| “ | The people mill about. Go through their daily lives. She there, he here. That’s his favorite café... there’s the grocer she goes to every day. They all listen to the music... and New Kinshasa is home. | ” |
—Peter Nureyev
Peter Nureyev and the Angel of Brahma (Part 1) is the sixteenth episode of the first season of The Penumbra Podcast. It was released October 25, 2016.
Overview[]
Who is Peter Nureyev? The question has dogged Juno Steel, Private Eye for six months now, ever since he first met that master of disguises. It doesn’t help that he changes identities like most people change clothes: Rex Glass, Duke Rose, Miasma’s anonymous “the Thief…” How is Juno supposed to know who he is? How is Juno supposed to trust him?
He needs to know he can, because the clock is ticking. Miasma’s experiments on Juno won’t last forever, and once his usefulness has passed, she’ll kill the both of them. And once they’re gone, who will stop her from using the Egg of Purus, the Martian super-weapon she now has under her control? Juno needs to trust Nureyev, but he hardly knows him. And so, that same old question remains: who is Peter Nureyev?
Trigger Warnings[]
- Torture
- Death
- Some gore/“body horror”
- Sudden loud noises
Episode Summary[]
Cast and Crew[]
Cast[]
Starring
- Noah Simes as Peter Nureyev
- Ryan Marchant as Mag
- Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel
- Kate Jones as Miasma
- Harley Takagi Kaner as Rossignol
- Additional voices by Jason Mellin, Scott Galica and Kevin Vibert
Crew Edit[]
- Kevin Vibert, Co-creator, Lead writer, Recording engineer
- Harley Takagi Kaner, Co-creator, Director, Sound designer
- Grahame Turner, Lead editor
- Ryan Vibert, Composer and performer of original music
Quotes[]
NUREYEV: Every family has its quarrels, whether you’re hurling insults across a dinner table, or nuclear warheads across five nebulae.
Trivia[]
- This is the only story arc thus far to have all parts released on the same day, with an annoucnement at the end of part one that an intermission was occurring rather than the usual credit sequence.
- The Angel of Brahma was the first episode to be released with a name other than Juno Steel preceding it and is still one of only two; Mick Mercury and the Night Before, a bonus episode that debuted during the season 2 hiatus, was the second.