Show Notes
"Unboxing" kickstarts Season 2 of Hell Gate City with a question. What would you do if you found a recording of a customer support phone call placed by someone you know after they died? Who is the mysterious customer from call record 3715? And who sent the creepy Polaroid and the stack of 50 discs to a rando teenager in Queens, NY? In this introductory episode, Kirby stands in as Virgil, guiding listeners and laying the groundwork for a cyber-odyssey into a phantasmagorical underworld like no other. Prepare to get prepared for S2 (codename: COMPANION).
The Glitch (in the Matrix) bonus audio story that goes with this chapter is titled “Boxed In.” It’s available on the show’s Patreon. New episodes Thursdays!
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About the Show On the surface, Hell Gate City is an epic audio drama offered in the style of a local radio show for the fictional metropolis of Neo Amsterdam. But as the show’s host plumbs his unconscious mind using a Cyber Lucidity Dream-streamer on-air, he encounters a sinister web of evil stretching from his past into the present. Will he pick up the thread and follow it into the unknown, or stick with the program?
Season 1 After a dream-streaming device intended to increase ratings accidentally broadcasts his repressed memories of an eldritch murder, radio jockey Kirby Bevins embarks on a journey where he must overcome dark forces and folly to solve the crime before he becomes the next victim.
Season 2 What would you do if you found a recording of a customer support phone call placed by someone you know *after* they died? Season 2 shares the footage.
Content warnings for this episode include themes of death and the afterlife, alienation, medical neglect, crippling insurance debt, mention of serial killers, murder by a demon beast, abandonment, abduction, corporate malfeasance, body-snatching, and nonconsensual mind-swapping.
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Join us on Patreon for free! ... https://www.patreon.com/hellgatecity (To avoid spoilers, we ask that you scroll to the end for content warnings.)Accident includes such delights as: • Thornton: Bedtime Accidents • Unconsh • Strayhorn, Story 5, Pt. 2 Uploaded for Patrons in hi res--24-bit, 48k, WAV audio in a special mix and edit. Screaming Panda Presents “Accident” (Episode 29), the nineteenth chapter of Hell Gate City Season 2. Kevin Berrey wrote, performed, and directed it. He created its original music and episode art by mistake. The bonus tales for this one are both songs, the story-based “Sizzling Circuits” (Glitch 29B) and the more lyrical “No Accident” (Glitch 29), available only at patreon.com/hellgatecity in the Bonus Audio Tales collection. Subscribe to help the team get over the finish line and keep the show ad-free.The transcript is here with all the others: https://www.patreon.com/posts/transcripts-of-66692496. . Check out our page and join the Inner Legion on patreon.com/hellgatecity for a bunch of goodies like bonus tales, sacred tunes, sleep facts uncut, and the feature documentary Shadow of a Bout! (If you use the Apple mobile devices, subscribe and pay using by pasting the link into a web browser, not through the iPhone App.) You can also support the show and enjoy a movie by buying Kevin's feature documentary in the Patreon shop: https://www.patreon.com/hellgatecity/shop/shadow-of-bout-documentary-running-time-64989 . Or, buy Kevin a digital coffee: https://ko-fi.com/hellgatecity . Or make a $10 (suggested) donation on Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/KevinBerrey .
Season's greetings! Guess who's back? Enjoy this prelude to episode 29. Join our Patreon as a free member for a special treat in the new year: https://www.patreon.com/hellgatecity
Credits: Written, produced, and performed by Kevin Berrey Content warnings: Rated R-style violence and sexual situations (See bottom of transcript for detailed warnings.) Transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66692496
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