Hell Gate City

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(To avoid spoilers, we ask that you scroll to the end for content warnings.) Reality includes such delights as:

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Screaming Panda Presents “Reality” (Episode 26), the sixteenth chapter of Hell Gate City Season 2. Kevin Berrey wrote, performed, and directed it and created its original music and episode art. This chapter’s bonus tale is “Androgynous Friend” (Glitch in the Waitrix 26), available only here in the Inner Legion. Also, there's a second one! Glitch 26 B – Hypocognition. Visit: https://www.patreon.com/collection/80693 The transcript is forthcoming and will be linked to in this description hopefully but as a backup check the free transcripts post on our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/transcripts-of-66692496. It sucks, but the odd way I'm writing these episodes means cobbling together handwritten texts, typed notes, and final edits and revisions that don't exist in a singular document and lining all of that up is for some reason hellishly fatiguing in my current state of unmedicated narcolepsy. Hang in there while I chip away at it and in the meantime see the auto-transcription of the public episode on Spotify and Apple if I'm taking too long.

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Additional Music: "Peace Out, Companion Theme" by Cheska Navarro

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Content warnings for this episode include: images of environmental destruction and flooding (conceived well before Hurricane Helene, but such is life…), violence and a stabbing with excessive blood fluid sounds, a deadly animal-like mauling—likely killing multiple humans, entrapment, kidnapping, a severely injured baby, other deaths mentioned in a war-torn type of scene, choking, police sirens, rudeness to a customer service worker

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Screaming Panda Presents “Cyborg B” (Episode 25), the fifteenth chapter of Hell Gate City Season 2. Kevin Berrey wrote, performed, and directed it and its original music and episode art. This chapter’s bonus tale is “Cybernetics” (Glitch in the Waitrix 25). It's available with all the other sweet sweet glitches in the Bonus Audio Tales collection on our Patreon here.

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Content warnings for this episode include: mention of suicide, graphic and disturbing violence, strangling, imagery that may involve blood, guts, and bodily mutilation—not for the faint of heart; sadomasochism, sexual innuendos, alienation, suffering in a virtual disembodied purgatory, psychological abuse, verbal abuse, and being on hold with your health insurance company for an ungodly amount of time

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LYRICS

this is how the cyber purge came to be.

they divided and conquered us in every feed,

turning me against you, and you against me.

this is how injustice crushed us in its teeth

one part hate, two parts greed...

this is how they fed us into the machine.

bankrupt from her a.i. startup's crash and burn,

flavia, the grotesque duchess of cambridge analytica,

lucked into a fountain of youth as technoaristocrats do,

getting her elected, as they do.

the cyber purge started like a vicious meme.

they threw one grenade in the henhouse.

every chicken screamed.

injustice crushed us in its teeth while the elites fled the scene.

then they divided and conquered us into grist for the machine.

this bloodbath splattered holographically, flooding in and dashing all of our dreams.

bio-enhance your looks, ms. president, but we know what's underneath.

you're just a puppet of the corpo-oligarchy.

rumor has it she got fully upgraded--cyborg body, 'wet set'.

she can live forever as long as the rest of us work ourselves to death.

yeah, she can live forever as long as the rest of us keep working ourselves to death.

this bloodbath splattered holographically, flooding in and dashing all of our dreams.

this bloodbath splattered holographically, flooding in and dashing all of our dreams.

a holographic bloodbath splattered across the screen, flooded the feeds, and dashed all our dreams.

CREDITS Words and music written and performed by Kevin Berrey

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