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[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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thequeercat
I can see this episode on apple podcasts :(
Sean Case
Catching 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
Worlds Beyond Number
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Worlds Beyond Number
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MQHnkwmYI5ZmdQmehmf78?si=f41cbc383ea546ed
Shea Lee
I 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?
Madeline Salter
When is the next ep?
Devon
Fahad is an Arabic name that can mean “panther” “leopard” or “cheetah” Theeeemes
Liz
Optional 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!
PocketNyx
Lotta leg infections in these interludes, I'm noticing.
The Wizard Sparrow
My mind took a creative journey thinking about the colors and shapes of the pieces of artwork.
The Wizard Sparrow
Millie
The Wizard Sparrow
The tap tap tap rhyme was perfect for the scene.
The Wizard Sparrow
Yes it is. I just listened to it
The Wizard Sparrow
Finally 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😂😂.
Clémentine Carle
thank 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
Skyler Pedersen
Omg, I did miss an episode. Too many pods I ignore, but my eyes never miss the usual icon 😭
Tomb
Loved this. Made me think of exploring the cave in Scarlet Hollow
CanDo
Trains. We're going to see more of the Free Roads when we come back to WWW eventually.
SOMASF
What is this setting up? I thought the next campaign was a space setting run by Abria.
TheWannabePersephone
This was amazing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ But now I need an actual Campaign set in the Wild West
kragonaught
thank you for this glimmer
Wondering wonder
Nooo! He wouldn't do that to us twice!
Christian Vernon
I use Pocket Casts! Highly recommend!
Joanna Wilson
Brennan 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…..”
augtober
This isn’t on apple podcasts :((
Bean Planter
The 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.
Han Divine
This was a balm to my heart even though I know it's gonna be used against us in the long run huh 🥲🥲
Viv
The mineshaft scene took me back to being a child and hearing ghost stories in the Rockies. You all are incredible!!
DaphneDawn
Visceral 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
Tommy Deibel
Technical 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?
Eric Stokien
You only have one skill, it's Railway Bureaucracy, you have a +2. The characters that Lou can make work!
Gen and Jeff Brainerd
Not-Pinkertons is my bet
Gen and Jeff Brainerd
This setting might have been my favorite so far. Absolutely incredible
annemjw
The soundscape??? the music??? the tap-tap-taps aligning???? By god they’ve done it again 🤩
Chelsie K
Yes, 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?
Paul Gude
One 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.
rio
lol, 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
Morgan Suhm
From 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.
Nic M. Neves
<333
Nic M. Neves
<333
Matthew Grossman
Oh cool an interlude! I can’t wait to experience the war crime that happens here a couple years from now.
KamasiFitzgerald
This 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
CarpeBootium
For 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
Lucky said “no loose ends”
Cackle Cackle
PS: Lou’s scream during the — er — procedure— was 👌👌👌
Cackle Cackle
Hang in there! It’s rough times out here but you’re not alone. Sending love and an ahoohoo.
Cackle Cackle
Eeeeeeeeeeee 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! ☺️
Conrad
I’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
Alyssa
“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
I brayed. That was good
Shannon Ho
the fox would make an excellent little bank robber
Claudia
Oh nooooo I did not make this connection!
flower
Now plastic canonically exists in Umora thanks Aabria!
TPK_light
THE SCORE! It's perfect and I love it so much
Mal
YESSSSSSS
The Wizard Saccharine
Truly an honor to watch Brennan prime ammunition in real time
Leo Burn'd
Oh 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.
The Wizard Spring
I can’t wait for this to deal emotional damage to me at a surprise point in the next few years!
Cole Sarar
Middle 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.
Emily C
The music!!!!! The twang!!! The bouncing golden luck!
Melissa Shilale
I SEE IT! An exasperated lil guy
Brandon Carbaugh
Idk 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.
bluebluebutton
Hoooo 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.
zkbeeblebrox
yes!! in the free roads!!!
Andrew Stallworth
So good!
Paulina Haddad
Is this set in Umora?
Coolclaytony
A shame the papier mache themepark didn't get to be worked into the narrative somehow.
Coolclaytony
I want Gallows to bury Hollow alive. That yellow belly rubs me the wrong way.
Muadwho
Love this. Starting to hate the Interlude to damaged leg without trigger warning ratio
Alex Vasquez
Is this Sedona?
Phoenix Vizva’i
Cool! Fun to see Taylor building the team and giving Jared more, can’t wait to hear Nic’s score!
Violet McDonald
the people need to see millie and fahad as militant miners union reps
Brendan
If at some point someone says "Fortune favors the bold" I'll do a backflip
Erin
We’ve all been traumatized
Franco Muscellini
I just started to listen to it, and my only concern is: Will this be used against us, like Twelve Brooks
Amellabeth
So 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.
Erin
Another 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.
JoelleDFTBA
That was my favorite interlude yet! I want to learn so much more about that town and all that goes on, terrifying grandpa or no
VforVenlee
Also I wanna see Hollow and will Gallows go at it
VforVenlee
Oaky reminds me of Mickey Rooney's character in Phantom of the Megaplex
SvenTS
Brought to us by Fortunate Horse and Unfortunate Mule
Claytron
Damn that guitar riff for fortune's fields reminded me of Tristram from Diablo 1.
Gal
What up Brennan, setting up some lovable locations and characters that you can destroy in Book 2 to punch us all in the gut?
OminousOwl
Just 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!
