Month: July 2026

Rubido poster for Deep Dream State GE41, showing a silhouetted woman suspended inside a fiery eclipse against a red and violet cosmic background.
Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41

Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41

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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 as he uses the clicker to keep Team Leash ready for the hunt. Gia has fully settled into her concubinded role, and she’s chasing treatstick.

Team Flowers watches from their own vantage point. They’re in the second secret library, which lets them see absolutely all of the action. They can’t look away.

They especially can’t look away from the forest scene with Team Thorns. Queen Tessa‘s been hacking through vines and bullying her thralls. Both the vines and thralls might have learned to adapt. Everything cut down in this forest grows back much, much stronger.

State Of The Dream

S5 has both a title – “After After” – and a thematic emphasis. It’s gravitating to posthuman monster romance. The writing process has begun, so season five should launch directly from season four, with only a week or two hiatus. Serial continuity will be maintained!

Auditions are open now.  

Cast & Crew

Cast

Talithara as Leandra (A) | Bun Li as Meg Aerin (A) | Valentina Vallay as Gia (L) | Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns as Z (L) | Panda Moanium as Celeste (L) | Princess Ella as Porsche (F) | Echo Doll as Elle (F) | Swirls and Twirls as Iris Vale (N) | Syndi Rella as Hespa (H) | Ring of Kees as Tessa (T) | Bliss Blank as June (T) | Lux Peralta as Laura (T) | Dizzy Dollie as Naia (H)

Rubido is the fourteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Human Made Art

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

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Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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Sealed | Vale Four | S4E13 | GE40

Sealed | Vale Four | S4E13 | GE40

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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 show for you.

Sealed is the next chapter in the Snarecraft Cycle. Deep Dream State follows the standard season:episode format. “Cycle” just tracks stories within a season. Snarecraft’s about a high fantasy augmented reality game that’s repurposed to hunt down its creators.

Smaller hunting parties, or teams, lead the chase. Sealed opens with the secret wolfgirl team. We zoom in, though, on Team Alchemy. (Snarecraft Cycle episodes are all named alchemically, thus “Sealed.”)

Following the logical path, Alchemy arrives at the most complete library ever. The events in there are the last step in their Snarecraft journey.

State Of The Dream

1. The IT department has had its struggles, but it’s learning. The Deep Dream State has perhaps the only show-maintained dynamic lore guide.  The show is often racy, but the linked site is PG at most, by design.

2. This is E13. Vale Four will run for 18 episodes, they’re all in the can. The plane has begun its descent.

3. The next season is already under supported development. There will be some evolution. We’ll incorporate a lot of romance in S5, on our own terms. Think monster romance.

We’ll also cast broadly. Much casting’s from previous VAs. Some of it will be in conjunction with a new Closing Credits class. We’re one of the fullest casts, though, so there are always frequent casting opportunities. Use the contact form to reach out if interested – select voice auditions.

Cast & Crew

Cast

NNPP as Z (L) | Valentina Vallay as Gia (L) | Panda Moanium as Celeste (L) | Vixen Clouds as Clara (L) | Echo Doll as Elle (F) | Princess Ella as Porsche (F) | Bun Li as Dr. Meg Aerin (A) | Talithara as Leandra (A) | Dizzy Dollie as the Head Librarian (H)

Sealed is the thirteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Human Made Art

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39

Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39

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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 with high fantasy elements, but the mixes come out much different. That – and some love for live play podcasts – is why there’s a die roll in each scene transition.

It opens comic. The Muppettes, observers who always watch the action, put on their sorceress robes and get to incanting. Even though it’s funny, there are some real secrets uncovered here, including the real origin of the name Meridian A.

It gets dark. When Z sees the Muppettes scrying, he puts his hunting team of wolfgirls through the paces. Prior subjects Gia (played by Valentina Vallay), Celeste, and Clara have found a new place at Vale Four. The writer isn’t barely disguising anything here. The Muppettes are horrified; Z clearly delights in freaking out the audience – listeners included. (The Deep Dream State is NSFW thinkykinky material. This scene should be flagged as high spice level.)

It shifts to unsettling. Team Flowers and Team Alchemy navigate their way through Hespa’s map. They find their way through raging floodwaters, their own unspoken desires, and the medieval origins of the worst sports podcast of any epoch.

They arrive soaked and breathless to a secret they were told didn’t exist.

Cast & Crew

Cast

  • Astoria : Dakota Dream
    Leads the Muppettes’ ritual, uncovers the force behind Meridian A, discovers that the thing she is watching can watch back.
  • Hilton : Tickled Panda
    The nervous novice whose questions keep the ritual grounded until one word opens Team Leash.
  • Tessa : Ring of Kees
    The queen of Team Thorns,  discipline dressed in finery.
  • Laura : Lux Peralta
    Returns as part of the hunting party Astoria watches moving through Snarecraft.
  • Z : Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
    Catches the Muppettes scrying, turns the gaze back on them, and trains his wolfgirls to hunt by scent.
  • June : Bliss Blank
    Part of the  hunt Astoria observes as the teams move through Hespa’s map.
  • Porsche : Princess Ella
    Trusts Elle’s route, accidentally summons Midstream, and reaches the marker for a library that shouldn’t exist.
  • Elle : Echo Doll
    Follows what she believes is Hespa’s pattern, gets stranded in the river, and accepts a deeply dubious rescue.
  • Meg : Bun Li
    Reads traps as systems and Leandra as badly, then confronts a map that refuses to stay legible.
  • Leandra : Talithara
    Knows the route behind the waterfall, remembers the Puzzlers, and reveals that the hidden library leads back through Deep Ward.
  • Clara : Vixen Clouds
    The newest member of Team Leash. Hides under a blanket, remembers FaceTrace, and learns that pretending not to be seen is not the same as hiding.
  • Gia : Valentina Vallay
    Breaks treatstick protocol, accepts correction, and is recruited to hunt by scent.
  • Celeste : Panda Moanium
    Performs tricks for Clara without permission, loses Trixie time, and joins Team Leash’s hunt.
  • Cael : Jericho Caine
    Returns as Caellum, a medieval Midstream merchant selling ball lore, guild membership, and suspicious raft transport.
  • Mudrick : Violently Passionate
    Caellum’s eager shield-mate, fascinated by every kind of ball and fully committed to the worst sports podcast of any epoch.
  • Hespa : Syndi Rella
    The absent architect whose recycled maps, hidden routes, and secret library guide every team toward something they were told did not exist.
  • Naia : Dizzy Dollie
    Part of the wider hunting party Astoria’s ritual observes across Snarecraft.

Quintessence is the twelfth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Human Made Art

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38

Luna | Vale Four | S4E11 | GE38

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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 they can find – an army of gamers.

It’s more than just a hunt IN the game though. The game architecture helps track the quarry, because they’re looking for the coder. Hespa made the game, and now they hope it unmakes her.

The advance parties divide into three teams. Each one’s a different approach. Team Thorns is led by Queen Tessa. They’re the path of absolute brutality. Team Alchemy’s the path of calculation and foresight. (All the titles in the Snarecraft Cycle are from alchemy.) Team Flower’s all randomness and vibes.

The listeners will find out which pack hunts best. The path and stakes are as high as possible.

It’s not a game anymore.

Cast & Crew

Cast

    • Tessa: Ring of Kees
      Queen of the hunt. Rules through cruelty and calls it discipline. 
    • Z: Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
      Sets the hunt in motion and explains the rules of Snarecraft. Matter-of-fact about the cruelty underneath the game.
    • Iris: Swirls and Twirls
      Convinced the maze hides a centerpiece only she can find. Haughty, dismissed, still certain she’s right.
    • June: Bliss Blank
      Careful and cowed and quietly the one whose plan actually gets the party through the brambles.
    • Meg: Bun Li
      Analytical to a fault. Treats a living, watching maze like a dataset.
    • Elle: Echo Doll
      Playing vapid just enough to get close to Porsche. Sharper than she lets on, and closer to Hespa than she admits.
    • Naia: Dizzy Dollie
      Appears in the eastern woods as a whispering forest spirit.
    • Hespa: Syndi Rella
      The fugitive the whole hunt is built to find  from inside the game she built.
    • Gia: Valentina Vallay
    • Laura: Lux Peralta
      New to the hunt and to this world. Nervous, naive, worn down scene by scene until she stops resisting.
    • Leandra: Talithara
      A video game addict who recognizes Snarecraft’s maze and remembers it better than she wants to.
    • Porsche: Princess Ella
      Vapid, lovable. A GluckGluck and Spotlight girl fangirling over Elle, guided across the stream without knowing why it matters.

Luna is the eleventh episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Human Made Art

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254

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