3.13: Juno Steel and the Mega-Ultrabots of Cyberjustice (Part 1)

WANTED: Six members of newly-established Aurinko Crime Family. Though we are unclear on their capabilities, suspects should be treated as if they are ARMED and DANGEROUS.

Current location unknown. Those with information leading to the capture of the suspects should immediately contact [REDACTED]

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

Sharon Oh -- 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

Home recording guidance from Mertz of 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

“Turning off a futuristic TV” by pfranzen https://freesound.org/people/pfranzen/sounds/393745/

“ROCKET-EXPLOSED.mp3” by Julien Nicolas https://freesound.org/people/Julien%20Nicolas/sounds/131145/

“Computer Chatter 2.aiff” by gnrja https://freesound.org/people/gnrja/sounds/150256/

“Bomb - Small” by Zangrutz https://freesound.org/people/Zangrutz/sounds/155235/

“2.wav” by steveygos93 https://freesound.org/people/steveygos93/sounds/103582/

“Confirmation Ascending 1” by original_sound https://freesound.org/people/original_sound/sounds/372209/

“Bleep bloops” by graham_ makes https://freesound.org/people/graham_makes/sounds/447321/

“Robot Shutdown” by Mega-X-Stream https://freesound.org/people/Mega-X-stream/sounds/427411/

“FX_OfficeCom_01.wav” by PeteBarry https://freesound.org/people/PeteBarry/sounds/464860/

Trigger Warnings:

Violence and threats of violence

Claustrophobic spaces

Sudden loud noises

Explosions

Pursuit/being chased

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