3.07: Second Citadel--The Lovers of the Fallen Tower (Part 1)

Untold years ago, a monster woman and a human man witnessed the end of the world. It went like this: one explosion; then two explosions; then a great rumbling; and then, darkness.

And that should have been the end of it, and them, and everything. But today, one-and-a-half monsters and two-and-a-half humans will witness that end again -- and if they aren't careful, it might be their end, too.

Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay.

(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description.)

You can find all of our transcripts here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_ Transcripts will come out along with the public release of the episode.

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

Sophie Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer

Milo Ellersick -- Promotional artist

Noah Simes -- Production manager

Grahame Turner -- Script editing team

Kevin Vibert -- Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer

Ryan Vibert -- Composer and performer of original music

Recorded by Mertz at The Bridge Sound & Stage

Attribution:

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

"Kind of Girl" by Jeris, featuring spinningmerkaba: http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/35657

“Deep Space Vibrations Ambience Loop” by rhodesmas https://freesound.org/people/rhodesmas/sounds/321723/

“Electric zap.aiff” by benjaminharveydesign https://freesound.org/people/benjaminharveydesign/sounds/315918/

“Rockslide 2.wav” by juskiddink https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/79783/

“saagimine.mp3” by nilsausta https://freesound.org/people/nilsausta/sounds/107562/

“WORKERS FORGING STEEL” by XHALE303 https://freesound.org/people/XHALE303/sounds/466397/

“Natural wind recorded” by JavierSerrat https://freesound.org/people/JavierSerrat/sounds/488360/

“Big waterfall at Krkafalls.wav” by Saturation https://freesound.org/people/Satoration/sounds/58265/

“Whip Cracks.wav” by CGEffex https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/93140/

Trigger Warnings:

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• Sudden loud noises
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• Violence and threats of violence
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• Death
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• Xenophobia/racism
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• Violence and death
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• Lying and deception
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