The Storyplayers Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

The time is here! Welcome to Glorandrina Station, our first season here at the Storyplayers Podcast. It's a political sci fi horror full of strange worlds, scheming characters, and of course, a true buffet of toxic yuri. Arc 1 premieres June 9th, with new episode launching every Monday thereafter. Subscribe to be notified when the first episode drops!

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

Our main storyline will be played in Kingdom by Ben Robbins, along with many other games as the story demands.

Join the Storyplayers crew as they build the history of their solar system and their five factions: The Glorious Municipalities of Tetra, the United Chkr'gh Republic, the Republic of Umbra, the Splendor Solis, and the Family.

Contains depictions of deportation, religious bigotry, war, and xenophobia.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Microscope. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

Join the Storyplayers crew as they finish exploring the legacies of their solar system and find out why their factions are on the brink of war.

Contains depictions of body horror, colonialism, death, gun violence (threatened), parasitism, war.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Microscope by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

Now that you've heard the history of this universe, join the Storyplayers crew as they play through our Session Zero to develop the main characters, their roles in the Kingdom, and the bonds between them. (Solar system map)

Contains depictions of assassination, authoritarianism, body horror, cults, war.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Microscope by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

Join the Storyplayers crew for the first Kingdom play session. The crisis at hand: The cold war on Thalassa has errupted into outright violence, making Glorandrina Station a first stop for refugees. With resources already stretched to the breaking point, the powers that be consider jettisoning a particularly run-down section of the station.

No specific content warnings for this episode just keep in mind the show's general vibe.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

Join the Storyplayers crew as their first Crossroads comes to a head - either the Estuary stays and falls into complete disrepair, or it gets blasted into space and Glorandrina Station must survive the overcrowding and reduced resources.

This episode contains body horror, forced relocation, natural disaster, and religious manipulation.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

Join Pax, Maiden, and Molly on a sidequest to Auzm, as they create some of the everyday animal-hosts of the Chkr'gh.

This episode contains implied animal cruelty, body horror, surgical modification.

Glorandrina Station is produced by Birdie. This episode was played Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Eqxuisite Biome by Caro Asercion. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

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IMPORTANT CHARACTERS

Pyrite: One of the 3 eldest brothers of the Splendor Solis - functionally, their head of diplomacy.

Vcht'kdr: The Chkr'gh who technically became 1/3 of the Tetran government after a successful terrorist attack, and Xycht'mg's brother.

As the station deals with the ramifications of jettisoning the Estuary, tensions are high and conditions are cramped. Plus, the ghostly voices in the walls are getting hard to ignore. I'm sure it's nothing?

This episode contains suicidal thoughts, body horror, medical experimentation, paranoia, gun violence, depictions of dead bodies, and religious manipulation.

Click here for a translation of the cold open. (Mild spoilers if you haven't finished the episode!)

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson. Additional sound effects for this episode came from the NASA sound library and freesound.org

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

The Kingdom comes to another crossroads as the walls close in on the bishop.

This episode contains animal cruelty, animal death, body horror, gore, gun use, medical experimentation, sedation, surgery, vomit, and on-screen vivisection.

To skip the actual vivisecting, fast forward from 15:14 to 17:36.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.

For a dossier of important people, places, and things, please check our Tumblr.

The power dynamics of the station have changed irrevocably, and the new nation of La Glorondrina is about to debut on the interstellar stage. But before that can happen, everyone needs a little down time. Learn how to play cards! Tour the hyperdrive! Make your own rats! And remember, if anything goes wrong, Citrine's in charge now.

This episode contains memory loss, medical content, fire injury.

Glorandrina Station is hosted and produced by Birdie along with players Mariana, Maiden, Molly, and Pax. We are playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins. You can follow the show on Bluesky and Tumblr or chat with us on Discord.

It features cover art by Keycrash, theme music by Cello and Behold, and insert music by Devin Nelson.