{"id":62,"date":"2020-09-18T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2021-12-19T19:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:13:46","slug":"corps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/corps\/","title":{"rendered":"CORPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ghostpuncher Corps<\/b><\/i> is a podcast of satanic action, heavy metal, and gay excess. A team of adventurers are tasked by Lucifer herself to track down errant demons and undead souls and return them to the underworld where they belong. Crafted using the framework of tabletop roleplaying and set to a bangin’ soundtrack, GPC<\/i> is unlike anything else on your podcast player.<\/p>

If you’re new to GPC<\/i> or if you’ve never heard a tabletop roleplaying (or actual-play) podcast before then our primer is a great place to start.<\/p>

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Ghostpuncher Corps<\/b><\/i> is a podcast of satanic action, heavy metal, and gay excess. A team of adventurers are tasked by Lucifer herself to track down errant demons and undead souls and return them to the underworld where they belong. Crafted using the framework of tabletop roleplaying and set to a bangin’ soundtrack, GPC<\/i> is unlike anything else on your podcast player.<\/p>

If you’re new to GPC<\/i> or if you’ve never heard a tabletop roleplaying (or actual-play) podcast before then our primer is a great place to start.<\/p>

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Ghostpuncher Corps<\/b><\/i> consists of several story arcs, each of them following the same group of adventurers through their quest to fulfill a quest given to them by Lucifer, but each arc varies wildly in style and tone.<\/p>\n

Obviously, any completionist listener would want to listen to every story episode in order but finding one that appeals to you and starting there is a great way to ‘get into’ the show.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ghostpuncher Corps<\/b><\/i> consists of several story arcs, each of them following the same group of adventurers through their quest to fulfill a quest given to them by Lucifer, but each arc varies wildly in style and tone.<\/p>\n

Obviously, any completionist listener would want to listen to every story episode in order but finding one that appeals to you and starting there is a great way to ‘get into’ the show.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"original<\/p>\n

The very beginning of our story, the Ah, Nuts<\/strong><\/em> arc introduces the main player characters to each other and to the job at hand. Petua, Elektra and Kevin are called in Poulton, TX to look into a series of unsolved murders that seem to revolve around… novelty truck paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

Once they arrive in Texas they’re introduced to the last member of their crew, a mysterious and filthy wanderer named Mikey who comes with a Winnebago camper he seems to not know how to drive.<\/p>\n

Ah Nuts<\/strong><\/em> is much more comedic than following GPC<\/strong><\/em> arcs, owing partially to the subject matter and to the presence of Robyn Reynolds, playing the dirtbag rogue Kevin, who would depart the show shortly after the arc’s conclusion. The Ah, Nuts<\/strong> <\/em>arc is a little rough around the edges as it was the crew’s introduction to making a podcast.<\/p>\n

The Ah, Nuts<\/strong><\/em> arc starts at episode 1<\/a> and is followed by the team’s first interlude with Uncle Stickey, the enigmatic seller of tchotchkes and magic items they meet before they take on the ISAWTHEARIZONALIGHTS<\/strong><\/em> mystery.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"Ghostpuncher<\/p>

The ISAWTHEARIZONALIGHTS<\/em><\/strong> story finds the team relocating to Arizona at the behest of a mysterious website<\/a> provided to the team by Lucifer. In Arizona they find Alex, a convenience store stock boy by day, a tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theoriest by night.<\/p>

Along with Alex, the team investigate mysterious lights that Alex has seen in the desert that he theorizes has something to do with deeply classified nuclear tests that took place some 70 years ago. In their investigating they find giant jackrabbits, cannibals, an underground colony of the wealthy, and layers upon layers of intrigue.<\/p>

ISAWTHEARIZONALIGHTS<\/strong><\/em> deals in government conspiracies, subterfuge and deception and is drenched in the dusty and slightly radioactive feel of it’s setting. The arc owes much of it’s tone to the creative influences of shows like The X Files<\/strong><\/em> and video games like Fallout: New Vegas.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>

The arc starts at episode 6<\/a>. The only background information you’ll need to start from there can be gleaned from the Primer<\/a> episode.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The Life Eternal\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is a follow-up to events in the Ghostpuncher<\/strong> <\/em>comic and it’s first storyline Pagan Fears<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. During Pagan Fears<\/strong><\/em> Sidney (the titular Ghostpuncher) along with her sidekick Emma tracked down the prince of Hell Astaroth in Mapleville, MT after he’d been summoned by a summoning circle of witches. Sidney and Emma quickly dispatched their foe in a deep-fat fryer at the Cattle Chomp diner.<\/p>

Since then the demon prince has somehow survived and managed to find a way to regroup and restore his energy which he now seems to be taking out on unsuspecting bicyclists in the Mapleville area. The team investigate and in the process become fitness influencers, visit the local church and take in the nearby wildlife.<\/p>

This story arc takes place under the backdrop of a church and it’s associated organizations, so the themes of religion run deep in the Life Eternal<\/strong><\/em> arc. However, the cast quickly realizes that their current lives are quite irreligious leaving them little to draw from, but the experience they draw from comes more from their childhood churches, which are burned into their respective memories, for some reason.<\/p>

Life Eternal<\/strong><\/em> begins with episode 16<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The Gridbreaker<\/strong><\/em> storyline (oft stylized G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/em><\/strong>) finds Ghostpuncher Corps<\/strong><\/em> on a whole new level. A video game developer, Brad Price, is working on a massively multiplayer, virtual reality video game finds that players have died inexplicable violent deaths while playing his game.<\/p>

When most would resolve to shut the video game down, or at the very least find a way to limit the game so something like that isn’t possible, Brad contacts the team and asks them to enter his game and find out what’s going on from the inside. They’re hesitant at first, but drawn in by the fact that an old friend of Elektra’s used to be involved with the game.<\/p>

The team enters, taking on new cyberpunk personas and abilities. Petua takes the form of Marlowe, a slick wheelman, Elektra becomes the cyborg assassin Drex, and Mikey inhabits, however uncomfortably, the jacked, bronzed, and mostly naked infiltrator Ye Kim.<\/p>

For the purpsoes of this arc, the team eschewed the usual trappings of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition to play the in-game antics using The Sprawl<\/a> system.<\/p>

G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/strong><\/em> is the most intensely personal GPC story yet. As the game master, Lilith drew on her experiences as a disabled, mentally ill, lesbian, and trans woman to create an intense narrative and emotionally affecting characters. In addition, she drew inspiration from the science fiction stories she’s loved all her life, like Blade Runner<\/strong><\/em>, Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/strong><\/em>, and Live Die Repeat<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>

The G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/strong><\/em> arc begins with episode 30<\/a>, but it’s recommended to start during the interlude arc<\/a> after Life Eternal, episode 29<\/a> at the latest, to get the context for the events that follow.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Set immediately after the G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/strong><\/em> arc, this arc delves into the aftermath and recovery from the team’s experiences in the Gridbreaker video game. What was originally planned to be an interlude series turned into a full length arc spanning 10 full episodes. Vital listening after Gridbreaker, but not a great starting off point.<\/p>

Broken<\/em><\/strong> begins with episode 41<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Towards Another History<\/strong><\/em> is the newest arc of Ghostpuncher Corps. After the chaotic events of Gridbreaker left the team scattered to the wind they’ve reunited to hunt a mysterious demon who has dominion over time.<\/p>

As the mystery unravels it seems that whatever is occurring is intimately linked to Petua and her past.\u00a0<\/p>

Towards Another History<\/strong><\/em> starts with episode 51<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"original<\/p>\n

The very beginning of our story, the Ah, Nuts<\/strong><\/em> arc introduces the main player characters to each other and to the job at hand. Petua, Elektra and Kevin are called in Poulton, TX to look into a series of unsolved murders that seem to revolve around… novelty truck paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

Once they arrive in Texas they’re introduced to the last member of their crew, a mysterious and filthy wanderer named Mikey who comes with a Winnebago camper he seems to not know how to drive.<\/p>\n

Ah Nuts<\/strong><\/em> is much more comedic than following GPC<\/strong><\/em> arcs, owing partially to the subject matter and to the presence of Robyn Reynolds, playing the dirtbag rogue Kevin, who would depart the show shortly after the arc’s conclusion. The Ah, Nuts<\/strong> <\/em>arc is a little rough around the edges as it was the crew’s introduction to making a podcast.<\/p>\n

The Ah, Nuts<\/strong><\/em> arc starts at episode 1<\/a> and is followed by the team’s first interlude with Uncle Stickey, the enigmatic seller of tchotchkes and magic items they meet before they take on the ISAWTHEARIZONALIGHTS<\/strong><\/em> mystery.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"Ghostpuncher<\/p>

The ISAWTHEARIZONALIGHTS<\/em><\/strong> story finds the team relocating to Arizona at the behest of a mysterious website<\/a> provided to the team by Lucifer. In Arizona they find Alex, a convenience store stock boy by day, a tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theoriest by night.<\/p>

Along with Alex, the team investigate mysterious lights that Alex has seen in the desert that he theorizes has something to do with deeply classified nuclear tests that took place some 70 years ago. In their investigating they find giant jackrabbits, cannibals, an underground colony of the wealthy, and layers upon layers of intrigue.<\/p>

ISAWTHEARIZONALIGHTS<\/strong><\/em> deals in government conspiracies, subterfuge and deception and is drenched in the dusty and slightly radioactive feel of it’s setting. The arc owes much of it’s tone to the creative influences of shows like The X Files<\/strong><\/em> and video games like Fallout: New Vegas.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>

The arc starts at episode 6<\/a>. The only background information you’ll need to start from there can be gleaned from the Primer<\/a> episode.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The Life Eternal\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is a follow-up to events in the Ghostpuncher<\/strong> <\/em>comic and it’s first storyline Pagan Fears<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. During Pagan Fears<\/strong><\/em> Sidney (the titular Ghostpuncher) along with her sidekick Emma tracked down the prince of Hell Astaroth in Mapleville, MT after he’d been summoned by a summoning circle of witches. Sidney and Emma quickly dispatched their foe in a deep-fat fryer at the Cattle Chomp diner.<\/p>

Since then the demon prince has somehow survived and managed to find a way to regroup and restore his energy which he now seems to be taking out on unsuspecting bicyclists in the Mapleville area. The team investigate and in the process become fitness influencers, visit the local church and take in the nearby wildlife.<\/p>

This story arc takes place under the backdrop of a church and it’s associated organizations, so the themes of religion run deep in the Life Eternal<\/strong><\/em> arc. However, the cast quickly realizes that their current lives are quite irreligious leaving them little to draw from, but the experience they draw from comes more from their childhood churches, which are burned into their respective memories, for some reason.<\/p>

Life Eternal<\/strong><\/em> begins with episode 16<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/p>

The Gridbreaker<\/strong><\/em> storyline (oft stylized G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/em><\/strong>) finds Ghostpuncher Corps<\/strong><\/em> on a whole new level. A video game developer, Brad Price, is working on a massively multiplayer, virtual reality video game finds that players have died inexplicable violent deaths while playing his game.<\/p>

When most would resolve to shut the video game down, or at the very least find a way to limit the game so something like that isn’t possible, Brad contacts the team and asks them to enter his game and find out what’s going on from the inside. They’re hesitant at first, but drawn in by the fact that an old friend of Elektra’s used to be involved with the game.<\/p>

The team enters, taking on new cyberpunk personas and abilities. Petua takes the form of Marlowe, a slick wheelman, Elektra becomes the cyborg assassin Drex, and Mikey inhabits, however uncomfortably, the jacked, bronzed, and mostly naked infiltrator Ye Kim.<\/p>

For the purpsoes of this arc, the team eschewed the usual trappings of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition to play the in-game antics using The Sprawl<\/a> system.<\/p>

G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/strong><\/em> is the most intensely personal GPC story yet. As the game master, Lilith drew on her experiences as a disabled, mentally ill, lesbian, and trans woman to create an intense narrative and emotionally affecting characters. In addition, she drew inspiration from the science fiction stories she’s loved all her life, like Blade Runner<\/strong><\/em>, Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/strong><\/em>, and Live Die Repeat<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>

The G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/strong><\/em> arc begins with episode 30<\/a>, but it’s recommended to start during the interlude arc<\/a> after Life Eternal, episode 29<\/a> at the latest, to get the context for the events that follow.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Set immediately after the G.R.I.D.br34k3r<\/strong><\/em> arc, this arc delves into the aftermath and recovery from the team’s experiences in the Gridbreaker video game. What was originally planned to be an interlude series turned into a full length arc spanning 10 full episodes. Vital listening after Gridbreaker, but not a great starting off point.<\/p>

Broken<\/em><\/strong> begins with episode 41<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\"\"<\/p>

Towards Another History<\/strong><\/em> is the newest arc of Ghostpuncher Corps. After the chaotic events of Gridbreaker left the team scattered to the wind they’ve reunited to hunt a mysterious demon who has dominion over time.<\/p>

As the mystery unravels it seems that whatever is occurring is intimately linked to Petua and her past.\u00a0<\/p>

Towards Another History<\/strong><\/em> starts with episode 51<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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