The Full Penumbra Tour, Presented By The Concierge is the last bonus episode of season one of The Penumbra Podcast. This bonus episode is unique in that it is considered canon to the events of the podcast. It was released March 21, 2017.
Overview[]
Enough Travelers asked for a full tour of the Penumbra Hotel that not even the Concierge can say no. We hope you’re ready for a long haul: it’s a very big hotel, and strange things lurk inside it.
But be careful what you wish for, Traveler. Some stones, once turned, can never be returned... and some changes can’t be undone.
Episode Summary[]
The episode begins with The Concierge explaining that Juno Steel is in the middle of “his most dangerous case yet, strapped to the death machine of a Venusian mobster with all of Hyperion city’s orphans on the line” when he is interrupted by a phone call. The caller asks for a tour of the Penumbra hotel, and the Concierge obliges, stating that every room will be visited with no stone unturned.
Passing over Louise Sterling in Room 1 (because she has already been visited recently), the tour moves on to Room 2, noting that it’s old enough to predate plant life by several millennia. The guest in Room 2 has no name because “names didn’t come around until there were plants to think of them,” but The Concierge fondly refers to them as “Breakfast.”
Room 3 contains Samantha Smalls, who barely has time to say hello before the tour moves on. Ms. Smalls has checked in to the Penumbra 87 times, all of them while doing her laundry. Rooms 4 through 7 also contain Samantha Smalls. the Concierge comments that fortunately most of her rooms are in a different wing.
In Room 8, Vanessa the Bold slays bat-things from the Great Beyond.
Room 9 contains Samantha Smalls again.
Room 10 is opened with some caution, after a warning that there will be no going back. It contains PSRJO826, a star on the brink of collapse.
The Concierge offers an umbrella because ”you may well need it“ and bids farewell.
Cast and Crew[]
- Kevin Vibert as The Concierge (uncredited)
- Harley Takagi Kaner as Samantha Smalls (uncredited)
Trivia[]
- Breakfast at the Penumbra Hotel is offered in the lobby between the hours of 8 and 10, which is “whenever we say they are.”
- Many travelers who arrive cannot remember how or why they got there.