Episode 67 - Sagacity and Social Mobility Makvala Agryris is a representative of CRISPR, a company that re-animates pets for their owners but have been too successful in developing the cognitive abilities of their customers' creatures. They require advice as to how to keep their customers happy now that the pets are showing a desire to build up military might. Management Consultants’ advice: activate Lounge Mode, hold hands, bathroom intelligences, big pointless novels, fully visible globes, communicate using maddening animal sounds, animal control orbs. Content Warning for: - Bullying/taunting - Injury (inc. SFX) - Alcohol & alcoholism - Discussion of: toilet humour - Mentions of: death, frostbite, self-injury, lions, violence - SFX: clanking, hissing, brief high frequency sound. Special thanks to Ria for this episode's Brief Submission and this week's Patrons: Laurel Buchanan, Maria Maksimova, Nikki, Seren Mist, Vince Nguyen, Asha Perry, DamienandFishGreco, Haberdasher, Jay Palmer, John Anglo, Jose Manuel Santiago Yepes, Katherine Bullen, Kyden Lundquist, Leah Higginbotham, lmx_v3point3, Melody Landrum, Mia, Moira Haney, Paravellex, Ray McKenzie, Rebecca Frederick, Rebekka B., Robin Dauster, Rowan Lorne, snowpossum, wrongsocks, Yo Mama', Zoke Miyama, Al LaBarrie, Ares Crowley, Calamari Matahari, E Kennedy, Kayla, Keelee, Lauga, Lena Klambauer, Lucia Kelly, QuizzicalQuibbler, sydney, Isabel Velasco, Vague Coffeecup, Kaela Woolsey, Morgan Short, Ahgbri Kanatist, WinglessWolf, Cece Henry, Lottie Rose, Charlie, Sonny Acosta. If you'd like to join them be sure to visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill. Created by Tim Meredith and Ben Meredith Produced by Katie Seaton Executive Producer: Alexander J Newall Performances: I.M.O.G.E.N: Imogen Harris David 7: Ben Meredith Trexel Geistman: Tim Meredith Hartro Piltz: Jenny Haufek Editing: Maddy Searle Music: Samuel DF Jones Artwork: Anika Khan Mastering: Jeffrey Nils Gardner Featured SFX: marcgp13, ElWilk, kyles, Coral_Island_Studios, krnash, WavJunction.com, TurtleLG, InspectorJ, dheming, StephenSaldanha & previously credited artists via freesound.org. Original Foley by Maddy Searle. Subscribe using your podcast software of choice or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe and be sure to rate and review us online; it really helps us spread across the galaxy. Check out our merchandise, available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill. Join our community: WEBSITE: www.rustyquill.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/therustyquill/ TWITTER: @therustyquill REDDIT: www.reddit.com/r/RustyQuill/ DISCORD: https://www.discord.gg/rustyquill EMAIL: [email protected] Stellar Firma is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.