Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Special threats deserve special measures, and Queen Mira of the Second Citadel is a master of special measures. Enter Sir Caroline: a free radical knight, one of the Queen’s most capable and least trustworthy, and most likely the only hope the Second Citadel has of surviving the scourge of manipulative monsters that has plagued them for months.
Sir Caroline, newly-appointed Investigator-General of the Second Citadel, must assemble a team and head north, to the source from which these monsters flow. But they must be careful, because the village through which they’re passing has been struck by a terrible curse… and strange things lurk near the waters through which they must pass.
Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your journey.
(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description.)
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We'd like to thank our Patreon supporters, without whom The Penumbra Podcast would not be possible. Thank you so, so much. A list of those heroes can be found at the bottom of this page: thepenumbrapodcast.com/about
We are a small team that currently relies on fan donations to keep food on our plates and buy us time to create this show, and so we mean it literally when we say we could not do this without you. If you'd like to contribute to that Patreon, get some rewards, and keep making the Penumbra a reality, you can do so here: patreon.com/thepenumbrapodcast
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Attribution:
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
"Kind of Girl" by Jeris, featuring spinningmerkaba: ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657
“quiet surf on the lake.flac” by SavvahSjuhengof freesound.org/people/SavvahSjuhengof/sounds/345120 “Pages Turning!.wav” by bhanco3 freesound.org/people/bhanco3/sounds/231529 “Crickets calling by the lake” by attlee freesound.org/people/attlee/sounds/363202 “flip_script_pages” by themfish freesound.org/people/themfish/sounds/45823 “Books falling” by theshaggyfreak freesound.org/people/theshaggyfreak/sounds/320285 “sea_water_passing_through_pier_hole_01.flac” by aesqe freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901 “Door close 5.aif” by MWLANDI freesound.org/people/MWLANDI/sounds/85813 “Wood creak.wav” by TimPryor freesound.org/people/TimPryor/sounds/188606 “envelope_handling_rustle_vtkproductions.wav” by vtkproductions.com freesound.org/people/vtkproductions.com/sounds/131559 “RG Birds fly.wav” by cmusounddesign freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/95833 “Pigeons3.wav” by mlekoman freesound.org/people/mlekoman/sounds/376481 “Door Squeak, Normal, D.wav” by InspectorJ freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/346212 “Metal ping.aif” by timgormly freesound.org/people/timgormly/sounds/170957 “SwordSheath04” by 32cheeseman32 freesound.org/people/32cheeseman32/sounds/180836 “Opening closing bathroom door.wav” by Omar Alvarado freesound.org/people/Omar%20Alvarado/sounds/182036 “Running foley performance 2” by Slave2theLight freesound.org/people/Slave2theLight/sounds/157039 “Foliage_Rustling_001” by duckduckpony freesound.org/people/duckduckpony/sounds/204030
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Transcript:
A transcript of the spoken lines in this episode can be found here:
drive.google.com/open?id=0B-y86BiJZDUmN25McUdyTXV5Rjg
Production scripts with behind-the-scenes direction, character insights, notes for actors, and ridiculous jokes are available on Patreon at the $7 level.
(Transcript by Avi Meehan and edited by Kevin Vibert.)
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Trigger warnings:
- Implied suicide/assisted suicide
- Gore
- Deception/gaslighting
- Homophobia
- Violence towards animals
-Depictions of severe illness
Special threats deserve special measures, and Queen Mira of the Second Citadel is a master of special measures. Enter Sir Caroline: a free radical knight, one of the Queen’s most capable and least trustworthy, and most likely the only hope the Second Citadel has of surviving the scourge of manipulative monsters that has plagued them for months.
Sir Caroline, newly-appointed Investigator-General of the Second Citadel, must assemble a team and head north, to the source from which these monsters flow. But they must be careful, because the village through which they’re passing has been struck by a terrible curse… and strange things lurk near the waters through which they must pass.
Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your journey.
(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description.)
----
We'd like to thank our Patreon supporters, without whom The Penumbra Podcast would not be possible. Thank you so, so much. A list of those heroes can be found at the bottom of this page: thepenumbrapodcast.com/about
We are a small team that currently relies on fan donations to keep food on our plates and buy us time to create this show, and so we mean it literally when we say we could not do this without you. If you'd like to contribute to that Patreon, get some rewards, and keep making the Penumbra a reality, you can do so here: patreon.com/thepenumbrapodcast
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Attribution:
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
"Kind of Girl" by Jeris, featuring spinningmerkaba: ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657
“quiet surf on the lake.flac” by SavvahSjuhengof freesound.org/people/SavvahSjuhengof/sounds/345120 “Pages Turning!.wav” by bhanco3 freesound.org/people/bhanco3/sounds/231529 “Crickets calling by the lake” by attlee freesound.org/people/attlee/sounds/363202 “flip_script_pages” by themfish freesound.org/people/themfish/sounds/45823 “Books falling” by theshaggyfreak freesound.org/people/theshaggyfreak/sounds/320285 “sea_water_passing_through_pier_hole_01.flac” by aesqe freesound.org/people/aesqe/sounds/39901 “Door close 5.aif” by MWLANDI freesound.org/people/MWLANDI/sounds/85813 “Wood creak.wav” by TimPryor freesound.org/people/TimPryor/sounds/188606 “envelope_handling_rustle_vtkproductions.wav” by vtkproductions.com freesound.org/people/vtkproductions.com/sounds/131559 “RG Birds fly.wav” by cmusounddesign freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/95833 “Pigeons3.wav” by mlekoman freesound.org/people/mlekoman/sounds/376481 “Door Squeak, Normal, D.wav” by InspectorJ freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/346212 “Metal ping.aif” by timgormly freesound.org/people/timgormly/sounds/170957 “SwordSheath04” by 32cheeseman32 freesound.org/people/32cheeseman32/sounds/180836 “Opening closing bathroom door.wav” by Omar Alvarado freesound.org/people/Omar%20Alvarado/sounds/182036 “Running foley performance 2” by Slave2theLight freesound.org/people/Slave2theLight/sounds/157039 “Foliage_Rustling_001” by duckduckpony freesound.org/people/duckduckpony/sounds/204030
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Transcript:
A transcript of the spoken lines in this episode can be found here:
drive.google.com/open?id=0B-y86BiJZDUmN25McUdyTXV5Rjg
Production scripts with behind-the-scenes direction, character insights, notes for actors, and ridiculous jokes are available on Patreon at the $7 level.
(Transcript by Avi Meehan and edited by Kevin Vibert.)
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Trigger warnings:
- Implied suicide/assisted suicide
- Gore
- Deception/gaslighting
- Homophobia
- Violence towards animals
-Depictions of severe illness
