It’s showtime! In the penultimate episode of Vale Four, we discover many things. Off mic, WE recently discovered our marketing department. They were huddled cowering behind the wolfgirl pen E. Who knew? As part of the settlement, we’ll be identifying our target markets more clearly going forward. In the first scene, we hear the ad …
The pattern’s what matters. Deep Dream State is all coming together, or it’s all falling apart. It’s hard to tell which. Grassroots is the final Cycle of Vale Four. In a few episodes, the season will be resolved. Each Cycle is about a different advertising phenomenon, made “thinkykinky.” The show looks at a different fictionalized …
We’d all better get used to the spotlight. Sublimate is the 42nd total episode of the desire horror audio drama, Deep Dream State. It is definitely a narrative high point – the aspirations of DDS are really crystallizing. It wraps up the Snarecraft Cycle. Cycle just describes storylines in a season. Snarecraft’s a story about …
Everyone gets exactly what they deserve. In Snarecraft, hubris is a lot more than an allusion. It’s a game mechanic. We open with the wolfgirls choosing to run on their exercise wheels – really everyone in the game is doing the same thing. Team Alchemy is still inside the Panoptic Library. Z observes it directly …
Everything in its place. The Deep Dream State is kinky. The show also aspires to thinky. We call it “thinkykinky.” That’s most clearly exhibited in Sealed. I’m not sure anyone asked for a kinky retelling of “Exactitude in Science.” If you’ve ever felt the need for magical realism gone wild, though, this might be the …
We see you scrying. The Deep Dream State‘s built for some fast lane changes. Whatever it’s got for handling is on display here; each scene’s drastically different. It’s all unified by the game. An augmented reality game for commercial deployment’s being used to hunt down the game designers. That’s dark. Every scene blends that darkness …
Our knives are drawn. Tessa says we all make choices. Vale Four has built the genre defining choice game. Snarecraft’s the ultimate Assistive Reality Game. It’s made to hunt people. Hespa and Blake have fled the island. They’re going to testify. The forces of Neuroplex are going to pursue them with the most vicious hunters …
There’s an older currency than money. And you’re going to earn it. Blake (Naomi Biela) is out of Kamas, out of options, and out of time. She’s seen what Vale Four does to Piper. She’s seen what it’s doing to Gia. She knows exactly how the system works because she built systems like it. None …
Other girls show off their bodies. I show off my design – and my design is next level. The research subjects Piper (Jen Larner), Blake (Naomi Biela), and Gia (Valentina Vallay) keep going deeper into the game. They’re wearing Prismatix, clothing that makes their bodies into billboards. They’re spending Kama tokens on YumYum and Sapient …
We all make choices. Vale Four opens its arcade. The subjects get Kamas, games, and three hours they don’t remember losing. Blake sees the architecture. Gia sees the shimmer. Piper sees the high score. Nobody sees the cameras. Cast & Crew Written & Produced by: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns Directed by: Neural Nets and …