship is formed.

Grandma Wren fights to pay the cost of Eursulon's newfound dream. The three children do their part to pay her back.

Suvi and Ame help Eursulon feel at home. Before long, their home becomes each other.

As summer advances, so do Ame, Suvi and Eursulon. Together and in their own incredible ways.

Every summer ends.

Our FIRST Fireside Chat about our first episode! Producer Taylor joins us from his milk tub, Lou is dragged to Hell by ghosts, Brennan and Erika absolutely DISH about the Witch Class (!!!), and Aabria threatens Taylor with mail apples and REVEALS her true thoughts about the existence of the supernatural world.

TOMAHAWK! The gang dishes on all things firbolg, fox, stranger, and wizard names, in THIS, your show of shows, your chat of chats! [cue ironic circus music]

A fun little change to our usual schedule, since some key cast is out of town and far away from microphones at the moment: This week the Fireside Chat is all about the Children's Adventure! (We'll do a double Fireside Chat for eps 3 & 4 after ep4 comes out!). Join the gang as they dig deep, some say too deep, into all things Children's Adventure. The square footage of Grandma Ren's Cottage, the intricate and well defined rules for running a lvl0 character creation campaign, and the secret history of the mushroom spirit. Listen quickly before the balrogs carry our precious cast away. Fly*, you fools! *Enjoy podcast

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CRACKLE CRACKLE fam, the gang is back together and PIERCING your Q's with their A's. From Finley to Fountains, why this Fireside Chat simply has it all! There's a fun horn honk in this one! Lou tells a story! Aabria defends Feign Death! Erika makes more coughing noises! Brennan actually does reveal somethin neat about the Fountain scene! This is better than a dang movie!

Ahoohoo and crackle crackle to you good fellows. Anon! Another Fireside Chat has laid itself bare, like a patient on a table, or perhaps like a cocksure rookie across the table from veteran ne'er-do-well Billy Gallows. Regardless, it is yours to do with as ye wish. Ahoohoo con dios.

Ahoohoo and crackle crackle to you, honored friends! Brennan, Lou* and Erika are "in da house" this week and DISHING on the behind the scenes of ep7 "Kahuna." The physics of magic, inspiration for world building and so much U-more-a. I'm not sorry!

Ahoohoo, Yonders! We got the whole gang on DECK and HAULIN' IN a net full of CHAT ABOUT THE EPISODE. We're talking shopping. We're talking Skittles. We're talking Shit Brickhouses. We're talking foxes with VISIBLE OBLIQUES. And you KNOW we're talking about everyone's FAVE nautimantic apparatus. Crackle crackle.

Ahoohoo, Yonders! It's all hands on (tarot) deck for chattin bout ep9, Da King a Da Cups! The Fox, the "feels", and wheels within wheels. How to play, what to say, when the vibe is "dismay." Can you be true to your heart while your squad falls apart? All this and more on the chat-back show some are calling "out today!"

The gang is all together IRL and the studio is crackle-crackling with JUICE LIGHTNING as we discuss the latest episode: Taming of the Shrub Part 1: Pumpable Scents

Dios mio, It's .5's all the way down baby! I "promise" you'll enjoy this Fireside Chat, with a new guest, Brennan freak out, revelations about which of Lou's characters eat *ss, and a deep dive into how Aabria manages to maintain such consistency while Suvi, who is already "a lot" has a nervous breakdown on mic. Great stuff about character work in here! AND a reveal on the metaphysics of "guesting" on Fireside Chats. Chat lore, yonders! CHAT. LORE. Crackle crackle!

The sword comes down but the Fireside Chat comes...OUT!? Thats right, here it is, the Fireside Feed's most famous chat show: Fireside Chat. This week on the show the gang (minus Lou, plus shy guest Thelonious Rigel) digs into the chaos and consequences of the interrogation, how many eps left in the arc, how fun it is to CUSS, and certain...decisions...of key party members, including "What would have happened if Lou had rolled worse." CRACKLE CRACKLE, Yonders!

The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else's lake. You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake! Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you! What more is you lookin' for?

We begin to discuss the end of the beginning. Taylor joins us from his dirty south swamp shack, and we talk about the Rain Road, the ethics of direct action, "My Dad." and what we're looking forward to the most about Chapter 2. Crackle crackle!

Our lovely cast talks about WBN's upcoming slate of content, leading into Arc 2 of "The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One" on October 24th!

Talk is cheap and life in the barnyard is nasty, brutish, and short. You either eat or get ate, and if you ain't the cock of the walk, you're in the next pot of coq au vin. So you tell me, are you satisfied with the quiet life of pastoral servitude, or do you have the rocky mountain oysters to grab the tractor by the wheel and, just maybe, reap what you sow? I just so happen to know where we can get enough corn to put us on easy street till the cows come home. What do you say old timer, how about... one... last... job?

Not in this world, or in another, but in the world between worlds, live three humble heroes, empowered by a mysterious eternal benefactor. Their mission: to leap from one time to another, trying to put right what once went wrong, to stop the ascent of the greatest evil ever known, and to absolutely ROCK the paint with unparalleled DUNKATUDE. To SLAM-JAM those BUCKETS with a LEVEL 9 SWISH SPELL. THIS is Space Cram. THESE are Reasonable Hoop Dreams. THAT is our promise to you, fulfilled.

Can you believe we managed to get Lou Wilson for this fireside? We're coming for your ass, Ira Glass. The gang has a lot of fun with this one, we were in person recording the first leg of Arc 3 (GASP!) and you know the energy is f'in WILD for in person recordings. Wilder than a hen with a gun.

I love it when a plan comes together. Or when a ferris wheel falls apart. GUNS. MAGIC. PINK MIST. CONSPIRACIES WITHIN CONSPIRACIES. MAYHEM. MURDER. And of course: LAST MINUTE BETRAYALS that will make you LAY A DAMN EGG. Welcome to the rapturous, apocalyptic, felonious conclusion to Erika Ishii's A COUNTY AFFAIR. No. Loose. Ends.

THE HEAT IS ON for the Space Cram team. Have they met their match, or can they straight up hoopin their way out of this one?? Take a deep breath and remember, there's no actual rule that says you have to breathe, like at all. THIS is Space Cram. THESE are Reasonable Hoop Dreams. THAT is our promise to you, fulfilled.

NO. LOOSE. ENDS.

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," subscribe to the Fireside Feed by joining us on Patreon!

"Rock me, Amadeus." We are joined by Music Man and full time ear-considerer Taylor to talk about the sound design and music behind The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One! Behold ALL your AUDIBLE questions answered: Do you pump in music during recording? Are you going to release a soundtrack? The new episode isn't showing up for me, can you fix it? All these ancient conundrums, at long last SLICED APART like an aural gordian knot. And listener? You're welcome.

ACHTUNG, BABIES! The gang is growing utz! Get a deeper look into the Witch class (pdf coming SO soon, my pretties), AND behold: our custom Wizard subclass---> WIZARD of the CITADEL. Daaaang. Wow, even!

Erika joins us from the road (fun new timbre!), while Brennan is LOST in the equatorial marsh of deepest Panama. We are back and the chat is STACKED with loving and constructive dialogue from ITS PARTICIPANTS. Lou got two JET SKIS. Hold on tight, friends and lovers.

A special guest joins Aabria and Erika to cover for Brennan (who is sill lost in Panama's infamous Darién Gap) as they discuss the world building festival fever dream of episode 16, food glorious food, and invent a new segment called Bag It or Tag It, where the players must choose to BAG IT...or TAG IT! What would YOU choose, listener?

The PC's come together from the Holiday Road (and a wild variety of sound environments) to talk about Name Days and bathroom bangin. Meanwhile our guest stars begin to form some sort of...initiative...a team if you will, of...remarkable individuals.

The Worlds Beyond Number Fireside Chat REMAINS the ONLY Private Narrative/Actual Play Patreon talkback podcast that will have you screaming "Cis WHAT!?" out loud in front of your colleagues, copains, and caretakers this week. Enjoy!

PERMISSION TO BE WEIRD: GRANTED. Except for you Devonte, put down the trains! The triumvirate returns to "discuss" kith, kin, pvp, and oh let's see what else, oh right, PLAY BAG IT OR TAG IT. Airhorn sound.

One (1) normal episode of podcast.

Happy New Year! The "hole" gang is BACK to talk all things justification of self implication in unpleasant systems of power and violence. AND when it is okay to stop saying: Happy New Year! (Spoiler alert: Never stop saying it!)

The whole cast fights about whose fault the episode was. The guilty party is determined, but will they show remorse? Will they receive mercy? Only YOU THE LISTENER can decide! JK, all crime is legal now, we Purgin' baby!

We didn't start the fire. It was always burnin since Umora's turnin. The gang is back in the studio, all together. Hold on tight.

We're starting at 5pm PT! HAPPY BIRTHDAY WBN!!!!!

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. This is a Fireside Chat BUT its on the public feed. Will wonders never cease!?

Since Brennan was away becoming a baby daddy during much of Chapter 2 and the citadel arc was chock full of extremely fun building-of-da-world, we thought it would be fun to have a whole SPECIAL EPISODE dedicated to the world building of The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One. I am already so sick of typing "world building." From now on I will call it... Debbie. So here the gang has gathered to answer all your Debbie questions! But BE NOT AFRAID, it's not JUST a behind the scenes Debbie talk. We go SO FAR past Debbie. We drop some MAJOR lore. Major. Lore. Debbie. Turns out it's fun to type Debbie. Debbie. Debbie. Debbie. Let's get some Debbies going in the chat, fam!

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 like it very much. Here, in its public debut, is the narrative RPG storytelling masterpiece Bag It or Tag It. If you enjoy this (good! smart!) you'd be a fool to not join us by the fireside on our Patreon.

or....Good Will Humping (Aabria made me type that.) Behold! 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 profound pleasure to welcome you to the modest, but beloved, amphibious hamlet of Twelve Brooks, on the very cusp of its (regionally) famous midsummer revel. You are not going to BELIEVE who they named Great Bullfrog this year.

ACHTUNG, BABIES! You might not know this, but the game engine we use to run parts of the show (Dungeons and Dragons X-TREME Edition for Podcasts) has a feature, or "mechanic," called "leveling up." It is now time to do that. Welcome to LEVEL 3. Hold on to your butts.

Knock knock. Who's There? Why, the Fireside Chat for ep24, the start of Chapter 3, ya ding dong! Ya dang ding dong! The gang assembles via zoom from all over da world to talk about how reasonable and safe Steel is being right now. SUPER low key and chill, Steel. SUUUPER low key and chill.

Mo podcast, mo souplems.

MY SISTERS ARE HERE. Goodbye horse, hello Mr. Richard Oklahoma. Oh wait a minute. Oh no. Oh gosh. Goodbye Mr. Richard Oklahoma. We didn't even get to look at his teeth :(

If sweet liquid is what you seek, look about you, for in this episode of hit, private, podcast Fireside Chats, the cast of Worlds Beyond Number gather to discuss the episode (as they literally always do without exception) and something called the Omegaverse, which I think means "last verse." My favorite last verse is from Will.i.am in "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas: And mix your milk with my Coco Puffs Milky, milky coco Mix your milk with my coco puffs Milky, milky right Anyway, enjoy the show!

To the moon baby! These AbbaZabbas are getting SLIPPY and this week we are UNLOADING INTO YOU $tock Tip$, R1ng Lor3, and the DM himself makes the canon ruling on who got the most rizz in the arc. Number 1 (one) will SHOCK you!

What are the dice FOR anyway? And will you pleeeease just explain the witches? "We beg you, answer our questions," the people, the humble people, cry out , while 3/4ths of the cast look down and whisper ..."Okey dokey."

Get your sea god d*ck off my potatoes, and slide up a stool to chat with the gang about the latest ep, the nature of spirits, and Eursulon's quarterly one-on-one 360 review with the King of Night. You KNOW they're all "showing nhole" for this one, fam, no cap!

The tables have turned! The gang is on the upswing! Brennan threatens Erika's land holdings and titles at court! You win or you die! We gettin' ACADEMIC! We are DEFENDING theses! Crackle! Crackle!.* *the extra period is so you know it's over.

I Voted! This week, at the top of the ballot is A Great Fireside Chat. Hail to the chief, baby!

In which the gang talks about soup for one (1) hour.

The entire gang is back, in-person, in the studio, talkin' 'bout that INNNcredible arc finale. She's giving chat. She's giving revelations. She's giving...hints at what's to come!? It's true what literally everyone is saying: this hit podcast has everything!

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 every episode? Well, guess what, kiddo, we absolutely do. For more like this, join us on the Patreon. It's fun! Always be closing! Hard sell!

There is an idea, buried deep within every human being, that says "Anywhere I can go, I should go." And so we climb mountains, we sail oceans, we plunge into pitch black caverns, every time with the confidence and entitlement that comes from the idea that we are fundamentally welcome in the world. That idea is wrong. There are some places. There are some woods. There are some glades. And in these places, we are very much unwelcome. Happy Spooky season, kids. Heads up, there's more gore than usual in this one.

WELCOME TO OUR 2024 CRAMMIES! In this livestream, we award the winners of our Summer Song Remix competition!

A few times a year, on auspicious days or particularly augur-laden nights, the rickety fence between Umora and the world of spirits falls away. Tonight, is just such a night. And what shall cross that diaphanous veil between worlds? A chicken, a pretty lady, a cabinet of masks, a demon named 'Amanda' and three young heroes left to their own autumnal (okay fine, VERY late summer), festive devices in this slice-of-life return to our Children's Adventure. Boo.

You "game heads" might know that the software we use to run the show is called "Dungeon and Dragon." Welp, it's time for a software update in the form of LEVELING UP. So save your documents, reach around the back of the show, filp the power switch to off, then on again, pour yourself a nice hot coffee and join us in fellowship as the show makes a bunch of weird groaning sounds, flickers, and restarts, somehow even better than before.

[to the tune of I'll Make a Man Out of You from Mulan) Let's get down to WIZness, chat about...subclaaaass. SURPRISE DROP, CRACKLERS! Aabria and Brennan hop on the mic to talk about the making of the Wizard of the Citadel subclass, and just, you know, process their feelings about wizards in general. AbracaPODCAST!

Welcome back to the Fireside, America's most well produced gaelophobic podcast. Come with us as we knock on the cuckoo door and say hello to the best nacho. What makes the best nacho the best nacho? Simply this: it MUST be naval. I think there might be a gas leak in here. CRackle cracklaesjf;qurvbioehualrk

BEHOLD the cost of honor: your screaming castle gets BOOSTED. But hey, at least now we can finally find out how much tandoori chicken you can get out of one (1) mythical roc. Battle edits, historically accurate "pump-up speeches," and crucially, the importance of Third Spaces. All this and more, here by the fireside.

The gang puts one foot in front of the other to get "freaky deaky" about "Who Goes There."

Welcome to BURNING QUESTIONS, where a burning spreadsheet of questions is dropped in front of us, and we answer as many as we can before they disintegrate. No one is made even a little uncomfortable by our answers, we promise.

Wow, the only episode so far with "ass" in the title turned out to be "a good one." Will wonders never cease? Not if the WBN cast plus producer Taylor have anything to say about it! And reader? They do.

Ame. Ame, baby. Ame bubby. Phone rings, door chimes, in pods companyyyy. Yes that’s right, in lieu (Lou) of a fireside chat, this week, the gang welcomes a theatre veteran to stage a full hour Sondheim review. All singing! All Dancing! All skipping the second act of Sunday in the Park with George! (Don’t @ me).