| “ | When you’ve made a career out of getting into trouble for as long as I have, it’s easy to convince yourself you’ve seen it all. That it can’t get any worse. Well, listen, buddy: if there’s one thing I know from thirty-eight years on this great red dust-clod in the sky, it’s that it can always, always get worse. |
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—Juno Steel
Juno Steel and the Train from Nowhere (Part 1) is the fifteenth episode of the first season of The Penumbra Podcast. It was released October 4, 2016.
Overview[]
Somewhere in this desert lies the greatest weapon Mars has ever seen its on board the Utgard Express, a mobile lockbox that shatters the speed of sound at its slowest setting, a train that no one has ever entered... until today.
The plan is set. Juno and Nureyev know exactly what they must do to board that train. If there are no surprises they’ll just wake up, drive to a drone launch site in the desert, hijack a drone, and then ride off into the sunset, Martian Weapon in hand.
If there are no surprises, that is. But someone in this desert doesn’t much like the idea of things going smoothing for Juno and Nureyev, and the first of his surprises should be arriving at their door right about... now.
Trigger Warnings[]
- Violence
- Gunfire
- Deception and gaslighting
- Sudden loud noises
- Alcohol
- Threats
Episode Summary[]
Cast and Crew[]
Cast[]
Starring
- Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel
- Noah Simes as Peter Nureyev
- Emery Westlake as Brock Engstrom
- Kristie Norris as Valencia
- Kate Jones as Miasma
Crew[]
- Kevin Vibert, Co-creator, Lead writer, Recording engineer
- Harley Takagi Kaner, Co-creator, Director, Sound designer
- Grahame Turner, Script editor
- Ryan Vibert, Composer and performer of original music
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- In the Patreon commentary track for this episode Harley Takagi Kaner mentions that in this episode Juno is basically the "grouchy Bond Girl"
- The train-vault plot point was lifted from the draft of another story called "Vesper" that the creators planned, when The Penumbra was still more of an anthology series