Names are great. They let people know what to call things. You can read them, write them, put them on a list. If you know someone's name you can send them things, invite them places, say it quietly, in wonder or fear. A name can stick in your mouth like butter or blood. You can make one up, get a new name, do whatever you want. No downsides. None.

Worlds Beyond Number is:

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Erika Ishii

Aabria Iyengar

Lou Wilson

and is produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse.

Transcript of this episode coming soon! You can find transcripts of all our episodes here, for free, on our Patreon.

Our album art is by the great Corey Brickley

Some additional ambient sound design comes from Michael Ghelfi Studios. You can get their sounds and music for your home games and VTT as well, which we enthusiastically recommend.

Thank you to Arnaud Coutancier for use of his field recording of Throw Out the Lifeline, recorded in Helston, Cornwall, England, and additional recordings from the Baltic Shanty Festival in beautiful Mariehamn, Finland. [An earlier upload of this episode mistakenly included a different performance from the festival. It's now been fixed.]

Thank you to @traggeldy for the use of the field recording of their local trad band at The Cobblestone in beautiful Dublin, Ireland.