Ensuing Confusion

The crew of the Beluga contend with Virt's intrusion to the Terminal Core and decide if their paths will lay on the earth of the Reverent Assemblage or the skies of the Vast.

The crew of the Beluga contend with the strange spirit and ancient devices within the Terminal Core as the Azure Fleet presses in against the fortress' defenders. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

The crew of the Beluga approaches the Air Gap. Outside, the Azure Fleet's Privateers begin to show their force. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Gadget meets her dad, and a hasty defense against the Privateers is prepared. Fortunately, Solomon Purple's always prepared to make a big entrance for their ventures. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

With loyalties pulling them in a dozen different directions, Augustin decides to set a new course for the Junkers, Delts, and Subità itself. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

The crew of the Beluga infiltrate the Ascending Fortress' exterior Manifold and make a dire delivery. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Quell has another difficult conversation, Augustin namedrops Gadget in just the right place, and Myriad finds a way into the Ascending Fortress. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Before you can breach an enigma of a fortress, you've got to bend some ears --- and some security protocols. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Quell and Myriad call on Solomon and Zinc at Lobster Lash while Gadget seeks some kind of counsel from Augustin. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Augustin's on bedrest thanks to Myriad's orders, but Gadget and Quell still can't help but come to him for advice after Decoy's revelation. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

As Augustin rests back at the Beluga, Quell, Myriad, and Gadget go to meet the strange figure who already seems to know a lot about them. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Exhausted from the race, Myriad and Augustin take their respective approaches to resolving a small parking dispute, and one just barely walks away. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

The Subita Grand Prix reaches its carapace-jostling conclusion as Augustin pushes past the point of exhaustion, Quell gets some unexpected help with some unwanted visitors, and Myriad puts their cane to work. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

The arthropod race begins, and as Augustin jockeys for position, Quell, Myriad, and Gadget work to head off some trouble at the pass. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

With Augustin's past literally out on the table, the crew of the Beluga get ready to race. Arthropod race. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Quell drops in for breakfast at the Garland's boarding house and makes an impassioned plea, then the crew reunites at the Beluga to decide what to do next. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

Myriad, Gadget, and Laxx (you know, Quell's spirit moth friend) have a poolside confessional with Solomon Purple while Augustin Rigby turns over an old leaf at the arthropod track. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

The crew of the Beluga hash out a plan to save Zinc Garland from Inishmaan's race-fixing plot (or ruin them all trying), and Augustin does some legwork. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Email us your comments and questions at ensuingconfusion at gmail, or hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast!

The Beluga's Subitan dinner - whatever it is they're actually cooking - concludes, a plan to combat arthropod race fixing is hatched, and Chalice reveals what they've been up to at The Chop. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga prepare for their Súbitan dinner party as Quell meets her new "sibling" and an uninvited guest comes to collect. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

From the desk of VC&S Deputy Engineer, Fulmar Ward, Hilna Hass Build note: Do not transmit until you get confirmation of the race results. Until then, the following is pre-approved on infrastructural clearance, which means if you move so much as a semi-colon I will expect your proposed revision to be accompanied by a full structural analysis. Flagged in triplicate, by hand. Begin transmission: A heritage of excellence. A focus on family. And the drive to push their sand-crawling arthropod faster than anyone on the track. These are the defining traits of Solomon Purple, the new champion of the Subita Speed Way, who claimed the title in a dramatic upset over local favorite Zinc Garland. You wouldn't know it from the results, but the qualifying heat last week was Purple's first time participating in the arthropod circuit. Purple attributed their speedy ascent to the top of the podium to the support of their family. "Yeah, it's not just me out there racing, right?" Purple says. "It's me, right, and it's my lobster - her name's Sand Basket - like, obviously it's her too. But it's also my sister Inishmaan, who pushed me to get out here in the first place and helped cover for me while I took some time away from the family business. It's my Ell Tee - that's how I say lieutenant now, right, it's faster and I'm always trying to be faster - Partial picking up the slack with my crew. I couldn't have done it without any of them." Purple hopes their unprecedented victory helps the people of The Vast see their family in a new light and consider reaching out to ask how the Purples can work with their local community; while the clan traces its lineage all the way back to the first sky ship engineers and explorers, it's an open secret that Protectorate Affairs is investigating the group on suspicions of inter-landberg smuggling and racketeering. "They just need somebody to point the finger at for all their own corruption and oversights," Purple explains. "It's unfortunate, but like, I can't even be that mad at them, you know? The PAs don't have what we've got - family - and they never will, and they're jealous about it. I get it. Still, I gotta draw a line when they're out there giving my fiances a hard time. Sand Basket and me are ready to talk like adults when they are." When reached for comment, a Protectorate Affairs representative declined to comment on any details of the rumored investigation into the Purples Family or Solomon Purple's fiances. Seemingly unfounded rumors aside, Purple has another race to win next week. They have no plans of stepping aside now that they've reached the top. End transmission

The crew of the Beluga relax with meaty jowls, rumors, and retrofitted hydroponics. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga finish the catering gig that brought them to Subita. Myriad keeps their cool and Gadget absolutely loses hers. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga are ready to start catering the big exposition with Alor and Affie, assuming ornery crab spirits don't spoil the whole thing like so much unrefrigerated armadillo bear milk. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga recover from their run-in with the Easy Operator and finally make landfall on Subita with a bathship full of meat. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

No regularly scheduled episodes this week or August 26, but we plan to be back on September 2! Transcript of this episode's short fiction: Transmission log Dime station: Circle white, OK Dime buoy: Circle white, OK Rose buoy: Circle white, OK Flotilla station: Circle blue, transcript requested under AE-LE authority. Flagged as relevant to AE-PA investigation. Request granted by DE Hass with grantor addendum: Don't have time to fight them on this. Seems innocuous anyway. Message received at circle blue. Sender: Aikido Morgen Recipient: Airborne Outfitters junior technician Guten Morgen Subject: Catching up Sorry it's been so long. The PAs had the whole landberg locked down for about a week. The semaphore station is still "official business only", but since this is headed to the Flotilla I'm hoping it will be close enough to count. You'll never guess who I ran into at the counting house just before everything went down. OK, considering the circumstances, maybe you would guess. But I shouldn't go into it right now. In any case, it's good to see old friends still doing well and still making questionable choices. Do you remember mom? The older I get, the less I can remember what her face looked like. Did she even have a face? Last week I asked one of the older pickers - remember Nettie, ve was part of the gang when we were still at it - how mom's doing. Ve just rolled vis eyes. I think… maybe we're supposed to forget? Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I'm still saving up my credits for the down payment. Don't try to talk me into spending them on myself, the garage is my dream now too. With all those engine chops you're picking up from working on fancy Fleet skyships, and with my boundless charisma and business sense, we can't lose. Just gotta keep at it until you muster out. Fore's gonna be pissed when I quit, of course, but she's always pissed at something. Shit, this went on too long. Guess I'm gonna spend some of that down payment money on flagging fees anyway. I hope this finds you well, and your next shore leave doesn't get delayed again. I love you. Your patient husband, Aikido P.S. Frickin' husband! That is still so cool to write. Transmission ends Transmission log for message from sender Fitch, Morning Subita station: Circle white, OK Rose buoy: Circle white, OK

We finish our game of i'm sorry did you say street magic by Caro Asercion (https://seaexcursion.itch.io/street-magic), putting our finishing touches on Subita with a pair of events that reshape our understanding of the landberg. Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

Join us as we take a midseason break to build out our understanding of the landberg of Subita, home of the Beluga's engineering wunderkind Gadget. In this two-part episode we play i'm sorry did you say street magic by Caro Asercion (https://seaexcursion.itch.io/street-magic), and continue to make use of Script Change by Brie Beau (https://briebeau.itch.io/script-change) for our content tools. Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The Beluga catches up to the Easy Operator, and the battle to free Quell from Battra's (inexplicably hesitant) clutches begins. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

Quell tries a new trick to slip out of Battra's grasp, and, well, it almost works. Thankfully, Augustin's gotten pretty good at launching the Beluga in a hurry. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

Transmission log for message from sender Morrow, Tin Gypsum buoy: Circle white, OK Gull station: Circle white, OK Dime buoy: Half-circle red, partial message loss, code 15 - inclement weather. Operator Addendum: storm was pissing down, could hardly sight the station, sorry Rose buoy: Half-circle white, see log above Subita station: Message received at half-circle white, marked internal use only. Sender: EIC Morrow Recipient: Fulmar Ward Deputy Engineer Hilna Hass Subject: Re: Request for funding adjustment You've heard of a fixer, right? Somebody who knows the territory, your first point of contact. You need a fixer for this job, Hass, not more credits. Until you find somebody in the RA who isn't going to cut and Message partially lost, see status code above Message resumes next time I meet with the Board of Conductors, they're going to want a status update, and right now I don't have anything to tell them. At least nothing good. Your desk's budget is discretionary. If you're really sold on staffing up a buoy out there, you could move some things around. But if you don't show results fast, I'm gonna cut you loose and start over. Fair warning. Transmission ends Transmission log for message from sender Rigby, Augustin Gull station: Circle white, OK Gypsum buoy: Half-circle red, partial message loss, code 22 - operator error Shimmer buoy: Half-circle white, see log above...

The crew of the Beluga get a little R&R and shopping in on Gypsum Heights before Quell comes face to face with "B." GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga make a brief detour to Gypsum Heights to collect on their stake in a local restaurant, where they soon find that today's special is deception served on a bed of intrigue. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga finally see the effects of assemblinatium firsthand, and Chalice confronts some unwelcome truths about their home. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

Gadget and Myriad finally find out what was in that case, Quell's friendship with the Reverent Envoy strains, and Augustin's left holding all the cards but not a single philter. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The Beluga crew return from their expedition as Gadget practices the ancient art of HVAC on Alor and Affie's Cool Name Goes Here. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew of the Beluga finally embark on their hunting expedition, and are surprisingly sustainable about it. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin the Speaker: Tony Gadget the Mechanic and podcast cover artist: Kathryn Myriad the Muscle: Cleric Quell the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode!

The crew get their affairs in order before heading off on the big Arbolan hunt, and Gadget finds a partner in her pursuit of the "Assemblinati" truth. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

Chalice has misplaced something, and Myriad reunites with their old friend Shod at the Shod Shop - which is Shod's shop, not a shop for Shods. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

The Beluga finally arrives in Arbolan to offload Chalice and lay low as Myriad is confronted by some unexpected ramifications from their old line of work. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

With Dime disappearing into the horizon, the crew of the Beluga sets aside time for snooping and listening to high school government class essays. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

As the Beluga makes its escape down the frothy rapids at the heart of Dime, the crew and the spirits around them make their moves. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

The crew of the Beluga makes ready to take their skyship down through the frothy rapids at the heart of Dime as Augustin humors a request from an old frenemy. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

Quell takes Chalice to meet her surrogate mother spirit while the rest of the crew prepares for a hasty departure from the locked down skies over Dime. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty Hit us up on Twitter @ensuingpodcast and let us know if you liked the episode! Please be nice, we're all very tired.

Sometimes, breaking into a jail barge and freeing your captain from a crooked cop's captivity is the easy part. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty

With Augustin in Yazu's custody, the rest of the crew has to move fast before they and the Union of Landberg organizers are ferried off of Dime and into the floating heart of the Azure Empire. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty

The crew of the Beluga gets wrapped up in some 'anti-competitive activities' and Augustin makes a hard move. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty

The Beluga finally lands on Dime, and the crew unwinds in its markets, junk fields, and casino halls. Myriad has quite possibly too good of a time on the dance floor. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty

The Beluga's just hours away from Quell's home port when an Azure Fleet patrol ship emerges from the clouds below. Its one demand: "SURRENDER SPIRIT CONTRABAND." GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty

Quell has placated the strange spirit at the heart of Dig 112, and all that's left to do is grab the artifact - assuming the Beluga crew's deal with Battra the bounty hunter lasts. GM and producer: Connor Sheridan (@c_sheridan) Augustin, the Speaker: Tony Gadget, the Mechanic: Kathryn Myriad, the Muscle: Cleric Quell, the Mystic: Kitty