Reduce all to what is most essential. A debutante's ball. A Gilded Globe. A ballroom floor, approximately 3000 square feet. An auction gone awry, An ex-detective shouting his cover at the top of his lungs, spitting it on the floor for all to see, an ingrate, an immature...

And my debts, mounting. Even now, with every second.

File it away. Reduce all to what is most essential. A debutante's ball. A Gilded Globe...

(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 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

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

“Cracking/Crunching, A.wav” by InspectorJ https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/333818/

“liquid splatter on floor 4” by JakLocke https://freesound.org/people/JakLocke/sounds/261299/

“McRae - crowd - aghast.wav” by FlippantMoniker https://freesound.org/people/FlippantMoniker/sounds/128151/

Seven(New Music Remix) by bwatts (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/bwatts/39793 Ft: alex beroza

Reusenoise (DNB Mix) by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/56531

Trigger Warnings:

Sudden loud noises
Pursuit
Violence and threats of violence
Deception
Paranoia and fear of being watched
Blackmail
Kidnapping
Forced flirtation / unwanted sexual advances

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