Escape Pod 905: Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun’s Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There

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Science Fiction, Drama, Fiction

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun's Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There By Stewart C. Baker 1. Dust 'em "Listen, little lady," the guy in front of the door is saying with a sneer. "There's two types of swordsman..." Chiyome's already heard enough to peg his type, so she tunes out his braggadocio and pulls out a bag of nanite dust. She'd hoped to use her status as the Shingen warlord's only child to bluff her way in to the Shadow Shogun's presence, but the dust works too. She blows a handful in his face and he shrieks, drops his sword, then follows it to the floor, thrashing in the station's artificial gravity. Behind her, Rui whistles. "What'd you give him?" The other woman asks. "You know how my father's always talking about unsanctioned violence and other threats to order?" "Sure, but I always figured he only says it because he's the one doing the sanctioning. No offense." "None taken. The point is, every time this guy even thinks about violence for the next 4 hours, this will happen." "Not bad." "Not bad? It'll take you longer to beat the next one with your naginata, I bet." "A bet, eh?" Rui cups Chiyome's chin in one long, slender hand and tilts her head up. "Well and good, then. We'll bet a favor." "A favor and a kiss."

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0:00.0	A skateboard, Episode 905, six ways to get past the shadow showguns goons, and one thing
0:14.7	to do when you get there, by Stuart C. Baker.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to a skateboard, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:45.6	I'm your host this week, Tina Connoi, and I'm here to bring you six ways to get past
0:51.1	the shadow showguns goons, and one thing to do when you get there, by Stuart C. Baker.
0:58.2	This story first appeared in Galaxy's Edge.
1:03.1	Stuart C. Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction and poetry,
1:07.2	along with the occasional piece of interactive fiction.
1:10.4	This fiction has appeared in nature, light speed, and flash fiction online, among other places,
1:15.2	and as poetry has appeared in fantasy, azimovs, and numerous haiku magazines.
1:19.9	Stuart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, in California, in that
1:24.8	order, and now lives within the traditional homelands of the lucky and mute band of Calapuya
1:30.1	in Western Oregon, along with his family.
1:33.2	Although if anyone asks, he'll usually say, he's from the internet.
1:39.6	And also, Stuart mentions that listeners for this particular story might enjoy Derby Witch,
1:46.1	an interactive, sapphic visual novel about witches and roller derby, which can be found
1:50.8	on the story loom app, or bitly slash derby-witch.
1:56.9	And I've actually been working on stories over its story loom as well, so I can say that
2:02.2	if you haven't checked out these mini story games, you should.
2:06.4	The app is currently new and free, and there's a ton of fun games, including by authors
2:11.6	who will be totally familiar to escape pod listeners, and Stuart's Derby Witch is delightful,
2:17.8	and would pair very nicely with this story.
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