[PUBLIC BONUS EPISODE] Interlude: Fortune Found
Added 2025-10-28 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
The forgotten town of Fortune's Fields lies in the shadow of a mesa. Desert winds stir across the Free Roads, carrying the low, mournful calls of jackals. The streets lie quiet, sun-bleached and cracked, littered with the remnants of shops and abandoned homes. Across the train tracks, half-buried in sand and shadow, a mine shaft waits, its mouth dark and inviting. Fortune is found only by those desperate enough to follow it into the unknown.
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Produced by Taylor Moore at Fortunate Horse, original score by Nic Neves, and edited and designed by Jared Olson.
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I can see this episode on apple podcasts :(
thequeercat
2025-11-26 02:56:42 +0000 UTCCatching up on my WBN listening and I now eagerly await the WBN folk album! An incredible musical score and the most lyrical narrative opening to boot - collaborative storytelling at its finest
Sean Case
2025-11-23 18:56:15 +0000 UTCEvery other Tuesday! Make sure to check our FAQ for questions like this! It's pinned at the top of the Patreon.
Worlds Beyond Number
2025-11-17 23:08:26 +0000 UTChttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2MQHnkwmYI5ZmdQmehmf78?si=f41cbc383ea546ed
Worlds Beyond Number
2025-11-17 23:07:49 +0000 UTCI just went to do a re-listen and can’t find this interlude anymore. Did it disappear somewhere or am I somehow missing it right in front of my eyes?
Shea Lee
2025-11-17 17:39:19 +0000 UTCWhen is the next ep?
Madeline Salter
2025-11-15 01:18:54 +0000 UTCFahad is an Arabic name that can mean “panther” “leopard” or “cheetah” Theeeemes
Devon
2025-11-06 23:29:32 +0000 UTCOptional name for Millie’s liquor: Fortune’s Flavor. 😂 This was fun—I’ve enjoyed how wildly different each interlude has been and how it’s opened up the world of Umora a little more each time!
Liz
2025-11-05 03:39:01 +0000 UTCLotta leg infections in these interludes, I'm noticing.
PocketNyx
2025-11-05 01:52:02 +0000 UTCMy mind took a creative journey thinking about the colors and shapes of the pieces of artwork.
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-11-04 18:08:59 +0000 UTCMillie
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-11-04 17:58:08 +0000 UTCThe tap tap tap rhyme was perfect for the scene.
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-11-04 17:57:49 +0000 UTCYes it is. I just listened to it
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-11-04 17:54:21 +0000 UTCFinally listened to the whole thing. This was a delightful episode. So glad I wasn’t eating anything when they started to saw off the leg😂😂.
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-11-04 17:51:33 +0000 UTCthank u Brennan for dropping us into what feels like a mythical version of the height of gold mining in nevada, it makes my brain tingle
Clémentine Carle
2025-11-04 17:40:47 +0000 UTCOmg, I did miss an episode. Too many pods I ignore, but my eyes never miss the usual icon 😭
Skyler Pedersen
2025-11-04 15:07:17 +0000 UTCLoved this. Made me think of exploring the cave in Scarlet Hollow
Tomb
2025-11-03 19:06:16 +0000 UTCTrains. We're going to see more of the Free Roads when we come back to WWW eventually.
CanDo
2025-11-02 04:08:13 +0000 UTCWhat is this setting up? I thought the next campaign was a space setting run by Abria.
SOMASF
2025-11-01 23:20:28 +0000 UTCThis was amazing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ But now I need an actual Campaign set in the Wild West
TheWannabePersephone
2025-11-01 18:51:10 +0000 UTCthank you for this glimmer
kragonaught
2025-10-31 15:39:41 +0000 UTCNooo! He wouldn't do that to us twice!
Wondering wonder
2025-10-31 13:41:36 +0000 UTCI use Pocket Casts! Highly recommend!
Christian Vernon
2025-10-31 13:25:24 +0000 UTCBrennan two years from now: “You see a mining town that was once alive and vibrant, but has been fire bombed into ash shortly before you arrived. You can still see smoldering, skeletal remains of the dead…..”
Joanna Wilson
2025-10-31 06:01:55 +0000 UTCThis isn’t on apple podcasts :((
augtober
2025-10-31 04:29:21 +0000 UTCThe music and tone throughout struck my Firefly heartstrings. Not excited to see how Mr. Hollow cuts them. Also, at the mention of luck spilling out of a bag, every Call of Cthulhu player near a podcast screamed.
Bean Planter
2025-10-31 04:22:29 +0000 UTCThis was a balm to my heart even though I know it's gonna be used against us in the long run huh 🥲🥲
Han Divine
2025-10-30 21:55:56 +0000 UTCThe mineshaft scene took me back to being a child and hearing ghost stories in the Rockies. You all are incredible!!
Viv
2025-10-30 20:45:08 +0000 UTCVisceral whiplash going from describing a horrific bone break to the line “At the dance hall?” This is what WBN delivers and I’m here for it thank you
DaphneDawn
2025-10-30 17:46:26 +0000 UTCTechnical question: I'm planning on discontinuing my Spotify soon. When do the uploads get to YouTube? Or is there another podcast service that's recommended?
Tommy Deibel
2025-10-30 17:22:16 +0000 UTCYou only have one skill, it's Railway Bureaucracy, you have a +2. The characters that Lou can make work!
Eric Stokien
2025-10-30 06:32:02 +0000 UTCNot-Pinkertons is my bet
Gen and Jeff Brainerd
2025-10-30 04:18:45 +0000 UTCThis setting might have been my favorite so far. Absolutely incredible
Gen and Jeff Brainerd
2025-10-30 04:18:06 +0000 UTCThe soundscape??? the music??? the tap-tap-taps aligning???? By god they’ve done it again 🤩
annemjw
2025-10-30 04:05:13 +0000 UTCYes, the gun referenced when Aabria’s character was protecting their mule from the starving dogs was described as Rhuvian! Something about fire magic discs as ammo?
Chelsie K
2025-10-29 22:32:14 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite Tom Waits songs is Town With No Cheer and this hit all the same spots. Stark beauty, pain, and emptiness in a truly nostalgic mirage. Such evocative world building, and this had the best of the bittersweet endings.
Paul Gude
2025-10-29 21:30:19 +0000 UTClol, Brennan was like “at its height, this was a big town, now it’s a small town living in the husk of what was, inside the husk of what was hoped. The population is maybe 1000 people.” And I’m sitting here thinking about where I grew up that has had a population ~500 for the last 15 years
rio
2025-10-29 20:06:45 +0000 UTCFrom what I understand, this is the general region they travel to at the end of Book 1, where they will be looking for the Antivili.
Morgan Suhm
2025-10-29 19:12:22 +0000 UTC<333
Nic M. Neves
2025-10-29 16:35:53 +0000 UTC<333
Nic M. Neves
2025-10-29 16:34:55 +0000 UTCOh cool an interlude! I can’t wait to experience the war crime that happens here a couple years from now.
Matthew Grossman
2025-10-29 12:51:12 +0000 UTCThis was unbelievably fire! Did anyone catch any clues as to when this is set in relation to WWW? Also, I don’t know how much (if any) coordination there is between all these things, but it was extra lovely to get this on a week where I’ll surely be going through withdrawal (/j) because there’s no D20 or C4 dropping lmao
KamasiFitzgerald
2025-10-29 10:37:20 +0000 UTCFor what has been, so far, a very gender-equal book why are only the men conscripted for the Empire? Is Millie going to be Fortune Fields’ Rosie the Riveter AND Rose Kennedy?
CarpeBootium
2025-10-29 06:22:05 +0000 UTCLucky said “no loose ends”
CarpeBootium
2025-10-29 06:12:42 +0000 UTCPS: Lou’s scream during the — er — procedure— was 👌👌👌
Cackle Cackle
2025-10-29 06:02:57 +0000 UTCHang in there! It’s rough times out here but you’re not alone. Sending love and an ahoohoo.
Cackle Cackle
2025-10-29 06:01:17 +0000 UTCEeeeeeeeeeee this was sooo good! I made a D&D sepsis simulation for the nurses at my hospital to help them practice advocating for their patients, and the scene where Harry had to make quick decisions about how to treat a necrotizing wound was MY JAAAAM. I honestly might use the death-saving-throws-while-alive idea because it perfectly fits that sense of, “We have to make the right decision, right now,” that comes into play with these cases. Woooo you made this nerd so happy! ☺️
Cackle Cackle
2025-10-29 05:59:57 +0000 UTCI’m upset with how amazing and beautiful this music is only because I have to wait to listen to it on its own 😭😭 it’s so GOOD
Conrad
2025-10-29 00:50:53 +0000 UTC“A place that is holding on with white knuckles at the very edge of oblivion” made me pause and stare off into middle distance for a solid 2 minutes
Alyssa
2025-10-29 00:43:10 +0000 UTCI brayed. That was good
Alyssa
2025-10-29 00:42:09 +0000 UTCthe fox would make an excellent little bank robber
Shannon Ho
2025-10-29 00:08:15 +0000 UTCOh nooooo I did not make this connection!
Claudia
2025-10-28 21:44:53 +0000 UTCNow plastic canonically exists in Umora thanks Aabria!
flower
2025-10-28 20:47:38 +0000 UTCTHE SCORE! It's perfect and I love it so much
TPK_light
2025-10-28 20:24:47 +0000 UTCYESSSSSSS
Mal
2025-10-28 20:20:13 +0000 UTCTruly an honor to watch Brennan prime ammunition in real time
The Wizard Saccharine
2025-10-28 20:03:42 +0000 UTCOh man, I love the implications of a steam train in a world with wizard constructs. What does it say about a society that goes tonsuch legths to avoid wizard craft like this? I hope they do something with this. Kinda fits well with the zeitgeist of a ton of technology alienating people.
Leo Burn'd
2025-10-28 19:51:12 +0000 UTCI can’t wait for this to deal emotional damage to me at a surprise point in the next few years!
The Wizard Spring
2025-10-28 19:04:17 +0000 UTCMiddle East meets old west…I love feeling representation that doesn’t feel stereotypical or over the top or in your face. Thank you for this.
Cole Sarar
2025-10-28 19:01:27 +0000 UTCThe music!!!!! The twang!!! The bouncing golden luck!
Emily C
2025-10-28 18:41:20 +0000 UTCI SEE IT! An exasperated lil guy
Melissa Shilale
2025-10-28 18:20:21 +0000 UTCIdk why but the Man in Black having a rustic country twang, when we now know Umora canonically has a Frontier Adventure(TM) area of the park, is very funny.
Brandon Carbaugh
2025-10-28 18:01:19 +0000 UTCHoooo boy that vein of silver. We know that Lucent Court needs quicksilver, and that their supply in the Shroud Mountains has dried up thanks to Eioghorain's efforts. I'm very curious to see how Fortune's Fields fares in Book Two.
bluebluebutton
2025-10-28 16:17:27 +0000 UTCyes!! in the free roads!!!
zkbeeblebrox
2025-10-28 15:31:44 +0000 UTCSo good!
Andrew Stallworth
2025-10-28 15:22:28 +0000 UTCIs this set in Umora?
Paulina Haddad
2025-10-28 15:21:15 +0000 UTCA shame the papier mache themepark didn't get to be worked into the narrative somehow.
Coolclaytony
2025-10-28 15:18:17 +0000 UTCI want Gallows to bury Hollow alive. That yellow belly rubs me the wrong way.
Coolclaytony
2025-10-28 15:16:02 +0000 UTCLove this. Starting to hate the Interlude to damaged leg without trigger warning ratio
Muadwho
2025-10-28 14:46:25 +0000 UTCIs this Sedona?
Alex Vasquez
2025-10-28 14:43:15 +0000 UTCCool! Fun to see Taylor building the team and giving Jared more, can’t wait to hear Nic’s score!
Phoenix Vizva’i
2025-10-28 14:13:30 +0000 UTCthe people need to see millie and fahad as militant miners union reps
Violet McDonald
2025-10-28 14:05:57 +0000 UTCIf at some point someone says "Fortune favors the bold" I'll do a backflip
Brendan
2025-10-28 14:04:25 +0000 UTCWe’ve all been traumatized
Erin
2025-10-28 13:56:10 +0000 UTCI just started to listen to it, and my only concern is: Will this be used against us, like Twelve Brooks
Franco Muscellini
2025-10-28 13:47:26 +0000 UTCSo if The Free Roads are sort of an Old West era analog for Umorra, I can see the WWW trio getting involved in a good, old-fashioned train heist at some point. Another amazing interlude! I can't wait to see how this dusty town returns in Book Two.
Amellabeth
2025-10-28 13:38:52 +0000 UTCAnother absolutely gorgeous musical score! I really love the vibe of the town and it’s going to be so interesting to see the gang in the Free Roads.
Erin
2025-10-28 13:33:47 +0000 UTCThat was my favorite interlude yet! I want to learn so much more about that town and all that goes on, terrifying grandpa or no
JoelleDFTBA
2025-10-28 13:30:02 +0000 UTCAlso I wanna see Hollow and will Gallows go at it
VforVenlee
2025-10-28 13:18:12 +0000 UTCOaky reminds me of Mickey Rooney's character in Phantom of the Megaplex
VforVenlee
2025-10-28 13:17:57 +0000 UTCBrought to us by Fortunate Horse and Unfortunate Mule
SvenTS
2025-10-28 13:00:28 +0000 UTCDamn that guitar riff for fortune's fields reminded me of Tristram from Diablo 1.
Claytron
2025-10-28 12:36:37 +0000 UTCWhat up Brennan, setting up some lovable locations and characters that you can destroy in Book 2 to punch us all in the gut?
Gal
2025-10-28 12:15:52 +0000 UTCJust want to say iv been going thru alot lately and havent been able to keep up with my favorite shows or podcasts but seeing new content from yall really does warm my heart and helps bring that motivation back. Also congratulations on the release of an amazing game erika!
OminousOwl
2025-10-28 12:14:10 +0000 UTC
