Skyjacks: Courier's Call

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

gambling

drinking

ominous accordion music

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mierzejewski

Performed by: Drew Mierzejewski

Huddled up in a woodcutter's cabin like they're in some kind of fairy tale, Kiran, Cici, June, and the other Adept hopefuls try to comfort each other and prepare to make a plan for their next move. Meanwhile, Fthina Vronti speaks out against Asterius, who has instigated this whole coup...

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: separation from friends/family, children in peril, bird magic

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KICKSTARTING NOW: A NEW GAME FOR YOU!

"Cosmic Century Knights" is a new TTRPG co-written by James D'Amato a...

Kiran, Cici, June, and the other Adept hopefuls have been FLUNG from the stadium out of harm's way of the mysterious and powerful strangers attacking Thornvale... but where have they landed? And what will they do next??

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: separation from friends/family, children in peril, lore drop about a trusted adult figure

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COMING SOON: A NEW GAME FOR YOU!

"Cosmic Century Knights" is a new TTRPG co-written by James D'Amato and Drew Mierzejewski - ⁠get ready for the Kic...

We return to the field of the Adept Trials where - against all odds and all predictions - three tall strangers have dropped out of the sky and demanded the attention of Postmaster General Fthina Vronti?! Nobody saw this coming, but our brave courier kids Kiran, Cici, and June must spring into action...

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: unexpected boss fight cutscene, NPCs being put to sleep and/or frozen in ice, children in peril, acts of conscious violence, blood, bizarre dark magic, sacrifice

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C...

We return to the playing field where Cici, Kiran, and June fight for their right to potentially become Adepts in the Swiftwell Courier Service. Each trial seems more challenging than the last -- but we're having fun, right, guys? The Adept Trials are not your every day average teen sports anime filler episodes, no sir.... and it's about to take a turn.

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: combat, heightened anime hallucination sequences, children in peril

Dear Red Audron: back of house kitchen vibes, suggestion of kidnapping

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Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

self-care vs. overworking

aging

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mierzejewski

Performed by: Drew Mierzejewski

Edited by...

June, Cici, and Kiran return to the Adept Trials and find themselves preparing to drop into the next trial: dueling!! Each must choose their weapon against their random opponent... and now is the time to prove their worth in single combat.

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: weapons, teenage dueling, surprising violence

Dear Red Audron: bizarre wild west vibes

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who listens to our show. We love hearing your thoughts, your theories and your lo...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

self-care

tenderness

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mierzejewski

Performed by: Drew Mierzejewski

Edited by: Alyson Grau...

Kiran, Cici, and June discuss how to spend their evening... by going to Kid Town. It's been a long time, but surely they aren't too grown up to visit Kid Town... right?

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: little toots vs teens, "there are no kings" well except for this guy apparently

Dear Red Audron: spooky atmosphere, 80s and 90s references, corporate Halloween

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who listens to our show. We love hearing your thoughts, yo...

We return to the playing field of the Swiftwell Courier Service Adept Trials! As the obstacle course is reset for the next round, some unexpected mascots take the stage... and then it's time for Cici, Kiran, and June to make their attempts.

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: awkward mascot suits, failing and fumbling,

Dear Red Audron: gamer talk and slang

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who listens to our show. We love hearing your thoughts, your theories an...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

self-care

tenderness

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mierzejewski

Performed by: Drew Mierzejewski

Edited by: Alyson Grau...

June helps out around the Decorative Gourd as a peace offering to her mother, but the days pass quickly and soon the start of the Adept Trials is upon us! June, Cici, Kiran, Rayliah, Cephus, Fenton, Layla, Sean, and Harwin are ready to rise to the challenge... but what IS the first trial???

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: mysteries within mysteries, intense competition

Dear Red Audron: 80s film reference that goes over Aaron's head, surprise capitalism

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Th...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

mysterious strangers

mysterious bargains

questionable truths

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CREDITS

Written by: James D'Amato

Performed by: James D'Am...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

mysterious strangers

mysterious bargains

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CREDITS

Written by: James D'Amato

Performed by: James D'Amato

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

mysterious strangers

mysterious bargains

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CREDITS

Written by: James D'Amato

Performed by: James D'Amato

After visiting Kiran's mom, June, Kiran, and Rayliah join Cici at the Whitwick family candle shop and bodega for a reunion dinner party... and a familiar face is already there at the table!

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: reflections about safety versus risk, sad relationship feelings, loss

Dear Red Audron: questioning continuity, dream logic

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who listens to our show. We love hearing your thoughts, your theories and your love for our little co...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

mysterious strangers

mysterious bargains

ominous banjo music

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CREDITS

Written by: James D'Amato

Performed by: Jame...

Kiran, Cici, June, and Rayliah head to Kiran's house to reunite with their mom Amira and deliver a letter they promised to carry back to Thornvale on behalf of someone in particular....

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: learning that an adult had a romance side plot,

Dear Red Audron: dreaming about being an adult, dreaming about being a child, anime references

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who listens to our show. We love hearing your thoughts, your th...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

unspoken expectations

adult friendships and disagreements

making your mark on the world

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mier...

Having successfully returned to Thornvale after their first route, Kiran, Cici, and June decide to get the big awkward homecoming out of the way first...and head to the Decorative Gourd so that June can reunite with her family. But she's been haunted by the memory of her mother telling her not to come back...

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: strained parent-child relationship, confrontation, trauma references

Dear Red Audron: having a dream about failing at something, the concept of aging and/or conceptualizing the future

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Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

community bureaucracy in a very gentle way

an extremely polite shakedown of capitalistic expectations

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mier...

Welcome to Skyjacks: Courier's Call - Season 3!

As our intrepid trio have reunited safe at last back in Thornvale, now they must prepare for the coming Adept Trials... and face the unusual feelings that come with returning home after exploring the world and becoming more themselves.

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CONTENT WARNING

Main Show: teenage awkwardness, discussion of parental death, facing the unknown

Dear Red Audron: pizza stank, sanitary chocolate

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who listens to our...

Tales from Thornvale is a short form audio filler episode where we learn background knowledge about the world the Speir, the Swiftwell Courier Service, and much much more! 

Episodes of Tales from Thornvale are released on the off weeks of the main show to tide you over during our current bi-monthly release schedule for Skyjacks: Courier's Call. 

We hope you enjoy! 

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CONTENT WARNINGS

community bureaucracy in a very gentle way

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CREDITS

Written by: Drew Mierzejewski

Performed by: Drew Mierzejewski

Edit...

Now that we've completed our prologues for Kiran, Cici, and June... let us begin in earnest. Welcome to the third season of Skyjacks: Courier's Call! We join our intrepid courier heroes as they return to Thornvale at the end of their first full route aboard the Swiftwell Courier Service's Audron ships. They have successfully taken on new responsibilities, had new adventures and experiences, and they're returning a little older and a little wiser... so everything should be just as it's always been, but better. Right? Right.

Content Warnings: complex feelings about growing up

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June says her farewells to the Burning Tails school and the friends she's made there during her jousting season, and prepares to return to Thornvale at the end of her route.

Content Warnings: perilous travel, thunderstorm, the dread of growing up, the inevitability of change

Click here for Skyjoust!!

Having discovered more wingwhisperers at the Burning Tails School, June sneaks out after curfew for a clandestine meeting with some of them to discuss what it is that they share, how they learned what they know... and what dangers they may face.

Content Warnings: more tragic backstory, irrevocable transformations of both a spiritual and physical nature

Click here for Skyjoust!!

While at the Burning Tails school, June encounters another real live wingwhisperer amongst her colleagues and seizes the opportunity to ask questions for the first time that aren't answered in her mother's journal...

Content Warnings: tragic backstory, parental death, a cool twentysomething with tattoos and purple hair, cursed real bird facts

Click here for Skyjoust!!

Join us as we peek in on June Hymnal as she wraps up her time with the Burning Tails School (see also: Skyjoust) and how her time there has given her new opportunities to explore both her sporty side and her wingwhispering ability.

Content Warnings: organized sports, complicated teen feelings about growing up/identity/returning home after long absences

Click here for Skyjoust!!

Kiran's time aboard the Grey Audron with their ghost girlfriend Alba continues, even as the Grey Audron heads back towards Thornvale, and feelings become even more intense and precious. Cici works with Fenton Eaves to create a plot to banish the shadow-monster-curse-thing to Map World (if she can!) and end her plight of self-consciousness.

Content Warnings: tender teen feelings, social awkwardness, wizard stuff, sacrifice

Want to hear even more about June's adventures with the Burning Tails jousting academy? Click here for Skyjoust!!

While briefly reunited in Big Sky, Kiran, Cici, and June continue to catch up about their lives since the Audron Maelstrom separated them over a month ago.

Content Warnings: memory loss, existential dread, Randy Savage impressions

Want to hear even more about June's adventures with the Burning Tails jousting academy? Click here for Skyjoust!!

A few more weeks pass, and the Courier trio reunites temporarily for the first time since Audron Prom in the city of Big Sky, just following the jousting match between the Barmwhich Perrymen and the Burning Tails Academy. June, delighted to see Cici and Kiran again, joins them at the local steak house for a meal and a catch up before returning to her duties at the Burning Tails Academy.

Content Warnings: public awkwardness/minor embarrassment, discussion of dating, eavesdropping adults

Want to hear even more of what June's been up to? Click here for...

Cici, burdened with the weight and pain of an official captial-c Curse, tries to continue to work her hardest on the Black Audron but finds that it's extremely difficult to do alone. Fenton, despite her gruff and haughty exterior, tries her best to help, and Captain Foxskull teaches Cici about the Lumins.

Content Warnings: insecurity, self-image issues, Fenton does horrible impressions of both Kiran and June

Click here for Skyjoust!!

As Cici continues life aboard the Black Audron and becomes more aware of her curse, she turns to Captain Muldan Foxskull for guidance in navigating this strange new state of being, and in knowledge of magic itself.

Content Warnings: spooky magic stuff, curse stuff, feelings of inadequacy and doubt

Click here for Skyjoust!!

Cici and Fenton must decide quickly how to complete this very spooky special delivery and escape with their lives... but at what cost? Upon returning to the Black Audron, Cici discovers the true measure of what she barter-or-traded away.

Content Warnings: spooky magic, voice FX, curses, nightmares

Click here for Skyjoust!!

We shift now to the Black Audron, where Cecelia Illuminata Witwick is continuing her courier education under Captain Muldan Foxskull and alongside unlikely new friend Fenton Eaves. Hungry as ever to impress Captain Foxskull and learn magic, Cici convinces Fenton to take on a challenging delivery with her... and boy is it a big one.

Content Warnings: spooky magic, voice FX

Click here for Skyjoust!!

Upon returning to the Gray Audron, Kiran attempts to show Alba around and introduce them to the courier crew, but find that Alba's incorporeal ghostliness is something of a roadblock. Even so, Kiran is determined to help Alba make friends and experience a taste of the rest of the world.

Content Warnings: ghost stuff/invisible friend, tender feelings, social awkwardness

Click here for Skyjoust!!

After losing their way in the underground catacombs of the ancient city of Ormolu, Kiran looks for a way back to the surface and discovers an unexpected new friend along the way. It's a little spooky down here... but when has that ever stopped Kiran from asking questions or engaging with forbidden objects???

Content Warnings: underground tombs, ghost stuff, unsettling implications about ancient history

Click here for Skyjoust!!

Welcome to Season 3 of Skyjacks: Courier's Call! Previously, our intrepid courier heroes Kiran, Cici, and June enjoyed their first Audron Prom... only to be separated onto different ships for the remainder of the route thanks to an Audron Maelstrom! With Kiran on the Gray Audron, Cici on the Black Audron, and June aboard the Yellow Audron and then sent off to the Burning Tails Jousting Academy... there's no end to the new experiences these apprentices will have.

Let us begin with Kiran Rao, the Gray Audron, and the strange, ancient ruin of the city of Ormolu....

Ahoy, Couriers! We cannot thank you enough for your patience in awaiting updates regarding Season 3... and we finally are thrilled to bring you this announcement.

Ahoy Couriers! The podcast has moved over to Megaphone as our host server and this is our first time using it. We're so excited to announce to you all that the Season 3 Kickstarter for Skyjacks: Courier's Call is LIVE!

Head to http://bit.ly/ccseason3 to help us fund the show and get Cici, Kiran, and June back in the sky for the biggest and wildest season yet!

Click here for the Season 3 Kickstarter!