Flight of the Icaron: Episode 2 - Shots Fired
1/20/20261 hr 13 min
The clink of champagne glasses and gala formalwear gives way to gunfire and chaos aboard the Icaron. With authority fractured and information scarce - who ends up on the right side of this conflict, who is written off as collateral, and what those decisions cost will shape everything to come.
We are:
Brennan Lee Mulligan
Erika Ishii
Aabria Iyengar
Lou Wilson
Flight of the Icaron was produced by Fortunate Horse and Worlds Beyond Number
Edit and Sound Design by Brian Flaherty fr...
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First 90 secondsLou Wilson· Host0:00
[dramatic music] [screaming] [gunshots] Bits of reinforced glass drift down from the laser marks on the ceiling as the large men wearing ill-fitting GEC service member uniforms stand with their sidearms drawn. [cocks gun] Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt. In this moment of bullet time, as these things are happening around you, I'd like you all to make perception checks. And as we make these checks, how are you reacting in this moment?
Brennan Lee Mulligan· Guest0:47
I've rolled a natural one on my perception check.
Speaker 30:51
Oh, no.
Brennan Lee Mulligan· Guest0:52
I have a sinking feeling in my stomach because so much of my family is here. And as the guns go off, I, I think make real in my own head on a nat one that, that the reason I haven't seen Sophie is she's already dead.
Speaker 31:11
Oh.
Aabria Iyengar· Guest1:13
With a 12, I think it's the split focus of danger and things kind of breaking bad and popping off happen all the time in gray space.